The toxic culture behind the right’s civil war

A tourist wears a MAGA hat while visiting the US Capitol on May 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Key takeaways The internal Republican fight over Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson is a sign of the right’s most controversial internal debates breaching containment and going public. The diverging interests of different factions in the GOP, together with Trump’s looming lame duck status, means that this sort of divisive infighting is likely to get worse rather than better. This dynamic has been ongoing since 2016, but Israel and anti