Well, welcome to the show, everybody.

It has been quite a journey to make it in for the show today, but I'm glad to be here.

So much over the weekend to discuss.

And where I want to start are the growing sort of cracks of MAGA.

It's like walking on an ice pond and you thought it was frozen solid, but now you're out in the middle and you're starting to see the hairline cracks in the ice.

There's a very good new article in the Atlantic by Ali Breeland, and it's called

MAGA is starting to crack. If you've been watching this channel for a while, you know that this

is exactly what we've been predicting since the election of Donald Trump in November of last

year, where the MAGA coalition, which seemed like this

unbreakable monolith of right-wing unity, we expected to start showing some fractures

when the campaign ended and when the supposed governance would start, whether there's really

governance happening or just kind of flailing around in the dark is a different question, but the supposed governance would start.

And it is fascinating to watch, not just because it's very quickly becoming a political train wreck, but because my hope is that there will be some lessons in here for the left.

If the left cannot learn from what's going on

here, then sort of like, what the hell are we doing in a sense? So here's the deal. Trump's back in

the White House. You would think that the MAGA crowd would be popping the champagne bottles.

And they sort of are, but beneath the surface,

there is this growing rift between the two factions that we've identified, the nationalist right

wing, which includes Steve Bannon, your Laura Loomers, the people who have been with Trump

since the escalator Mexican rapist days, and then the tech right,

what we might call Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Andresen, the Silicon Valley billionaires

who have hitched their wagons to Donald Trump's sizable caboose.

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