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The Big Ben Show

MAGA Chaos, Nigeria Violence, & Trump’s China Test

The Big Ben Show

Fox News Radio

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5576 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ben Domenech breaks down the growing fractures inside the American right and whether we are witnessing the beginnings of a MAGA movement crack-up. He’s joined by Mariam Wahba from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies to unpack the Christian persecution crisis in Nigeria, and by Michael Sobolik of the Hudson Institute to analyze Trump’s second-term China policy from TikTok to Taiwan.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right, boys and girls, we are back with another edition of the Big Ben Show.

0:40.3

I'm your host, Ben, Dominic.

0:42.2

You can follow me on X at B. Dominic.

0:42.8

Follow the show at Big Ben Show Fox on X and on Instagram.

0:47.3

I'm back on Instagram 2 at BT Dominich.

0:49.6

And I want to talk to you today about some of the things that are affecting the conversation on the American right that I believe we all should be pretty worried about.

1:00.4

It's very possible that what we are witnessing going on right now a year into Donald Trump's second term is the beginnings of a MAGA crackup that a lot of people have been anticipating for a long time

1:12.3

and anticipating, I think, with good reason in terms of their understanding of what would happen

1:18.8

after Donald Trump was no longer on the ballot, was no longer in the contest effectively

1:24.8

when it comes to American elections.

1:45.5

And in his absence, the possibility of having the different members of the coalition fray and go back and forth to try to assert themselves over other members of the coalition, try to dictate who the next leaders of this manga coalition are, and try to redefine the America First foreign policy that the president has advocated for consistently as president,

1:51.9

try to redefine it in ways that appeal more to their own priorities as opposed to what the voters

1:57.6

expect. There's a number of elements that go into this, and I think that you can include the media

2:02.7

conversation that's happening on the right, where you have all the different people who

2:06.8

have prominence or at each other's throats over different aspects of policy, whether it

2:12.0

be arguments about Israel and anti-Semitism, arguments about cancel culture and free speech, arguments about how much

2:19.3

or how much effort or how much time should be devoted to reaching a lot of younger people

2:25.2

who have beliefs that could frankly be described as pretty radical and extreme, or whether

2:31.5

this is going to be a coalition even at all that can hold together after Donald

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