MAGA’s Extinction Approaches—Alexa, Play ‘Bye B*tch’

The Lincoln Project

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this blistering episode, Rick Wilson breaks down why MAGA absolutely sees the future coming — and is reacting like a herd of political dinosaurs staring straight at the meteor and insisting it’s a hoax. With Trump's historically unpopular presidency (at a 36% approval rating), the desperate need for "affordability" (hitting the MAGA base the hardest), the movement shrinking, and GOP leaders screaming into the void, MAGA is pretending the shaking ground and the bright light in the sky are just “deep state weather balloons.” Rick lays out how the economic reality, unmistakable corruption, shifting demographics, and sheer exhaustion among voters are accelerating MAGA’s extinction — and why their refusal to adapt only speeds up the impact. This is a sharp, snark-filled autopsy of a movement so trapped in denial that they’re actively choosing meteor impact over evolution. Buckle up: the asteroid is coming, and Rick brought the popcorn.
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0:00.0	Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.
0:06.2	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America.
0:14.5	Good night and good luck. So 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were doing pretty well.
0:21.8	Cretaceous period, prospering, you know.
0:24.3	A lot of them are hanging around the Gulf of Mexico and the Yuccan Peninsula area.
0:30.0	It's great.
0:30.8	It's tropical.
0:32.5	Dinosaur friendly, right?
0:35.5	Then one night up in the sky, there's something a little brighter than the rest of the sky.
0:44.5	Next night it's a little brighter.
0:46.1	Next night it's a little brighter.
0:47.9	I don't know if the dinosaurs had any sort of cognition to look up and go, hey, there's
0:50.8	something bright in the sky.
0:52.4	But you know all creatures are alert to changes in their environment?
0:56.0	So maybe they did.
0:58.7	Maybe they were looking up in the sky and they saw that meteor getting closer and closer and
1:02.2	closer.
1:03.1	At that last moment before the meteor hits, everything was the same for the dinosaurs.
1:07.9	It had been the same for millions of years.
1:12.3	They roamed the earth.
1:19.9	They ate either other dinosaurs or plants. They were pretty happy. So it had always been.
1:30.2	And then the meteor starts to plunge through the atmosphere. Now, first off, it sets the atmosphere on fire because the things like six miles in diameter.
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