The Daily Blast: Trump Accidentally Stabs Vance in the Back as MAGA Erupts in Civil War

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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A civil war is unfolding inside the MAGA movement over Nick Fuentes, the neo-Nazi and white supremacist, and President Donald Trump just made it worse. In an interview, Trump defended Fuentes in a way that will boost his standing inside MAGA in a big way. As it turns out, however, this will create a surprising and unwelcome problem for JD Vance. The vice president has tried to avoid taking sides on Fuentes. But it’s now clear that Fuentes represents a constituency inside MAGA that’s too big to exile. That means Vance, who’s hoping to harness MAGA for his 2028 presidential run, will have to tread carefully, and Trump’s intervention has only made that harder for him. We talked to Vox’s Zack Beauchamp, who has a great new piece digging into all this. He explains Fuentes’s growing influence inside MAGA, why Vance will struggle to navigate all these complexities, and what all this says about today’s right more broadly. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.8	A civil war has erupted inside the MAGA movement over Nick Fuentes, the neo-Nazi and white supremacist, and President Donald Trump just made it worse.
1:12.7	In an interview, Trump defended Fuentes in a way that will boost his standing inside MAGA in a big way.
1:17.4	Yet it occurs to us that this is terrible news for J.D. Vance.
1:26.4	The vice president has tried to avoid taking sides on Fuentes, but it's now clear that Fuentes represents a big constituency inside MAGA.
1:30.8	Vance and everyone else who's thinking about what MAGA will look like after Trump will have to take this very seriously.
1:34.1	Vox's Zach Beecham has a really good piece digging into the developing MAGA civil war about all this,
1:39.9	so we're talking to him about where the American right is going in the wake of it.
1:44.5	Zach, great to have you on, man. Hey, Greg, good to be talking to him about where the American right is going in the wake of it. Zach, great to have you on, man.
1:46.5	Hey, hey, Greg. Good to be talking to you again.
1:48.7	So to quickly recap, Tucker Carlson recently gave Nick Fuentes a long, largely fawning interview.
1:54.7	That caused some on the right to lash out at Carlson for platforming a, quote,
1:59.2	well-known Nazi sympathizer, as one put it.
2:02.2	Another called it sick and despicable.
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