Behind the 'hot dog' MAGA men afraid of their own 'radical' movement

Firebrand who helped build MAGA claims movement poised to 'collapse under its own weight'

A former MAGA firebrand who helped build the movement now says it's going to "collapse under its own weight."Pedro Gonzalez, a writer and former New Right activist who broke with Trump, made the prediction in a Vox piece published Monday by journalist Zack Beauchamp."When your movement revolves around taboo-breaking and boundary-stepping, but then you decide there are some boundaries that are worth respecting, it's a joke," Gonzalez told Beaucha…

Behind the 'hot dog' MAGA men afraid of their own 'radical' movement

With MAGA collapsing into a circular firing squad as its leaders seek to apportion blame for the failures and chaos wrought by President Donald Trump, Vox contributor Zack Beauchamp has a novel metaphor for their attempts to wriggle out of responsibility for their own movement’s actions: “It’s a real-life version of the famous sketch on Tim Robinson’s show I Think You Should Leave, where a hot-dog-shaped car crashes into a storefront and a man i…