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Purity Test Politics: Epstein Files and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s MAGA Fallout
The ongoing fight over the Epstein files has exposed a widening fracture inside the MAGA movement, turning what was once a unifying rallying cry about corruption and elite criminality into a loyalty test with shifting rules. Demands for full transparency have collided with political self-preservation, particularly as questions arise that intersect uncomfortably with Donald Trump and his allies. As a result, figures who press too hard for disclosure are increasingly treated as liabilities rather than truth-seekers, revealing how conditional MAGA’s commitment to “exposing elites” becomes once…
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