THE FRACTURED RIGHT. UNDERSTANDING TODAY'S REPUBLICAN PARTY

2025 GOP Power Constellation

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[Populists] [Technocrats] [Media-Nationalists]
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Loyalists Policy Bureau Ideological Rebels
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Base Administration Digital Influence

The Republican Party’s turbulence isn’t just dysfunction—it’s transition.
It is moving from a traditional coalition of interest groups to a fluid ecosystem where loyalty, media reach, and personal myth decide power.
In practical terms:
Policy is secondary to personality.
Institutions matter only when they serve the narrative.
2025 GOP Power Constellation

[TRUMP]
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┌─────────┼─────────┐
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[Populists] [Technocrats] [Media-Nationalists]
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Loyalists Policy Bureau Ideological Rebels
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Base Administration Digital Influence

Control of attention equals control of politics.
This environment allows for defectors, influencers, and self-invented messiahs because no one—not even Trump—owns the party outright.
He dominates it by charisma and results, not by formal authority.