MAGA has a problem. A big problem. This isn't just "Tommy," a random Republican, you see. This is Thomas Teepell, son of Gov. Jindal's chief of staff and former ops director for Sen. Josh Hawley. He's a PROFESSIONAL Republican. And he made a campaign ad for El-Sayed. El-Sayed is a progressive. He likes big government solutions. He wants the government to do more things and have more power. He thinks this is the best way for government to help people. He's wrong, of course. Republicans could easily challenge him on his policy ideas. But they can't. You see, Donald Trump and the postliberal MAGA movement that has attached itself to him also like big government solutions. They also want the government to do more things and have more power. They also think this is the best way for government to help people. They're wrong, of course. They only disagree on the details. And so Tom Teepull, a professional Republican, sets up El-Sayed with an absolute softball question like a complete amateur. He makes himself look foolish. He creates a viral moment for a Democrat. He's starring in their campaign ads and he didn't even get paid. This is all that Republicans have left: Culture war. They can't disagree with Democrats who want to impose their left-wing collectivist economic central planning by force, because they also want to impose left-wing collectivist economic central planning by force. So they attack his religion in an attempted "gotcha" moment that completely backfires. We've seen this happen repeatedly. It's not isolated to this one incident. Just look at the attacks on Mamdani - they are almost all either attacking his religion or attacking gay people. They cannot challenge his socialist ideas, because to challenge Mamdani's socialism is to challenge Trump's socialism. When they attack Elizabeth Warren, it's over her debunked claims to be Native American, not the economic views she shares with Tom Teepull's former boss Josh Hawley. This is becoming the GOP MO: ad hominem to hide how similar their own socialist views have become. This is why Republicans will lose. Not just electorally, but morally, intellectually, and culturally. Republicans have decided to be nothing more than rude and stupid Democrats. They stand for nothing. They claim to defend "Western civilization" while attacking the classical liberal Enlightenment principles that Western civilization is built on. They have become a movement based entirely around a single individual, whose policies are incoherent and whose ideas have been proven wrong over and over again. There is nothing left of the Republican Party but their bigotry, and as we can see, it is not only repugnant, but irrational.