MAGA and the 2026 Meteor

How To Make It An Extinction Event, Not A Wave

An extinction-level event for MAGA is coming.

Republicans know it, and the most urgent indicator on the big board of political intelligence is the rising tide of Congressional retirements by Republicans. Democrats leaving Congress in 2026 have, by and large, been retiring because they’re older than dirt.

Politicians are herd animals, and the MAGA herd has raised its beady, squinting eyes to the heavens, seeing the ghostly flicker in the night sky of the asteroid racing towards them. Republicans are retiring because a political asteroid created by Donald Trump is coming to smash into the political Chicxulub they’ve enjoyed for the last decade.

Every few years, American politics delivers one of those nights where you can almost hear the roar of the tidal wave even in the safest districts.

The meteor hits, the supersonic tidal wave hits, the water rushes out, and suddenly a lot of very secure, very smug politicians are wondering why it’s so dark and cold suddenly. Alignment elections are almost always self-inflicted wounds by the party in power that lead to realignment.

They summoned the asteroid. Called to it, and danced in strange rituals to draw it to them.

And if you look at the numbers, the mood, and the sheer grinding dysfunction, engineered economic chaos, and raging corruption of Trump’s second term, 2026 is starting to look like one of those nights.