Matt Gaetz Has Been Crowned As The Heir To The MAGA Movement

Questions have been asked for a long time about who could take over the MAGA movement when Donald Trump is gone. According to a new report, we now have an answer. Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz is now viewed by many Republican voters as the rightful heir to the movement, and his recent stumping for Trump has only helped to solidify his standing with the MAGA crowd. Gaetz actually has a lot of the same problems as Trump in terms of angering establishment Republicans, but there's something he lacks that could doom his takeover, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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Well, folks, a lot of people have been asking me over the years, what happens when Donald Trump is gone. Who takes over that MAGA movement? Well, according to voters in New Hampshire, they already know who's gonna take over. The MAGA movement itself has decided that they do have an error. And that heir is actually Florida's Republican Congressman Matt Gates, voters in New Hampshire, where Matt Gaetz was stumping over the weekend before the primary said that they love him. He's a lot like Donald Trump. In fact, here is how reporter Sam Stein put it. Uh, they view him as not so much as a surrogate for the campaign, but as an heir to the Trump movement. Gates has even started to physically resemble a Trump with slicked back hair in the style of Trump's actual sons. But most people who have flocked to his events say it is his political approach that reminds them of the former president. It's precisely because he gets heckled that they love him. And of course, at recent Matt Gaetz events, he has been heckled relentlessly by, uh, uh, uh, very clever activists calling him out for the accusations against him. And it's been something, you know, quite a sight to behold. I absolutely love to see it, especially because, you know, it's a good nonviolent, non-threatening way to remind people of these things and put these horrible people in bad positions. But even the fact that again, he's like, he's starting to look like a Trump.

Well,

Here's the thing. Matt Gaetz actually has a lot of the same qualities as Donald Trump. So if we're gonna start thinking of him as the heir to the MAGA movement, let's talk about it in terms of can it happen? And I don't think so. I'll tell you why he seems like a good fit on the surface, other than of course, trying to morph himself into looking like one of Trump's sons. Matt Gaetz does a lot of what Donald Trump does. He does try to buck the establishment, right? He worked with a OC to actually push legislation to ban congressional stock trading, and that's a good thing. But it off a lot of Republicans. He's off Republicans, you know, by ousting, Kevin McCarthy, by putting up the roadblocks to McCarthy's, initial Speakership bid. All of those things have put, uh, not McCarthy, excuse me, gates as an outsider, right?

I'm challenging the swamp. And he does have the credentials, by the way, to back that up. So if you're looking at it in those terms, sure, he seems like the logical pick to take over for Donald Trump. Now, here's where you're gonna have a problem. Now, I mentioned that Matt Gaetz made a big showing in, uh, New Hampshire, right? The people there loved him. He had, you know, dozens and dozens of people at his events. Dozens and dozens, even hundreds is not thousands and thousands. See, Matt Gaetz has already attempted to go it on his own. Couple summers ago, let's not forget, he and Marjorie Taylor Greene teamed up. They went on their little cross country MAGA tour, and what happened? Well, the joint super PAC that they had set up to fund, that whole thing went bankrupt because nobody came out and nobody was supporting them.