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The Republican Party Shakeup Was Always Coming
By Ryan “Dickie” Thompson | Disruptarian commentary | Published Jun 25, 2026
The Republican Party shakeup is not just Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Greene walking away. It is the bill coming due for a party that promised America First, then gave voters war, donor politics, and loyalty tests.
The Republican Party is cracking in public.
That is the story everyone wants to treat like some shocking new event. Tucker Carlson says he cannot support the Republican Party anymore. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is done with the America Last Republican Party. The war machine is back on stage. Iran is back in the headlines. Lebanon is being used as another pressure point. Israel is still central to the argument. The Senate is fighting over war powers again.
And people are acting surprised.
I am not surprised.
This was always coming.
The Republican Party shakeup is not just about Tucker. It is not just about MTG. It is not just about Trump. It is not even just about Iran. It is the bill coming due for a political machine that sold people America First and then kept drifting back toward donor-first, war-first, bank-first politics.
I have been saying this for years. Blind party loyalty is how regular people get used. Red team or blue team, the machine keeps eating.
This is not a sudden flip
I did not wake up one morning and decide to attack Trump because it was fashionable. I warned people back in 2015 that Trump was not some pure libertarian savior. I said he was likely operating inside an incentive structure that made him vulnerable to elite banking pressure.
When I used the phrase double agent, I was not claiming I had some classified espionage file. I was talking politically. I was talking about leverage. I was talking about debt, banks, bailouts, favors, and the kind of pressure that follows a man around when his empire has been rebuilt through deals with the same financial class he claims to fight.
That was my point then, and it is my point now.
If a politician owes his comeback to elite institutions, voters should ask what those institutions get later. That is not conspiracy thinking. That is basic political hygiene.
Reuters reported years ago on the bankers and financial history behind Trump’s comeback narrative. The Tax Policy Center also covered the massive net operating loss story and the debt-tax structure around Trump’s finances. None of that proves every dark theory people throw around online. It does prove something simpler: the man was never outside the system in the way his fans wanted to believe.
He disrupted the system. That mattered.
But disruption is not liberty.
I warned people not to worship Trump
My position was always conditional.
I said if Trump lived up to the promises, I would give credit. If he did not, I would call him out. That is exactly what I am doing.
Video Embed: Boom and Bust Cycle – How the elite bankers enslaved the USA and used Donald Trump’s debt to do so.
Video Embed: Ryan’s 2015 Trump warning video. Caption: My position was always conditional. If Trump broke the promises, I said I would call him out.
That first video matters because it goes right at the heart of the cycle. Boom. Bust. Bailout. Repeat. The public gets a mascot. The banks get protected. The corporations get the upside. The average American gets inflation, debt, stagnant wages, higher rent, higher groceries, higher insurance, and a speech about sacrifice.
How many times do people need to watch the same trick?
Trump was useful as a wrecking ball against cultural insanity. He broke the spell on a lot of fake media narratives. He gave normal people permission to laugh at the elites again. He exposed how much of the political class hated the people they claimed to represent.
That was real.
But if the wrecking ball swings right back into foreign war, executive power, donor politics, and loyalty tests, then what exactly are we defending?
The Aug. 4, 2023 receipts
On Aug. 4, 2023, I was already saying the two-party system was a circus. I was saying both parties serve the wealthy elite. I was saying the Trump Boom was a facade and the Biden Bust was the same cycle with a different face.
That was not some cute line. That was the whole problem.
Under the Trump boom, tax cuts, deregulation, bailouts, corporate profits, and stock-market growth helped the people already closest to the money printer. Regular Americans were told everything was great because Wall Street was smiling.
Then came the bust side of the cycle. Inflation. Rising living costs. Debt. Wages that did not keep up. Families squeezed harder every month. The faces changed. The speeches changed. The machine did not.
That is the circus.
One side sells you rainbow bureaucracy and censorship pressure. The other side sells you flag pins, border speeches, and then too often drifts into the same war and donor politics. Both sides know how to scare you into obedience. Both sides know how to use outrage as a leash.
Real change will not come from blind loyalty to either party.
It has to come from people who are done being farm animals for political brands.
Internal Link Card: The US Two-Party Political Circus
The two-party circus is the machine
I have no interest in pretending the Democrats are the answer. They are not. The modern Democratic machine has embraced censorship pressure, race-and-gender bureaucracy, open contempt for working-class people, and a corporate HR view of civilization.
But the Republican Party keeps asking people to ignore its own betrayals because the other side is worse.
That is not a philosophy. That is a hostage note.
If your argument is always, “support us or the bad people win,” then you are not building liberty. You are managing fear.
America needs something beyond partisan boundaries. Not some fake centrist mush. Not another donor-funded unity project. I mean a real grassroots liberty movement that can say no to censorship, no to forced ideology, no to reckless spending, no to elite banking leverage, and no to insane foreign wars.
Trump was a disruptor, not a libertarian
Let me be clear. Trump is not a libertarian.
He never was.
But Trump was a disruptor, and that is why people like me paid attention. He broke through the media firewall. He attacked the fake moral authority of the press. He punched the Republican consultant class in the mouth. He exposed how fragile the approved narratives were.
That mattered.
I wrote about the broken promises in Trump 2016 vs 2025: Broken Promises, Foreign Bombs, and Libertarian Truth. I also laid out the failures in Trump Second Term Libertarian Failure: 7 Broken Promises.
But I also gave credit where it was due in Trump Second Term Wins: 50 Liberty Victories and the Anti-Woke Comeback. Because I am not here to play fake neutrality, and I am not here to play fake purity either.
The pushback against the woke mind virus was real and good.
The pushback against DEI bureaucracy was needed.
The pushback against federal censorship pressure mattered.
The cultural insanity had to be confronted.
Give credit where it is due.
Then tell the truth where it hurts.
Internal Link Card: Trump 2016 vs 2025
The war machine broke the spell
Foreign war is where the spell breaks for me.
I cannot be associated with insane wars. I cannot support America First being twisted into America Last. I cannot support a political movement that asks working Americans to cheer while their sons, daughters, money, attention, and future get dragged into another regional fire because donors, lobbyists, and foreign-policy lifers demand it.
The Guardian reported that US-Iran talks in Switzerland were called off after Israel and Hezbollah traded deadly attacks. Reuters reported on Israel insisting on troops in southern Lebanon while Rubio defended the Iran deal in the Middle East. AP reported that the Senate passed a war-powers resolution challenging Trump’s Iran authority.
That is not some minor policy disagreement.
That is the core issue.
If America First means we are still trapped in every foreign entanglement, still policing every regional conflict, still pretending executive war powers can be stretched forever, then the slogan has been hollowed out.
America First cannot mean America gets used first.
Tucker and MTG are symptoms, not the cause
Tucker Carlson saying he will not support the Republican Party anymore is a major public signal. AP covered it. CBS Atlanta covered Marjorie Taylor Greene saying she was done supporting the Republican Party and blasting the GOP in new posts.
But Tucker and MTG are not the cause.
They are symptoms.
They are visible cracks in a wall that was already rotten inside.
There is a reason this hits harder than a normal pundit complaint. These were not people who spent the last decade trying to destroy Trump from the left. These were people inside the America First orbit. They defended the movement when it was unpopular. They took the heat.
So when voices like that say the party is betraying voters, the establishment cannot just pretend it is MSNBC noise.
This is coming from inside the house.
Iran, Lebanon, Israel, and the entanglement trap
The Lebanon issue shows the trap.
The commentary I reviewed argues that the US-Iran memorandum fight keeps getting pulled into Israel’s campaign in Lebanon, Hezbollah, the Strait of Hormuz, and the demand that America somehow manage every moving piece. That is exactly the kind of foreign-policy snare America First was supposed to reject.
Maybe you believe Israel is fully justified in its security position. Maybe you think Iran is exploiting Lebanon as leverage. Maybe you think Hezbollah is the core problem. Fine. Have that debate.
But here is my question as an American libertarian: why is the United States always expected to own the consequences?
Why are American voters treated like they exist to underwrite every crisis?
Why does every regional conflict become a test of whether we are loyal enough to somebody else’s strategic demands?
That is the entanglement trap.
It turns America First into a bumper sticker over the same old empire logic.
America First cannot mean America Last
If the Republican Party wants to survive this shakeup, it has to decide what it actually is.
Is it a liberty party?
Is it a donor party?
Is it a war party?
Is it a censorship opposition party only when Democrats are doing the censoring?
Is it America First, or is it America Last with better slogans?
I already know where I stand.
I am pro free speech. I am pro free market. I am anti-authority. I am against centralized power whether it wears a red tie, a blue tie, a rainbow badge, or a flag pin. I am against the banking class using boom-bust cycles to rob regular people. I am against the war machine using patriotism as emotional blackmail.
That is why this Republican Party shakeup was always coming.
People are tired of being told to shut up and clap.
People are tired of being handed another bailout cycle.
People are tired of watching their movement get absorbed by the same elites it was supposed to fight.
The choice is liberty or power.
Not red team or blue team.
Liberty or power.
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