The MAGA Civil War Just Got Weirder. The Antisemitism Divide Is Getting Bigger.
The big picture: FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins, dropped a 13-post thread accusing Michael Flynn of running a “foreign-linked influence network” against the Trump administration for 22 months. Candace Owens mocked her for it. Underneath the drama is a growing antisemitism problem in the next generation of Republican leadership that keeps getting harder to dismiss as “fringe.”
Why it matters: This isn’t just MAGA infighting for entertainment. The College Republicans of America just appointed a Fuentes fan as political director. Young Republican group chats keep getting leaked with Nazi praise and racial slurs. University chapters are being disbanded over Nazi salutes. AND the party’s old guard is circulating memos warning that this is infiltrating actual positions of power. The “fringe weirdos” argument gets harder to make every month.
The fight: Wilkins has faced months of allegations that she’s an Israeli intelligence agent manipulating Patel. She’s denied it on air and sued three people over the claims. This week she went further, posting a 13-part thread claiming Flynn “is the anchor of a digital infrastructure” activated at “every major Republican fracture point” over 22 months. She connected Flynn to Catholics for Catholics, Russian state media amplification, Candace Owens’s conspiracy theories, and Joe Kent’s post-resignation media tour.
Flynn posted a meme. Owens mocked her on her show for being conspiracy-brained. The irony was not lost on most observers.
The pattern: This fight sits on top of a much bigger trend.
October 2025: Leaked Politico group chat with Young Republican leaders from several states included jokes about gas chambers, slavery, loving Hitler, and hating Jews.
2026: Miami Republican Party student group chat at FIU had 400+ n-word mentions, antisemitic slurs, and “Nazi heaven” conversations within three weeks. TPUSA chapter president resigned after writing “I would def not marry a Jew,” according to NBC Miami.
University of Florida College Republicans disbanded over Nazi salute allegations, according to The Washington Post.
This month: College Republicans of America appointed a Nick Fuentes fan as political director who promoted Fuentes’s “white boy summer” tour and has a channel on a platform founded by Fuentes and Alex Jones.
The establishment response: Ted Cruz and others have expressed dismay. California’s Republican Party circulated a memo warning that Fuentes supporters are entering party positions and running for office. BUT others argue these are “fringe weirdos” inflating their significance. A TPUSA straw poll found 87% of attendees view Israel as an ally. A December study suggested Fuentes’s prominence was artificially boosted by foreign bot farms.
The founding president of the National Conservatism Conference foundation told The Washington Post: “The migration of our politics online has created a perverse incentive structure. If you voice anti-Israel and antisemitic views, you get an instant reward in the form of clicks, likes and follows.”
By the numbers:
22 — months of alleged influence network activity per Wilkins
13 — posts in Wilkins’s X thread
400+ — n-word mentions in the FIU group chat within 3 weeks
87% — TPUSA attendees who view Israel as an ally
3 — people Wilkins has sued for defamation over spy allegations
The bottom line: The Wilkins-Owens fight is the soap opera version of a much deeper problem. The structural version is leaked chats, Nazi salutes, and Fuentes allies getting appointed to official party positions. At some point, “fringe weirdos” stop being fringe when they’re running your college chapters and getting named political director. The party has to decide whether it’s going to draw a line or keep arguing about whether the line needs to exist.
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