There are those who simply want to break MAGA. And they are not shy about saying as much.

Imagine running a major marathon. A multinational shoe maker offers you $5 million if you come in first. You realize that you need to run the race of your life, but you’re willing to train like never before in order to get such a big payoff. While out running, you bump into a friend who is training for the same race. You tell him of your potential windfall. “Oh, that’s nothing. I have been offered $10 million if I just cross the finish line.” You can’t believe how much your buddy gets for a much easier goal.

In the political world, victory is usually a complex undertaking. Donald Trump’s success a year ago was the product of years of defining, strengthening, enlarging and holding together MAGA. We don’t think much of the president having won both the popular and Electoral vote, but Republican victors almost never win the popular vote. Donald Trump got a lot of people to vote for him from a wildly diverse conglomerate of Amish, orthodox Jews, Hispanics, Blacks, Evangelicals, young men, and other demographics. These groups do not necessarily all get along and generally have different goals, but all of them looked at Donald Trump and his program and said that he was their guy. Putting together such success is difficult and as the recent losses by Republicans show, losing is a lot easier than winning. A weak candidate, a poor argument, bad background economics and other factors can derail a campaign, even if all of the other factors—money, messaging, advertising, etc.--are on target.

The Republicans have a new problem, one that is hard to gauge as to its size or potential threat. There are different groups ostensibly on the right who have stated that they want MAGA to lose. Some have claimed to be personally opposed to Donald Trump. Some have badmouthed Charlie Kirk. Nobody has a patent on “Republican,” and no one has a trademark on what a........

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