On 15 October 2025, former Trump administration official Miles Taylor warned that the MAGA movement now has a 'rotting core'. Taylor, who served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security under Donald Trump, said the movement has been 'grooming weak little loser incels for cruelty.'
His comments came after leaked Telegram group chats from Young Republican groups exposed racist, sexist, and neo-Nazi content shared by several GOP operatives and a state senator. Taylor claimed this scandal shows how extremism once hidden on the edges of the party has now moved to its centre. He described the situation as a 'cultural decay' that top Republican leaders are enabling.
