Trump isn't the leader of the right like he was in 2016. So who is the leader of the right at this moment? Charlie Kirk was the biggest "prince", with TPUSA, the mainstream conservative faction with large overlap with the MAGA movement. But after this whole Epstein and Israel debacle, it seems the right has become more anarchic, no infighting, really, except the few remaining Trump loyalists, dissident MAGA who have abandoned Trump, et cetera. Much of the right is more prominently anti-Israel now, and that seems to be a defining divide. There doesn't seem to be a big leader of the right at the moment that all of the right is rallying around as a symbol. Because being a leader is not about holding orthodoxy, but about symbolizing a sword, and it's about friend-enemy distinction, with the leader being the herald of the friends, and the bane of the enemies. I guess JD Vance to an extent, but Trump certainly isn't this cross-faction sword, and has his own cadre and orthodoxy which conflicts with the orthodoxy of others. Tucker Carlson is probably the biggest leader among one bloc of the right, organizing across many factions, but not the undisputed leader of the right like Trump arguably was in the 2010s. Really, I think it is the case that once Trump was elected, there was a big honeymoon phase before Trump had began to establish orthodoxy, away from the more vague and grand sentiments of his campaign which could mobilize most of the right. I mean, who likes Elon anymore? JD Vance is more establishment, but more liked than Trump. Tucker is the lighting rod for more open, public, anti-Israel, pro-Christian sentiments, which appeals to many on the right wing except for, oh I don't know, the cucked, like Neopagans. My running theory is that the broader the platform defined in the opposition to the leftists, that shall galvanize the right, because the whole "right-wing" is more just a bunch of diverse factions only really united in opposing leftism, and so whomever harnesses this, being a broad, very vocal anti-leftwinger, he shall be the leader of the whole right. It's about vagueness, because any orthodoxy being imposed shall lead to the factions either supporting or opposing. The left will never have any leader, because it is far too fixated on orthodoxy, being anti-cultural, and being more negative and anti-this and anti-that in relation to the positivist aspects they endorse, defining themselves in an oppositional way that creates orthodoxy, as one who isn't vocally "anti-" something or other is presumed culpable of ideological heresy, and disassociated with. I mean, the very existence of their ideas revolves around struggle and an erroneous and very unrealistic utopian idea. And these groups require intense vetting before they accept anyone, which is why they're so fragmented, despite having more narrow thought, and fail to produce the diversity of the right. And the right has mutual respect, even with infighting, there is more the collective objective of opposing the left, which is why the Carlists won the Spanish Civil War. So who really is the current leader of the American right? I would argue that it is no man in particular, but Tucker Carlson certainly finds himself to be the leader of the greatest faction on the right at the moment.