Milo Yiannopoulos was deported by ICE last week after overstaying his visa, marking a dramatic fall from his peak as the alt-right's most visible public figure. He lost Mercer family funding when his ties to white nationalists surfaced, then attempted a series of bizarre reinventions—claiming to be "ex-gay," recommitting to Catholicism, and bizarrely promoting conversion therapy. The deportation itself stems from a factional MAGA war. Yiannopoulos had worked as Kanye West's chief of staff and helped bring Nick Fuentes to Mar-a-Lago, putting him on the wrong side of a split between the anti-Israel, antisemitic national socialist wing and the ultra-Zionist, imperialist faction. His old ally Laura Loomer—described here as a deranged character who's extended her alt-right career by backing Israel—publicly took credit for reporting him to ICE. Loomer's involvement matters because she's shown a pattern of wielding state power against factional enemies. In April 2025, she met Trump in the Oval Office and pushed him to purge National Security Council staff she deemed insufficiently loyal to MAGA. The next day, at least three senior NSC officials and several lower-level staffers were fired. Now ICE has publicly released Milo's mugshot, which suggests the security state is being weaponized to settle internal ruling party disputes at the behest of someone the author considers manifestly unstable. The real danger isn't just that two flamboyant characters are fighting dirty—it's that they represent how the broader right wing operates. Influencers and propagandists have captured state power and are using government tools to punish enemies and settle scores. Expect more doxxing, lawfare, and kompromat dumps as factions position themselves for Trump's succession. If this is how they treat their former allies, the treatment of actual opponents will be far worse.