Pennsylvania's Barnette described it best: “MAGA does not belong to President Trump...Our values never, never shifted to President Trump’s values. It was President Trump who shifted and...
aligned with our values.” Key quotes we have to pay attention to, regardless of the writer for in it, there are clues of MAGA now and the future and I like it for it is honest, raw...for the best
“Mr. Trump increasingly appears to be chasing his supporters as much as marshaling them.”
“The so-called MAGA movement is a bottom-up movement,” he told them, “not one to be dictated from the top down.”
“Something is changing among Trump supporters. It’s a kind of psychological moving forward that is not quite a break, not an abandonment but an acknowledgment of a new era. In Florida recently, talking with Trump supporters, what I picked up is a new distance. They won’t tell pollsters, they may not even tell neighbors, but there was a real sense of: We need Trump’s policies, but we don’t need him. They expressed affection for him, and when not defensive about him they were protective. But as a major backer and donor told me, it’s time to think of the future. Mr. Trump brings “chaos.”
“They don’t want him to run again. If he does, they’ll vote for him against a Democrat. But as one said, wouldn’t it be good to have someone like Ron DeSantis?”
“The Republican Party “is surprisingly good at building a multi-faith and multi-racial coalition,” Mr. Mounk tweeted. Democrats had best take note.”
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Donald Trump and His Elusive Base
Something is shifting. Many who backed him don’t follow his lead or want him to run in 2024.
Dirtbags like Asa Hutchinson, Pierre Delecto, that Cheney broad and Perdue have been beating that drum for a while. The GOP has a major Pathocrat problem itself and whole slew of Pathetics that drink from the trough of GOP money and insider dealings.
Most Trump supporters have burnout from the incessant emails and texts by the institutional GOP using Trump's name to fundraise. Too many of us passionately donated to fight the 2020 election fraud only to be badly betrayed by the GOP deceptions and their machine politics. Trump is pushing the envelop on that too, and frankly, he probably does need to PT Barnum his way back into the White House.
Whatever frustration MAGA feels about Trump, it's a mere fraction of the frustration they have against the machine politics of the GOP and the DNC, and the provincial scum that presides like indolent parasites in the US Senate and the whack-a-mole cowardice of the pathologically crooked RINOS and the myopic party leadership.
The Beltway Bubble People of every genera are terrified of The Big Pop. Trump and MAGA are just a few of the pointy things today that can splodey their precious bubble to smithereens.
DeSantis currently represents the best option for America First supporters. He understands the Swamp, is action oriented, well spoken and courageous.