David Pakman

That's not a no Kings protester.

It's not someone at a Kamala rally.

You get the point.

This is Trump's political home turf, or at least it's supposed to be.

Although, as we covered at the time, CPAC was pretty divided.

about Iran, certainly.

And what they are now saying out loud is that a lot of people who voted for Trump because they thought it was cool.

Funny to think that now are starting to turn on him.

And it's not a single scandal, although the Iran fiasco is a part of it for a lot of these voters.

It's not a single glitch or a single nap in public.

It's because the entire thing has kind of lost its appeal and it feels extraordinarily unstable, which, of course, it is.

Prices will go down, but they're up.

We're not going to do new wars, but he does.

And so when you hear that from inside the base, it usually means one thing.

There is a shift that has already taken place.

We're hearing about it on a delay.

This is a really common thing now in extreme authoritarian movements.

It sort of happens instantly.

Like if you asked the North Korean people, although there is a certain level of brainwashing there, but if you ask the North Korean people, is life good?

If they're honest, a long time ago, they would have said, of course, life isn't good under this regime.