David Pakman

You are hearing less and less and less of that.

Now, I believe that this shift is most visible behind the scenes.

It's not visible to us, but it's visible to the people around Donald Trump.

If you look at how policy

and day to day operations are being handled, it does not feel like this is top down from Donald Trump.

Now, who is in charge?

We're going to get to.

But the point is, it seems as though people are building around Donald Trump because the plans never quite align with Trump's rhetoric and messaging.

And so there's pivots, pivots, pivots.

The decisions aren't being made so much to follow Trump's direction.

They're being made to limit the fallout.

And this points to what for a lot of these Republicans, as we approach 2028, is going to be a really difficult thing to figure out.

Trump has massive power.

But power and respect are different things.

We are seeing a total evaporation of Republican respect for Trump to the extent that it still existed a year ago.

Nobody is going to say it out loud unless they have nothing to lose.

Marjorie Taylor Greene quit.

She has nothing to lose.

So she's saying it.

But most it's political suicide if you have something to lose.