Larry Donnelly

I think this is a very interesting piece because Anton Savage is by no means paying homage to Tucker Carlson.

I think he's pointed pointing out his many flaws.

But Carlson has always had a unique capacity to be a step ahead.

And if you look at his career in journalism and as a pundit and other related activities, he's always been this sort of step ahead and seen what was coming.

I mean, this is a guy who started off as very much an establishment liberal Republican and has moved with the times.

He is now saying that, look at Trump's numbers.

The bottom is falling out of them and that MAGA is coming to an end.

Okay.

I think that there is fatigue with Donald Trump, the individual.

I continue to believe, and this upsets a lot of people, I continue to believe that his brand of conservatism, the way he has remade conservatism in the United States, is a winning political formula in the United States.

But

Through his own fault, he has pushed way, way too hard on a variety of issues.

Hence, his numbers have gone down.

What MAGA needs, and again, MAGA is probably an unfortunate idea, but this idea of turn-back-the-clock conservatism in a United States that where the majority, in terms of electoral college terms, in terms of the way the system operates, where there is a receptive audience for that message.

toning some of the rhetoric down, taking some of the Trumpist stuff out of it.

That is the winning formula for the Republican Party going forward.

But has Trump sunk the brand?

That's the question.

Briefly, Larry.

Yeah.