Robert Draper

These were the tenets of America First that they believed the president would be addressing, that Marjorie Taylor Greene was certain he would be addressing.

But she now began to have doubts, in part because she was hearing her constituents raise those very same doubts.

That's correct.

It was a posting that took even her close allies by surprise.

It became, I think, obvious to most, if not all, that it was really her renouncing a movement that had strayed from its core America first principle.

And that she would be fighting if she were to be reelected on behalf of a president who now disliked her and who had done her great injury, but also who no longer was the embodiment of America first.

And so what was the point of that?

Historically, that has been the case, just as you've described it, Natalie, that this is a show of Trump's power.

But to say that now would be to ignore the atmospherics, that all of this is taking place at a point in which Trump's approval rating is near the lowest that it's ever been.

at a time when people on the right, like Tucker Carlson, are beginning to speak with a great deal of bluntness, with real candor about the Trump administration's misguided priorities.

So if this was just crushing the one lone dissenter and everybody then issuing a chorus on the right of good riddance to her, we all love President Trump, it'd be one thing, but that's not actually what's taking place.

She simply said Trump's White House is not doing what they said they were going to do.

And that sentiment is one that is beginning to gain a lot of traction on the right.

It's extending to the Trump coalition that got him reelected in 2024.

Hmm.

I don't think that his hardcore base has deserted him.

But the bottom has really fallen out of his support amongst independents.

And they were key to his victory, as were young people and black males and Latino males as well.

Now, whether it's because of their own experiences or because they happen to be listening to Tucker Carlson, to Nick Fuentes and to other influencers or a combination, the polling data clearly shows that these people who were so crucial to Trump's victory in 2024 are starting to move away from him immediately.

in really, really significant numbers.