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Underneath all of this, there's like a proxy war happening.

You can kind of sense that it's not just you and me, David, who have had Trump derangement syndrome for over a decade now, who are noticing how he's lost his fastball and how he's adrift messaging-wise.

You can tell that the power brokers within MAGA can sense it because there is this sort of proxy war happening now about what to do next with MAGA.

And a lot of that has been centered around