Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller and comedian Jon Lovett say they’re surprised President Donald Trump’s coalition of young and old MAGA members, and its leading influencers, are finally catching on to a certain truth about the president.
“We now even see — even within his coalition, [not just] Thomas Massie — like a bunch of MAGA podcasters now are starting to be like, ‘this war is stupid.’ Laura Ingram last night on Fox was s——ing on the war,” said Miller, a former Republican speechwriter. “It's like … gravity is holding. And like that moment that we had, which was like, ‘oh, my God, maybe he can just do whatever he wants and everybody's just going to curl into a fetal position, and we'll end up with some sort of permanent Trump autocracy.’ That seems less likely.”
“The president launched a war, and it doesn't have popular support. And even inside of the Republican Party, it's not as popular,” said Lovett, despite the older base getting 24/7 “red, white and blue 1990s style pro-war support s—— from Fox and on Facebook.”
Big media, said Lovett, is saying the war is stupid, and younger Republicans and younger Trump voters don't believe the war is a good idea.
“So, the whole world basically learned the lesson, except for a tiny cohort of people inside the neocons, but they're not in the administration.”
Miller said the rest of the world — even the right-wing populist leader of Italy — has determined Trump to be a fool and will not help his war effort in Iran. But they also know Americans were fool enough to elect him twice.
“My reaction to reading all that was, ‘wow, how bad has Donald Trump f——up our relationship with our allies?’ But the other thought I had was ‘it kind of shows that we have a unique problem with this corrupt s--------- who is like very unable to president well,’” said Miller, adding that voters “shouldn't have put an erratic lunatic in charge of the most powerful country in the world,” .and that “doing it twice, especially after he tried a coup, was really dumb.”
Lovett said he personally hoped that Trump’s “unique collection of talents are what held the whole coalition together and that someone like a Rubio or a Vance couldn't do the same.”