So Murdoch and the Republican establishment are trying to hand the crown of anointed MAGA to someone else, Donnie is still desperately holding it on his head, and Trump’s allies are sick of losing/his shit, in general. Donnie’s not going to stand for any of it, so we get to see a nasty fight in MAGAland as Trump tries to claw as many of his followers into following him as he slides down the sewers like a less-funny Pennywise.
I was reading that Trump’s team is trying to go back to capture the feeling of his first campaign for this one, where he positioned himself as a Washington outsider. Something he couldn’t manage for the last one. Yeah, I’m sure that’ll really help.
Except they now know, definitively, that the nutjob winds don’t push candidates over the finish lines in general elections. Trump is electoral poison and they want to win. They also don’t want to piss him off, of course, which is where entertaining tap dancing and an attempt to pass off someone more electable as the “new Trump” goes on (with Trump trying his best to tear them down in the background). Trump now has no platform (Truth Social has no users), so if Fox wants to keep him out, they have a better chance at controlling the discourse than before.
