The article argues that Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are increasingly at odds with mainstream America, which is leading to the movement's decline. Despite Trump's surprising 2020 and 2024 election wins, his presidency has revealed that the MAGA base is diverging from broader societal values, and the author suggests that the country's demographic and cultural shifts will further diminish support for the movement.

America’s Had Enough of MAGA Now

Trump and MAGA have placed themselves in bitter opposition to the country’s mainstream – assuring his movement’s demise.

On Donald Trump’s first inauguration day, I wrote a New York Times op-ed I thought would prove prescient. I suggested his movement wouldn’t last.

After all, he owed his flukish victory to shrinking segments of America: whites, evangelical Christians, less-educated voters. Demographic, social, and cultural change would keep shrinking them, notwithstanding their supercharged enthusiasm in 2016. Trump’s 2020 defeat seemed to vindicate that analysis.

Then Trump’s second victory made me doubt. Not only did he capture every electoral battleground in 2024, he won the popular vote by augmenting his MAGA base with new Black, Hispanic, and young supporters.

I’ve stopped doubting now. It’s not going to last much longer.

Trump’s shambolic second presidency has shown more vividly than ever what a MAGAfied America represents. And Americans don’t like what they see.

America's Had Enough of MAGA Now - by John Harwood - Zeteo

America’s Had Enough of MAGA Now

Trump and MAGA have placed themselves in bitter opposition to the country’s mainstream – assuring his movement’s demise.

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