Has MAGA Lost Faith in Donald Trump?
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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and the New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Denial. Has been one of the core traits, the default mode, you could say, of Donald Trump's presidency. Denial is the grease in the machinery that keeps it all turning, the abuses of power.
The self dealing the bulldozing of our civic life. Donald Trump lives in a realm. of alternative facts. But sooner or later, the actual facts will impinge on Donald Trump. And it may be just a couple of weeks away in the midterms.
As I wrote in the New Yorker last week, a growing percentage of the electorate appears to recognize the mayhem. that he is instigated from the Oval Office. And that percentage includes some of the people who put him in office in the first place. Rich Barris is a polster.
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