MAGA days – Megyn Kelly and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., say Donald Trump’s latest moves could leave MAGA fractured heading into the midterms—predicting losses in both chambers and pointing to anger over foreign-policy decisions as a breaking point for some voters.
For years. Donald Trump has absorbed political shock after political shock—campaign promises that didn’t hold. criminal cases that kept unfolding. and polling numbers that kept slipping. But this weekend. some of his loudest critics said they’ve started to see a different kind of collapse: not just a loss of support. but a turn within the movement itself.
Megyn Kelly. speaking on the “Hodgetwins” podcast on Friday. argued that Trump’s base has been hollowed out by the way the president has handled the Epstein files and by the war in Iran. She said MAGA is “not what it was. ” describing it now as “this very small group of Trump diehard loyalists.” Kelly added that the group has become “an increasingly tiny group.”.
She also pointed to what she called a betrayal felt by people who voted for Trump because he previously promised not to involve the United States in new foreign wars. Kelly predicted Trump would “lose the House” and “might even lose the Senate” in the upcoming midterms. saying his remaining supporters prioritize loyalty to the president over any other political principles.
Kelly’s sharpest illustration came from Trump’s repeated pledge, as she described it, to avoid “new wars” and to avoid “no war with Iran.” She said voters who were “like, yes we’re pro war with Iran” switched quickly once Trump’s approach changed.
On Sunday, Massie—who has been one of Trump’s most persistent critics—made a similar case on “Meet the Press,” arguing that Trump’s constituency has narrowed across his second term. Massie also said the end of “DOGE” and the Iran war would trigger backlash in November.
Massie’s critique is backed by a real-time political test: he lost his primary earlier this month to a Trump-backed candidate. In his “Meet the Press” remarks, he described a growing number of right-wing voters who feel disillusioned.
“There’s a growing number of people on the right who have a form of TDS called Trump Disappointment Syndrome. ” Massie said. using the phrase to describe what he believes is an emerging strain of frustration. He argued that the party this fall will feel the damage because Trump has “disenfranchised a large portion of that constituency that Trump assembled.”.
Massie said Trump’s actions have “alienated the people who don’t want to fight another war for other countries,” framing the midterms as the moment where that anger could show up at the ballot box.
Taken together. Kelly and Massie are pointing to the same hinge in the story—foreign policy and loyalty—arranged around a fear that Trump’s base isn’t just smaller. They say it could be less unified. with some voters ready to break from the president when the costs of the decisions they were promised against become impossible to ignore.
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