Did the midterms kill MAGA?
Today, Explained co-host Noel King spoke with Dreher about whether the midterms mean the end of MAGA, what might replace it, and whether Republicans can move past a president who still has two years left in office.
Key points
- I think there were some good ideas in MAGA and certainly the old Republican establishment, the pre-Trump establishment, needed to go.
- Some of them did things that I thought were really good, but he didn’t turn them into legislation.
- Why couldn’t MAGA, his movement, deliver on good government?
As it turns out, voters did as Trump asked: Democrats won in a landslide, taking control of both chambers of Congress with victories in Republican strongholds like South Carolina and Kansas.
Additional details
- And if you can’t deliver on good government, it doesn’t matter how charismatic the leader is.” I think that it all comes down to the fact that Trump made decisions based not on rational calculation, by listening to expert advice, but on gut instinct.
- “Especially for young people.” Whoever defines what went wrong will likely help determine which parts of Trump’s politics survive, and who gets to lead the presidential ticket in 2028.
- Before the midterm results even came in, you wrote that Republicans were likely to be shellacked and that they had nobody to blame but Donald Trump and themselves.
- | Tom Brenner/Getty Images In 2015, Donald Trump descended a golden escalator and launched a presidential campaign that reshaped American politics.
- He’s friends with Vance, and he shares the vice president’s interest in combining social conservatism with economic policies that support families.
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