In an interview with Punchbowl News, Donald Trump said straight out that his voters just might not show up for GOP candidates this fall. That’s a striking admission of one of the thorniest problems the GOP faces. But it gets worse. Trump also declared that “a lot” of his voters are “not angry at me,” but “are very angry at Republicans.” That will likely be read by his supporters as a declaration that Republicans are failing Trump, and as encouragement to stay home. Meanwhile, polling shows MAGA voters turni…
Exiting a cult is a process. The people who voted for Trump at least once have generally been indoctrinated with distrust and hatred of Democrats for most or all of their lives. All that indoctrination doesn’t go away once they start to see the cracks in the MAGA facade. Continuing the process takes work, and some of them will do it and some of them will either disengage or recommit to the lie. But some of them continue to do the work. It takes time.
But agreed, they aren’t to be depended upon to make good decisions, so if you’re not close to the cult you still have to vote.
Do remember, though, that as soon as Democrats appear to have control (assuming they do), these people watching Fox and OANN and all the other propaganda outlets will immediately have the blame placed on Democrats, which they want to believe, and so they will. Trump was still cleaning up, you see, after two years, but now Democrats supposedly have control and haven’t immediately solved every problem, or the propaganda lies and says there’s all these problems caused by them - and they’re right back to voting red.
So I just don’t hold out much hope.
It doesn’t help that even if Dems take the House and the Senate both… you need a supermajority to ensure you can pass things, so the Republicans will continue to obstruct and pretend Dems can’t do anything when it’s them obstructing.