By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
Going nowhere fast.
There are two much-discussed problems the Republican Party faces at the moment. One, which is big and real, is that its ability to attract voters beyond the hardest core of the MAGA base is flagging. The other, which is small and largely a media phantasm, is that a noisy minority of said MAGA base has become alienated from Donald Trump, mostly due to his foreign-policy adventures. The first is on display in polls that almost universally show Trump with low job approval among the swing voters that gave him back the presidency in 2024. The second is encapsulated by yesterday’s separate but parallel announcements by Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene that they are leaving the Republican Party.
