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🔥Trump BLINDSIDED as MAGA Base FULLY ABANDONS HIM!!- The Great MAGA BURNOUT!! - Meidas (Original Post) MagaSmash Jun 1 OP
we're saying (or attempting to sell) this with a straight face stopdiggin Jun 1 #1
Wonder how many simply stayed home instead of voting for a Massie or Cornyn? paleotn Jun 1 #2
and, yet - the 'MAGA base' (which OP trumpets) did pretty darned well in routing Trump critics. Yeah? stopdiggin Jun 1 #3
Those who bothered showed up anyway. paleotn Jun 1 #4

stopdiggin

(15,740 posts)
1. we're saying (or attempting to sell) this with a straight face
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 12:01 PM
Jun 1

Mere days after the primary results of past month (Texas, et.al.) ?

Hmmm.

paleotn

(22,935 posts)
2. Wonder how many simply stayed home instead of voting for a Massie or Cornyn?
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 12:24 PM
Jun 1

Perhaps many who've lost faith in the cult were motivated not to vote in the primaries. Regardless, gas prices through the roof, aluminum prices through the roof, (fill in the blank) prices through the roof has got to be taking a toll on voter's willingness to support Republicans. Certainly in the margins. But it's in those margins that general elections are won or lost.

stopdiggin

(15,740 posts)
3. and, yet - the 'MAGA base' (which OP trumpets) did pretty darned well in routing Trump critics. Yeah?
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 12:31 PM
Jun 1

but - won't argue against your overall premise - disillusionment and drift ...

paleotn

(22,935 posts)
4. Those who bothered showed up anyway.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 08:39 PM
Jun 1

That's the thing about midterm and off year primaries. In many places, the Dem turnout for boring primaries was better then Republicans. But I do get your point. Republicans still can't get that orange albatross off their necks. Too many dead enders who'd rather burn it all down, themselves included, than admit to the mistake.

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