Trump’s Cult of Republican Voters is Dwindling, but GOP Politicians and Press Remain Spellbound

A year after Donald Trump was evicted from the White House, there are finally some distinct signs that his cadre of glassy-eyed cult followers are tiring of his whining and lie-riddled bombast. Which isn’t surprising because it would take a cast iron gut to tolerate any more of Trump’s self-pity and victimhood.

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As evidence of Trump’s weakening grip on his doting deplorables, a new poll by Quinnipiac University finds that the formerly fawning flock of Republican faithful are far less infatuated with Trump today than they have been in previous surveys. When asked if they agreed more with Trump or his former VP Mike Pence about whether Pence had the power to short-circuit the certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election, an overwhelming majority (72%) of all voters chose Pence.

However, that wasn’t the worst part of the poll results from Trump’s imperial perspective. Included in the nearly three-quarters of voters rejecting Trump was a majority (52%) of Republican voters siding with Pence. Only 36% of GOPers said they agreed with Trump’s utterly unconstitutional attempt to overturn the election. And for good measure, Independents (72%) also took Pence’s side over Trump’s.

Notwithstanding Trump’s malignant narcissism, he is not nearly as beloved by others as he is by himself. He repeatedly, and hysterically, calls himself “your favorite president.” He’s either referring to Biden or Obama, or he’s talking only to Ivanka and Sean Hannity.

The Quinnipiac poll isn’t the only indicator of Trump’s softening support among the American people. A CNN poll earlier this week found that 49% of Republicans don’t want Trump to be the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee. And a Pew Research survey last week found that 67% of the respondents – including 41% of Republicans – said that Trump “bears some or a lot of responsibility for the violence and destruction committed by some of his supporters when they broke into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

Despite Trump’s rapid descent into the depths of disgrace, he continues to remain popular among his congressional GOP Party apparatchiks and the Trump-fluffing press. The most recent examples of that inbred devotion is how quickly they lined up to peddle the “Durham Nothingburger,” a fallacious legal filing that has been misconstrued to accuse Hillary Clinton and her campaign of spying on Trump.

Fox News shills are as enamored of their Dear Leader as ever. The network buried breaking stories about Trump’s longtime accounting firm disavowing him and a decade of his financial statements. They’ve spent days trying to create a domestic version of the Canadian trucker convoy in order to sabotage the American economy. They flagrantly promote Russian propaganda that conflicts with American foreign policy priorities.

The feverish zealotry with which Fox News, and the Republicans who make their home on its air, slobber over Trump is becoming more disassociated with the American people every day. While the people are withdrawing from the twice-impeached, pathologically lying, crime family boss, and former reality TV game show host, the wingnut press and the GOP elites are embracing him with ever greater fervor. That’s a story of diverging paths that can only have a catastrophic ending.

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8 thoughts on “Trump’s Cult of Republican Voters is Dwindling, but GOP Politicians and Press Remain Spellbound

  1. “…The network buried breaking stories about Trump’s longtime accounting firm disavowing him and a decade of his financial statements. They’ve spent days trying to create a domestic version of the Canadian trucker convoy in order to sabotage the American economy. They flagrantly promote Russian propaganda that conflicts with America’s foreign policy priorities.” So……
    FauxNoNews burying breaking news stories, as if didn’t happen at all; attempting to tank our U.S. economy; promoting Putin propaganda that goes AGAINST our nation’s foreign policy priorities… So ….
    Which of these 3 things (or any other) allows Fox to call itself a “news network”?!? And whose job is it to make sure we have standards for what is considered a “news network” & that they are enforced??!
    Fox is perfect example of pure propaganda, NOT NEWS! Millions of people trust that it couldn’t be called a “news network” if it’s NOT reporting the news. News stories not reported are simply not true, in their minds.
    Using their “news programs” promote something that’d sabotage our economy & spewing pro-Putin propaganda that goes against our Country — well, that ain’t news reporting… it’s Anti-American balderdash! It’s BAD for America! It harms our nation AND harms millions of viewers who trust FauxNews to keep them informed about the news!
    Whom does it benefit then? It’s beneficial to our adversaries & enemies. Those who want to see USA “crash & burn”! Fox doesn’t even try to be a legit news station. Spewing hatred, lies, vitriol & violent talk is NOT good for America & it is NOT NEWS!
    Are you listening FCC??! Why do we have/need an FCC?

    • Good question! Where in ten types of b*uggery is your FCC? That’s a load of COMMIE propaganda FauxNews is barfing up. And would someone, ANYONE, please explain to me why those he chucks under the bus crawl out of the wreckage to cling to him with such fervour? There’s Rudy with his bills still unpaid – the day of hair dye may be coming to an end….yet still, they fawn and plead and whine like dogs that have had a swift kick up the arse for no reason the dog know of, yet only that they must please whoever’s holding out the MeatyBite treats. The big fat orange whiny cry-baby has NOTHING to give, and they still can’t understand that?

      I will admit to a bloody good laugh when I read this morning that AG Letitia James is not taking the ‘protected class/discriminated against’ victim bollocks. She’s a beaut! But wow, when the fat crybaby can get his lawyers to whine, ‘I’m being picked ooooooonnnnnnn….’ and all his MAGA sheep know that if they didn’t pay their taxes they would be in the deepest excrement and they STILL support him, I really have to know what’s at work here.

  2. Some astute observations about the diminishing power of Trump and his hold over his idiot followers. The rest of the country is tiring of his shtick. It’s getting old, stale and boring. The true believers are still all in. We’ll see how long that lasts?

  3. “Doting Deplorables”………….good one.

  4. Never underestimate the uninformed public’s capacity for fascism. Unlike democracy it’s very simple.

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