I always thought of Trump and MAGA as one living breathing creature, like a chorus of voices singing one harmony, one song. But when Pam Bondi dropped a match on the Epstein fire something surprising happened: Harmony faded. Voices in the choir – like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene – were singing a different song from Trump.
Trump, a little exasperated, told them: Drop it. Move on. But that didn’t work. So Trump offered a diversion: Tulsi Gabbard announced she had proof Obama committed treason by rigging intelligence reports to say the Russians helped Trump beat Hillary.
Not a soul in the MAGA chorus disagreed. But the story took an odd twist.
On his podcast Steve Bannon sang out: The accused – he meant Obama – must be indicted, prosecuted, incarcerated. The failure to do that, after the president’s charges, would be devastating to MAGA.
Chiming in, Marjorie Taylor Greene sang out warning Trump: If you tell the base – she meant MAGA World – of deep state treasonous crimes then you must take down every enemy of the people. If not, the base will turn and there’s no going back. Harmony faded a second time.
Bannon’s name stirred a memory: Back in 2017, in Alabama, in the Senate election to replace Jeff Sessions, Trump endorsed Washington establishment candidate Luther Strange in the primary – while Bannon and MAGA, supporting Roy Moore, sang a different song.
So it may be the MAGA chorus isn’t one living breathing creature after all.
Does that matter? It does. The MAGA chorus is the bedrock beneath Trump’s political feet so, yes, the chorus singing in harmony with Trump is important.
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Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.
