Barton Gellman:
There is some percentage of the electorate that likes a strongman, that likes authoritarians, that likes the idea that let’s get someone who’s going to cut through all the nonsense and get things done.
But that’s always a minority. I don’t think it’s even a majority of MAGA. People felt that the country was on the wrong path. People did not approve of Joe Biden. People were very worried about things like inflation.
But Trump is not lowering the price of eggs. Trump is firing the watchdogs whose job it is to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. That’s exactly what he claims to be trying to prevent, is waste, fraud, and abuse. And I just don’t believe that there’s a majority of Americans who said, yes, I want the president to come in and break the law.
