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Is blasphemy the last straw for Trump’s Maga base?

Is blasphemy the last straw for Trump’s Maga base?

Politics Weekly America vor 6 Monaten

Jonathan Freedland speaks to Rolling Stone’s Nikki McCann Ramírez about whether Donald Trump’s latest scandal comparing himself to Jesus is a step too far for Maga

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No matter how much Donald Trump outrages his opponents, nothing
ever seems to stick. But what about his own base? With
controversies surrounding the Epstein files, his war on Iran, and
now a ‘blasphemous’ post depicting the president as Jesus, could
Maga finally be pulling away? Jonathan Freedland speaks to Rolling
Stone’s Nikki McCann Ramírez about the string of scandals dogging
Trump, the Maga big beasts biting the hand that fed them, and what
happens when a personality cult loses its personality