I would argue, he was bad, even.

Have you tried a therapist? They will both talk to you and likely help you with your feeling that actual humans don’t want to talk to you.

This is less of an indication that Trump is losing sway with Republicans, and more of an indication that Trump isn’t the God King they hoped he would be by now.

In their ideal world, elections are suspected and they don’t face backlash for his awful policies. They are seeing that is unlikely to happen, trump doesn’t have the juice they hoped he would. As a result, we’ve seen a major swing in every special election, districts that were historically safe are now tossups.

Everyone knew Trump’s policies were going to be unpopular, they just thought he would consolidate enough power by now for it not to matter.

AOC talks a lot about how there is also a non-zero overlap between people who voted for her and trump in 2024.

I think a large part of it is that people are sick of the status quo. Trump, Mamdani and AOC all speak out against the status quo. The problem is trump is a lying, fascist, racist, pedo. It says though, the best way to peel voters from the right isn’t to court Liz Cheney, it’s to provide legitimate solutions to peoples problems and push back against the status quo.