Nate Cohn, writing in today's New York Times, breaks down the divisions in today's MAGA cult / Republican Party, based on a recent New York Times / Siena College poll:
"The Moderate Establishment (14%). Highly educated, affluent, socially moderate or even liberal and often outright Never Trump.
The Traditional Conservatives (26%). Old-fashioned economic and social conservatives who oppose abortion and prefer corporate tax cuts to new tariffs. They don’t love Mr. Trump, but they do support him.
The Right Wing (26%). They watch Fox News and Newsmax. They’re “very conservative.” They’re disproportionately evangelical. They believe America is on the brink of catastrophe. And they love Mr. Trump more than any other group.
The Blue Collar Populists (12%). They’re mostly Northern, socially moderate, economic populists who hold deeply conservative views on race and immigration. Not only do they back Mr. Trump, but he himself probably counted as one a decade ago.
The Libertarian Conservatives (14%). These disproportionately Western and Midwestern conservatives value freedom and small government. They’re relatively socially moderate and isolationist. Other than the establishment, it’s Mr. Trump’s worst group.
The Newcomers (8%). They don’t look like Republicans. They’re young, diverse and moderate. But these disaffected voters like Democrats and the 'woke' left even less."
No matter how the percentages break out, the leadership and machinery of the MAGA cult / Republican Party is solidly behind their twice impeached, four time criminally indicted, adjudged sexual assaulter and demagogic con man, the Malignant Loser. The members of the "Moderate Establishment" were initially passive or ineffectual in their reaction to the Malignant Loser (see Jeb!, Willard Romney, etc.)
The rot is deep, wide and permanent in this collection of misfits, liars, opportunists, and violent cranks, and no parsing of their numbers will change that. Only repeated defeat.
