Playbook: “Anger over last night’s U-turn is already starting to flow. Trump’s repeated pledges to end America’s involvement in overseas wars were a big part of his appeal to the MAGA base, and so his decision to start rearming Ukraine — even with purely defensive weapons — is not landing well. At all. Just check out the replies to posts like this — from a one-million-followers-plus X account — when the news first broke last night. You can expect MAGA anger to swell throughout the day.”
“This last point takes on a greater salience when you consider where Trump’s base is currently at. Because this decision follows 24 hours of absolute MAGA outrage at the Trump administration’s announcement on Monday evening that it will not be releasing any more information on the Jeffrey Epstein case; that there never in fact was a ‘client list’ or a bunch of famous people being blackmailed — and that the case is essentially now closed.”
“That announcement has devastated MAGA supporters who have long been convinced the U.S. government is protecting powerful pals of Epstein… It’s honestly hard to overstate the level of MAGA rage, given these avowed truth-seekers are literally the Deep State now.”
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