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kerry-is-my-prez

(10,174 posts)
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 05:03 PM Sep 17

The MAGA Defections Have Begun: Here's Who Trump Fears Most

The Crack in the Castle Walls
What Trump fears most isn’t Gavin Newsom.
It isn’t the Democrats.
It isn’t the indictments…the investigations…or the endless legal jeopardy.

No…what keeps Donald J. Trump up at night is one thing: betrayal from inside his own “loyalty cult.”
But here’s the problem: loyalty built on fear isn’t loyalty. It’s hostage-taking.
And hostages always look for the first chance to escape.
The First Defectors Step Out
We’re watching the early tremors right now.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Influencers and podcasters, Donors and money men, Party operators.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thejackhopkins/p/the-maga-defections-have-begun-heres?selection=7300ae47-e31a-49a8-9ae9-e25ac60504aa&r=2ikyta&utm_medium=ios

(I hope this is true, I have learned to be very cynical about anything actually happening to Trump and/or Republicans.

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The MAGA Defections Have Begun: Here's Who Trump Fears Most (Original Post) kerry-is-my-prez Sep 17 OP
Excellent, thanks. MLAA Sep 17 #1
Cult members that know the cult leader is old newdeal2 Sep 17 #2
Is MTG thinking of a POTUS run? leftstreet Sep 17 #3
In that party, you never know what crazed person they'll pump up next. kerry-is-my-prez Sep 17 #4
I hope this is true, too peggysue2 Sep 17 #5
It'd be a shame if Sparkly Sep 18 #6

newdeal2

(4,377 posts)
2. Cult members that know the cult leader is old
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 06:29 PM
Sep 17

They want to take his place eventually and are making moves accordingly.

kerry-is-my-prez

(10,174 posts)
4. In that party, you never know what crazed person they'll pump up next.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 10:17 PM
Sep 17

I would believe anything after what’s going on with that Party.

peggysue2

(12,272 posts)
5. I hope this is true, too
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 10:58 PM
Sep 17

Loved those last two paragraphs:

Yes…we’re staring down the barrel of the ugliest threat to freedom and democracy in our lifetime. That part is real. But don’t you dare swallow the poison pill that says “it’s too late,” or “the fight’s already lost.”

If your heart is still thumping in your chest… if air is still moving through your lungs… then you’re not out of the fight. You’re in it. Right now. And as long as you’re in it, the other side hasn’t won a damn thing.

YES!

Sparkly

(24,769 posts)
6. It'd be a shame if
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:36 AM
Sep 18

liberal sock puppets chatted with right-wingers, persuading them against Donald based on their own favorite issues.

I'm just sayin'.

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