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This seems like a standard hopium piece on the left. Take the first anecdote:
This isn't even buyer's remorse - Strickland couldn't even bring himself to make a statement rather than a question - but even assuming it is, the article fundamentally misunderstands MAGA believers' relationship with Trump. Sure, they will question random one-off decisions, but even outright contradicting their own interests will at best draw this - momentary mild annoyance. Meanwhile, if next week Trump says something that can be contorted to be a show of support for their own goals, even if wildly improbable and incoherent, they'll be back to fawning over him.
We see him as a toddler, or a middle-school bully who tears the legs off frogs for fun. Yes, that is true, but irrelevant. What this article writer doesn't get is that parents will usually do anything to protect their baby, or live in denial that their middle-schooler is a psychopath.
These complaints are in reality just cries for the warm blanket of propaganda to lull them back to sleep with some easy answer, and annoyance at the vertigo of momentarily seeing reality. The thesis that Trump's support will fall over time because of this is absurd.