Prominent conservative predicts ‘accelerating tide’ of MAGA supporters ditching Trump

Prominent conservative lawyer George Conway made a bold prediction on Tuesday that in the “coming weeks and months,” an "accelerating tide” of MAGA supporters would turn on President Donald Trump as his favorability among Americans continues to sink to historic lows.

Conway’s prediction was prompted by an admission from Scott McConnell, the co-founder of The American Conservative, who on Monday expressed shame and embarrassment for having voted for Trump three times.

McConnell, Conway argued, would soon be among many Trump supporters to break with the president, whose decision to launch a war against Iran has angered parts of his base and stood at odds with his past anti-interventionist rhetoric.

“We are going to see an accelerating tide of these admissions and conversions as the coming weeks and months pass,” Conway wrote Tuesday in a social media post on X, referencing McConnell’s public break with Trump.

“And the job of those of us who have opposed Trump for years is to resist saying ‘I told you so,’ or ‘you knew better,’ or ‘who needs you,’ but rather to say ‘thank you for seeing the light.’ [It is also our job] to ask people who previously supported Trump to help us stand up now for the impeachment and removal of that terrible man so that we rid ourselves of him sooner, rather than later.”

While Trump has been plagued with low approval ratings throughout his two terms in the White House, a new poll first published on Monday revealed that the president’s approval had sunk to a staggering 33%, which Occupy Democrats described as the “lowest of any president at this stage in their presidency.”

For Trump supporters willing to buck the president, Conway said they deserved grace, adding that it was imperative that they be welcomed into any coalition opposing the president and his administration.

“The survival of our nation as a constitutional republic depends in no small part on such grace,” he wrote.