Donald Trump‘s fall from grace with many of his MAGA fans over growing questions about his relationship with convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein appears to portend the end of his years spouting populist rhetoric that has brought various conservative factions into his tent.
That is according to political observer Anand Giridharadas on MS NOW on Wednesday.
Drawing upon his column in the New York Times, where he wrote about the flood of Epstein emails released to the public, Giridharadas told a “Morning Joe” panel, “MAGA is cracking.”
“You are starting to see that on this story and story after story that the uneasy alliance between a traditional conservative, the kind of movement you were, you were a soldier in years ago and the modern anti-democratic, populist January 6th kind of group — that uneasy, unholy alliance is starting to come apart.”
“It's starting to come apart over like, should your people have health care or not? Should you defend people from an affordability crisis or not?” he added. “It's coming apart over Epstein. It's coming apart over basic questions of whether this is a liberal democracy or not; and you are actually starting to see moments of courage and moments of people realizing that there is life for them on the far side of Donald Trump, that they may still be here when he's not.”
"People actually coming back to their senses in certain cases, or in this case, Donald Trump having better instincts about, you know, maybe not caring about people is not the best way to win elections,” he added.