MAGA fears one thing about President Donald Trump, and according to an analyst's report Friday, "it's always about him."
"Many of the MAGA members left in the somnambulant Congress also fear that Trump will become so happy with a napping legislative branch that he’ll never make a move to reopen the government," Salon's White House columnist Brian Karem writes.
Trump has not acted with a sense of urgency to push Congress to stop the stalemate. And some MAGA conservatives "speculate he could govern by executive order."
He might also "find patchwork ways of funding those portions of the government he favors, while making sure that anything he views as 'Democratic' programs are left unfunded — 'like SNAP benefits,'" a source told Karem.
However, the reality is that the SNAP benefits help people in red states — and they're likely the ones to pay the price for Trump's actions.
But that's not all that MAGA dreads.
"The far-right fears something they believe is just as dire: That Democrats will regain control of the House and nullify Trump’s victories. He could be impeached, tried and convicted in the Senate, and most of his Cabinet will face criminal charges and spend time in prison like John Mitchell, G. Gordon Liddy, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Chuck Colson and E. Howard Hunt of the Nixon administration did," Karem adds.
Many MAGA supporters seem to believe the one Cabinet member who's most likely to avoid prosecution would be Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"You can’t convict someone of being a moron," a GOP Senate staffer told Karem.
Trump and his administration have buried "national unity," Karem adds. "Under Trump, the federal government is becoming weaker by the day."
He points to Trump's latest killings of people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean without any due process and how ICE is rounding up Americans and immigrants who have not committed any violent crimes.
"He has effectively eliminated the legislative branch of government. He calls critics 'traitors' and threatens those who would even question him. He is not only destroying the foundations of liberty, but in his mental state, he has also destroyed a reality we’ve all shared for the last 250 years," Karem writes.
