It took a dead child sex offender and a disastrous war to do it, but it looks as though the Maga faithful are slowly beginning to lose confidence in dear leader. As Donald Trump’s approval ratings drop to record lows, some of his most fervent supporters are turning on him.

See, as exhibit one, Trisha Hope, who was once a proud member of the Front Row Joes, a group of Trump superfans who follow the president to rallies around the country. They have custom-made T-shirts! They have branded baseball caps! They even have the attention of Trump himself, who frequently shouts out the group. He did once accidentally call them the “front row Jacks and Joes”, but who can expect a man of his calibre to pay attention to the plebs, eh?

During Trump’s first impeachment, in 2019, Hope stationed herself in Washington DC for weeks, trying to drum up support for the president. But she’s not doing that again. In an interview with Politico published on Monday, Hope declared: “If we do lose the midterms and [Trump] is impeached again, I will be walking the halls of Congress in support of that impeachment.”

What caused this change of heart?........

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