Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 in part by creating a parallel universe where everything was going wrong. Violent migrants were flooding into the country, Trump argued. Crime was at an all-time high. Democrats are scheming to rig elections and mandate socialism in your kid’s school. Being a part of the MAGA movement meant signing on to Trump’s warped view of reality.

In 2016, Trump found plenty of voters willing to buy into his message of “American carnage.” That’s not proving so easy this time around.

The last month of campaigning has seen the media finally fact-checking Trump’s absurd lies — with the result being that the former president’s campaign has been revealed as a disorganized mess led by some of the most odious names in the far-right influencer universe.

From a hoax about Haitian immigrants eating Ohioans’ cats to the return of fired adviser Corey Lewandowski (and the addition of influencer Laura Loomer), it’s clear Trump’s campaign is running out of ideas. Now it is also running scared from a second debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

The MAGA movement’s world was always a fragile one. Now it’s on the verge of........

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