Trump’s incredible shrinking tent

(Zachary Basu – Axios) Donald Trump is torching the coalition that made him president, seemingly unaware — or simply unconcerned — with the depth of discontent permeating his movement. Trump won back the White House with the most eclectic alliance in modern politics — a blend of MAGA diehards, crypto evangelists, nonwhite men, podcast bros, anti-war populists and culture-war Christians. What Republicans celebrated as a once-in-a-generation coalition may turn out to be exactly that, never to be reassembled. Over the last two weeks, Trump has tested the loyalty of MAGA’s Christian base with a series of extraordinary provocations.  – Trump’s incredible shrinking tent