American Consequences - February 2021

By Buck Sexton

THE FUTURE OF THE GOP WHERE DOES MAGA FIT IN A POST-TRUMPWORLD?

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some on good terms with their former boss, others more as quiet refugees... and they all share a form of political shell shock. They’d gotten used to things being highly unorthodox in Trump’s White House, but they didn’t think it would turn into all-out mayhem at the 11th hour. It all started to go off the rails with Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in November. No one around then-President Trump wanted to say out loud before the election that he was behind in the polls and might well lose... In any White House, that would be viewed as lacking in team spirit. In Trump’s immediate orbit, there was never room for

Among the Trump faithful, there was no plan for this... Nobody knows what’s next, or how this will play out. And to understand where the conservative movement is going, we first need to understand what got us here. The period after the 2020 election was a mess. Its worst day by far was the disastrous riot on January 6. Much of the uncertainty for the Trump world now – and the Republican Party overall – comes from what transpired on Capitol Hill then. I’ve been speaking to a few of those recently departed from the Trump administration,

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