This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), America’s biggest annual Republican get-together, is taking place in Grapevine, Texas, and I’ve heard, in the words of Marvin Gaye, that Maga is “just about to lose [its] mind”.
All the usual Trump enthusiasts decked out in Make America Great Again regalia turned up to party, but for once their leader was a no-show. Fair enough. There’s a war going on against Iran and the US President is a busy man. They’re a forgiving bunch and they love him, even when they think he is wrong.
Make no mistake, though, Magaland thinks Donald Trump is on the wrong path. His superfans are proud of him bestriding the world, imperiously putting countries and leaders in their place, but wish he directed more attention to the home front. Trump is the incredible shrinking President. While his behaviour is larger-than-life, his stature is diminishing.
“Your enemy is not the people that you have good-faith disagreement with,” the podcaster Benny Johnson felt obliged to warn the conference. “Your enemy is the Marxists and they’re going to be running against us hard in the midterms.”
Shortly before CPAC opened, a Democrat candidate flipped a Republican-held Florida state seat in a special election in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago backyard. There has been a run of these setbacks for Republicans lately, but the symbolism of this defeat was hard to ignore.
A young conference attendee told CNN: “I think they will get destroyed in the midterms. A lot of people I knew who just voted for Trump because they thought it was cool… are just now just being like, ‘I can’t stand the guy.’”
Yes, one reason is mistrust of the Iran war. “This isn’t what I voted for,” said another disaffected CPAC member. But that’s not the whole story. “What I voted for was domestic policy change at home,” he added.
Trump boasted of ushering in a “golden age of America” in his State of the Union address to Congress last month. More obviously, he has been enriching himself and his family – Forbes has just upped its tally of Trump’s net worth to $6.5bn – and he continues to collect glittering new baubles.
Truly, Trump’s vanity is insatiable. On Wednesday the President received the first-ever golden “America First” award, presented during a Republican fundraising dinner by the spineless House Speaker Mike Johnson. As if Trump’s mantelpiece was not crowded enough with the phony Fifa inaugural peace prize and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s hard-won Nobel.
The next day, the US Treasury announced that Donald Trump’s signature would adorn every dollar bill in honour of the USA’s 250th birthday – the first time the name of a sitting president has appeared on American currency. Increasingly, the very founding of the country is becoming all about Him.
Yet with petrol prices reaching $4 a gallon and global economic forum the OECD predicting US inflation ticking upwards to 4.2 per cent, in future, every time a consumer reaches for a sheaf of dollars to pay for goods, they will be reminded of just who is responsible for the high cost of living.
Former Republican congressman Matt Gaetz speaks at CPAC in Grapevine, Texas (Photo: Daniel Cole/Reuters)“I don’t care about polling. I have to do the right thing,” Trump valiantly told the New York Post in one of a gusher of interviews he has been giving about the Iran war. But he insisted in the same breath that “I don’t think the polling is low… the polling is probably fine”.
One piece of evidence the President is particularly fond of citing is a CNN poll to the effect that he enjoys an 100 per cent favourability rating among Maga voters. But “Maga” is a self-selecting bunch. As CNN’s polling guru Harry Enten later clarified, about 30 per cent of Americans define themselves as Maga – so roughly “100 per cent of 30 per cent of people approve of Trump”.
The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll shows only 36 per cent of voters approve of Trump’s performance in office, with Americans disapproving of US military strikes against Iran by 61 to 35 per cent.
As the President ponders sending 10,000 more US troops to the Middle East, lawmakers emerged from a classified Pentagon briefing about the course of the conflict looking either anxious or furious at the prospect of a ground war in Iran.
Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace, a formerly ardent Trump supporter, stormed out of the meeting early, claiming: “We were misled”. She posted on X: “I do not support troops on the ground in Iran.”
Trust in Trump remains high at CPAC, but the grouses and concerns of attendees were on full display. Usually the conference is stocked with famous names, but this time Steve Bannon (Jeffrey Epstein’s friend) and sleazy ex-congressman Matt Gaetz were among the biggest beasts in the room.
The winning 2024 coalition of young people, Hispanics and independents has frayed, leaving only Trump’s most faithful supporters to carry the torch. They know the sun is setting on Magaland.
Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting
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