NYT's Ezra Klein: 'Furious' Trump is panicked as MAGA becomes monster he no longer controls: analyst [View all]

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/furious-trump-is-panicked-as-maga-becomes-monster-he-no-longer-controls-analyst/ar-AA1r2HFQ

The MAGA movement has grown to such an extent that it’s now more powerful than Donald Trump is — and it’s become one of the former president's biggest threats, an analyst wrote in the New York Times.
The groundswell coalition that he started has evolved and developed its own issues and policies, wrote Ezra Klein. And they're not fully in line with him.
Now Trump as an individual is losing his grasp on it — and it's becoming aFrankenstein monster its creator has little control over.
“Trumpism is whatever Trump says it is,” Klein wrote. “But MAGA is whatever his movement becomes. This is why J.D. Vance has been a political liability to Trump’s campaign: Vance represents MAGA as it has evolved — esoterically ideological, deeply resentful, terminally online — unleavened by Trump’s instincts for showmanship and the winds of public sentiment.”

Klein wrote that MAGA had led Trump into associations with Project 2025, a policy started as a way to clear out the old school of government and replace it with loyalists. But it morphed into a movement of extreme conservatism which Trump is now trying to disassociate himself from, but which has become emblematic of his movement.
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This was originally an NYT article but it's paywall blocked so i've posted the MSN version.