Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg said “it takes a heart of stone not to laugh at the situation” that various factions of Donald Trump’s allies have found themselves in just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House this weekend.
Trump is currently “stuck in this difficult situation” and “hasn’t fully figured out yet” how to appease his diverse tribe of supporters, the former Fox News pundit turned editor-in-chief of the Dispatch told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
The recent division among Republicans over immigrant visas for skilled workers, which Elon Musk supports but the party’s core MAGA wing opposes, is “one of the rifts in the bunch that will probably get us into trouble as we move forward,” Goldberg said. prediction.
“Trump says the classic line, ‘What do I have to do to get you into this condo today?’ He’s a salesman of sorts, and he makes “irreconcilable” promises to all groups, Goldberg explained.
One of the ironies is that all of Trump’s supporters, he added, “have ridden the populist wave of establishment Republicans and conservatives, the old Reaganite crowd, the old National Review crowd, who say, ‘They know nothing and they don’t know everything.'” Yes. The answer is very easy and we know exactly what to do.’”
“And then it turned out that this was really complicated,” he noted.
But “serious people” have been ousted “in favor of all these populist yahoos” and “now they are the dog that caught the car and they don’t know what to do with this policy because they haven’t done anything. Legwork was needed,” he concluded.
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