Trump’s problem is no longer that Democrats hate him.

That was always part of the deal. His voters expected it. They were trained to dismiss it. Every attack from the outside made the contract feel more valid.

The problem now is different.

The people who helped sell Trump to working-class America are starting to read the fine print out loud.

Joe Rogan says voters feel betrayed. Tucker Carlson says the Iran war is not America First. Marjorie Taylor Greene says the administration is gaslighting Americans on prices. And in an Ohio bar, a three-time Trump voter says she may not vote at all.

That is not a normal polling problem.

That is a breach-of-contract problem.

The promise was simple: lower prices, fewer wars, America First.

Fifteen months later, the tariffs have landed in the checkout line, the war has landed in the Persian Gulf, and the people who were told they would finally be heard are being asked for patience by a movement that trained them to despise excuses.

The MAGA base is not becoming liberal.

It is becoming impatient.

And impatience, in a midterm year, can be enough.

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