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While President Donald Trump\u2019s approval ratings have been in freefall since January, according to former Jimmy Carter speechwriter James Fallows, the \u201creal milestone\u201d has only come in recent days as the very Republicans who enabled Trump have begun turning against him, having realized that \u201che won\u2019t be here forever.\u201d The public was way ahead of GOP lawmakers when it came to bailing on the president over war, the melting economy, and other issues, and now conservative lawmakers are beginning to respond to their angry constituents. Says Fallows, this is the dawn of the \u201cpost-Trump era.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs everyone except Trump himself seems to realize,\u201d writes Fallows, \u201cthe primary-election results of this past week make his impending lame-duck-hood seem more real. He keeps showing tighter and tighter control, over a smaller and smaller pure-MAGA cult base. He can still rally his loyalists to knock off any Republican who has displeased him. But the obvious cost is smoothing the path for Democrats in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

A clear sign that Republicans are finally seeing the writing on the wall came earlier this week, when conservative lawmakers put up a halfhearted, failed fight for his ballroom funding, then broadly rejected his attempt to establish a \u201cslush fund\u201d for J6ers. While Trump may cajole them into a deal yet, Fallows says that \u201cthis little crack in previously solid GOP support is like the first mocking laugh in The Emperor\u2019s New Clothes<\/em>, or the peek behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz. <\/em>The magic cloak of invincibility has slipped off, revealing the enfeebled man inside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans who dare to dream beyond the Trump era, says Fallows, must have come to the understanding that what is good for the president, like a ballroom or slush fund, is looking \u201cless and less good for them\u201d every day. Trump managed to defeat his in-party adversaries in a number of primaries recently, \u201cbut the primary season is almost over and that leverage will be gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As a result, a growing number of Republicans are splitting with the president, having recognized that \u201csomething will come after Trump.\u201d One of those \u201csomethings,\u201d warns Fallows, is the enormous effort that will be required to fix the mess he\u2019s made, which won\u2019t be easy. \u201cThe work of recovery when he is gone will take many decades, and may be impossible in some areas,\u201d explains Fallows. \u201cFor instance: How will Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan ever \u2018trust\u2019 US \u2018leadership\u2019 again?\u201d<\/p>\n

But \u201cas the end of Trump\u2019s era begins to come into view,\u201d Fallows asserts that Republican voters disillusioned by the president need to ask \u201cwhy their representatives turned a blind eye to these abuses for so long.”<\/p>\n

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