Trump's core supporters—Hispanic mechanics, working-class voters concerned with COVID, inflation, and the border—did not vote for authoritarian moves like Cash Patel running the FBI or January 6 pardons, and polling shows the January 6 pardons are unpopular even among his supporters, indicating Trump is overestimating his mandate.
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Jonah GoldbergEvidence Quote
“his pardoning of the January 6 rioters is not popular it's just not polling well and the and so in some ways I mean just as a matter of rank punditry you can make the case that Trump is already repeating some of the mistakes that Biden made which is thinking he's got a much bigger mandate than he does [6:46]”
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