Trump’s public unraveling is accelerating structural vulnerabilities inside MAGA.
GOP candidates are increasingly forced to absorb Trump’s volatility as their own baggage.
The affordability backlash is turning into a defining pressure point for 2026.
Rick Wilson, Joe Trippi, and Ryan Wiggins push the conversation into a larger truth: Trump’s collapse isn’t just numeric decline, it’s a transfer of political gravity. When a figure who once dictated the party’s terms starts broadcasting incoherence at industrial scale, the weakness flows outward. And Republicans are suddenly forced to defend his outbursts, onto strategists scrambling to reverse his self-inflicted wounds, onto candidates in deep-red states who now carry his instability like an inherited debt.
