Why most Republicans don’t support Trump anymore

Donald Trump has not made explicit his intention to run for the 2024 presidential election but at this point, it’s clear that he’s going to do it.

In an interview for New York magazine, he said he’s made a decision and the only question for him is when to announce it.  However, Trump is beginning to run into serious obstacles in his own ideological ranks.

"Half of Republican voters are ready to leave Trump behind," The New York Times headlined this July, based on a poll.

According to the New York Times poll, up to 46% of Republican voters would prefer another candidate for 2024. Is Trump's power faltering as the leader of Republican America?

In an article signed by the Editorial Board of the conservative newspaper The New York Post, they wrote that Trump is "unworthy of being president" for his attitude on January 6 during the Capitol riot.

"It is up to the Department of Justice to decide if this is a crime. But as a matter of principle, as a matter of character, Trump has proven himself unworthy to be the chief executive of this country again," says The New York Post article about Trump’s attitude surrounding the Capitol riot.

As has been shown in the hearings of the Congressional Committee investigating the assault on the Capitol, Trump allowed the violence of his followers and even promoted it with incendiary tweets.

The Wall Street Journal also released an article signed by the Editorial Board on July 22, harshly criticizing Trump's attitude during the Capitol riots.

For The Wall Street Journal, Trump's attitude is inexcusable and his Editorial Board considers that he "failed" and, unlike Mike Pence (the then vice president), he did not pass the judgment that such a situation entailed.

Both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post are owned by tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox, a reference network for Republicans in America.

Fox was, without a doubt, Trump's network, his most faithful supporter. Nevertheless, when it came to the convulsive election night of November 3, 2020, they declared Biden the winner, dismissing the conspiracy theories that denounced election fraud.

However, the most powerful star of Fox, Tucker Carlson, accused Biden of persecuting patriots in his conspiracy documentary ‘Patriot Purge’.

Be that as it may, some Republican’s rebellion against him is a fact both in the media and in the Republican Party itself, where there is an undisputed leader of the resistance to 'Trumpism': Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

Liz Cheney is very active in the Congressional Committee investigating the assault on Capitol Hill and where she and another colleague are the only representatives of the Republican Party. Cheney is clear in her belief  that Trump "lit the flame of the attack."

“The case against Donald Trump, in these hearings, is not made by witnesses who are his political enemies; it is instead a series of confessions by Trump’s own appointees, his own friends, his own campaign officials, people who worked for him for years,” said Cheney in the latest hearing.

However, Trump continues to scare many prominent figures in his party and, according to the Politico website in July, "the Republican leaders will not stand in the way of Trump 2024."

However, the fear of Trump may cease if his image is badly eroded if they file criminal charges against him, nd, truth is, they have a pretty strong case.

From the different testimonies, it can be deduced that Trump wanted to remain in the White House at all costs and that, had it not been for the tripping up of some on his own team, he would have led the assault on Capitol Hill without much trouble.

In the face of all the criticism, Trump is playing the role of the victim. He has called the Jan. 6 hearings a “sham”, and back in Washington D.C., on July 27, he declared himself "the most persecuted person in the United States" and insisted on the theory of electoral fraud.

It is clear that Trump provokes serious doubts among leaders and voters of the Republican Party. But the rebellion that seems to have begun amongst Republicans against him has a clear limit: no one in the Republican Party seems capable of facing him in a primary.

So when Trump officially announces his candidacy for 2024, as is expected, the United States will once again peer into the abyss of extreme polarization.