The cracks in Trump's inner circle are showing

Donald Trump’s successful electoral coalition has always been constructed on a series of paradoxes.The brash New York (now Floridian) property developer who fought for the interests of disillusioned rust belt America. A personally amoral figure who has won the support of large parts of the country’s fundamentalist evangelical movement. The man mocked as dim in all those Saturday Night Live sketches who somehow bested rivals and outran legal challenges to return to the White House.Most compelling of all has been a takeover of the Republican Party, as well as enthusiasm in America’s financial citadels and tech companies, whom he won over to back his second presidency.But a number of these support groups look a lot shakier than they did before the tariff bazooka was discharged at massive scale, roiling the markets and crashing a lot of upbeat expectations. Both the extent and the manner of the rollout of punitive tariffs are showing the cracks in Maga ideology – and what happens when it i...