Is this the end of the Trump era? | The Economist

This is the beginning of. the end of the Trump era. And what I thought. was extraordinary, the day after the result. was J.D. Vance, the vice-president, publishing this long. social-media post. laying out his own assessment. of the causes of the loss. And it was, of course, phrased cautiously. but it was a clear. rebuke to the president. It said the war is the problem. and it had this list of things. that had to change, including America's. relationship to Israel. And it said, if you think that. the war was worth it, was worth losing the Senate.

for six years, then say so. but this is crazy. And this was an astonishing rebuke. to Trump who just, I think, hours earlier. had said, clearly, I would do it all again. Yes Iran was a piece of it. but I'd do it all again. I don't think. you’d have the vice-president. of the United States. publicly breaking with the president. the day after the election. were it not for the magnitude. of this defeat. I don't think you'd have. Ron DeSantis. or Ted Cruz speaking in quite. such blunt terms as they have. And so the permission to contradict. the president has opened up. his grip over primary races,

I predict, will weaken. because of the manifest. inadequacy and. deeply flawed. nature of his choices. and the consequences. This is not the end. of the Trump era. He's the president. and there was a. social-media post saying. “I am still the president. Thank you for your attention. to this matter”. And that's a reminder. I still have all. this executive power. But this, I do think, is the beginning point. at which some political authority. begins to gradually and steadily. ebb away from Trump.