Dear MAGA,

Do you see it yet? Your boy is betraying you. He told you he was going to do things you like, and he DID follow through with the deportation thing. In fact, I’d say he’s gone over the top with the deportation thing, revoking legal residency status and not just focusing on the undocumented. I understand that part of the reason you haven’t really noticed is because MAGA media is telling you he’s only deporting bad people, whether in gangs or not. I suspect they haven’t even mentioned the professional soccer player whose only “crime” was a tattoo.

He promised another darling-issue-of-the-right, closing the Education Department. He seems on track to do that, too. I mean, he can’t, legally, close the department. But he CAN understaff and underfund the thing until it withers and dies on the vine. I understand you all will be out cheering that move, too.

I suspect that, ultimately, you don’t have a clear handle on exactly what the Department of Education does and it has been thoroughly demonized in MAGA media so you’ll see this as a good thing. It’s another one of those things he can kind of hide since it likely won’t affect you directly. Well, unless your child or grandchild needs a student loan or is disabled and suddenly can’t find a school that will accept him or her. But, c’mon, how many kids are disabled? And really, how many people rely on student loans, right?

So, yeah, he has done a couple of things he said he was going to do. But I STILL say he’s betraying you. Deportations and closing the Department of Education are high-profile things so they get a lot of ink. But, really, they don’t directly affect you as far as you know, so it’s all okay, and I get that. It’s easy to look away from things when they’re happening to other people.

But I still say, on the big things, he betraying you. He’s like a spouse who does household chores right on time but is STILL sexing it up with some hottie at work. Sure, give credit for the household chores but the real concern is sexing it up with the hottie at work, right? Some issues are bigger than others. Cheating on you with someone else is BIGGER than not getting the garbage out or the dishes done, right?

He said he would help with grocery prices. The price of eggs became the exemplar. He hasn’t done that at all. In fact, some of the oh-so-fun things he’s doing to the undocumented community are bound to RAISE your grocery prices. You’re going to feel that, just like everybody else. The tariffs aren’t doing anything to bring down prices, either. Just the opposite, in fact. After telling you he would help, after bragging that he “won on groceries,” he has done nothing to lower grocery prices and has, in fact, made the problem worse. When you asked him about it, he told you to shut up about the eggs.

He’s coming after your health insurance, too. Gutting Medicaid to the tune of $880 billion dollars is going to see many of you losing your health insurance. There are several states out there with trigger laws. If the government cuts their Medicaid contribution to the state for the Affordable Care Act, the state version is cancelled. Automatically. 47’s government is cutting the Medicaid contribution to your state for the Affordable Care Act.

Now you’re left to seek out more expensive, less covering insurance – and God help you if you have preexisting conditions – because health care companies sure as hell won’t. Maybe that won’t be so bad. Do you know anybody in their 60s experiencing what the industry calls ‘preexisting conditions?’ I know I do.

He told you over and over on the campaign trail that he wouldn’t cut Social Security. He’s currently in the process of cutting Social Security. He’s been laying the groundwork by issuing certain threats: checks may not be sent on time; drastic cuts in service are planned; transparency and accountability are reduced; and Social Security insolvency is coming sooner rather than later.

In fact, he’s trying to shut it down completely. He’s using a perfectly legal order from a judge – the one that stops Elon’s team from accessing YOUR personal data – as his excuse, but it will STILL result in no Social Security check at the beginning of the month. I guess that’s fine for people who don’t really need it. Is that you? Do you need it? Look, if it’s just buying you a new guitar every month or some such you may not care that you won’t be getting back all of that money you’ve paid into it your entire working life.

Fortunately, you still have your 401k, or what’s left of it. The stock market hasn’t been reacting well to the regime’s current moves and as the market drops, so does your 401k. That’s less of a problem when you can fall back on your Social Security check but now? What do you fall back on now?

He’s putting you in this position so he and his rich buddies can have a tax cut. Yeah, I know, he’s going to include YOU in the tax cuts as well, right? Except, the increasing cost of living is going to eat up any savings YOU might see in your little pittance of a cut. YOU get less so THEY can have more. Elon is the richest person on Earth – and STILL… he wants more! Is there EVER an end? I mean, how much is too much?

Listen, I’m not saying any of this to to mock you. Yes, I know we’ve had our differences and I understand MAGA may not see me as the most credible of sources but you have eyes. You can see for yourself that the things I’m telling you here are true and correct. You don’t have to confess to me that you know he zigged when he said he would zag. Metaphorically, you can smell your spouse’s lover on your spouse when they get home. You KNOW what’s happening.

Stop worrying about what people might say if you step up to protect yourself. You have an obligation to protect yourself and he had no right to betray you. You didn’t side with him so he could betray you. Pride often keeps people trapped in situations they should be trying to escape. But it’s not your fault – hell, it’s not a fault at all – that you believed him when he promised you everything you dreamed of. He promised. But his actions aren’t supporting his promise. You know it. You can see it. Hell, you can smell it.

The only question now, is, what are you going to do about it? You don’t have to stay loyal to a person who isn’t loyal to you. Everything he says pretends he’s still loyal to you but everything he DOES proves he’s not. Which do you pay attention to, what he says or what he does? Because what he says might feel good or be comforting in the moment, but what he DOES is going to hurt you, directly, badly, and soon. Listen, I’m only trying to help…