Dear MAGA, I get it. I do. You trusted the guy. That’s not on you. He told you things you wanted to hear. That’s not your fault. Oh, and “told you things you wanted to hear” isn’t intended as an insult. That’s what candidates do and that’s what voters do. They talk, we vote for the person who said what we wanted to hear, assuming one could believe them. The primary difference between you and me is that you believed trump and I didn’t.

I even get that. His style of speaking is such that he says pretty much everything, leaving the listener to pick and choose the phrases they like. The end impression is that he said the right things in your mind, and where he DID say something you didn’t agree with? You dismissed it as a joke. He was just kidding around, right? It happens. I watched some of his rallies. He audience laughs a LOT. They think the guy’s a hoot. Fair enough.

Your loyalty has been impressive. You’ve stuck with him through a LOT. Because he told you he and he alone held the answer to the problems that plagued you, you ignored things you wouldn’t ignore in any other person. It didn’t hurt that your media outlets helped by carefully curating his image. They’ve been very good at downplaying the mistakes and trumpeting the successes.

But it’s starting to look like some – or, worse, most – of those “successes” are not as they seemed at first. I mean, look, I never believed the guy but, like I said, I’ve seen some of his rallies. I heard his words. I know what he promised, the same as you. Because he’s not, to me, who he is to you, it’s easier for me to see that he hasn’t done what he said he was going to do. In fact, in pretty much every area, he’s done the exact opposite. Of all of the promises, you essentially have ONE THING, one promise, that he has kept.

About the only area that actually fulfills the ‘promises made, promises kept’ mantra you guys like so much is the border. Yeah, he closed it. Frankly, I’m not sure how much of a need still exists on that front. I feel like, soon, the Border Patrol’s primary mission will be to keep fleeing Americans in the country. The point is, it’s the ONE area he has done as he said he would do. One. On everything else?

Gas prices aren’t down. They’ve never been so high and there’s no end to the increase in sight. Housing isn’t more affordable. Since the election, he has said out loud that he’s not going to do anything to bring house prices down in order to protect investors. Not you. Investors. Drain the swamp? Really? Do you realize that there’s not one deal that goes down in Washington DC these days where Trump doesn’t insist on getting his little taste? Nothing. He hasn’t drained the swamp. He has only increased the net worth of the swamp monsters.

I’ve heard you say, “They all do it,” but you know that’s not true. Even where it IS true, it has never, ever been true to this extent in the history of the United States. No foreign wars? No wars for regime change? Yeah, it was easy to excuse Venezuela and it was possible to believe Israel was just responding to Hamas attacks in Gaza, but there’s no excuse for Iran. Even he doesn’t offer one. Well, he’s offered several. And he’s stuck there. He doesn’t have a clue how to get out of this mess. It looks very much like he has figured out a way to profit from it, though.

That’s another story he told that turns out not to be true. He and he alone can fix everything. It doesn’t look like he has fixed anything, not for the vast majority of Americans, anyway. Things are just fine if you’re in the One Percent, but you aren’t, are you? Lord knows I’m not. He’s not protecting you like he promised he would. He’s protecting the people who mean you harm, financially.

So it’s time, MAGA. It’s time to reconsider your loyalty to him. It’s time to let the scales fall from your eyes and see 47 for who he really is – what he can and cannot do. One other thing, and this is important. I’m not saying your only choice is to swing left. You don’t have to try to become liberal just because some politician misled you.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is out there talking up a new America First movement that actually stands for the things trump promised. She’s making clear she thinks MAGA betrayed the principles it stood for but maintains the principles, themselves, are sound. She says it’s time to turn your back on MAGA and turn toward this new America First movement.

Your loyalty to him has been over the top. Nobody can ever, honestly, say you didn’t give him every benefit of every doubt. You trusted him. You defended him. HE let YOU down, not the other way around. But you don’t have to just sit there and take it. Now that you can see – and I’m sure you can see now – that he has no intention of doing what he said he would do, it’s right and proper for you to rethink your support. He said he would help YOU if you supported him. You supported him. He helped somebody else, nobody so much as himself. That boy helps himself to anything that catches his eye.

Let’s say you married someone and then discovered that your newfound “partner” had slept with all of your friends – and several strangers – since the wedding – fifteen months ago. You’re not obligated to stay in that marriage. It isn’t what you expected. It isn’t what you were promised. You CAN, sure, if you choose. But you don’t have to.

All I’m saying is, think about it. I suspect you’re already thinking about it. You don’t have to confess anything to me or anyone else. You don’t have to turn blue. You don’t have to change any opinion except the one about who best will look to your needs. But you KNOW it ain’t him, now. You KNOW he lied. You KNOW he’s not the answer. It’s time to rethink your dedication to trump – since he clearly isn’t dedicated to you…