This is only definitional true. People leave cults. People are leaving this cult.
It’s telling that recent cnn polling has started showing 100% support for the war among MAGA, not 90%. They are getting to this because the 10% that were in the cult but could leave potentially have left.
Cults also almost routinely fall apart under their own weight. They can do a ton of damage along the way, but structurally they aren’t built to last they are built around an individual. There are exceptions but they are way less common, and MAGA has no structural integrity beyond what Trump says which means it’s quite brittle.
The gas price increases are what will doom Trump.
It’s where the consequences will finally hit his base and anyone who could possibly wake up will start to wake up. The more times they have to pay too high of gas prices the more wake up moments they will have.
Add to this the existing schism on the right with America first vs MAGA there are real angry racists over there that can peel MAGA out to their side. That’s not necessarily good, but the MAGA coalition is currently on a ticking clock towards total collapse.
What happens post Trump isn’t going to be all flowers and happy times, but it looks right now that the Trump plane is in a nose dive. Maybe they have time to pull up right now, but will they? Anybody’s guess.