For those who do begin to question, the challenge is not to nudge them leftward or toward some ideologically approved alternative. The challenge is simply to stay in the discomfort long enough for something more honest to emerge.

Every movement that trades in certainty eventually produces a subset of disillusioned former believers. The MAGA movement, particularly its Christian nationalist variant, is no exception. What began for many as a confident reclamation of “Christian values” has, for some, become a site of discomfort or even regret. The flags are still waving, but the quiet questions are growing louder: What, exactly, did we sign up for?

This phenomenon, call it MAGA buyers’ remorse, presents both a cultural and moral problem. Not only for those experiencing it, but for the broader Christian community still reckoning with the movement’s legacy. For those who bought in early and are now uneasy, the experience is not just political disappointment. It is cognitive dissonance between professed beliefs and observed outcomes.

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