Protest art representing U.S. President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is seen outside the entrance to a restaurant in Washington, on Nov. 13.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/The Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump has tested the loyalty of his MAGA base for more than a decade.

He’s been wrong over and over again. Wrong on trying to stop terrorism with a ban on travel from an arbitrary list of countries. Wrong on the supposed illegitimacy of the 2020 election. Wrong on the U.S. economy’s resilience to his global tariff scheme (which he recently rolled back).

He’s been cruel: on family separations at the border, on immigration raids and deportations, on billions of dollars of cuts to foreign aid (which is as strategically myopic as it is heartless).

He’s been corrupt: protecting his friends and prosecuting his enemies, enriching himself and his family using the pulpit of the presidency, wielding his country’s

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