President Donald Trump and MAGA loyalists exist in a swiftly deflating bubble, their smallness highlighted by plummeting polling numbers, towering pop culture moments like the Super Bowl halftime show, and the spectacle of the world booing America’s vice president at the Olympics.

In Trump’s view – perhaps because his handlers filter out negative news – America is great, the economy is roaring and he’s a respected leader without peer. Some followers are still buying the con or at least playing along. They’re cozy in that shrinking bubble, ever hopeful Trump will turn America into something they want it to be, or somehow help them cling to power.

But Trump’s base is swiftly eroding, more Republican lawmakers are losing faith, and the upcoming midterm elections could well be a bubble-meets-needle moment.

Take the optics of the Super Bowl halftime show, featuring pop superstar Bad Bunny performing a celebration of Puerto Rican culture and music all in Spanish, finishing with a Jumbotron display reading: “THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE.”

There was no doubt the Trump administration and its cruel immigration tactics and violent mass deportation spree represented the “HATE” in that sentence. An alternative halftime show for the MAGA set managed about 6 million real-time viewers, while Bad Bunny’s performance is projected to........

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