Today, the future of Trumpism.

It's always been interesting to me that Trump's popularity among Republican voters

is like an immune system that can withstand assault from any kind of infection.

Like no charge of hypocrisy seemed to stick, no policy promise broken seemed to cost him

anything, until now. Because something about this moment feels different. Trump's approval rating

has fallen to its lowest point of either presidential term. Despite a growing economy with a low unemployment rate and no external

crisis pressing itself against the U.S. like a pandemic, the president's approval rating is now

firmly in the 30s, near where George W. Bush's was in 2008 when the Republican Party got

absolutely wiped out by the Obama coalition. The Iran War, in particular, seems to have exposed subterranean fissures in the GOP that have broken wide open.

The conservative pollster Patrick Ruffini said recently, something like every coalition that is large enough to win elections in a two-party country must, by definition,

be somewhat incoherent because there's only two parties in America. But there are like a hundred

ideological tribes in American life. So to build a majority coalition requires wrangling groups that

would otherwise want to be in open

fight with each other. Today, the Republican Party, I think, is being torn apart by at least

three such internal fights. The first fight is about the war. It pits the party's isolationist

wing against pro-interventionist Republicans who want to see America fight for its values and security abroad.

The reports that the Trump administration was led into this war by a very compelling presentation by Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has blown up a flank of the right that is virulently anti-Israel and sometimes downright anti-Semitic.

The second divide on the right is about religion and virtue. The GOP is the party of Christianity.

Christians vote for Republicans by double-digit margins. But the president is, to be generous, a mediocre Christian, and to be exact, a morally careless

libertine who openly trashes the Catholic Pope on his social media platform.

I know that we have conservative listeners, but I hope my reputation for objectivity is not

strained by observing that it is unusual for the most popular political figure among Christian voters to

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