Analysis: MAGA malaise festers into some high-profile buyers’ remorse | CNN Politics

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Tucker Carlson said this week he’s “tormented” by his backing of President Donald Trump. “Humbly, I’m sorry,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said last November. Her apology, for contributing to toxic politics, came after Trump called her a traitor. Candace Owens said last June she was “embarrassed” for backing Trump after the first time he ordered the bombing of Iran. Megyn Kelly didn’t apologize, but she did lash out at Trump this month over his Iran war and his feud with the pope in recent weeks. Both Greene and Owens, along with fellow serial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, have suggested Trump’s Cabinet should consider the 25th Amendment as a means to remove him from office. To so would require Cabinet members to revolt against him, which seems fanciful at the moment. But in some vocal corners of the conservative chattering class, there is a visceral anti-Trumpism, even anger, setting in. Carlson interviewed his brother Buckley, whom the family calls “Uncle Buck,” in a two-hour interview in which they aired their many grievances and disappointment