BTRTN: Hey Trump... Best Beware the Wrath of the "MAGA-Rinos"

Born To Run The Numbers wonders how the “MAGA in name only” – the people who never drank the Trump Kool-Aid, but who supported Trump because they believed he would best serve their self-interest and greed -- are feeling about the first 100 days...

https://borntorunthenumbers.com/2025/04/27/btrtn-hey-trump-best-beware-the-wrath-of-the-maga-rinos/

Excerpts: "In coining the term “MAGA-Rino,” we are riffing on one of Donald Trump’s favorite insults to GOP stalwarts who refused to kiss his ring: he contemptuously called them “RINO.” It is a most acrimonious acronym… a “Republican in name only.”
"Who are the MAGA-Rinos? Let’s start with all those greedy Wall Street types who supported Trump because they thought he would be a bureaucracy-busting deregulator who would set the markets free. It must have been shocking for them to discover that Trump really did outsource his entire policy playbook, particularly his economic theory, to Project 2025. That enabled Trump to focus on his two favorite activities, retribution and golf...
"..except the people at The Heritage Foundation failed to anticipate that their huge, sweeping changes could never be implemented if the President hired a bunch of hacks, amateurs, and management midgets given to internal bickering, power-jousting, and farcically stupid mistakes. The Heritage Foundation is now watching all that time, money, printing cost, and effort go up in smoke because Pete Hegseth is in so far over his head that he’s developing gills, Elon Musk is accurately assessing tariff-czar Peter Navarro as “dumber than bricks,” and Trump’s deportation thugs don’t process due process...
"While there is a broad consensus among economists that Trump’s tariffs are a bad idea, there surely is universal agreement that Trump’s roll-out, roll-back, roll-up, roll-down tariff rollercoaster was an epic management fiasco rivaled only, perhaps, by Red Lobster triggering its own bankruptcy with an offer of bottomless shrimp...
"Which, of course, brings us to the one MAGA-Rino who is genuinely ecstatic with Trump II: Putin. Watching J.D. Vance prance through Europe telling heads of state that they really should embrace their inner-Nazi must have had Putin singing “Back in the U.S.S.R..."