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'Popularity will plummet': Conservatives discuss when 'voters will step off Trump train'

Donald Trump is more popular now than he was in his first term, but that isn't likely to last if he keeps on his current path, according to conservative columnists.

The New York Times on Friday published an opinion piece featuring four conservative writers discussing why Trump supporters love the President more than ever before.

Among other things, David Brooks, Ross Douthat, David French and Bret Stephens discussed how the fact that "tariffing" is now a verb "signifies the end of Western civilization."

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Brooks put the blame on progressives, who he says push independents toward MAGA.

"A lot of elite conservatives continue to struggle with what I call the near-abroad problem. They may dislike MAGA, but they (we) are mostly around progressives or moderates on a day-to-day basis, by virtue of being elite," according to the conservative. "These progressives sometimes make our teeth hurt. We react more strongly to minor sins of the people across campus than the major sins of the people far away. This is something I’m working on."

Stephens pointed out MAGA's acceptance of Trump's seeming habit of skirting our nation's laws.

"What I see is a president doing things that are, if not outright