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Trump’s Base Is Finally Feeling the Cost of His ‘Efficiency’

"I didn't vote for this"

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Michael Fanone
Dec 16, 2025
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In some parts of America, you can say almost anything about Washington and people will shrug.

But there’s one thing you don’t mess with in places like Montana: public land.

And right now, deep in Trump country, voters who proudly backed Donald Trump are saying something you almost never hear anymore:

I didn’t vote for this.

Montana isn’t New York.
It isn’t California.
And it definitely isn’t a blue-state bubble.

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