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Robert Klose lives and writes in Orono. His latest book is “Trigger Warning.”

Time after time, I have read about Democrats predicting the collapse of MAGA once it recognizes Donald Trump’s lies ( more than 30,000 during his first term in office), his failed promises (prices continue to climb , the war in Ukraine still rages, the cutting of Medicare and Medicaid), and his general lawlessness ( troops in the streets of American cities, illegal tariffs, detaining people without warrants or just cause).

What Democrats don’t realize is that Trump’s supporters are already aware of all this, but it has not

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