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The legacy media gaslighting machine just hit a wall, and it has a name: Harry Enten.For months we have been told the same story on a loop. Trump is losing his base. MAGA is fracturing. The faithful are abandoning ship. Newsweek ran a piece titled "Three polls that show Donald Trump is losing his base." Brookings declared his support is collapsing ahead of the midterms. The Conversation asked whether Trump is "losing the support of his MAGA base." MS NOW even hauled out Pete Buttigieg with Jen Psaki to celebrate Trump "fading from relevance."Then CNN's own chief data analyst Harry Enten sat down with anchor Kate Bolduan, looked straight into the camera, and lit the whole narrative on fire."I think there's this myth that's going on right now that, oh, Trump is really losing support among Republicans," Enten said. "But compared to other midterm cycles, he's just as popular with Republicans as he has ever been at this point in midterm cycles. Right now, nationally, we're talking about an approval rating on average of 84%. In 2022, his popularity rating was 76%, actually lower, right, when he wasn't in the presidency. In 2018, the last time he was president, 85%. That 85 looks a whole heck of a lot like this 84% right here."Wait, so Trump's approval among Republicans is actually HIGHER now than it was at the same point in the 2022 midterm cycle? And essentially tied with where it stood in 2018 when he was sitting in the Oval Office? Somebody better tell the rest of the network. And the New York Times. And the Washington Post. And every blue-check Democrat operative who has been on cable since January.Enten was not finished. He pointed out that 75 percent of Republicans want their party leaders to follow Trump's lead, compared to just 57 percent of Democrats who said the same about Joe Biden at the same point in his term. Even more devastating to the legacy media narrative is the intensity gap. Sixty percent of MAGA Republicans say it is more important than usual to vote in 2026, compared to just 36 percent of non-MAGA Republicans. That is not a base in collapse, that is a base on fire.And in Indiana, where five GOP state senators dared to defy Trump on redistricting, every single one of them was just voted out of their primaries by the voters they thought they could safely ignore.So much for the great MAGA collapse.The lesson is simple. When every progressive analyst, "journalist," pundit, and lawmaker recites the same exact talking point in perfect unison, you can bet your last dollar they are not telling you the truth. They are telling you a story they desperately need to be true. And the polling data, the primary results, and the voters themselves keep refusing to play along.Source: CNN