CPAC Poll Makes Me Want To [REDACTED] | The Kyle Kulinski Show

TL;DR

CPAC's 2026 straw poll shows 96% of attendees still back Trump, leading Kulinski to argue MAGA is an unsalvageable cult that anti-MAGA coalitions should abandon entirely.

Key Points

• 1.The 2026 CPAC straw poll reveals near-unanimous MAGA loyalty. 96% approve of Trump, 89% support the Iran military action, and 85% still view Israel as a key US strategic ally — despite Israel blocking Christian Easter proceedings.
• 2.Broader Republican support for the Iran war is nearly as high. Among all self-described MAGA Republicans, support ranges from 90–100%; among Republicans broadly, 75–85% back the war, with some polls dipping to 60%.
• 3.Kulinski argues MAGA has always been a pro-war movement, not anti-interventionist. He contrasts base voters — who show total deference to Trump — with MAGA-adjacent podcasters like Dave Smith, Andrew Schulz, and Tim Dillon who have criticized the Iran war.
• 4.A long list of Trump scandals failed to move MAGA voters. Kulinski cites concentration camps, CECOT deportations, crypto scams, pay-to-play pardons, bombings of Nigeria and Ecuador, Medicaid cuts, and 742 rural hospitals threatened by the 'big bill' as examples that changed nothing.
• 5.The anti-MAGA winning coalition must exclude MAGA entirely and focus on the 70%. Kulinski says the path forward is liberals, leftists, moderates, independents, and apolitical voters — Trump's cult is a hard ceiling of roughly 30% of the country.