Conservative sounds dark warning MAGA will turn on Supreme Court: ‘The storm is coming’

A writer at the conservative National Review warned Friday that a looming Supreme Court decision on Donald Trump’s tariff powers could trigger political chaos – and potentially turn MAGA world against the high court.

In a column titled “The Storm is Coming to Washington, D.C.,” staff writer Jeffrey Blehar zeroed in on the case challenging Trump’s tariff powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The upcoming ruling, Blehar told readers on Friday, will determine whether “the entire basis of his foreign and domestic economic policy – is constitutional or not.”

But no matter how Trump’s handpicked, ultra-conservative Supreme Court rules, “the walls of the American civic settlement will bend and shake,” Blehar wrote. And, he noted, the MAGA movement is watching.

“If the Supreme Court upholds the Trump administration’s wildly expansive interpretation of executive branch power, I foresee little but disaster: Bond markets will probably crater, and Trump will be emboldened to wield tariffs as a child wields crayons,” he warned, adding: “Further and greater executive overreaches seem sure to follow.”

A Supreme Court rejection of Trump’s position could be just as disastrous, the conservative writer warned. “Does anyone expect Donald Trump to meekly submit to having his entire political agenda declared unconstitutional? I expect a wholesale rhetorical war of the most destructive and toxic sort imaginable.”

That backlash, Blehar suggested, could spark fury from Trump’s own movement – with MAGA activists suddenly turning on “the one last truly conservative political institution in America.”

“It has long been the object of the left to destroy the credibility and prestige of the Court, over which they lost ideological control,” Blehar wrote. “Imagine a world where they are joined by the most voluble activists and grifters on the MAGA right.”

“Batten down the hatches, Washington,” he concluded. “The true storm is coming, and perhaps sooner than you think.”