Yes, there was it was called - Tea Party! Its greatest weakness was also in some ways a strength. It had no leader; it was this amorphous bottom-up movement. All that “discontent” coalesced around Trump when he started expressing the same concerns. Tea Party became MAGA! With Trump being its personification, the “left” now had a target. The rest is recent history.
Note: I’m for Trump because Trump picked up the Tea Party cause (now called MAGA!). If Trump’s ego leads him to abandon that, I abandon Trump! I don’t do personality cults!
Movements need a leader to be effective. I know that concept is anathema to many conservatives, including myself, but it is what it is.
“If Trump’s ego leads him to abandon that, I abandon Trump! I don’t do personality cults!””
You call it a personality cult. I, and most MAGA folks, see it as a policy “cult” and I use that word loosely, as people like you use it as a word weapon. It was Trump’s policies, not his personality, that attracted the millions of Pubs that are now his avid supporters.
You attack him by calling it a cult of personality which it is not, because you don’t like him because of his personality, rather than choosing to acknowledge his vast and for the most part excellent policy track record. Nice try but no soap.