Marc Thiessen analyzes Trump supporters’ response to the president’s bombing of Iran.
As President Donald Trump was making his final decision to launch a U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear program, Washington has been abuzz over suggestions that his MAGA movement is “splintering” over his determination to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Sorry, but that is fake news.
As the president put it in the Oval Office last week, “My supporters don’t want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon.” As usual, Trump understands his base better than both his critics and sycophants. A new poll from the Ronald Reagan Institute, taken just before the U.S. and Israel launched military strikes on Iran, shows that 90 percent of self-identified MAGA Republicans say that “preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is important to U.S. security” — including 74 percent who say doing so matters “a great deal.”
Only 8 percent disagreed.
That’s not all: 86 percent of MAGA Republicans say the security of Israel is important to U.S. security; 81 percent want to either continue or increase U.S. support for Israel’s military campaign against Hamas and Hezbollah; and 64 percent support Israel carrying out airstrikes to destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities.
In other words, there is no MAGA schism over Trump’s attack on Iran. To the contrary, there is deep-seated MAGA unity behind Trump and Israel. What we are seeing is not an uproar from Trump’s base, but the whining of a loud but tiny cabal of right-wing isolationists — epitomized by the likes of “kooky” Tucker Carlson, as the president has characterized him, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) — who tried to hijack MAGA to push their own Fortress America agenda. They are completely out of step with Trump and the larger MAGA movement. With Trump’s decision to strike Iran, over their vocal objections, they are quickly finding out, to their shock and surprise, that Trump is not an isolationist — and neither are his supporters.
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