That came as a surprise, given the scale of the pushback Trump is facing from within his “Make America Great Again” and “America First” movements. Anger is growing among prominent Trump supporters after he abandoned his Inaugural Address pledge to be “best remembered” for the “wars we never start”. The notion that “regime change” might be on the table advances the possibility that, like past presidents, Trump could get sucked in to a nation-building quagmire in Iran that is anathema to many of his loyalists.
Vice President JD Vance made strenuous efforts to assure the Maga faithful that the Iran attack was somehow consistent with Trump’s promise to avoid fresh episodes of military adventurism. He told NBC News that he empathised “with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern. But the difference is back then, we had dumb Presidents, and now we have a President who actually knows how to accomplish America’s national security objectives”.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has spoken out against US involvement in Iran (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)But several prominent Republicans are not buying what the Vice President was deployed to sell them. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who last week urged Trump not to attack Iran, spent Sunday arguing that the President should remain laser-focused on the home front instead of Tehran. In a lengthy post on X, she vowed to “support President Trump and his great administration on many of the great things they are doing while disagreeing on bombing Iran and getting involved in a hot war that Israel started. That’s not disloyalty. Critical thinking and having my own opinions is the most American thing ever”, insisted a Congresswoman who has previously argued that Jewish-controlled space lasers are responsible for some of California’s forest fires. She vowed to pray “for an end to the constant demand for America to go to war”.
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)In America’s mid-term elections next year, Massie warned, Republicans “could lose the majority over this one issue, because people become disillusioned, disaffected, apathetic and don’t show up to vote”. In language that infuriated Trump, he warned that Democrats could return to power on Capitol Hill “and end up impeaching him again”.
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Outside the party Steve Bannon, the former Trump adviser who now runs an influential podcast, pointed out that many Americans were opposed to intervention in Iran and criticised the President for thanking Benjamin Netanyahu after the strikes. Israel had “essentially forced President Trump’s hand” by starting a war with Iran, he said on the War Room.
Trump’s decision to enter conflict is already threatening to split his base. Any deepening involvement in the region may split Maga asunder.
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