• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    4 days ago

    Again, it’s very clear that his base wanted isolationism, and they’re now very upset at him for bombing Iran. I don’t know why you’re unable to acknowledge this basic fact of the situation.

    • LaughingLion [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      3 days ago

      They did not and they are not. I’m not debating this, I’m telling you. They supported him and his cabinet being open about wanting to bomb Iran leading up this. They supported him and his cabinet when he bombed Iranian officials in his first term. They still support him and his cabinet after this. They are supporting him in his continued threats against Iran. Whatever it means for them to be “upset” in regards to this it does not translate to any opposition to his actions past, present or future with intent to bomb Iran. I don’t even know what you mean by it. They lit fireworks in my neighborhood right afterwards in the suburbs of west Florida where there is no shortage of Trump supporters. Were they fireworks of anguish? Were they so very cross at him? No, of course not. I have not come across a real world Trumper that thinks the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites was a mistake. Those people are outliers and their discontent has no call to action and is therefore meaningless in the realm of politics where they will vote for it again and again. Call me a Calvinist if you must: only actions matter.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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        3 days ago

        What are you even talking about here. Carlson ripped Cruz apart over attacking Iran, he’s as prominent as it gets. It’s very clear that there’s a huge rift forming in the republican base right as we speak.

        • LaughingLion [any, any]@hexbear.net
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          2 days ago

          Listen lemmylib.

          Cucker Tarlson is not indicative of the majority of Republicans and I don’t even assume that his interview is anything more than shit-stirring for views. He’s an opportunistic little worm, that one. But even assuming his “anger”, if you can even call it that, is transferred to the average Republican it has in no way translated to any loss of support for Trump at all whatsoever. At best a few Republicans grumbled, even more cheered, and they’ll vote for it all again. You sound like a delusional lib posting on TikTok “TRUMP IS DONE NOW HIS SUPPORTERS ARE FINALLY TURNING”. They are not. Not even a little bit. Not for this.

          The only thing I’ve seen Trumpers even remotely begin to waver on is the import tax shit because it’s starting to hit their budget and small business. Maybe the cuts to medicare/medicaid will be another sore point but we won’t see that for a while.

          Get a clue, jfc.

    • The problem with this discussion is that his “base” is being treated as a monolith when the fact of the matter is there are both significant numbers of isolationists and warhawks who are diehard Trump fans. I don’t know what the breakdown is for the percentage of each one, but I think it’s probably safe to say that the majority of Trump’s base doesn’t care about his choice to bomb Iran. They’ll cheer him on as being tough for uhmuricah when he does drop bombs but pretend they always said they’re “against unnecessary war” when he babbles his isolationist rhetoric.

      Most of his base is vastly more concerned with his backtracking on his promise to release the Epstein files than they are about Iran.