The main influential people of the Maga Movement were divided by bombing Iran until President Donald Trump did that Saturday night.
Now, at least for the moment, lay leaders at the president of the president seem to be gathered around a position that causes criticism of triumph: direct attacks against Iranian nuclear facilities are justified, as long as US troops are not sent to a third full war in the middle of the world in the last quarter of the century.
“People do not want an escalation where terrestrial troops are sent, but this is not Iraq,” said Ryan Gredusky, a republican consultant who worked for a Super PAC that supported the 2022 Senate campaign of Vice President JD Vance in Ohio. Goldusky predicted that the Maga base will balancing in the row behind Trump.
There is little appetite in the White House or anywhere else in Washington for a land invasion of Iran, a mountainous country in the Middle East that would be extraordinarily difficult to conquer in a conventional war.
But it is not unusual for the beginning of hostilities, air attacks in three Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities were the first American direct intervention in a one-week war between Israel and Iran, to create an effect of rally-deglag within a president’s party. What is remarkable is how dramatic and fast has been the rotation of dissent to a complete throat support.
“Heavy smear campaign at this time attacking the patriots of the United States as ‘isolationist'”, Jack Posobiec, a main voice in the Maga Movement, published the earliest Saturday, before the bombings. “I hope that everyone who uses this bad persuasion knows that they associate them with the worst Neocons of the Bush era,” Jarge for the so -called Neoconservant Administration officials George W. Bush who pressed for the war in Iraq.
Posobiec had previously warned that direct attacks against Iran “would disastrously divide the Trump coalition.”
But after air attacks, he published what seemed like a feeling of approval.
“President Trump has clearly pointed out, as he has done all the time, which opposes a war of regime change in Iran,” he wrote. “This is Iran’s nuclear program that promised that it would end from day one.”
Posobiec was not only among Maga’s anti -interventionist figures to stop criticizing Trump after what he described as a highly successful mission that “completely and totally destroyed Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons.
Steve Bannon, a main advisor at Trump’s first White House and the presenter of the Podcast “War Room”, made clear in a special transmission on Saturday night that would have preferred Israel to take the lead in the coup of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But he stopped condemning Trump for sending US forces to do the job.
Instead, he gave voice to the doubts that some magician voters would have on the mission.
“A great question will be the reason why Israel did not take the lead and did this. Because now this has returned to the United States,” he said. “Why are we participating in combat operations in a war that is a war of choice?”
But finally he concluded that Trump would take the Maga Movement to his own position, perhaps an indication that influencers have more to lose by opposing Trump than when using force in Iran.
“There are many magicians who are not happy with this,” said Bannon. “I think he will get Maga on board for everything. But he has to explain exactly and go for this.”
An hour after Trump went to the White House Nation, Tucker Carlson, Trump’s most prominent ally, more prominent, had not said anything to his 16.4 million followers in X.
But Charlie Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, a pro-trump coalition of younger conservatives, had abandoned his long-standing skepticism about the wisdom of hitting Iran.
“America is with President Trump,” Kirk wrote in X.
While the Democrats went back against Trump, both for the wisdom of strikes and for the constitutionality of attacking another sovereign country without authorization from Congress or an imminent threat to the United States, most Republicans expressed approval or fulfilled the decision with silence.
An anomaly: Representative Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Who had been working with representative RO Khanna, D-Calif., To a measure designed to prohibit Trump to use the force against Iran.
“This is not constitutional,” Massie wrote in X.
