The president's base was vocally divided over the prospects of direct U.S. attacks up until the moment they happened.

Trump’s base was vocally divided over the prospects of direct U.S. attacks up until the moment they happened.

The MAGA movement’s top influencers were divided over bombing Iran until Donald Trump did just that Saturday night.

Now, at least for the time being, the lay leaders in Trump’s base appear to be rallying around a position that spares Trump criticism: Direct attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities are justified, as long as American troops aren’t sent into a third full war halfway around the world in the last quarter of a century.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    What frustrates me is how we, especially on the left, tend to fumble these moments. Instead of recognizing that some of these people might be waking up, we rush to humiliate them

    Ok - on the one hand we could permanently convert one of these folks from a die hard to a never-Trumper.

    But on the oooooother hand we could get some social media juice making another tired Leopards Eating Faces joke. It’s really a toss up, ya know?