Why are so many people on the right dissatisfied with Trump?
And are there so many people on the right dissatisfied with Trump? Polls don’t really reflect it; Republicans and people who identify as MAGA still overwhelmingly approve of Trump.
But I am convinced there is a group – mostly young – that is angry with him although they once supported him (these are not the old NeverTrumpers). The group may be small but it is vocal, and of course the right needs every supporter it can get because the country is so evenly divided. Some of those young people dissatisfied with Trump believed he would never start any military action abroad and are angry about Iran. Some think he’s too pro-Israel, and/or that he’d take Russia’s side against Ukraine and he hasn’t. Some wanted him to deport every single illegal alien and clearly that’s not happening.
They want what they want and they want it now, or perhaps yesterday. And they’ve learned that Trump has different ideas; he’s too moderate for them.
There is little doubt that there is a movement of online pundits trying to increase the number of Trump-haters on the right and pull the party futher right – so far it nearly morphs into the left on some issues. What are their motives? Clicks and money, power and the dream of being king-makers. They are willing to lie to get it; in some cases they might not even realize they’re lying because they are so ignorant of history and facts. But they are good at manipulation, and the internet is their perfect medium.
Anyone who stakes out a position of “no more wars” has a depth of ignorance that is well nigh impossible to plum. They believe the world will stop coming after them for some reason.
There are wars that should be fought and some that should not. Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of wars that should have been fought way differently than they were.
Also, do we have a cohesive country or a fractured set of groups in it for power and money. I can make a case we do not have a cohesive country and it reacts as a fractured set of groups.
They’re not all young. My best friend (late 60s), with whom I watched the ’24 election and saw him jump for joy when Trump won, is wavering. He’ll never in a million years vote for a Dem, but he’s very unhappy about the Maduro capture, and says that if Trump takes us into Cuba he may sit out the ’28 election. He’s reservedly neutral about the war in Iran, because he remembers the Embassy takeover in 1979. I don’t think he will actually sit out 2028, regardless of whatever happens with Cuba. Where would he go politically?
His feelings toward Trump have always been mixed. He doesn’t like him personally, and still occasionally will bring up the Billy Bush locker room tape, and his very conservative cultural views clash with Trump’s. I know he won’t change his views, but I also know that he’ll never vote for a Dem, so I just change the subject when he brings up these issues.
There is a surprising number of people ready to give up their vote rather than make an unpalatable choice between two candidates they find imperfect. I’d say it’s childish, if it were not so common even among my elderly contemporaries.
Well, on the left another No Kings day. Fox has an expose on the funding and the groups behind it. Of course, the useful idiots I know were virtue signaling about attending today. I guess it’s working as we still don’t have a king.
When Jeremy Boreing was on Triggernometry, he claimed Tucker Carlson was trying to create a new faction that had right wing social values and left wing economic values. I couldn’t imagine a worse combination. I think Puritan Right meets Communism. Which I guess then make sense to be pro-Islamist where the theocracy controls the means of production too.
Whatever it is, I’m closer to the exact opposite.
Ingrates.
“Well, on the left another No Kings day. Fox has an expose on the funding and the groups behind it. Of course, the useful idiots I know were virtue signaling about attending today. I guess it’s working as we still don’t have a king.”
I live in Montana and saw 1 couple with signs walking down a sidewalk dejectedly not engaging with either people or waving signs at traffic in one small city of 9,000 and another guy on a street corner with a No Kings sign on cardboard – hidden behind a traffic sign in a town of 6,000 – 10 minutes later. They all looked despondent, bored and no into it at all
To Leland
‘he claimed Tucker Carlson was trying to create a new faction that had right wing social values.
The Red Green Alliance is embedded all over Western Countries. The Left are Communists and there is nothing but despotism and totalitarianim in Islam. No one with an IQ over 50 sees anything Right Wing in Islam.
Right Wing is Natural Law, The Constitution, individual rights, The Bill of Rights and for sure doesn’t include Sharia law. The Left and Muslims destest America as originally founded. In no way are “Right Wing Social Values” connected to Communism or Islam.
Tucker is just another Leftist who claims he’s a “Christian” but is now supporting Communsit China, Putin’s Russia, The Ayatollah and Islam in general -.none that has anything to do with Right Wing Socila Values.
Tucker is a huge apologist for Islam in case you haven’t noticed. Your friend is delusional.
Is there good news to be had from the changes in Venezuela? There is little obvious news, it’s not a topic that is popular with the Progressive Legacy Media (D). But it is also seemingly not popular with conservative media, and by this I mean Fox, which my wife watches.
But I’ve dug a bit on the internet and read a few stories, that the re-directed oil cargoes have been sold and the transfer of funds back to Venezuela’s account has been completed, with the revenue being mostly directed to food and medical aid efforts. It would be really helpful if both these events and their coverage were expanded to make it clear that the campaign has direction and momentum, and positive, peaceful results. No real word yet on the fate of Maduro.
We are told the Republican war chest is amply stocked for midterms, and my instinct is that events can still shape up nicely to provide evidence of successful foreign policy wins. The big wild card is Iran of course.
My impression is that the dissatisfaction on the “right” is coming from the isolationist/libertarian niche, like Rand Paul or Thomas Massie. I am somehow on Reason magazine’s email list, and their messages are almost indistinguishable from what one hears on the left (though fortunately absent the anti-Semitism).
It’s definitely a lot of people who thought more would be done faster on whatever issue they were most invested in. They thought the economy would boom immediately with no setbacks, or they thought we would be full speed ahead with deporting every illegal alien and not allowing any political considerations to slow ICE down, or they thought RFK’s MAHA movement would have brought broader, more sweeping reforms by now, or they thought more would have happened with Elon Musk and DOGE and the “swamp” would have been “drained” by now, etc.
Regarding “no kings”, a thought came to me last week that amused me. If Trump had seriously had ambitions to be a king or dictator of our country, he would have stayed with the Democrat party, where his chances would have been better.
“There is a surprising number of people ready to give up their vote rather than make an unpalatable choice between two candidates they find imperfect. I’d say it’s childish, if it were not so common even among my elderly contemporaries.” Wendy K Laubach
Age is no guarantor of maturity. Some refuse to grow up. Many more never see below the surface or beyond the obvious. And their vote carries as much political weight as the wisest among us…
“You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place” Irish author Jonathan Swift.
You can call me naive but I think your last point is closest to the truth. It is fairly easy right now for anti-Israeli leftists to LARP as disaffected people from the right wrt the war with Iran. As I have said before I think you are assuming Tucker and Candace have way more influence than they do. They get a lot of attention because the DNC-adjacent media are all in on amplifying anti-Trump voices and have no qualms about promoting anti-Semitism from any source. Promoting anti-Semitic people associated with the GOP obscures the often more virulent anti-Semitism coming from the Democrat party. I don’t doubt there are some people who mistook the emphasis on ending ‘forever wars’ and ‘America First’ as meaning Trump would never find military action necessary (per Richard Cook) absent a direct assault on US territory, and I’ve definitely seen online comments indicating that. However they almost always wind up being as anti-Semitic as anything from the Democrat ‘Squad’.
I must admit I’m dissatisfied with Trump in that No Big Fish have been convicted yet, beyond some losing their security privileges.
There is that. I mean, if any private business, or county government, had been found turning off the code in the accounting system telling what the expense was, someone would have been in jail before it was announced.
Western society, and especially the American version of it, seems wholly committed to denying all understanding of “priorities” and “the long game.”
A bit strange, as Democrats have been demonstrating both for the better part of a century.
I’m sure a great many of us want every illegal alien out of the country yesterday, the “enabler’ companies who hired them severely punished, Democrats thrashed for making it all happen, and our enemies in South America, the Middle East and Far east severely constrained or completely redirected.
We also want every day to be Sunday with bright sunny skies, gentle warm breezes, happy families frolicking in the park with puppies and bulging picnic baskets.
Reality ain’t exactly our strong point, it seems.
John Galt, who are you responding to? You started with my name and ended with this:
Tucker is a huge apologist for Islam in case you haven’t noticed. Your friend is delusional.
Who are you claiming, “my friend”? Jeremy Boreing? Cofounder of The Daily Wire? Why do you think he’s my friend? Why do you think he’s delusional? Do you think he’s claiming Tucker isn’t supporting Islamist rather than explaining why he may be doing so? Do you think he agrees with Tucker? What in my comment makes you think Mr. Boreing agrees with Tucker?
Fascinating article this morning over at MSNow on the No Kings. The author does admit the protests are “carefully curated”; no sh*t Sherlock. But then goes on to complain they don’t go far enough.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/no-kings-protest-trump-size-future
And as a follow up, and for your amusement, a sampling of the people doing the protesting. There really is a large contingent of us Boomers who sadly are very stuck in their fevered dreams of their youth and the 60s.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/03/28/the-no-kings-protests-were-even-more-insane-than-you-wouldve-thought-n2673597
I am very skeptical of this entire phenom… it reeks of left-wing psyops.
If anything, I think the many revelations of corruption and Trump’s decisive, mature actions have jolted and positively influenced many fence sitters.
If you have already turned away from the cultural indoctrination and identity politics, that embrace of reality includes a more realistic sense of time and the arc of change. I don’t believe many MAGA people have such a short attention span or unrealistic expectations.
Physicsguy:
I mentioned to a Democrat friend at church that I saw the
No Kinks rallies on the web and they all looked and acted like normal people.(sly sarc) He replied that there were reported to be 8 million (?) out there. To which I said “You get what you pay for.”
Except for his political bent, he is still a good man.
Ditto Mr. Cook, Cavendish, and Mr. David. TLDR: many people are immature and demanding final results NOW NOW NOW, when anyone who has read any history understands it takes time and process.
Also, the world and the enemy have their say in the situation. Pres. Trump is not the King of Fate (or any king atall). Aspiration is not congruent with current status. Let the man work.
For encouragement in this direction, see Jeff Childers’ substack Coffee & Covid.
I do find it remarkable how except for childers or don surber and a few others, there is always the most negative spin from the usual suspects on the left, but establishment publications like the journal or the torygraph,
so every stray wire gets the attention, most recently joe kent, who has gone off the reservation, but also podcasters like cernovich and robert barnes, to cite two examples,
they have qualms about the war, I get it, but this overwhelming negativity,
tucker as far back as the Bolsonaro election, understood the role and threat of China, in the world system
but there are the possum senators who slipped out of twon, failing to properly fund appropriations or take up the Save act, or confirm more doj officials, or
actually impeach a judge or two,
it was inevitable there would a confrontation with Iran, and it would be better now, when their missiles are not nuclear tipped, then in the future,
but there are transitory costs to cutting the tripwire
over in israel, you know ben david even ynet news is impatient about netanyahu’s handling of the current circumstances
I’m sure some sane people were duped but that isn’t the bulk of the attendees
— Shadow
Exactly. To a certain extent it’s just human nature at work. Whichever Party is in power has to content with a significant dissatisfied element, because reality never permits you to do everything they all want, or as much as they all want. The Dems have the exact same problem when they are in power, too.
The hardest core types are angry, have been angry for years, they consider the problems they hate to be instance of illegitimacy, and they want ‘enough fooling around, just CRUSH them already’. Reality, of course, doesn’t permit that.
It’s a lot of why Ann Coulter went from being Trump’s biggest cheerleader in 2016 to a big critic who considered him a traitor to the cause in 2020. She wanted things from him that he just could not deliver. Not would not, could not.
Trump himself makes it worse with his hyperbolistic speech and manner. I knew, even when he was running, that his huge boasts about Ukraine and Epstein and so forth would come back to bite him, because it was stuff he physically could not deliver on as President. It didn’t keep me from supporting him, but my fears about how that would play out were rapidly confirmed.
In his first term, Trump was 90% stymied by the Establishment, almost all Dem officials and a huge swath of GOP players wanted the status quo to continue, esp. on immigration, and they worked hard ot make that happen. Of all Trump’s big promises in 2016, the only thing that passed Congress easily was tax cuts, and judicial appointments. After that, as far as the GOP in Congress were concerned, the job was finished. Nothing more need be done, unless it was to get Trump to sign an immigration amnesty (which Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell tried to make happen repeatedly).
Trump II has been far more effective, because he won the popular vote and was reelected in spite of the immense Establishment effort to destroy him. That plus the downfall of quite a few of the GOP Old Guard made the power structure somewhat more amenable to his agenda. But the Establishment is still fighting against it.
Trump has made huge accomplishments, esp. compared to where we would have been now with either Democrats in office, or an Old Guard Republican.
But the hard core are tired of waiting, and tend to see anything but total and immediate success as failure.
The problem with that is that that combination, in it’s moderate form, is pretty close to being the median American voter.
The electorate, overall, can be reasonably described as ‘soft center right’ on cultural/social issues, and ‘ soft center left’ on economics.
This is precisely the opposite of the formulation that the GOP elites have lost with, over and over, since the 1990s, i.e. ‘economic conservative and social liberal’.
It’s also intolerable to the Democratic elites, which are in actual fact (as opposed to most of their rhetoric) ‘economic conservative and social liberal’. Just like the GOP elites.
Note that ‘economic conservative’ in this context means ‘corporatist’.
Neoliberals, in other words, run both parties, or did until 2016.
Every attempt by the intellectual class to create a third party from the late 90s on tended to be some flavor of libertarianism, which is 180 degrees out of phase with the electorate.
I saw remarkable but not surprising after the twenty five years that covered the bush to trump years, nothing really surprises correction, the fidgetiness of the market, there have been some strikes on major targets like Ruwais field in UAE and South Pars in Iran, there have been some strikes at Saudi pipelines and flagged ships, but as of yet, there hasn’t been a major event,
(Total bet on both, and now they are up the creek without a paddle,) in much of the Third World the price hike and supply squeeze has been severe, as in 1973 and 79, we have been protected from the latter, for how long, we can’t say, in Airship One, they are as yet refusing to open up North Sea drilling
but the moves to alleviate the supply squeeze have been given short shrift, the insurance program, the moves to reinforce shipping escorts,
well the Dems don’t actually behave that way, on economic policy, in fact it’s hard to say, exactly what they believe, for every Bill Ackman, there are plenty of economically illiterate businessman, perhaps Jamie Dimon is another, in some regards,
Down here in our area of the South we had another of those “No Kings” demos yesterday.
I note reports of other such reportedly NGO/foreign funded “Astroturf” demos all over the country, with organizers in St. Paul, for instance, claiming that 200,000 people attended, and I see the number 8 million nationwide being thrown around.
(If there is a lot of foreign funding going on, I wonder if those foreign countries, organizations, and individuals funding these demos might be able to be prosecuted, on the basis of interfering with our internal political system?)
You can’t be on the ground observing each demo and making your own count so, in theory –you are supposed to be relying on the total produced by the MSM– based on their reporters supposedly “unbiased” counts from around the country.
That, of course, is the theory, and I expect that similar demo totals from several decades ago might have been somewhat less biased and somewhat more accurate/reliable than they are today.
Knowing, though, that today’s almost totally Leftist MSM will just routinely lie, and exaggerate attendance and the size of this supposed organic “movement,” I wonder if we will ever know the true numbers?
P.S. As we have seen, pictures of the crowds in such demos are also not good evidence, because they can so easily be manipulated, even more so today with the advent of AI.
We’ve probably all seen the photograph of Stalin on a boat with a few of his cronies standing next to him, and how one of those cronies–now out of favor–was airbrushed out of the photo; he was “disappeared,” and no longer “in the picture” and on that boat with Stalin.
A few ways I’ve seen crowd photos manipulated–
Just flat out substitute the picture from another day’s or event’s crowd.
If in a stadium or auditorium, just photograph the areas which are filled up, and don’t show the areas with few or any seats filled.
If an aerial photo, just don’t take images of the whole area, just parts of it, excluding whole avenues, plazas, and streets.
I one instance I saw that whole major sections of a stadium/auditorium were just covered up with a huge floor to ceiling curtain, giving the impression that those who were seated were filling up the entire venue.
Take your photo focusing on the front of the crowd, and not from the back, which would give a better idea of the crowd’s total size.
Take a photo of the seats in the venue before the event actually starts, so that there are just a few early birds in the seats.
I’m sure the ways to create visual disinformation are endless.
I am disappointed. Trump hasn’t turned the commies in Olympia into chunky salsa with the Ginsu bomb. Not yet anyway. Worst killer tyrant ever.
Snark aside, I understand the difficulty of going after blue trash in heavily blue areas. The Klan won’t indict the Klan. The no king can’t have people arrested for making fun of the Royal hat.
Our kings of Olympia have no royal lineage, not that it matters.
All it took was vote by mail.
“Why are so many people on the right dissatisfied with Trump? … They want what they want and they want it now, or perhaps yesterday.”
Who do they think Trump is, a king?
Polling at CEPAC showed very strong (but not unanimous) support for Trump.
Almost 100% of Democrats support the Party line. Republicans are more ideologically, can I say, diverse?
Related (“caveat emptor”):
“Iranian President’s warning: ‘The economy will collapse’;
“A report by Iran International reveals a sharp conflict at the top of the regime between President Masoud Pezakhian and the commander of the Revolutionary Guards.“—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/424754
+ Bonus:
“Report: Iranian ambassador to Lebanon refusing to leave the country“—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com (News Briefs)
People may not like overtaking the Communists in Cuba but don’t vote for MAGA we will become Communist Cuba.
One might suppose that “No Kings” is precisely the reason—the VIRTUOUS reason—why elections MUST be stolen.
IOW, for the greater good (of course).
In fact, there appears to be an epidemic of such virtue…
“Election Fraud in Slovenia Is the First Step Toward Establishing a Dictatorship”—
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/election-fraud-in-slovenia-is-the-first-step-toward-establishing-a-dictatorship/
Key grafs:
[Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
Y’all remember that latest district election in Florida that Trump’s guy lost to the Democratic Party candidate?
Wasn’t all that long ago—maybe a whole week—but maybe we forgot all about it…
The district included Mar-a-Lago, too.
(Big on the symbolism! Huge, even.)
Anyways…
“…HOLY CRAP!! A Palm Beach elections office volunteer just got arrested for STEALING an encrypted access key and computer equipment in the March 24 special election where the Democrat won by 800 votes“—
https://instapundit.com/786085/
(Guy has a way with words…)
Wow Barry, re: “Palm Beach election volunteer just got arrested for STEALING an encrypted access key and computer equipment in the March 24 special election where the Democrat won by 800 votes”
I hope that goes somewhere — i.e., makes it to big news & to just results.
Meaning some jail time if true, even if there’s no effect on the election results.
The down side will be the inevitable squawking that the investigation is just “King Trump” going after his enemies.
Sigh …
People on the right are dissatisfied with Trump because he committed a brutal own goal and got us into a virtually unwinnable war against a very strong enemy which is destroying the world’s economy. Yes, the US might be able to win a war with Iran but it will take years, while Trump has only a few more months before he is continually impeached and rendered ineffective. Meanwhile, in 2028, the democrat in office will immediately surrender “in good faith” and probably help Iran rebuild its nuclear program as part of the surrender agreement (and secure him- or herself a Nobel Peace Prize in the process).
Hi strep, “… he committed a brutal own goal and got us into a virtually unwinnable war against a very strong enemy which is destroying the world’s economy. …”
You’d rather a repeat of the “straw kings” kicking the nuclear iran down the road??
This conflict has shown us that iran has been spending its country’s riches on accumulating amazing numbers of missiles, drones, … , obviously long-range capabilities plus portable launchers. Letting Iran continue, physically unabated, makes an inevitable threat of constant waterway shutdowns and terror attacks ever harder to hinder, let alone stop.
And dirty bombs … with their portable launchers and enriched uranium??
Should not take that lightly.
I’m for a strong, multi-prong, multi-nation approach to take this on NOW.
Thankfully, the nearby countries are somewhat participating.
Frankly, I think a lot of the noise is from the isolationist anti-Semitic fringe of the party that is skeptical of foreign wars and naturally suspicious of anything involving Israel. I hope not, but I think that’s what neo is referring to.
But don’t discount resentment from previously mainstream, non-MAGA Republicans. The matter is always framed as choosing the “lesser of two evils,” or thinking of the matter in terms of a binary choice. It’s never acknowledged that it has now been nearly a decade since the GOP has given its nomination to anyone not named Donald Trump. A party that keeps nominating Donald Trump doesn’t have a lot of credibility when it keeps telling its dissenting members they they have to swallow hard and accept Trump’s many faults because it’s a “binary” choice. Sure, but it’s a binary choice that the GOP has created!
Effectiveness is another issue. DeSantis was able to achieve very good results in Florida without completely alienating everyone to the left of Ted Cruz. We simply don’t accept the assertion that, now, three election cyclles later, Trump is (or is still) the only candidate who could bring about meaningful reform.
Especially for those of us who are are clear-eyed enough to recognize what’s coming in 2026 and likely 2028 because of Trump’s missteps, we can’t help but believe that a better candidate would have been able to achieve much, if not all of what Trump has accomplished, albeit with much less damage to GOP electoral prospects and, therefore, without the looming progressive restoration, which I think is going to be bad.
Do not make use of information technology in administering elections.
I was wondering when CC™/Baghdad Bauxite would return with his The Great Orange Whale hobby horse.
Just think how far he could go with a real horse. (“A horse! A horse! My kingdome for a horse!”)
There is little doubt that there is a movement of online pundits trying to increase the number of Trump-haters on the right and pull the party futher right – so far it nearly morphs into the left on some issues.
I’m not sure this is “moving farther right”. At this point I doubt Candice or Kelly really were on the right. Tucker also. I don’t see defending the Iranian Republic as being right.
Effectiveness is another issue. DeSantis was able to achieve very good results in Florida without completely alienating everyone to the left of Ted Cruz. We simply don’t accept the assertion that, now, three election cyclles later, Trump is (or is still) the only candidate who could bring about meaningful reform.
Trump has simply been our best candidate. He’s also a moderate, so the “alienating everyone to the left of Ted Cruz” doesn’t make sense. The left hates Trump because he beats them, not because he’s so far right.
Especially for those of us who are are clear-eyed enough to recognize what’s coming in 2026 and likely 2028 because of Trump’s missteps, we can’t help but believe that a better candidate would have been able to achieve much, if not all of what Trump has accomplished, albeit with much less damage to GOP electoral prospects
I haven’t seen anyone accomplish things like this at the national level before. Certainly not among modern era presidents.
and, therefore, without the looming progressive restoration, which I think is going to be bad.
Are you sure you are not looking forward to it?
huxley on March 28, 2026 at 10:17 pm said:
I must admit I’m dissatisfied with Trump in that No Big Fish have been convicted yet, beyond some losing their security privileges.
It appears to be a very difficult thing to do. Many judges and others in the lawyer class favor the establishment left and the deep state. And lefties generally will rule per their politics if placed on juries.
In red states judges and juries will do the right thing, In blue states they will act according to the Party interest.
Don:
Don’t ignore this part of what I wrote: “so far [to the right] it nearly morphs into the left on some issues.” It is in many ways a circle. At a certain point the words “right” and “left” become meaningless. Carlson is so far to the right in terms of – for example – isolationism and liking regimes that are highly restrictive about homosexuality and the like, that he is almost indistinguishable from the left in some of his positions, although he arrived at them followng a different path.
I’m not saying Qatari money isn’t involved, too. But as I’ve written many times, I don’t think it’s just that for Carlson. I’ve already written a great deal about him, but I have more to say, particularly about the religious angle.
@strepthroat
Firstly: you’re contradicting yourself. You don’t get to blab about an “unwinnable war” in sentence one and then admit that the US might be able to win the war in the second sentence.
Secondly: The amateur quarterbacks opining about Iranian military strength and prowess always make me chuckle a bit. “Very strong enemy”? Most modern conflicts with Iran were over in a matter of months or weeks, and while most of those were admittedly against regimes nowhere near as fanatical as the current management that was also without the tech advantage or intel on almost every leader in the regime we have now. Iran is vastly weaker in almost every category except tech and especially drone production than it was in 1979 due to a mixture of Mullahcratic mismanagement (study the IRGC’s Ill starred dam building helping to cause widespread water loss) and internal dissent.
I can guarantee you that the majority of people blabbing about this sort of stuff have never studied Operation Praying Mantis, 1856-7, or 1941.
Secondly: This ignores the fact that the goal was never to fight a war against Iran ala what Saddam did, but to do one against the regime and empower the Iranian public to rise up against the regime.
Thirdly: This overlooks how we have been at war with Iran’s dictatorship for decades, and recent years have done a lot to chop it down to size.
Fourthly: “Before… impeached and rendered ineffective”? Talk about counting chickens before they hatch.
Counting chickens before they hatch take two.
But let me assume just for the sake of it that is true…. What happens if Israel and/or the Iranian opposition say No and continue?
I swear it seems like almost everybody opining with the black pills tends to either overstate Israeli influence on Trump and the US regarding this operation or ignore it entirely. The fact is that we are almost peer allies in this conflict, and operating together but for our own reasons. We are coordinating but not perfectly, and there is good chance that Israel will refuse if they do not find the results to be to their satisfaction, especially given Oct 7.
Carlson is so far to the right in terms of – for example – isolationism and liking regimes that are highly restrictive about homosexuality and the like, that he is almost indistinguishable from the left in some of his positions, although he arrived at them followng a different path.
I’m not sure I buy the idea he went so far right he ended up on the left.
I think the social conservative argument he’s making is intended for his audience. He’s making a bid to influence his conservative audience with that gambit.
After all he was on CNN and MSNBC.
Recall the Fox documents indicated he didn’t believe that 2020 was stolen. Thinking about that now, it is adding up that he’s a grifter who doesn’t always believe what he claims.
Don;
He did not end up on the left. He ended up with some positions he shares with leftists – such as hating the Iran War, hating Israel, and even at this point pretty much hating America.
And I think he is quite sincere about those things. Did you read my 3-parter on Carlson? See this.
Tucker, another Nepo baby past his expiration date.