Donald Trump’s decision to team up with Israel and launch a war on Iran is fracturing the MAGA movement’s army of influencers and driving some of its members into outright despair.
Some prominent voices in MAGA world have been happy to cheer on the president’s deadly bombings in Iran — in some cases, despite having previously touted Trump as an anti-war president. But others haven’t been as willing to sheepishly fall in line with the administration — and have come under attack for doing so.
The result has been the further entrenchment of two diametrically opposed camps: one vehemently supportive of war with Iran and one staunchly against it.
Some MAGA influencers are even using the opportunity to suggest that the administration should be bombing American cities instead.
To bolster their right-wing bonafides, some anti-war influencers resurfaced a video in which the late MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk denounced the idea of Iranian regime change.
The divisions are clearest between right-wing supporters and detractors of Israel, shining light on disarray rooted in the MAGA movement’s perpetual infighting over aid to Israel’s military and the scourge of antisemitism. As an example, staunch right-wing supporters of Israel’s government — including activists like Laura Loomer, Mark Levin, James Lindsay and Dave Rubin — have been backing the attack on Iran. They’ve all spent a fair amount of time attacking critics of the military action, which include many critics of Israel and some traffickers of brazenly antisemitic rhetoric, like Joel Webbon, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and, as my MS NOW colleague Mychael Schnell noted, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
You can find more examples of such infighting over Iran in this piece from Media Matters for America.
One of Greene’s allies in this fight is Hitler fanboy Nick Fuentes, who railed against the Trump administration on Saturday.
“We are in a state of distress,” Fuentes said. “This is not a republic anymore. That’s over — and the MAGA movement is surely dead.”
During that same rant, he urged his followers not to vote for Republican candidates in the midterm elections.
“This administration needs to be shut down immediately,” he said. “Do not vote in the midterms — and if you do, vote for Democrats.”
I doubt many, if any, Democrats will accept this toxic endorsement. But that it was uttered at all underscores the broad unpopularity of Trump dragging the U.S. into another deadly war in the Middle East.
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