MAGA Left “in Shambles” as Trump Breaks No-Foreign-Wars Pledge, Former Supporters Turn Against Him
Key Takeaways
- •Marjorie Taylor Greene said Trump broke his campaign pledge to avoid foreign wars by becoming involved in a war with Iran.
- •Greg Sargent argued that Trump’s allies are struggling to explain the conflict because they must continue portraying Trump as dominant.
- •The article says the administration has not achieved its stated objectives of regime change and stopping Iran from ever developing a nuclear weapon.
- •U.S. officials acknowledged the failure of those goals less than a month into the conflict, according to the article.
- •Greene was described as one of several former Trump supporters who have turned against him, alongside Candace Owens, Alex Jones, and Tucker Carlson.
A growing number of MAGA figures have broken with President Donald Trump over his deeply unpopular war against Iran — a conflict that has left the president’s remaining followers facing a difficult quandary and the wider movement “in shambles,” participants in the “Daily Blast” podcast said Friday.
The episode, featuring The New Republic’s Greg Sargent and journalist Virginia Heffernan, centered on former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent prediction that the GOP would suffer a historic defeat in November’s midterms — contests that will decide control of the House and Senate, where the president’s party has historically tended to lose ground.
“You want to know why ‘26 and ‘28 is going to be different [than 2024]?” Greene said in a video published Thursday on TikTok. “Because Donald Trump broke his big, big campaign promise of no more foreign wars, and actually has got us embroiled in a war with Iran, a war that should not be happening, and he’s not backing off of it.”
The no-foreign-wars pledge was a signature theme of Trump’s 2024 campaign, particularly with the anti-interventionist wing of his coalition — a wing now split by the conflict itself.
Sargent concurred with Greene’s forecast, arguing that Trump had inadvertently placed his “Fox and MAGA figures” in a dilemma.
“They don’t know how to talk about Trump and the Iran war, because in their minds, Trump’s might and power and ability to impose his will on his enemies was always unquestioned,” Sargent said.
“And of course, the funny thing is, they’re required to treat it as fact that Trump’s defeat over Iran has been absolute, that it’s been one of the greatest military triumphs in world history. They’re required to repeat that, because Trump has said it. So now, how do they explain the fact that Trump can’t impose his will on Iran?”
By all accounts, Trump has failed to achieve his administration’s stated war objectives, which include enacting regime change and preventing Iran from ever developing a nuclear weapon. U.S. officials admitted as much just short of one month into the conflict, and Trump has since privately floated abandoning his pursuit of a nuclear deal with Tehran, according to the Wall Street Journal. Whether the administration revives that pursuit or continues the conflict remains an open question.
As a result, Heffernan argued, MAGA has largely been left “in shambles,” with many former Trump supporters reexamining their entire political identities.
“You see some people testifying to basically falling out with MAGA, or deconstructing their experience with MAGA. And they’re in shambles,” Heffernan said. “Their brains feel like they’re in component parts all around them. And they’re just going through, I can’t believe I believed this. I can’t believe I thought I should shoot bleach into my veins. Like, the whole thing. It’s like being lost all at once.”
Greene joins a growing number of former Trump supporters who have since turned on the president, including right-wing influencer Candace Owens, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and right-wing media figure Tucker Carlson.
Source: Raw Story
