Judging by the email lists and the patterns on X, the American right is going through its now semiannual purge frenzy, when people who felt slighted by the political success of Donald Trump and other Republican factions aligned with him now cynically pretend that they were always Trump’s biggest supporters. They pretend Trump had always promised to embroil the U.S. in an open-ended conflict in Iran, and anyone who doubts it is a wrecker or a saboteur and will be swiftly left in the political dustbin forever. I mean, if we know anything about Trump, it’s that Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro and all the pro-war guys at the American Enterprise Institute always constituted his core base.
You can tell it’s a healthy exercise because when one of the dastardly wreckers does resign — as Joe Kent did yesterday from his counterterrorism position — his opponents and critics don’t celebrate, but somehow become even angrier.
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