If America’s objective over the skies of Iran is to neutralize Iran’s power-projection capabilities, the war has opened up the prospect of a secondary objective at home: a “purge,” as Michael Brendan Dougherty put it, of right-wing iconoclasts and dissidents from Donald Trump’s coalition.
The establishmentarian types who never sought such company in the first place are busily expelling from Trump’s “core base” anyone discomfited by the war, he maintains. And all amid a perverse pageant in which the likes of Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, the fellows at the American Enterprise Institute, and other critics of the president’s actions over the years nevertheless support him in this national endeavor. Presumably, they should have observed a mulish consistency and opposed a war they’ve long supported because Trump is its prosecutor.
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