Did you know that President Trump’s most die-hard supporters support President Trump? Well, many people are suddenly reminding you of this fact. Including the president himself. It’s being treated as a great embarrassing truth for anyone who supported Trump because he criticized the Iraq War and promised not to embroil Americans in long, useless conflicts. At UnHerd, anti-war journalist Michael Tracey says MAGA was never anti-war. Politico reports that Trump voters are compromising their previously stated principles to support their leader. The foreign press wonders if the anti-interventionist pose wasn’t just “mood music” that ended when Trump changed the tune.
For some commentators, it’s a chance to say that Trumpism, the political movement, never had any substance beyond Trump himself. For others, it’s just opportunistic taunting. Trump was always a neoconservative, and Trumpism was always about advancing the foreign policy being bellowed by Mark Levin. Either way, critics of America’s foreign adventurism never mattered.
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