MAGA crackup? Influencers pan Iran war, but base backs Trump – for now.

For a hot minute, it appeared that President Donald Trump’s bold decision to go to war with Iran would fracture his MAGA base.Outside criticism was immediately fierce, as movement influencers, including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens, made clear their opposition in the name of “America First.”This week, top Trump counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigned over the war and is now under investigation by the FBI. Speculation was rampant that his boss and ally, Tulsi Gabbard – the director of national intelligence and a longtime opponent of U.S. interventionism – might also quit or be fired. Vice President JD Vance, another anti-interventionist, is also out of sync with the president on foreign wars. Why We Wrote This Polls show that President Donald Trump’s war against Iran has strong support among self-identified MAGA voters, despite strident criticism from some conservative commentators. How long the president can maintain that support, as war costs rise and gas prices mount at home, is unclear. But a funny thing has happened on the way to the MAGA crackup: It hasn’t actually materialized – at least, not yet.Polls show that President Trump, who launched the movement with his 2016 campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,”