America First? War in Iran threatens to split Trump’s MAGA coalition.
President Donald Trump, who has vowed to end America’s involvement in foreign wars since his first campaign a decade ago, is now engaged in the biggest military campaign of his presidency – and some of his most prominent supporters are not happy about it.“There are massive divisions over what we have done here,” said former Fox News host Megyn Kelly this week. “This looks like an open betrayal of the MAGA base,” said Curt Mills, executive director of the American Conservative. “With this Iran thing, I don’t see how the math works in our favor. ... I can’t take the gaslighting, guys,” right-wing podcast host and filmmaker Matt Walsh wrote on X in a series of critical posts that prompted a 300-word response from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.With the administration warning that the Iran conflict could last weeks or more, it is creating an unusual degree of tension between President Trump and a number of MAGA commentators, many of whom were already upset about the Epstein files controversy. Frustrated Trump supporters are saying the president has lost touch with what his voters care about – and what “America First” really means. As the Republican Party begins looking ahead
