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6/17/2025, 8:45:45 PM
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6/17/2025, 8:45:45 PM
No.507757000
[Report]
>>507757226
>>507758354
>>507758570
>>507758808
>>507761400
Trump's Neo-Con Turn, How Much Will It Hurt Him?
A huge reason Trump 1.0 ever happened was the anti-establishment backlash, both against Clintons, them being seen as turning into a dynasty with Hillary, but also the enormous failures of Bush administration and Iraq War, and the neo-con elite of GOP that enabled and facilitated these failures. The biggest part of momentum for the Trump Train in 2016 was his "outsider" status, being seen as delivering refuge from these elites that stood against the common man. It's a foundational part of his cult of personality.
Trump's base is willing to tolerate a lot of BS, perform a lot mental gymnastics to justify nonsense and Trump has survived an absolutely colossal amount of scandals, gaffes, policy reversals, and different kinds of shitshow that would have ended majority of politicians' careers. But I think many people, Trump and his aides* included, are severely overestimating Trump's ability to absorb such an enormous betrayal for one of his key promises to his base. In order to be successful he must be at least SEEN as being against neo-cons, even if he ends up tacitly endorsing them. No cult of personality or Fox News crap will sell outright starting an unprovoked war to his base. Maybe some end up still absorbing the "marching orders", but he is guaranteed to lose a lot of support over this, further weakening the prospects of Republican party for 2026 midterms and beyond. (I am not even mentioning the economic impact of oil price surge) What does /pol/ think? I think he is going to take a bigger L long term than he is realizing.
*=I think some of the aides might be deliberately lying to him regarding the military prospects, lack of exit strategy, and popularity of another ME war for their personal gain in this matter.
Trump's base is willing to tolerate a lot of BS, perform a lot mental gymnastics to justify nonsense and Trump has survived an absolutely colossal amount of scandals, gaffes, policy reversals, and different kinds of shitshow that would have ended majority of politicians' careers. But I think many people, Trump and his aides* included, are severely overestimating Trump's ability to absorb such an enormous betrayal for one of his key promises to his base. In order to be successful he must be at least SEEN as being against neo-cons, even if he ends up tacitly endorsing them. No cult of personality or Fox News crap will sell outright starting an unprovoked war to his base. Maybe some end up still absorbing the "marching orders", but he is guaranteed to lose a lot of support over this, further weakening the prospects of Republican party for 2026 midterms and beyond. (I am not even mentioning the economic impact of oil price surge) What does /pol/ think? I think he is going to take a bigger L long term than he is realizing.
*=I think some of the aides might be deliberately lying to him regarding the military prospects, lack of exit strategy, and popularity of another ME war for their personal gain in this matter.
