You overestimate the base.

The war machine is already rewriting this as Iranian hostility.

The base is incapable of seeing this as a failure of their cult leader.

Instead they'll see it as the very rationale and justification of the war.

If they were ambivalent about it before, now they'll scream bloody murder for even more off-the-leash barbarism from the US and Israel.

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butlike 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why are you helping them galvanize? Let them come up with their own raison d'etre.

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kelnos 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Honestly it seems like the only thing Trump's base cares about is the price of gasoline. They don't give a shit about what's actually happening in the war.

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LAC-Tech 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Trump has a loyal hardcore, but he is absolutely bleeding supporters around the edges. If you follow the US right many of them are pledging to vote democrat in the midterms as a protest.

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asdff an hour ago | parent [-]

I noticed a wave of that right as trump declared war (declared conflict, whatever), people going "I voted for no new wars," but I noticed on /r/conservative that the takes quickly gave way to sudden concern about Iran's nuclear capability as the propaganda mills got their fodder in order.

	▲	tartuffe78 8 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		So many hidden comments there
	▲	LAC-Tech 10 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Who moderates /r/conservative? Whenever I drop into old subreddits these days the whole place feels very astro-turfed. High chance that it's modded by zionists, they have a lot of money and a lot of different organisations that hire full time people to "fight disinformation".