PAC-10-BEAR said:
Cal88 said:
Leftover MAGA support for Dear Leader is very high, but not 100% high.
Trump has been consistent about his views on Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. He's been saying the same things prior to his presidency.
The context at that time was that several GOP candidates were jockeying for Sheldon Adelson's $100M+ endorsement, and bombing Iran for Israel was his pet issue. Adelson found more common ground with Trump as a fellow casino operator, and through Kushner, who was already a close friend of Netanyahu, as was Adelson.
Trump also cultivated an anti-neocon/anti-establishment populist following. His political career was launched in earnest by his slaying of then frontrunner Jeb in the first debate by lambasting Dubya's Forever War. In that sense he was very two-faced, as these two constituencies are mutually exclusive. In his second mandate, he went all in for the money, and perhaps he was also coerced.
