The US right wing can forgive Trump for anything – except his deeply unpopular war

Iran war has split some Maga conservatives from Trump and alienated young voters. What will it mean in the midterms? This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland; sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday The American right has forgiven Donald Trump for his affairs, impeachments, mass deportations and the platforming of JD Vance. But having stuck with him through all that unpleasantness, it seems that we may have discovered the one thing capable of splitting some Maga conservatives from Trump: all it took was him starting a war in the Middle East. On Tuesday Joe Kent, the US counter-terrorism chief who previously ran for office as an ultra-Maga, white-nationalist endorsed, Trump-loving figure, resigned his position in a letter that criticized Trump for waging the war and crapped all over the president’s excuses for starting the conflict. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent said. Then the key bit: “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” Trump, as is his wont, reacted furiously, telling reporters it was “a good t