Anti-War Cranks are a Tiny GOP Fringe Hoping to Con Their Way to Power; Ted Cruz: Carlson More Anti-Trump Than Democrats

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Anti-war cranks are a tiny GOP fringe hoping to con their way to power:

The Republican Party is not split over the Iran war — but that doesn’t mean it can simply ignore the crank fringe bewailing and assailing President Donald Trump’s actions.

Polls show that 85% of Republicans back the attacks, and doubts are even more rare among the MAGA wing.

That should shock no one: Since the start of his second term (at least), the prez has enjoyed very high levels of support and approval within his party, and Epic Fury doesn’t change that.

Opinion could well shift if the war turns into a disaster of some kind, or a quagmire “forever war,” of course.

But the few but loud voices on the right insisting that it’s already one are, simply, wrong.

That is: While Tucker Carlson has his loyal listeners, even many (perhaps most) of them don’t buy the conspiracy theories about Benjamin Netanyahu or “the neocons” pulling Trump’s strings.

Naturally: Our president’s hallmark quality is doing whatever he thinks is best whenever he thinks it best to do so — critics be damned.

But that implausibility is beside the point: These folks present a two-fold peril to the GOP’s normie caucus:

1) Non-Republicans might be fooled into thinking the cranks represent a serious force within the party, or even into seeing them as the face of the GOP.

2) They might just fake their way into becoming a real force, particularly in the post-Trump future. --->READ MORE HERE

Cruz: Carlson more anti-Trump than Democrats:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is blasting conservative pundit Tucker Carlson over the commentator’s criticism of President Trump’s foreign policy and military operations in the Middle East.

“The Democrats and the press are trying to undermine President Trump, they’re trying to undermine the U.S. military, and they’re trying to bolster Iran and the Ayatollahs. Do you know who else is doing that? … Tucker Carlson and the rest of the so-called woke right,” Cruz said during a recent episode of his “Verdict” podcast. “There is a group of isolationist folks on the right. It is a small group, but they are loud and vocal. And Tucker Carlson has now all but declared war on President Trump’s foreign policy.”

Cruz played for his podcast audience a clip of Carlson pushing back on military operations in Iran, specifically warning against Trump’s demand the regime make an “unconditional surrender” to U.S. and Israeli forces to end fighting there.

The senator called Carlson’s comments “to the left of Chris Murphy,” referencing the progressive senator from Connecticut.

“That is more anti-American rhetoric than anything I’ve ever heard Bernie Sanders say,” Cruz continued. “Tucker continues to go to new lows and new lows. The more Tucker Carlson attacks Donald Trump the more fringe he gets.” --->READ MORE HERE

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