Ben Shapiro

When I separate Republican respondents on whether they think of themselves as a Trump supporter or a Republican Party supporter first, I find more than nine in 10 Trump first Republicans support the Iran strikes compared with 72% of party first Republicans.

So in other words, the Republican Party is on board and it is a fringe of the Republican Party or not.

Why?

Well, because they are more aligned, frankly, with sort of dispossessed Democrats.

Again, these are the people who are upset with Trump.

And this is why when you see columnists suggesting that like Joe Rogan or Theo Vaughn defines MAGA, kind of like saying that Carrie Prejean defines Catholicism.

The late breaking decider who jumps on a bandwagon to effectuate his or her own values rather than, you know, joining in order to facilitate the values of the central institutions.

Those are typically not the people who define the institution, because here is the thing.

President Trump has been talking about all of this forever, forever.

We've played this clip before, but yesterday Trump trued it out himself.

This is from 1987, talking about taking Iran's oil.

How?

I mean, do we want a war?

You go in.

You're going to have a war, Barbara.

You're going to have a war by being weak.

You're going to have a war.

And it's going to start in the Middle East.

What if the Soviet Union said, you do this to Iran, we're going to come in?

That is a very young Donald Trump saying the exact same thing he says today, and he is correct.