David Pakman

But Trump's doing it now.

Trump's escalating such a conflict.

And the people who helped sell the message that Trump isn't going to do that have no option now but to recognize the contradiction.

You can see it

in the allies.

And the difference is that this is now unfolding during an active war.

It's easy to play, play these coy games about Trump as antiwar when he's the candidate and Joe Biden is the president.

But we have this unfolding now during an actual active war that any second could escalate bigly.

So you've got Ann Coulter, Eric Prince, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

They're all raising alarms.

Rand Paul,

and others.

This is much, much more than a superficial political disagreement, which would be expected to see.

We have a coalition here within MAGA that is under major stress.

The cracks are forming.

And for now, Trump is continuing forward anyway.

The question that gets me to

is what happens if the Iran war does unfold the way Trump's allies are warning that it will, because if that happens, the number of people willing to defend Trump could shrink very quickly.

Then we could see Trump and Republicans get brutalized in the November midterms.

And what will Trump do then?