Jonathan V. Last

And so he's, you know, because the way things work is everybody gets right with the policy once Trump does the policy.

And so what his role is here is to make clear to people

what he wants to do.

Right.

And so this way he can try to make people like Tucker and others who might be skeptical about attacking Iran, try to get them to get their religion now, because he knows that once, you know, once he drops bombs, they'll, they'll get on side less or more, or they'll go quiet.

One or the other.

Do you think that's going to work in this one?

It depends.

You can envision ways in which things go really pear-shaped and some of the more Israeli skeptic members of the MAGA right decide like, F this.

Like, I'm just going to say this is bad.

They have to go pretty pear-shaped, I think.

You know, like it would have to involve the deaths of Americans.

And they'd have to be like combat deaths.

They couldn't be Iran launches a retaliatory strike in Qatar and somebody's killed on a base in Qatar.

That would not be enough, I think.

That wouldn't be enough, you don't think?

I think they could stomach that.

They could just be like, well, it wasn't really a combat death.

I mean, he didn't put boots on the ground in Iran.

They could talk themselves out of it.