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I mean, the polling thing is obviously, as you note, cope, I think.

If it was something that was so popular, him and his administration and his allies could easily defend and define what they're doing.

But because they have not even agreed on a definition of what they're doing, and they really have no coherent defense of what they're doing, there's no semblance that it's popular because what is popular?

So that's, I guess, where I would start.

I'm curious, Julian, what you think about that.

What's interesting is that there is a big rift amongst sort of MAGA creators, MAGA online influencers.

It's unclear the extent to which that extends to the voting base.

And of course, you know, what MAGA is means different things to different people.

I think in terms of the MAGA philosophy, yeah, you could readily imagine how this is a direct contravention to what MAGA philosophy stands for in the definition of some of its thinkers.

But when you look at the polling, for instance,

It seems over and over again, I mean, Quinnipiac just came out with a new polling that shows this continuing trend of at least 50% to 60% of people being against these overtures into war generally, being massively opposed to troops on the ground in Iran.

The Republican split is what we're talking about here, which is on most of these questions, it's about 70% of Republicans opposed.

60 to 70 who are in favor of Trump's policies generally and that includes or his most dramatic policies including his war in Iran.

There's 15 to 20 percent that seem opposed to it, but there isn't necessarily a coherent

distinction between which of those is more moderate or disenchanted Republicans who are off put by some of this because of constitutionality, process, procedure versus how much of that 15 to 20% are sort of the MAGA base that is opposed to it.

And so I think the MAGA war is very important because I think that is two big forces within the Trump circle.

but narrowing out what the MAGA base is between the philosophy of MAGA versus MAGA as a form of Trumpism, I think that's a different question because sometimes MAGA is just a proxy for Donald Trump and MAGA post Donald Trump, we don't even know what that will mean because that's a jump ball when he leaves who's going to inherit that because it's unclear whether that's about Trump or about the philosophy.

Yeah.

And I think one thing that's important to underscore is that especially in recent days, we've seen so many sort of competing narratives of is Netanyahu dragging Trump into it?

Is Trump happily going along with it because this is what he wants anyways?