Steve Clemons

It's the independents that largely tilt one way or the other.

And right now he's lost independence so substantially.

um who were with him before because they were frustrated with biden they were concerned with biden but a lot of independents went and gave him that tilt donald trump can always get 30 of the american public but 30 doesn't get you very far in american politics if you don't bring others along with you and right now of course he doesn't have the democrats who are aligned almost you know unbelievably against this war but you know i just to give him credit he still has i think about 75 percent

support from his own base, from Republicans for this conflict, one that he had kind of articulated many, many times that he wouldn't go after.

They seem not to care, but a lot of the rest of the country does.

And they worry about the impacts that another forever war

is going to have on their economic choices, on investment in America.

This doesn't feel like make America great again kind of policy.

And in the meanwhile, not only that, but you've got a wobbly world where many of our allies or we didn't consult with a lot of European allies, allies in the Asia-Pacific saying, how in the world did we get into this?

And Donald Trump thinking that he can just snap his fingers and have people line up to be part of America's security

barrage against Iran and keeping the Strait of Hormuz open and others putting themselves at risk when he never consulted with them at all.

This was a surprise for the world.

I think in that situation, he's facing some real blowback, both internationally and in the American elections coming up.