Whatever the war in Iran may be, a betrayal of President Trump’s voters is not one of them. For anyone interested in reading his books and speeches, President Trump has, for over 25 years, been a consistent voice that Iran cannot possess nuclear weapons. This was not born of neoconservative philosophy, the Israel Lobby, or the influence of the so-called military industrial complex. It was born of a moral belief that the United States cannot have an Islamic enemy that both states to the world, “Death to America and Death to Israel,” and desires nuclear ballistic missiles.
As far back as 2000, Trump considered how best to think about dealing with the strategic threat of Iraq and Iran having a nuclear weapon. He would write:
