Donald Trump rode a wave of popular support back into the White House in the 2024 presidential election. He continued his endeavor to turn the GOP into the party of the working class. He made substantial progress in turning minorities, especially Latinos, into Republicans. His campaign maintained a disciplined focus on opposing an out-of-control open border and the madness of “peak woke” transgender ideology. The coalition of working-class Americans, anti-war advocates, MAHA, and a number of other normal American demographics tired of insane progressivism came together and gave him a decisive victory. That moment hinted at the promise of a big-tent Republican party that could maintain power for years to come.
The midterm elections put a nail in the coffin of such an optimistic take, but the seeds of the Trump coalition’s downfall were sown several months ago with the entrance into the Iran war. The platform that Trump rode to victory was “America First”—immigration and economic policies that benefit ordinary Americans, a return to sane domestic policy that buries the stupidity of far-left social ideologies, and a turning away from foreign wars that are not clearly in the American interest. No matter how one spins the Iran war, claiming that Iran was close to obtaining a nuclear weapon and endangering the Western world, America was not sold on this sudden entrance into yet another war in the Middle East that had no clear endgame and that doubled the price of gas. There is no way around the reality that the war in Iran ended the MAGA coalition.
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