[cosmicgadget]

More than anything else, conservatives love the feeling that they are winning. Over a rival sports team, over a political opponent, and especially over a foreign power. This is why MAGA won over the neocons so easily, the MAGA shtick is to claim to be always winning.

[leptons]

Many conservatives voted for trump because they thought he wasn't a "war hawk", they don't want the US in wars around the world, they don't want their children sent off to die in foreign lands. So they voted for trump and then got "Department of War", and now a war in Iran, the last thing they wanted.

[cosmicgadget]

This isn't a defense of the president or his policies but we don't know if this will be a (sustained) war or rather a week or two of airstrikes like the previous iteration and the Maduro thing.

> Many conservatives voted for trump because they thought he wasn't a "war hawk"

I doubt their honesty. Considering they blamed Biden for Russia invading Ukraine and October 7 with the galaxybrain reasoning of "It didn't happen while Trump was in office", I am convinced the isolationism thing is just an unserious talking point.

Even the Joe Rogan MAGAs should remember when they cried on social media about how they were about to be drafted after the Soleimani thing under Trump.

[watwut]

I call bullshit on that. They used war hawk accusation against Harris for the same reason they said she is uneducated and stupid - just a smear and lie in a see of lies. It was just yet another false concern of people who dont care.

There was no reason to believe Harris will be more likely to start a war. They did not cared about that bit. It just sounded better the "I would never vote for democrat" or "she is black woman" or "I want to harm trans people" or "I want to stick it to liberals".