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Bulwark Takes

Trump Can’t Control His Own Base on Iran War

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Will Sommer discuss MAGA’s growing anger over the war in Iran. Is this a temporary wobble, or the start of a deeper split between isolationists and hawks?

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Hey, you know, I'm hanging in there. Hello to everyone watching. This is our second Maga Monday. It's very exciting. Yeah, pretty exciting. Welcome to everyone. I'm Sam Stein, managing out of the bulwark. This is Maga Mondays. We had conceived of this live show 10 a.m. at Monday as somewhat of a lighter fare where we looked at the internet and decided what was

1:28.5

silly over the weekend and what we can make fun of. Obviously, that's a little bit difficult

1:33.1

when you're in the middle of a war. And for those who are going to say, oh, it's not a war,

1:36.8

I saw Patrick Grafini and others, but it's not a war. Pete Hagseth called it a war, so we're going to

1:40.7

call it a war. They killed the president of the country. You know, the Ayatollah, you know, what, that's pretty war. Seems warlike, yeah. So I will just, so we're going to, in the spirit of the show, which is meant to look at the right-wing internet culture and what's happening again, we're actually going to look at how MAGA is reacting to what's happening in Iran. And, well, you could

2:01.5

correct me if wrong, I started the weekend thinking, okay, they're kind of contorting themselves,

2:06.7

they're figuring out a way to get to supportive. And certainly there are definitely some people

2:11.6

who are doing that. But what has surprised me, generally speaking, is the degree to which luminaries in this movement

2:20.0

have basically said, we don't like this. This is fucked. We don't want this. This is not in the

2:24.1

spirit of what Trump was doing or promising. And this is, you know, contradictory to the campaign

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