Victor Davis Hanson: Anti-MAGA Right Knows Iran Campaign Is No Forever War

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Operation Epic Fury was never the pretext for a larger, endless war, and the so-called anti-MAGA right—Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, or Marjorie Taylor Greene—should know better than to label it as such, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” The whole subtext of the Iran campaign is this: While regime change is not the primary agenda, America’s weakening of the regime may spur people to rise up and overthrow the government. (00:00) Anti MAGA Critics (01:34) Iran Strikes Backlash (02:34) Not a Forever War (04:10) Trump Rhetoric and Restraint (06:15) Betrayal or Bigger Agenda 👉 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: http://dailysignal.com/donate 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Also on Spotify: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
0:14.2	The left is making quite a deal of attention to what they call the anti-Maga right, that is former staunch supporters
0:27.3	of Donald Trump that have now parted ways with him. And the names that they fixate on, the left,
0:35.1	Marjorie Taylor Green, who resigned from Congress after a big fight with Donald
0:41.0	Trump over the Epstein Files and the Iraq War. Tucker Carlson, the former Fox host, news host,
0:49.3	and now has become a fierce Trump critic. Megan Kelly, who had a Fox, very successful Fox show herself and then went to NBC and now
0:59.3	has a very successful podcast.
1:01.4	And she seems to have parted ways with Donald Trump over the same issues as Marjorie
1:08.1	Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson.
1:11.7	Then, of course, Joe Rogan has expressed disappointment.
1:15.5	Perhaps he is now not in the MAGA fold.
1:19.3	Candice Owen's been a virulent critic.
1:21.5	Steve Bannon, I don't know what his status is, but there's a group of people.
1:25.4	And then further to the right, of course, there's the Groypers and Nick Fuentes and all those people.
1:30.5	But what was their beef?
1:34.0	The first thing that seems to really bother them is the current war.
1:39.2	I shouldn't say the first thing.
1:40.4	The first thing that bothered some of them was the summer 2025 attack by the United
1:47.0	States for about 25 hours on the nuclear facilities in Iran. It was a one-off. Tucker Carlson
1:55.6	said this was unnecessary. It could lead to World War III. It didn't. It did retard the progression of
2:03.9	nuclear acquisition. Then new information came in that they had much more ballistic missiles than
2:11.5	had been anticipated, and there may have been other areas where they had stored nuclear materials.
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