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More on the MAGA Civil War over Iran
🕑 Added 2025-06-29 14:48:19 +0000 UTCIf you were intrigued by our conversation with Curt Mills last week, Sam's latest column provides more detail about the intra-MAGA fight over Israel and Iran.
“It’s the battle of the Murdoch empire versus the podcast bros,” said a former administration official. “Whoever wins determines matters of war and peace. I wish it were different, but that’s the reality.” Whereas Fox News continues to provide a morphine drip of anti-Iran bellicosity to the older GOP cohort, the earbuds of junior Republican staffers are tuned into anti-interventionist — and increasingly Israel-skeptical — content from Carlson, Bannon, Kirk, and even the pipsqueak antisemite Nick Fuentes.
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mrakobesiye
Please do a full episode on right wing Christian philosemitism and Zionism.
Cailleach
Yes, in general I found the conversation with Curt Mills a bit dissapointing on this too, in that it failed to recognise the obvious - there is a very american tradition deeply critical of the Israel lobby, of politicians putting Israeli interests above American interest, opposition to intervention (espesvcially on behalf of Israel), and that tradition is American Nazism - the many links of which with respectable consvervatism in the States are never properly broached even when they're obvious. Many Nazis have written for national review. Several have had constant spots. Buckley was personal friends with some for years and years. The overlap of these two traditions I think is the real story, and to me the real dividing line between Americanists and Nazis on the American right is Israel.
Molly Bado
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Mark Watts
Sorry to bring this comment here. I cannot figure out how else to reach you. I seem to still be a paying member. I have had no problem accessing your other member-only podcasts. But this one is locked. Anyway you can help here?
Ben Lorber
Good piece but ‘leftist magazines and Noam Chomsky’? Really? When young MAGA staffers want to develop their analysis of the Israel Lobby they have a much closer to home tradition to turn to. You know this!
