Much has been made of the ideological split in the Republican Party since President Donald Trump ordered strikes against Iran, but there is also a generation gap.
Younger voters have been among the most skeptical of military intervention in the Middle East generally and against Iran specifically. Trump supporters have not been immune to this trend. The MAGA personalities who have split with Trump over Iran have tended, with some prominent exceptions, to skew younger, while old-line conservatives have largely held firm behind him.
Trump’s appeal to young men last year was driven by his opposition to the “forever wars” and frequent criticism of how the Middle East was handled by presidents of both parties since 2001.
However, Trump has also been adamant that Iran should
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