Best Propaganda Money Can Buy Can't Sell Americans On Iran War

So 68%, over two-thirds, think he has done a piss-poor job on his Iran war, which was his war of choice. Two-thirds is the percentage needed in the Senate to impeach and remove a president, so if our representatives actually mirrored public opinion, Trump would be toast.

That question had to do with Trump's handling of the war. Asked whether they approved of the war on Iran, a majority, 54%, said they strongly or somewhat disapproved, and another 20% were noncommittal, which I would interpret as not actively supporting the war even if they didn't particularly oppose it.

Those statistics yield a picture of a war that nearly three-fourths of Americans either oppose or about which they just don't care. It isn't what the commander of a war would want to hear from his own public.

A majority think the war was a mistake and question whether it has made the US safer or forestalled an Iranian bomb. Another way of putting it is that only about a quarter of respondents think the US should have gone to war with Iran, and that the US is winning.

The UMass report on the opinion poll noted that Raymond La Raja, professor of political science at UMass Amherst and co-director of the poll, said,“Americans are overwhelmingly negative about Trump on the Iran situation.”

He continued:“Only one in four Americans thinks he is handling Iran well. The real divide is increasingly between Trump's hardcore MAGA base and almost everyone else. Among Republicans who identify very strongly with MAGA, 87% approve of Trump's handling of Iran.

But that falls to 58% among Republicans who are 'somewhat MAGA' and just 30% among Republicans who say they are 'not MAGA at all.' The more loosely attached Republicans are to the MAGA identity, the more skeptical they are of the war.”

Conducting a war in the Middle East, as even the cowboys in the G. W. Bush administration recognized, requires at least some allies. But Americans don't think Trump plays well with other children.

Asked how he has handled working with allies in global affairs, 52% say“not well at all” and 12% say“not too well,” showing that nearly two-thirds view his foreign policy performance negatively.

Based on this sounding, we can further project that Americans are even more angry about the main fallout of the failed war on Iran, which is high inflation. Fully 80% of respondents said that the Iran War has increased the cost of gasoline and groceries. Asked about how Trump has dealt with inflation, 57% responded,“not well at all.”