19-05-2025
Team Trump risks fatally misunderstanding Iran
Travelling in America, I've encountered three different political groups. There are dyed-in-the-wool Donald Trump supporters who won't tolerate any criticism of their hero, who can do no wrong; there are perpetually apoplectic 'Never-Trumpers' who won't tolerate any praise for the arch-fiend in the White House, who can do nothing right; and there are those who suppressed their doubts about Trump to vote for him because they loathed and feared the Democratic Party.
These queasy Trump voters are currently enduring something of a dark night of the soul. It's not buyers' remorse: they remain certain that the Democrats would have promoted an ever more radical agenda to wreck America through the injustices, disorder and social divisions of progressive shibboleths.
So they approve of Trump's onslaught against
