The ‘restrainer’ right and the progressives sound an awful lot alike on Israel and Iran — but they are on the margins.
With Donald Trump now loudly backing Israel’s war on the Iranian nuclear program and issuing increasingly hawkish warnings against the mullahs, there has been a lot of teeth-gnashing and garment-rending from the usual quarters -- and these days, those usual quarters are a horseshoe-shaped alliance of doves and antisemites on the “restrainer” right and the progressive left. At times, it can be hard to tell their rhetoric apart. They form a uniparty of opposition to resisting America’s sworn enemies.
Consider a sampling, culled mostly from X/Twitter, of commentary since Israel launched its strikes on Natanz:
...
