But the enthusiastic support for the war evinced by people including Levin and Loomer is not shared by the vast majority of Americans. One survey by Reuters/Ipsos over the weekend found only 27 per cent of all adults polled backed the president’s attack on Iran.
That could dwindle further if the conflict drags on. “If this war starts to look like a mistake, if casualties start to mount, if it looks like Trump’s maximalist aims of regime change aren’t working out well, then that’s going to turn the public against the war,” said Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East program at Defense Priorities, a think-tank.
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