At CPAC, various speakers and conferencegoers said that the better outcome in this war would be for the Iranian people to do the hard work of ousting the theocratic regime. So far, the popular uprising that Trump encouraged at the start of the war hasn’t happened.
In one panel devoted to Iran, moderator Mercedes Schlapp, a senior White House official in Trump’s first term, said that a “prolonged” war is “not where I think the American people want to be.” She asked a panelist, Hiva Wallace of the nonprofit, nonpartisan United Against a Nuclear Iran, what her message would be to those who hold that view.
“I can promise you, the Iranian people are ready to go back on the street,” Wallace said.
Still, one of MAGA world’s best-known personalities cautioned that the war may just be in its beginning phase. Steve Bannon, who was a senior White House official in Trump’s first
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