The Republican Identity Crisis Over the Iran War

伊朗战争引发的共和党身份认同危机

The Daily

2026-03-23

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The war in Iran has created strong divisions among President Trump’s supporters. An anti-interventionist wing of the Republican coalition and some senior administration officials partial to Mr. Trump’s criticism of long overseas conflicts have quickly become uneasy about the war, which has shown no immediate signs of ending. Robert Draper, a domestic politics journalist for The New York Times based in Washington, discusses Mr. Trump’s justification for the war and whether he is explicitly violating a pact he made with his base not to start another. Guest: Robert Draper is a journalist based in Washington, D.C., who writes about domestic politics for The New York Times. Background reading: Joe Kent, a top U.S. counterterrorism official, resigns over the Iran war. High gas prices, driven up by the war, loom over the midterms. Photo: Eric Lee for The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • From the moment President Trump barreled into American politics,

  • one of his central messages that resonated most with voters was his promise to keep the country out of endless wars.

  • But now, as the war in Iran enters its fourth week, leading figures on the right are questioning whether Trump

  • may have gotten the U.S. Into exactly the sort of complex and costly conflict he railed against for so long.

  • Today, we talked to my colleague Robert Draper about Trump's political evolution

  • on the question of war and the identity crisis it's caused for the Republican Party.

  • It's Monday, March 23rd.

  • OK, Robert, you cover the right and you functioned for us here at The Daily as our guide,

  • really, to all the complexities of Trump and his party.

  • And right now seems to be a moment of reckoning within that exact group over the war in Iran,

  • specifically the justification for it and whether Trump is explicitly violating a pact that he made with his base

  • of not starting another war.