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Trump waged a failed war on Iran for Israel, as his NSC director and Secretary of State admitted, and now the war has come home. Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz became a vice grip around the neck of the GOP, especially in the heartland, where diesel prices are 70% higher than a year ago, and farmers have been forced to leave crops in the ground. Democrats are ahead in senate races in Kansas and Nebraska, agro producer states where Republicans always roll to victory like a big wheel through a corn field. And they’re up in purple Iowa, which would give them control of the senate. The Dems have also flipped the seat of Lindsey Graham, the late neocon who advised Netanyahu on how to manipulate Trump into the war, resoundingly defeating his sister in South Carolina, where they haven’t won a senate race since the days of Fritz Hollings, an old school conservative populist who opposed the Gulf war and railed against the neocons. Trump’s promise of $15 billion in aid to farmers getting hammered by surging diesel costs failed to stop the bleeding. And it’s now another cost of the war. The GOP strategy of hanging Hasan Piker and his pro-Palestine politics like an albatross around the neck of Democrats was not just bizarre, as most swing state voters had never heard of the podcaster, it also reminded them how fanatically Israelcentric the party had become under Trump. The Democrats had much more success weaponizing Jeffrey Epstein as a symbol of Trump’s corruption who subtly invoked malign Israeli influence over the White House. Trump exuded desperation with his pledge today to end $4 billion in annual aid to Israel. He seemed determined to repeat the con he pulled off in Dearborn, MI at the end of 2024, where he promised to end the Gaza genocide that Biden and Harris backed. Less than two years later, he’s transformed MAGA into MIGA, and can never go back. Where the “special relationship” with Israel was once a matter of bipartisan unity among party elites, it’s become a polarizing wedge issue and a poison pill for any president. Tomorrow, Zionist forces will pull back and retrench. Schumer, Jeffries and presidential prospects like Josh Shapiro will become their next line of defense, and possibly their last reliable one in a party whose base is now passionate about ending America’s attachment to Israel.