Richard Luscombe – The Guardian June 18, 2025
A majority of supporters of Donald Trump are against US military involvement in Israel’s conflict with Iran, a poll published on Wednesday found, reflecting a growing Republican backlash to the president’s threats to utilize American firepower.
A wide-ranging Economist/YouGov poll conducted over the weekend revealed that 53% of voters who backed Trump in the 2024 presidential election do not want the country to join in Israel’s strikes.
It reinforces a long-held public appetite for a peaceful resolution to the objective of forcing Iran to give up its ambitions of acquiring nuclear weapons. A Chicago Council on Global Affairs-Ipsos survey in April found eight in 10 Americans favored diplomatic steps or tightening economic sanctions to limit Iran’s further nuclear enrichment.
The poll published on Wednesday, reported by the foreign policy thinktank Responsible Statecraft, comes as an increasing number of Republican politicians and Trump allies express their opposition to the prospect of the president involving US forces without the approval of Congress.
“This is not our war. But if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution,” Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican representative, wrote on X on Monday, adding his voice to the pursuit of a bipartisan House war powers resolution to try to curb Trump’s authority.
On Wednesday, Tim Burchett, a Republican representative form Tennessee, told CNN he wanted to see “very little” US involvement in the escalating Middle East conflict, which has witnessed Israel and Iran trading missile barrages for several days.
“We don’t need another endless war in the Middle East. Old men make decisions and young men die, and that’s the history of war,” he said.
“We need to take a deep breath and slow down this thing and let the Israelis do their thing. We do not need a three-front war in our lifetime.”
Their views mirror those of Trump’s voters surveyed in the Economist poll, which revealed that only 19% of them favored the US getting involved militarily, and 63% wanted the administration to “engage in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program”.
Among all voters, 60% agreed that the US should step back from involving its military.
Previous polls have consistently shown that diplomacy and negotiations, leading to a new, binding nuclear agreement by which Iran halts nuclear weapons production, is the public’s preferred solution.
Even if diplomacy or economic sanctions failed, the Ipsos poll showed, Americans favored stepping up action short of military engagement. Six out of 10 respondents said they would support the US conducting cyberattacks against Iranian computer systems, while only 48% would support airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
In a Gallup poll published last year, 77% said they considered the development of nuclear weapons by Iran as a “critical threat” to the security of the US, but as subsequent surveys showed, there is no matching appetite for the use of the US military to counter it.
Only problem is, politics doesn’t work that way. The ‘representative democracy’ game ended in 1913 when the united cabal of Jewish banking houses bribed US Congressmen & assrag Woodrow Wilson to institute the illegal & unconstitutional ‘Federal Reserve’. That’s when the US officially became a ‘Jewocracy’. In a Jewocracy, these Presidents & politicians don’t do what the morons who voted for them want them to do–but do what the Israel Overlords tell them to. nyk
If the U.S. joins hands with an accused war criminal in Benjamin Netanjahu, it’s reputation will be seriously – perhaps irretrieveably – compromised. Netanyahu, Katz, etc. are responsible for the tens of thousands that lie dead under the rubble in Gaza. For the U.S. to associate itself with them is a TOTAL national disgrace, and Trump’s domestic support will melt away faster than that of the proverbial snowball in hell.
Why should Donald Hitler care what his supports want?
DH said he’d cut spending, but he lied, and wants to increase spending, and the debt, so why should he worry about his supporters, when it’s highly unlikely he’ll run again, and even more likely to get a bullet.
Doesn’t Mr. Luscombe know that his real name is Donald Hitler?
Trump’s choice: Israel first or America first; for the war, against the war. If he chooses Israel, Trump and the US will be destroyed economically and politically.
carl jones dont be so damn stupid
with this natzi stuff
we are talking about peoples lives here you little c *nt
Nero summarizes (((democracy))) accurately.
America first or Israel first. Trump’s choice.
Donald Trump on June 16,2025: “I don’t care what she thinks…”
Donald Trump on June 20,2025: “I don’t care what they think…”
As for commenters with references to Hitler and by extension National Socialism, do yourselves a favour and read some real history. Perhaps you can start with: the origins of “Judea Declares War on Germany”; “The Nameless War” by Archibald Maule Ramsay, who was locked up by Churchill during WWII for telling the truth; and The Case For Modern Germany by Arthur Pillans Laurie. None of the above means that National Socialism was flawless, because every political philosophy is flawed in some way.
double plus good nero
I’m beginnig to think Trump was put in place in the US and Starmer in the UK to install the post-WWII second Nazi run by defeating Iran then Russia. They already have the EU Nazis in place, never elected but running Europe. This will be their final chance at world domination so I think Trump will attack Iran, and what makes me think this is the Assisted Dying law that has just been passed in the UK. This war could go assymetric for several years and they want all resistance to it gone. So get us sectioned then kill us off. It won’t do any good as a hard-up Nazi supporter. Unless you have wealth or potential they won’t want you.