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Ben Burgis breaks down the idiotic arguments made by the MAGA faithful in defense of Trump's decision to wage an unprovoked, illegal, open-ended war against a country with far more capacity to defend itself than Afghanistan had in 2001 or Iraq in 2003, and makes the case that opposing it isn't just a question of anti-imperialism or harm-minimization (though it certainly is all that) but that there's a basic question of American democracy at stake.

Read Ben's article in Jacobin:

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/trump-iran-war-public-opinion

Read Branko Marcetic's too while you're at it:

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/trump-iran-war-public-opinion

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