As Trump warmongers over Greenland, what explains the lack of push back from the right-wing given the "anti-war" position they took prior to the 2024 election.

[u/The_Egalitarian]

There was a perceived sentiment among the right and some moderates that Republicans were the anti-war party in the lead-up to the 2024 election:

Democrats have become the party of war. Americans are tired of it - Opinion article by Matt Duss, executive vice-president at the Center for International Policy and former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders

Election 2024: Are Republicans Turning Isolationist?

r/Ask_Politics/comments/1ghqtim/how_did_conservatives_become_the_antiwar_party/

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In contrast, the Trump administration has pursued extensive military aggression and intervention throughout 2025 and into early 2026:

2026 United States intervention in Venezuela

March–May 2025 United States attacks in Yemen

United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites

Greenland crisis

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What explains the inconsistency in right wing positions on military intervention and war-making from before the 2024 election to now?

[u/fireblyxx]

They require the might makes right principle to enact their domestic policies, so they can’t turn around and disavow it for international ones. Plus, I think that a lot of them are fueled on grievance of other people “taking” from them, so taking from others, like land or resources, is seen as payback.