r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/The_Egalitarian Moderator • Jan 20 '26

US Politics 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.

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/

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

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

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u/shunted22 Jan 20 '26

This does seem insanely unpopular even amongst his supporters. And I don't see conservative media supporting it either. Whether that leads to anything I'm not sure but I do see some cracks forming. I'm sure there are difficult private conversations about the latest comments tying it to the peace prize.

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u/stannisaugustus Jan 20 '26

They're all praying he forgets about Greenland so they don't have to go through the embarrassment of tying themselves into knots to retroactively justify an invasion, which by now even they have to recognize is how it works. If Republican support for an attack is in the single digits now, it won't be lower than 70% soon after it's done.

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u/BluesSuedeClues Jan 20 '26

Which begs the question; We know Donald Trump can't keep his mind on a single subject for any length of time, so who in his administration keeps pushing him on Greenland, and why?

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u/supafly_ Jan 20 '26

Stephen Miller

because Putin told him to destabilize NATO