Influential MAGA voices have sounded the alarm, too, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who became the first Republican in Congress to call what's happening in Gaza a "genocide."
Former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon sees a deeper political shift: "It seems that for the under-30-year-old MAGA base, Israel has almost no support," Bannon told Politico, "and Netanyahu's attempt to save himself politically by dragging America in deeper to another Middle East war has turned off a large swath of older MAGA diehards."
Though this might be overstating the shift, Bannon is right that Israel is hemorrhaging support among conservatives. Even before the starvation crisis broke through in international media, 50 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning adults younger than 50 said they had an unfavorable view of Israel, up from 35 percent in 2022...
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