Lindsey Graham's Iran problem

[marmar]

Lindsey Graham just triggered a MAGA revolt over Iran
Pro-Trump media figures warn the president is trapped in a hawkish echo chamber around the senator

By Sophia Tesfaye
Senior Writer
Published March 14, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) When the strange political force that would become Trumpism began to take shape eleven years ago, Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina who embodied the GOP’s interventionist wing, denounced Donald Trump as unfit for the presidency. Trump had promised to end what he called “stupid wars,” and Graham had entered the 2016 presidential race in part to smother the anti-war sentiment simmering inside the Republican Party before it could become something more than a factional irritant.

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Now, ten years later, Lindsey Graham is a happy man. He got his war. But the coalition Trump built is fracturing over the very issue that helped power his rise, and Graham is at the center of the rupture, grinning and holding up a “Make Iran Great Again” hat on Fox Business like a man who has finally, after decades, gotten everything he ever wanted.

The question now roiling MAGA world is: How?

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According to the Wall Street Journal, Graham was the most relentless — and ultimately, the most successful — of all the hawks pushing Trump toward war, finding ways to position himself on golf courses and at the president’s Mar-a-Lago estate. In the weeks and months after Trump’s 2024 victory, Graham told Trump he could be the president who finally finished what previous administrations lacked the nerve to do. “What I don’t understand,” the senator told the Journal, with the guilelessness of a man too pleased with himself to realize what he was revealing, “is why more people don’t do it. Try to shape these events.”

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Megyn Kelly, one of the most influential commentators in the MAGA media world, has become one of Graham’s most relentless critics. On her podcast, she accused the senator of acting like the commander-in-chief and warned that Trump may be listening too closely to him. ....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/03/14/lindsey-graham-just-triggered-a-maga-revolt-over-iran/

[yaesu]

1. Lil Lindsey has daddy issues, his new daddy is tRump and he's trying to prove what a very good boy he is nt

[RainCaster]

2. Graham is the Primary Waterboy for Putin

Follow the money. I bet that plenty from Russia has made it's way into Lindsey's accounts.