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May 6, 2026

How Hatred of Israel Has Led the Left to Embrace President Trump’s Former Allies

Strange new respect.

Among those expressing the greatest outrage over the current war with Iran are once-Trump-aligned figures on the right, such as the former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Prone to peddling outlandish conspiracy theories, Greene was, in the eyes of the left, “an easily mockable personification of the die-hard MAGA voter,” as James Kirchick puts it. Her Democratic colleagues even attempted to expel her from the House five years ago. But then she split with President Trump over the twelve-day war, claimed the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent, and began accusing Israel of assassinating American public figures:

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