Rufo and Lomez: Israel, Tucker, and the Future of Conservatism

Yoram Hazony all but confirms that October 7th derailed his Israel First “National Conservatism” grift.

“It was doing well up until around the fall of 2023.” pic.twitter.com/wE0AU4XEfa

— Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) June 30, 2026

Passionate non-interventionist JD Vance admits the purpose of the Iran “MOU” Trump had him negotiate was to “refill” US munition stockpiles while temporarily “refilling” the global oil supply, and then regroup for Phase Three of the military campaign pic.twitter.com/gsdBoY8lfb

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 1, 2026

GRAHAM WARNS REPUBLICANS ?

“If you don’t back Israel, you won’t win presidency 2028″

What a fucking traitor. pic.twitter.com/bvbrVCzksj

— Parody Jeff (@Parodyjeffx) July 1, 2026

Hello, I work for the Trump Administration at the Department of Labor… and I’m retarded.

Oh blah dee. Oh blah dah. Life goes on. Oh!

La la la la, life goes on. pic.twitter.com/xs8DF9TyqN

— Rich Baris THE PEOPLE’S PUNDIT (@Peoples_Pundit) July 1, 2026

I didn’t want to have to focus on Israel and the Jewish Question.

Over the past few years, I was hopeful that the problem would sort itself out through the passage of time. BoomerCons would cycle out of the electorate over the next ten years. Younger Republicans already have a much harsher view of Israel. The rest of the country – Democrats and Independents – have already soured even harder on Israel than Republicans. The country was trending against Israel.

I told myself an optimistic story of Trump’s second term that went something like this. Elon Musk and Tech Bros would replace the Jewish donor class whose wealth was based on old industries like gambling. If this didn’t happen overnight, then Jewish influence ought to be significantly reduced over Trump’s first term when American voters and donors were far more pro-Israel. Cable television was in terminal decline and was being replaced by what is now called “Podcastistan” which is far more critical of Israel.

Trump would be an annoying pro-Israel president. He might launch some strikes like the Soleimani assassination or the Syria strike in 2017, but in his first term he had hesitated and hadn’t yielded to the pressure to go to war with Iran for Israel. Trump might do things like harass student groups on college campuses which, however annoying, was tolerable and didn’t outweigh other issues in importance like spending billions of dollars to do “mass deportations.” He had also ran on “no new wars.” He ran as the Peace candidate. For Trump to reverse course and go in the opposite direction, he would have to be willing to be impaled by his own campaign rhetoric. It would be the biggest betrayal in American politics since “read my lips, no new taxes.” There was no upside to going to war with Iran for Israel. This was true even for MIGA since doing so would only aggravate and accelerate the trend against Israel.

Ziopopulists like Yoram Hazony have forced the issue. Trump’s second term has played out like a rocket trying to achieve orbit. The payload was the war with Iran for Israel that donors wanted and which was kept as a closely guarded secret until it was sprung on voters. The booster rocket was all the various grievances – anti-White discrimination, demographic change, immigration, transgenderism, Wokeism – that Ziopopulists tapped and exploited to get Trump back into power so that he could do this. The donors got their way. Trump launched the war and the plan has exploded in their faces like the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Trump has destroyed his coalition and sunk to 35% in polls.

Is this what we want? Do we want to be seen and treated as a resource that can be exploited by Zionists to get their people into positions of power to carry out their secret schemes? Are we going to learn anything from this and the political fallout of Trump’s war with Iran for Israel?