Trump chose to infuriate Republicans just when he needs them most in the battle against impeachment and the 2020 election
Pat Robertson did not mince words in accusing Trump of perfidious behavior in Syria. Photo: Steve Helber/AP/Shutterstock No one should have been surprised by the fury that arose in congressional Republican circles over the president’s green light to his fellow authoritarian Recep Erdogan for a Turkish invasion of Syria. Most of them, after all, have never bought into Trump’s particular Jacksonian mix of militaristic bluster and non-interventionism, reflected in his alternating desires to get U.
But if old-school neoconservative hawkishness explains part of the bad reaction Trump got for his invitation to Erdogan, there’s a separate reason that leaders representing another important slice of the MAGA coalition. Conservative evangelicals have rebelled — some even more angrily than Graham — including the ancient Christian Right warhorse Pat Robertson, as the Washington Post reports:
Robertson was hardly alone; nor was Lindsey the only Graham to lash out at the president he normally brown-noses shamelessly: Why all the angst from this particular corner of MAGA-land? Well, as Trump should have well known, conservative evangelicals are very concerned about the rapidly shrinking Christian minority in Syria and throughout the Middle East, and view the Kurds as their protectors and the Turks as their executioners. And indeed, the region of Syrian that Turkey is invading is one in which Erdogan’s Kurdish enemies and Christians co-exist in relative harmony.
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