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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Georgia congressperson and former Trump megafan, has a theory for what the strikes against Iran mean for a new political reality. “And just like that we are no longer a nation divided by left and right,” she wrote on social media Monday, “we are now a nation divided be those who want to fight wars for Israel and those who just want peace and to be able to afford their bills and health insurance.” She had one major opposition figure in mind: Laura Loomer, the hard-right influencer who has established a close advisory position to Donald Trump.

“This bitch is celebrating the death of American military members and thanking their families for their blood sacrifice,” Greene wrote of Loomer. “But this is who Trump takes late night calls from and laps up her praise and worship. … And now Americans are once again coming home in flag draped coffins from another stupid pointless foreign war for foreign regime change on behalf of Israel.”

Loomer had similar feelings about Greene: “How much money are you making off of Muslims?” she asked on Sunday evening.

There’s something more remarkable here than just a spat between two influential conservative women: Their fight is just one in a sprawling ideological conflict playing out on social media, where different right-wing voices are, more than ever in recent memory, breaking with one another in open hostility. Pro-war and anti-war conservatives have been accusing each other of bigotry, idiocy, corruption, hidden ethno-religious agendas, and anti-Americanism. The conservative movement isn’t pretending to be one unified coalition under Trump anymore.

Instead, the strikes on Iran have caused the fractures within the alliance to expand to the point where it will be difficult, if not impossible, to reclose them—a major problem as Trump tries to keep his political coalition together.

On one side, media figures popular with the newer populist right, such as Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and even the white nationalist Nick Fuentes, are viewing the strikes as a betrayal of Trump’s promises of “America First” and as a capitulation to Israel. To the anti-war side, Trump’s actions in the region are not just a sign of Trump’s weakness in being swayed by another country’s interests, but of his surrender to the Deep State, the older institutional order that Trump had been........

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