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D<\/span>onald Trump is the undisputed king of the Republican Party. Earlier this month, Trump exacted revenge on Indiana state senators who had opposed his call to redistrict the Hoosier State; his endorsees won a majority of races against incumbents. Last weekend, Trump successfully nuked Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) from political life, relegating the incumbent to a shocking third place in his statewide primary. And this past Tuesday, Trump-endorsed candidates across the nation won every primary race \u2014 37 victories and zero defeats. Overall, Trump\u2019s approval rating among members of his own party sits around 81 percent \u2014 down from last year but higher than comparable second-term approval metrics for either Barack Obama or George W. Bush.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the one hand, then, things could not possibly be going better for Trump within the GOP fold. It is only when one considers the generational divide among Republican voters, especially on matters of foreign policy, that things begin to look a bit bleaker.<\/span><\/p>\n

The latest New York Times<\/em>\/Siena College poll reveals some startling age-based demographic splits within the MAGA coalition. Sixty percent of Republicans 18 to 44 want an overall new direction for their party beginning in 2028; only 33 percent want to follow Trump\u2019s course. Seventy percent of young Republicans want the post-2028 GOP to chart a new course when it comes to U.S.-Israel relations; only 20 percent want the party to continue Trump\u2019s close embrace of the Jewish state. Fifty-six percent of young Republicans want a new direction on Iran; just 35 percent want to follow Trump\u2019s antagonistic stance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Young voters shifted notably to the right in the 2024 election. Trump\u2019s political challenge, in this midterm election year, is to keep these new MAGA voters firmly in the coalition while not alienating the loyal older MAGA voters who have served as his core base since 2016 \u2014 and who overwhelmingly approve of his second-term job performance. Given the consistently greater reliability of older voters in turning out to vote, simply pandering to the younger generation\u2019s various desires would be foolish at the most rudimentary political level.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, what to do? The answer is to lead with vision, conviction, and confidence, as great men of history do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider foreign policy, which is the most divisive cross-generational issue within the GOP. There is an undeniable foreign policy chasm between Republican boomers, who often get their news from cable TV, and Republican millennials and zoomers, at least some of whom get their news from \u201cPodcastistan\u201d subversives. The explanation for this divide is that many older Republican voters have been around long enough to see actual American military success in the world. Many younger Republican voters, by contrast, spent their formative years in a milieu wherein the failures of 21st-century American foreign policy were all but universally acknowledged. In short, older voters have seen foreign policy success, but all younger voters know on the world stage is failure.<\/span><\/p>\n

The solution is to alter the entire paradigm, and flip the script on its head, by demonstrating unambiguous success on the world stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All younger voters have seen is endless boondoggle after endless boondoggle. There are numerous reasons for this, including the mission creep inherent in the failed neoconservative\/liberal humanitarian project of \u201cdemocracy promotion,\u201d overly restrictive and self-defeating rules of engagement, and transnational institutions (such as the United Nations) that take a tendentious view of \u201chuman rights.\u201d Regardless of the causes, there have been no decisive military victories to speak of. And that<\/em>\u00a0is the reason our \u201cforever wars\u201d go on, well, forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

So how about showing younger voters what real, decisive victory looks like?<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump came closest to doing that with the astonishing extraction of Venezuelan strongman (and illegitimate leader) Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in January. Iran has been a bit of a different story. What began as an extraordinary shock-and-awe campaign has become a quagmire. Voters are understandably concerned about rising gasoline prices, but the solution is not to repeat the cardinal sin of decades of American foreign policy blunders: starting a war and then failing to finish it. The debate over whether the Iran war is wise may have been a worthy discussion before it started. But at this point, it\u2019s irrelevant.<\/span><\/p>\n

The easiest way for Trump to stabilize oil markets while saving political face is to keep on pushing \u2014 with force \u2014 to achieve the four key goals of the Iran operation: an open Strait of Hormuz, the cessation of Iranian regime funding to its regional terror proxies, the end of the regime\u2019s ballistic missile and drone programs, and the successful ferreting out of the regime\u2019s enriched uranium stockpile. Unless and until those four things happen, the Iran operation will have achieved only partial success.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even better, younger Republican voters will finally get a taste of real victory over a hardened adversary. Gas prices will come down. The MAGA coalition would yet again coalesce. Trump would yet again be king of all<\/em>\u00a0of MAGA. And for the GOP, the midterms could be saved.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it depends on Trump leading with conviction and confidence by ripping off the proverbial Band-Aid and finishing the Iran job once and for all.<\/span><\/p>\n

To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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