Along with the serious implications of all this for America\u2019s security and alliances, it is likely to cause domestic trouble for the president. The White House\u2019s views on Ukraine are out of step not only with the country as a whole but with Republican voters.<\/p>\n
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Earlier this month, my organization, Razom, commissioned the Republican firm 1892 Polling to conduct a survey of 2024 GOP primary voters on their attitudes toward Ukraine. Majorities said they agreed Russia is the aggressor (69%), would support continued weapons assistance under certain circumstances (60%), and say they\u2019re more likely to support aid for Ukraine when told Russia has kidnapped more than 19,000 Ukrainian children (71%).<\/p>\n
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As the White House works to end the war, it should begin by heeding the wisdom of the voters who put Mr. Trump in office. If he produces lasting peace, he will be celebrated. If it is fleeting and exploitative, his supporters will see it as weakness and a distraction from the mandate they gave him. And if the war goes on because of Messrs. Trump\u2019s and Vance\u2019s personal pique against Mr. Zelensky, that will be a tragedy. Republican voters back many of the policies the White House is pursuing, but they didn\u2019t vote to surrender Ukraine to Mr. Putin\u2019s ravenous ambitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trump "out of step". An op ed in the WSJ. High-profile MAGA personalities applauded Friday as President Trump escalated his hostility toward Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky. Mr. Trump wrote on social media that Mr. Zelensky \u201cdisrespected the United States in the cherished Oval Office\u201d and \u201ccan come back when he is ready for Peace.\u201d That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}