Trump supporters since 2020:
"We have to stop regime change/nation building! It's not our business and wastes money we don't have!"
"We must end "forever wars" and get out of the foreign entanglement game!"
"We are going to stop foreign aid! Let the world take care of themselves, it's not our problem!"
"The US needs to focus on development at home! It's not our problem to help foreign countries!"
Trump, 15 days into his second term:
"We're going to take over Gaza, forcibly remove the people that live there, then rebuild and develop it. And if necessary we will send the US military in to secure it!"
Trump supporters:
"It's brilliant! Best idea ever! It will bring peace to the middle east! THIS time we will do nation building right! What could possibly go wrong?!"
This is the single dumbest foreign policy idea ever proposed.
Even if you ignore the obvious and substantial question of where Trump derives any authority at all to take over a sovereign territory, forcibly remove its residents, annex it and subsequently spend the tens of billions of dollars (at least) to try to turn Gaza into Arab Vegas, there are mountains of other huge problems that come along with this terrible idea.
And it is hysterical to watch the same people that made all the above claims and touted how Trump was going to fix all of these problems suddenly toss all that aside in the dead sprint to support Trump at all costs, even when he is proposing something that diametrically opposes all the reasons they supported him in the first place.
Smart people can have dumb ideas. It doesn't make them stupid. It just means they had a dumb idea. Not supporting a dumb idea is not somehow turning your back on Trump. It is simply not supporting a stupid idea because it is stupid, not because of who had it.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. It's inherent virtue is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill