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How Trump lost the bro vote

Explore episode Jun 27, 2026
Society & Culture
JD Vance Is the Meme

How Trump lost the bro vote · Jun 27, 2026 Society & Culture

Trump posts memes. JD Vance IS the meme. Jack Posobiec says Vance has immersed himself in internet culture to a depth Trump never reached, making him uniquely positioned to carry the bro vote into the next election cycle.

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Iran and the 'No New Wars' Promise

At 26:40 · chapter starts 24:00

Herndon zeroes in on what may be the most politically explosive gap between Trump's rhetoric and his record: the Iran war. He tells Posobiec that he attended numerous Trump rallies and heard the no-new-wars promise made explicitly and repeatedly — so how is this not a clear break? Posobiec's defense is technical: the Iran action is not an Iraq-style or Afghanistan-style deployment of thousands of troops storming beaches; it doesn't meet the definition of a 'forever war.' Herndon pushes back — is this really how Trump's fans see it? Posobiec concedes the sell is 'getting harder' but holds his ground: the absence of ground troops, he argues, gives Trump enough rhetorical room to claim he hasn't violated the spirit of his promise. What the exchange makes clear is that this argument requires an audience willing to parse semantics under economic stress — and Posobiec himself seems to know that audience is shrinking.

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Trump's Iran Defense: Not a Forever War

How Trump lost the bro vote · Jun 27, 2026 News

Jack Posobiec's defense of Trump's Iran military action: it's not troops storming beaches like Iraq or Afghanistan, so it doesn't count as a 'new war.' Astead Herndon presses back — even Posobiec concedes that sell is getting harder with Trump's own fans.

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