Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

What If Trump Wants War With Iran and No One Trusts Him?

It would be difficult for the president to rally a coalition without key national security allies.

April 26, 2019 at 12:16 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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What happens when the president’s influence has been reduced to historically low levels?

That’s what I was thinking about when I read Fred Kaplan’s nice piece in Slate on the trouble President Donald Trump is getting into with Iran. My main reaction was: Suppose Trump really did have a good case for going to war there. Who would believe him?