It is extremely rare in politics for people to criticize people from their own side. People who pay attention to the political landscape and consider themselves to be on the side of a particular political persuasion tend to use a weighted scale to grade their own politicians and commentators. Often times, people will make excuses for something that their guy did, when they previously criticized someone from the other side for doing the exact same thing. The response from the populist faction of President Trump’s supporters to his airstrike in Syria is a rare instance of that actually not happening.
Numerous public figures who have supported Trump thus far have come out against his airstrike. Many have cited old tweets from Trump himself, criticizing Obama for contemplating doing the exact same thing. Ann Coulter shared a Trump tweet from 2012, where he attacked President Obama over the possibility of carrying out airstrikes in Syria, and accused him of doing it in an attempt to boost his approval ratings. Other Trump supporters have pulled up other tweets from the President where he criticized the idea of an airstrike against Syria, as well as mentioning his anti-interventionist rhetoric while he was campaigning. Paul Joseph Watson from InfoWars.com even went as far as to say, “I’m officially OFF the Trump train.”
It is good to admit when someone from your own side did something that you think was wrong. Weighing every issue in terms of what your team has to say about it is counterproductive to discourse, and frankly it is kind of stupid. American politics would be much better off if this sort of thing happened more often.