Sure he can, because Fox and Newsmax and such will never do an honest side-by-side comparison because that would undercut their entire reason for being for the past 20 months.

I still think it's really unpleasant for him. Fox and Newsmax might not do such a comparison, but there are plenty of others who speak to the MAGA base who will - and who aren't happy about the war in the first place. Not just the Tuckers and Owenses and Joneses and Greenes. The manosphere and podcasters (esp. Rogan) and other folks who hold vast influence among the MAGA audience will be quick to criticize the war effort if it ends up producing outcomes that are worse than the JCPOA. Unlike a lot of other issues where he's been able to skate, there's a sizable chunk of the MAGA base that was genuinely skeptical of this right from jump.

I don't think there's a debate over enrichment percentages and inspection protocols that hurts him. Those sorts of details will certainly get lost in the shouting. Where he suffers if he comes out of this with a "deal" that is basically Iran getting a ton of money and relief from sanctions but they still get to have uranium and nuclear enrichment for a domestic energy industry but they promise they won't have nukes. I think that's going to be too much for both the Iran Hawks (Graham) and the war skeptics (Rogan, et. al.) to let go. No one will be happy with that outcome.

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