Trump's Iran brinksmanship has lost him alt-right leader Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer is probably best known for organizing the torch-wielding "Unite the Right" white nationalist march in Charlottesville and for leading a Nazi-like salute of President-elect Trump at an "alt-right" conference in Washington. But the white nationalist faction that supports Trump has never been a fan of Trump's hawkishness in the Middle East, and after Iran retaliated Tuesday for Trump's killing of one of its most powerful generals, Spencer said he was officially off the Trump bandwagon.

If there was any doubt why Spencer, who put an Iranian flag in his Twitter handle, "deeply regret[s] voting for and promoting Donald Trump in 2016," he explained in a subsequent tweet.

A significant portion of Trump's most vocal supporters, like Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Spencer's alt-right brethren, backed him because of his "America First" mantra, which many of them interpreted to mean withdrawing U.S. forces from the Middle East and keeping most immigrants out of America. As Trump decides how to respond to Iran's missile strikes on Iraqi bases, it's worth keeping an eye on that slice of MAGA America.

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