Maga influencer and de facto national security adviser Laura Loomer holds outsized sway on Trump

Laura Loomer doesn’t have a job in the government, but she has still emerged as one of Trump’s most important and most polarizing advisers. Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images

After years of claiming to be the vanguard of a new “America First” isolationist movement rebelling against the neoconservative policies of the George W Bush administration that led to the bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Maga’s online influencers are cheering for another war in the Middle East.

And not just any war: they are applauding Donald Trump’s high-risk decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, a move that was considered a war too far even by the Bush administration.