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Forever Wars, Iran, and the Midterm Caucus Fight: Jim Pfaff on Conservative Commandos | Sep 1, 2026

Published: September 1, 2026
Network: AUN-TV / Conservative Commandos Radio
Analysis: Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff

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On the September 1 Conservative Commandos Radio Show, hosts Rick Trader and Sharon Angle brought on Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff for Iran, forever wars, Tucker Carlson’s break with Trump, and the Caucus ground game heading into the midterms. Pfaff opened where the legacy media was parked — the Tucker–Trump feud — and refused both endless-war amnesia and the jump from policy disagreement to removing a sitting president.

Topics Covered

• Forever Wars, Iran’s 47-Year Body Count, and Nuclear Risk
• When Policy Disagreement Becomes a Removal Campaign
• Audience, Movement Politics, and Just War
• Caucus Ground Game and the Midterm Convention
• Key Takeaways

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Forever Wars, Iran’s 47-Year Body Count, and Nuclear Risk

Pfaff said he and many others voted for Donald Trump because Trump had been firm about forever wars — and then watched the Iran campaign reopen that scar. He grants the concern. He also refuses to erase the ledger: Iran has killed thousands of Americans over 47 years since the mullahs took over in 1979, including Americans in Iraq, and a workable Iranian nuclear weapon is terrifying because the regime is animated by radicalized Shiite end-times theology in a way China and Russia are not.

“We all forget sometimes that Iran has literally killed thousands of Americans over 47 years. Since the mullahs took over in 1979.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Afghanistan and Iraq stung because the United States had no business in those wars, and the blowback included domestic law problems that touch the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. That history explains why kinetic action feels radioactive. It does not, in Pfaff’s account, make Iran a normal peer competitor.

“One is that Tucker Carlson, and I think like a lot of us too, certainly me, like we voted for Donald Trump because he had been so firm about doing forever wars.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

When Policy Disagreement Becomes a Removal Campaign

Pfaff drew a bright line. Disagreeing with Trump’s Iran decision is a policy argument rational people can have without Trump Derangement Syndrome. Calling for Trump’s removal, and saying no sane president who contemplates nuclear first-use capability has a right to the office, jumps the shark. He called that politically insane — not a word he used lightly — and said it mirrors the emotional manner Democrats have used in national politics even when the substance is not identical.

Arguments Tucker used to make, Pfaff noted, aligned closely with what Trump has stood for. Going from Iran criticism to destroying the coalition is, in his view, absurd when better ways exist to argue the policy.

Audience, Movement Politics, and Just War

Angle asked whether Tucker is pandering for audience after leaving Fox. Pfaff said the audience incentive is real and somewhat clickbaity, and he still thinks Tucker sincerely wants a political movement on the path he is laying out — not only on Iran, but in a broader rewrite that now includes revisionist takes on World War II figures like Churchill.

He returned to Augustine and just war: wars should be for defense, and defending yourself is not sin. Every war contains evil; that does not license flipping the moral ledger so the Allied cause becomes the villain for clicks. He contrasted that project with lower-grade conspiracy content elsewhere and called Tucker’s version more dangerous for where public debate may go — while still expecting the coalition to survive it.

Caucus Ground Game and the Midterm Convention

Closing out, Pfaff pointed listeners to theconservativecaucus.com and the Caucus suite at a key level of the convention center for the GOP midterm convention — the same Dallas investment running through the week’s other appearances. Process fights, messaging, and turnout are the midterm work; Iran policy arguments have to happen without torching the coalition needed to keep Congress. Related map and messaging posts: November Senate and House targets and holding Congress in 2026.

Key Takeaways

1. Forever-war caution is real – Pfaff shares the allergy to open-ended wars after Iraq and Afghanistan.
2. Iran is not a normal file – Thousands of Americans killed since 1979; nuclear capability plus radicalized eschatology is a different threat class.
3. Policy disagreement ≠ removal – Criticize Iran strategy; do not run a Democrat-manner campaign to destroy Trump’s presidency over it.
4. Movement politics can outrun prudence – Audience-building plus historical revisionism is more dangerous than ordinary pundit heat.
5. Caucus midterm ground game continues – Dallas suite, media, donors, and a Congress fight that still has to be won at home.

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About The Conservative Caucus:
The Conservative Caucus is a grassroots public policy action organization, formed in 1974. Headed by President Jim Pfaff, the Caucus is committed to advancing free enterprise, limited government, and traditional values.

Originally broadcast Sep 1, 2026 on Conservative Commandos.