Iran Didn't Decide the Midterms But Made the Wave Higher

Within hours of the GOP’s midterms walloping, Vice President J.D. Vance was quick to assign blame. "The reason we lost was the war," he argued in an X post. The new White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, is apparently blaming the war, as well. Both men, for slightly different reasons, are intensely concerned about the views of the most ideological of Trump’s MAGA base, who were never that jazzed about the Iran War to begin with. Vance hopes to become the MAGA movement’s candidate for president in 2028 and Miller wants to toss the war and those who backed it over the side so as to protect…