Ben Shapiro

And so there is no deal that is forthcoming that will be anything good.

And I think that

And when people say, was this a good idea?

Was it a bad idea?

Like every other war, you only know whether it was a good idea or a bad idea.

In retrospect, some wars that start off bad and well, some wars that start off well and poorly.

But we're not going to know until we hit the end game here.

But I don't know where you're at on this, man.

Yeah.

So, Isabel, where are you at on all this?

Obviously, you know, it didn't go, I think, so far as as well as I would have wanted it to go, because I think, frankly, the president shouldn't have cease fired in late April, early May.

I think that it hasn't gone nearly as poorly as critics of the war are suggesting, where they say it's a catastrophic failure for the United States.

I just don't I don't see any evidence at all that there's a quote unquote catastrophic failure.

But that in-between space is definitely an awkward space.

Yeah, I mean, if you look at the midterms right now, I will say that obviously the polls are not good for Republicans.

They weren't good before.

As you say, it's kind of a normal pattern for the party in power to lose seats in the midterm election.

And I think that people pre-gaming that if the Republicans lose, it's because of Iran, as opposed to because of, say, the tariffs or because of the bad staffing decisions or because of these sort of bizarre slush funds or because of the corruption stories.

There are a lot of factors that go into a bad election cycle, for sure.

The biggest one being just sort of the systemic way that our elections work off your elections.