Dave Weigel

Two, Iran has this ability that's used for decades to fund terrorism in the Middle East and

theoretically against us, although that's, again, not something people worry about.

And three, they could have a nuclear weapon, at which point they could destroy Israel.

They could attack us.

That just hasn't been very credible.

North Korea has, right now, more capacity to attack the United States.

And look at how the White House handled that.

Look at the public sentiment on it.

Just people are not that convinced that this was necessary.

And I can see...

The only response to the president being positive would be if there is a fall, a noticeable fall in gas prices, which is going to lag.

Now, some presidents might use the opportunity to say we're in for a period of pain.

You remember COVID.

This is just not how Trump operates.

He is generally kind of Panglossian.

He likes to not, I'm saying declare victory before, but also likes to predict that things are going to be just fine.

There's going to be no downside.

He's going to do everything that voters want and it's going to be cheap or it's going to be free.

So how much did he talk about sacrifice?

That would set, I think, some people up because you've seen, keep referring to Republicans are saying when they're in their districts or in the interviews, you've seen other Republicans say that people, I think Scott Beston said this,