Sarah Longwell

It's like voters, by the time it's happened, it's like you're already by it with the voters and they're back to caring just about costs.

the longer this goes on, you've got two things.

You've got the impacts here at home, which is really around gas prices, but ultimately is going to be all things getting more expensive, which on top of the tariffs, and this is the thing about something like the Iran war, voters know what caused it.

Voters know that tariffs caused the price increases, and they know that the war in Iran is causing gas price increases.

When they know where it came from, that's the first bucket of the problem.

Then you get to the second bucket of the problem, which is you said no more of this stuff.

Like you want to go in and do a smash and grab job like Venezuela or whatever.

And like, I don't have to feel it.

Fine.

You end up in a prolonged thing where now I'm listening to you be like, hey, Vietnam was 18 years.

What are you guys complaining about?

Yeah.

Like and then they're like, wait a minute, because this is where Trump is boxed in on this.

And this is going back to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson.

The thing about them is that they are creating... There's a fracture in the Republican Party right now.

There's the America First wing, right?

Which is, no, we're not going to do wars because we're going to focus on people here at home.

Then there's the MAGA establishment.

And that is the Rubio and that is Trump.

And so America Firsters are like...