Last week’s Blue Tsunami drove home the fact that affordability is now the central public issue of our time, if this wasn’t clear already. A small-scale civil war has broken out among conservatives over the war on Iran, in which pundits like Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Mark Steyn are squaring off against “neocons” such as Mark Levin about the administration’s decision to rain hell upon the Iranian regime, this effort now receiving the blame for the historical midterm shellacking. Even Vice President JD Vance put his weight behind this argument. The truth, I’m afraid, is much more banal: The problem voters have with the war is that it drove up gas prices, and nothing else. Which isn’t to say we should dismiss out of hand the public’s beef with it — and surely there are legitimate arguments to be made against it.