The day a blue tsunami swept across the national electoral map, handing Democrats control of the Senate and the House, I read a headline that truly shocked me: "The Scale Of Trump’s Failure Is Bigger Than You Think."

It came from Issues & Insights, a site run by the former editorial team at Investor's Business Daily. It's a team many on the right consider principled, pragmatic, well-informed and reliably pro-Trump.

The editorial board noted that President Donald Trump began his second term with great promise: "But then the wheels started coming off. Instead of focusing on wringing inflation out of the economy, Trump launched an erratic, unfocused, divisive trade war that opened him up to the charge – rightly so – of raising prices instead of cutting them."

On Iran, the board, which supports the war, argued that the attacks "could have stopped with the bombing of its underground facilities." The wider campaign, it added, drove up the price of gas and food.

Trump's war of choice in Iran lit the fuse

To be sure, much of the MAGA base will defend the president to its last breath. But most Republicans I speak with agree that two tremors triggered the blue tsunami: questionable tariffs, most especially........

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