Why Midterms Could Bury the GOP's "Preemptive" War Narrative

For weeks, I kept calling it—Iran strike incoming. Every time, I was wrong. No bombs fell. But each miss? U.S. carriers crept closer, troops stacked up in the Gulf, half-talks with Tehran dragging on like bad theater.

I figured if it happened early—before the full buildup—it’d look like Midnight Hammer 2025: surgical, nuclear sites only, done in forty-ei…