Trump Campaigned on No Foreign Wars. Here We Are.

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Apr 8, 2026 · 8m

Trump Iran ceasefire analysis from Matt Gurney starts with a question he has been sitting with all week: would everyone be better off spending less time being shocked by Trump and more time understanding that the Iranians have been watching very carefully where the president complains loudest? Every statement Trump made showed them exactly where the pain point was. Matt Gurney says that is not strength. That is a map.

What does it mean that the party that ran on no more forever wars, America first, and energy independence ended up in an intractable Middle Eastern conflict involving oil and…