The conventional wisdom in the media and among us "coastal elites" is that President Trump's speech on Wednesday night was an embarrassing flop, that the war in Iran was a political blunder of the first order, and that Republicans are heading for disaster in this fall's midterm elections. I'm going to take the under on all three - and not just because I'm so ornery, or because I think the media and the coastal elites have spent 10 years misinterpreting Donald Trump's rhetoric. I actually think the speech may have been more politically effective than most people think, that this war could in theory still end up as a ... (full story)