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Marc Thiessen, Randy Fine, and Tom Cotton have spoken plainly to the nation as the 2026 midterms approach. They declare that voters must accept rising oil prices and the economic pain they bring because the war against Iran serves a higher purpose than household budgets or electoral majorities.
These men speak not as representatives of the American people but as servants of an imperial logic that places foreign disarmament above the survival of the domestic order. Their words reveal the motive: the preservation of superpower status and the satisfaction of distant lobbies matter more than the covenant between rulers and the ruled.
The governing principle violated here is the ancient Christian understanding of legitimate authority, which requires rulers to seek the common good of their own people before adventuring abroad. From Augustine onward, the City of God has always judged the earthly city by whether its governors protect the households entrusted to them rather than expending their substance in endless campaigns.
Washington’s Farewell Address once anchored this nation in the same realism, warning against permanent foreign entanglements that drain the republic. That counsel belonged to the same Western inheritance that produced the creeds and the Reformation’s recovery of ordered liberty under law.
The present course repeats the pattern of overextended powers that sacrificed their own vitality to distant theaters. When leaders tell citizens to endure months of elevated prices so that Iran may be stripped of weapons, they invert the order of responsibility and treat the nation as a treasury for imperial ambition.
The faithful remnant must therefore reject these voices and demand that representatives place the defense of borders, households, and wages before every foreign crusade. No people remains sovereign when its political class measures its greatness by the suffering it can impose at home.
The judgment is already forming in the polls. Those who continue to elevate foreign objectives over the visible distress of American families will discover that the electorate remembers who placed distant bombs above daily bread.
