their<\/em> interests first \u2014 those people are about to get an education in how wars actually work. The rich get defense contractor stocks. Palantir is up 6%. Lockheed is up 4%. The rest of us get the gas bill and the grocery receipt.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly are not working class. But they’re giving voice to something real that Trump’s base is feeling. The Senate war powers vote is happening today. It’s expected to fail along party lines. The war will continue with an open-ended “4-6-8 week” timeline. The bills will come due. And somewhere in a red county in Ohio or Michigan or Pennsylvania, a Trump voter is paying $4.25 for diesel and asking themselves: What was “America First” supposed to mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Why is Tucker Carlson criticizing Trump over the Iran war?<\/strong>Carlson argues that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu \u2014 not Trump \u2014 made the real decision to go to war, and that American soldiers are dying for a foreign country’s interests, not America’s. He called the strikes “absolutely disgusting and evil” and said “the United States didn’t make the decision here. Benjamin Netanyahu did.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow much will gas prices rise because of the MAGA Iran war?<\/strong>Gas prices are already up 6\u00a2 nationally (AAA). With Brent crude at $82\/barrel and Strait of Hormuz tanker traffic down 90%, analysts project continued daily increases of 5\u201310\u00a2\/gallon. Goldman Sachs warned the full economic impact hasn’t been priced in yet and expects a delayed but significant reckoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWill the Iran war make grocery prices go up?<\/strong>Yes \u2014 with a delay. The Strait of Hormuz closure disrupts one-third of global fertilizer supply. Grain prices are already rising. Pistachio, walnut, almond, and saffron supplies are directly disrupted. Supply chain experts say grocery price increases typically lag oil shocks by 4\u20136 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat is the MAGA Iran war betrayal about?<\/strong>At its core, it’s a class argument: Trump’s working-class base was promised “America First” \u2014 an end to foreign wars that sent their kids to die. Instead they got a new open-ended war, no congressional authorization, six dead service members in five days, and rising gas and grocery prices, while being told Israel’s security required it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSources & Methodology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Reporting sourced from AP News, PBS NewsHour, The Guardian, Reuters, Rolling Stone, Al Jazeera, Fast Company, and Military.com. All quotes verified against original broadcasts and X posts. Economic figures sourced from AAA, OPIS, Goldman Sachs (Reuters), and The Guardian’s supply chain analysis. Polling data from Reuters\/Ipsos. Updated March 4, 2026.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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