How JD Vance lost the foreign policy war

President Trump's regime-change war in Iran is already remaking the Middle East — and will have global ramifications whose scale and severity we can barely comprehend in these early hours. The Iran war also marks a similarly consequential turn at the level of ideas inside the Trump administration and the American Right more broadly: seemingly against all odds, it is the neoconservative hawks who have emerged as the winners of the Trump era, with the Trumpian intellectuals left holding the bag.