I read an item on the CNN website tonight. The headline said, “Trump advisers privately strategize around a new midterm push: Democrats would be worse.” I couldn’t believe my eyes, although it makes total sense.

Donald Trump’s approval rating are pretty much around 35 percent in most polls. Only 35 percent of Americans feel that Donald Trump is doing a good job. And the trend has been for his approval numbers to continue to move south. 55 percent of American voters disapprove of Trump.

A lot of the latest trend downwards is due to the ill-conceived illegal bombing of Iran. Most Americans still don’t know why the war was started. Israel and the U.S. must have figured that the Iran war would end quickly when Israel killed Iran’s leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Trump never made a case for war and still hasn’t defined what victory is. Without having Congress declare war, Trump, in partnership with the government of Israel, just took out a head of state and a number of other Iranian leaders. Perhaps they thought that the killing of Khamenei would force the Iranian government to collapse and the people of Iran would rise up and create a new Iranian government. Well, Khamenei was 86-years-old at the time. And I am sure the Iranians knew that Khamenei would not live forever. Perhaps he was already a figurehead and those around him had already been making plans and were running the government.