Trump ran on a platform of peace. His war may have cost Republicans the midterms | Mohamad Bazzi

Voters remembered Trump’s many promises to avoid the same kind of regime-change wars started by his predecessorsFor much of his political career, Donald Trump ranted at past US presidents who got the US entangled in endless foreign conflicts. He used it as a cudgel to belittle his predecessors, calling George W Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003 “the worst…