In April, with America at war with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz shut, Republican Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas went on Newsmax and said something American politicians rarely say anymore. “I’m sorry the gas prices are going up. But your national security, yes, is even more important than your pocketbook.” Pressed on how long Americans would tolerate the prices, he invoked his grandparents’ generation: Could you imagine telling the president he only had so many days to defeat Hitler?