I have been awake since 2 am, when I got a phone call that the U.S. had launched strikes on Iran. They were, at least for my part, a welcome and long-awaited development. For the entirety of my life, Iran has been repressing its people under a crushing Islamic theocracy. Just yesterday, I wrote about the atrocities in the last 17 years and the escalation of violence on the part of the now-dead Ayatollah Khamenei and his Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
For the first 12 hours of this military campaign, there have been no American casualties, and for that I am grateful. It’s a testament to how well War Secretary Pete Hegseth and our military do their jobs and understand the mission. As pleasant a surprise as that is, however, what does not surprise me is the reaction from the Left, and some Republicans, on all of this.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is about as qualified to talk about international issues as he is to perform open-heart surgery, called the strikes “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression.” Senator Tim Kaine said President Trump is “too mentally incapacitated to realize that we had a diplomatic agreement with Iran that was keeping its nuclear program in check.”
It wasn’t, but go on. Barack Obama’s “deal” for the Iranian nuclear program was for Iran to do a better job of hiding it from the world until the mushroom cloud appeared over Israel.
Thomas Massie, who never fails to disappoint these days, called these strikes “acts of war unauthorized by Congress” as if the 1973 War Powers Resolution ceased to exist in the last 24 hours.
The only Democrat worth anything on this is John Fetterman, who is the only one in his party I respect. But I digress.
In New York and D.C., totally not astroturfed protests, complete with professionally printed signs, sprang up today. “Hands off Iran!” those signs read. That’s been the Left’s slogan since at least 2003, when I was in college, and the Leftists who opposed the Iraq war were getting a head start on this one.
Meanwhile, the Ayatollah ruled Iran with an iron fist, subjecting women to mandatory hijab, causing economic catastrophes in Iran, and supporting terrorism in the Middle East and around the world. Iran has been designated a state sponsor of terror for almost my entire life, and through proxy groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, is behind hundreds of terror attacks on civilians, military forces, and diplomatic targets.
The Combating Terrorism Center says in the last decade alone, Iran has been tied to dozens of terror plots in the U.S. and Europe, including 27 involving Iranian agents in the U.S. and 157 Iranian operations worldwide. Far too many people have died because of the Iranian regime. In the last 17 years, Iran has suppressed its people every single time they’ve pushed for political and socioeconomic change. This includes cutting off Internet access, jailing protesters, and executing tens of thousands.
But the Leftists marching in New York and D.C., and the Democrats in Congress, have been so coddled living in the West that they cannot conceive of what a real dictatorship and what real oppression look like. Instead, they think President Trump is a dictator, a tyrant, and one who needs to be overthrown. They march in Handmaid’s costumes while Iranian women are jailed, beaten, or killed for not wearing the hijab in public (and Leftist women wear this disgusting symbol of oppression as a virtue signal of “solidarity”).
The hysteria and the hypocrisy of the Left are duly noted, and I don’t ever want to hear them lament the need for freedom in Iran (or elsewhere) or “resisting tyranny” ever again. President Trump did just that today, and they hate him for it.
The takeaway from all those protests and the caterwauling is this: there isn’t a regime brutal enough, a threat large enough, a dictator deadly enough that the Left won’t sell all of us out if they think it will help them oppose President Trump. You know, the guy they call a dictator, but who will be leaving office peacefully in 2029, to spend the rest of his days playing golf and lounging at Mar-a-Lago.
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