around the world ran into the streets in jubilation. They did so in Los Angeles and in Washington, D.C., in London and Madrid, in Denmark and Sweden.
Most incredibly, they were celebrating in Iran. Men and women filled the streets and, for the first time in decades, did so without fear of being summarily executed.
But while Iranians were joyously out in force, and while most of the world was breathing a sigh of relief that the Ayatollah’s reign of terror appears to be finished, and while other nations in the Middle East were condemning Iran for its retaliatory strikes on their countries, Democrats were condemning … Trump.
As Politico reported:
Progressives castigated the president for pursuing ‘dangerously illegal,’ ‘totally unnecessary’ and potentially ‘catastrophic’ military action when diplomacy was still on the table. Some, including Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., declared ‘no war with Iran.’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pledged to force a vote on a resolution limiting Trump’s war powers in Iran, saying that the president must “provide an ironclad justification for this act of war.”
Every other leading Democratic presidential contender condemned the attack of Iran – Kamala Harris intoned that “I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran” – while admitting that “the Iranian regime represses its own people” and “must never be allowed to possess nuclear weapons.”
(We will leave aside for the moment the nauseating reaction from some miscreants on the right, such as Tucker Carlson, who reportedly called the attack “absolutely disgusting and evil.”)
Sen. John Fetterman and a handful of other Democrats openly supported the death of Khamenei and the peace and freedom it promises. Fetterman said, “President Trump has been willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region.”
So, over the course of just a few days, Democratic Party leaders have put on prominent public displays of support for illegal aliens and Islamic terrorists over those of American citizens.
This isn’t happening because of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It’s happening because the party is now completely captured by its most radical, anti-American fringe.
Until now, that was something most Americans probably didn’t fully realize.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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