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The case for a navy strike in Iran is stronger than any we’ve seen in a long time.
The ethnonationalist, imperial regime in Tehran enslaves and murders its own by the tens of hundreds, threatens genocide on infidels all through the area and guarantees death to the United States.
Yet the Democratic Party is pulling out all stops to dam President Donald Trump from persevering with this warfare of liberation.
Senate Democratic chief Chuck Schumer calls the assault “unpopular, immoral and illegal.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says it “will end in failure” — ignoring its unprecedented initial success in decapitating Iran’s management and destroying its defenses.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls it “illegal” and “dangerous.”
The hyperbolic rhetoric appears unschooled and unhinged, in addition to factually mistaken and legally doubtful.
It’s prone to remind already skeptical voters that Democrats can’t be trusted on national security issues.
How has the daring internationalist party of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy grow to be so small, petulant and inward-looking in the face of an simple international menace?
That query makes Democrats like me and, I think, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman really feel like strangers in a international land inside our party.
To be sure, some of this response is uncooked reflexive opposition to the whole lot Trump.
If the president discovered a remedy for most cancers tomorrow, Democrats would probably oppose it.
Part of the pathology, too, is due to the Democratic Party’s mental seize by a left-leaning “diplomatic class” that believes even terrorists could be persuaded, by more “process” and money funds, to abide by the worldwide “rules-based order.”
That delusion led us to the ill-fated JCPOA nuclear deal, whereby Tehran performed us as chumps.
But one other rationalization could be present in a growing extremist motion inside the Democrats’ activist base — a radical cadre of socialists and Islamists that’s being mainlined by the party’s elected representatives.
Somalia-born author Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls it the “watermelon coalition” (purple for socialism, inexperienced for radical Islam).
This motion, she writes, finds common trigger in anti-Westernism: Radical Islam seeks to destroy the West, whereas socialism goals to “flatten its hierarchies in the name of equity.”
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The class-warfare ideology of American socialists has by no means had a lot well-liked appeal, nor has the colonialism lie of the radical Islamists.
But collectively they’ve managed to assemble a coalition that appeals to a downwardly-mobile, spiritually misplaced podcast class more fascinated by authorities handouts than in building a future.
Activists in each camps hyperlink arms with the help of funding from hard-left NGOs and “philanthropies” and, most probably, international sources.
That’s how the Defund the Police motion in Atlanta shortly reworked itself in 2024 to steer violent pro-Hamas protests on native faculty campuses, for instance.
In Minnesota, pro-Hamas teams linked with the open-borders progressive left to arrange road mobs that attacked federal law enforcement.
Federal and state Democratic politicians fell in line, parroting the revolutionary language of the pitchforks.
When Gov. Tim Walz referred to federal officers as the “Gestapo,” it appeared the inmates had been operating the asylum.
Meanwhile, members of Congress like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pay no price for overtly embracing a scholar group that advocates for the destruction of the West — one which posted “Death to America” after Saturday’s strikes on Iran.
The “watermelon” an infection is taking maintain in progressive circles worldwide: Last week the UK’s Green Party gained an upset election in a district long managed by the Labour Party, a victory not primarily based on climate coverage, however as a result of they promised Muslim voters — 30% of the native citizens — retribution in opposition to Israeli Jews.
The Greens suppressed their historic pro-LGBTQ positions to pander to those that oppose such rights, Hirsi Ali famous.
And right here, worry of the Watermelons is why more Democrats gained’t rise up to defend the democratic hopes of Iranians and the security pursuits of the West.
Instead of doing the proper factor in the face of Iran’s in any other case unstoppable menace, they simply do what the pols in Minnesota did — go together with extremist positions that run opposite to democratic ideas and the long-term security of the West.
And a party that after led the international struggle in opposition to totalitarianism transforms itself into the party of appeasement.
Democrats keep the smug conceit that they’re “on the right side of history.”
But aside from Fetterman, they appear clearly on the mistaken facet now.
Julian Epstein is the former chief counsel for the House Judiciary Democrats and the former employees director of the House Oversight Committee.
