Since every administration since Jimmy Carter’s treated Tehran like a misunderstood exchange student instead of a regime that seized our embassy brutalized and held American embassy workers hostage for 444 days. 444 days.
That was an act of war. Yet instead of responding with force, decade after decade we tried to bribe, flatter, and “engage” people who murdered our citizens and burned our flag for sport.
We wasted years in diplomatic circles while they funded terror networks, expanded influence, and played the long game. Meanwhile, their sympathizers our Democrats and apologists found microphones, classrooms, and committee rooms here at home. Divide the country. Undermine confidence. Recruit their useful idiots. It is straight out of the old playbook, and they ran it without resistance.
From the moment Trump came down that escalator, foreign adversaries and their domestic cheerleaders understood something simple. He was not interested in appeasement. He was not auditioning for a Nobel Prize. He was the balls to punch back. And for that, he became target number one.
Now we have prominent Democrats sounding more outraged at American retaliation than at a regime that mass-murders its own citizens and bankrolls violence abroad. It is a remarkable spectacle. A political party that once claimed to defend American strength now scrambling to defend the sensitivities of Tehran.
At some point, voters have to ask a basic question. When your rhetoric lines up more closely with a regime that chants “Death to America” than with your own country’s right to defend itself, what exactly are you defending?
That question is not partisan. It is patriotic.
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