“To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of the declamations and by the bitterness of their invectives.” —Alexander Hamilton (1787)

I topped off my F-150 this week for $3.60/gal, versus $4.30/gal two weeks ago. That is well above the average of $2.75 a year ago, but it is going in the right direction. WTI crude is down to $89/barrel and was $62 a year ago.

That price differential is a temporary consequence of Donald Trump’s bold and long-overdue determination to destroy Iran’s near-term capability to create a nuclear weapon — something six previous administrations threatened to do but did not follow through. Predictably, that resulted in attacks on oil shipping lanes to the Arabian Sea, specifically Iran’s IRGC attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, and attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in key ports in the Red Sea — and higher fuel prices.

For the record, let me restate that oil was over $100/barrel for 308 days under Barack Obama, 0 days during Trump’s first term, 83 days under Joe Biden, and now 24 days during Trump’s second term. Oh, and adjusted for inflation, when oil was $115/barrel under Biden in 2022, that would be $130/barrel today. And when it was $110/barrel in 2011 under Obama, inflation-adjusted, that would be $163/barrel today.

If Democrats had not killed our domestic refining capabilities, our oil production would be booming.

Unfortunately, Trump has failed to make the case that neutralizing the nuclear threat from Iran is worth a temporary spike in fuel prices, the latter being all that concerns many Americans voters.

Thus, Democrats have disgracefully used the effort to denuclearize Iran and the resulting short-term gas price increase as fodder for the midterm election — creating a deadly political alliance with Iran.

Trump attempted to make the gas price case this week, declaring at a rally: “It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them ... take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”

To divert from Trump’s price versus risk comparison, Demos immediately claimed that Trump was suggesting Iran bomb Los Angeles and San Diego, a fake narrative then propagated by their Leftmedia echo chamber.

Fact is, Democrats know that the price of Liberty is high, and what Trump said is true. But their lies about gas prices and the economy are typical of their political “ends justify the means” strategy — and it is working.

As political commentator Betsy McCaughey notes: “Democrats are surging ahead in the polls, offering rhetoric about a ‘failed Republican economy.’ But the facts show that the first two years of Republican control have produced impressive economic gains, especially for minorities, women and workers on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.”

To be clear, the Trump administration’s successful efforts to Make America Great Again after the Joe Biden debacle are remarkable. The economy is strong. At 2.4%, core inflation is the lowest in five years. In addition, income is up, poverty is down, and jobs are plentiful. Moreover, as Vice President JD Vance observed, “Last month, we hit one million new jobs created under the Trump administration — and unlike the last administration ... 100% of the new job growth over the past 18 months has gone to American citizens for a change.”

But Democrats and their Demo-media machine have seized on the price of gas for their BIG Lie about the economy, in order to hang all the Biden price pain across consumer markets on Trump. (You know, the same Demos who want to outlaw fossil fuels altogether...)

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) claims people are “drowning in Donald Trump’s failed economy,” insisting “they can’t thrive and can barely survive.”

Of course, the bulk of consumer price increases occurred under Biden, as McCaughey rightly observes: “Inflation for the 12 months ending August 2026 [averaged] 3% for all goods and services except energy. But in the first two years of the Biden administration, inflation had soared to 9%, and the Biden-era prices are still up there. Curbing inflation doesn’t lower prices, it just halts the increase.”

But most consumers/voters don’t make this connection, which is why American opinion on the economy has dropped to its lowest level since 2014, and Demos have played this lie so well that, astoundingly, voters have more confidence in Democrats to run the economy.

The Democrats’ strategy to blame Trump’s decision to neutralize Iran’s fissile weapon capabilities for high gas prices has created an unholy alliance with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Democrat leaders are deafeningly silent about it because the alliance benefits their midterm prospects for retaking the House and Senate.

Yes, that is how indifferent they are willing to be in regard to the very real terrorist nuclear threat against our nation. Given their failure to demolish the threat, in fact enabling it, now you know why I refer to them as “Demos.”

We just passed the five-year anniversary of the disastrous and deadly Biden/Harris surrender and retreat from Afghanistan. As political observer Austin Bay notes: “That fiasco convinced IRGC fanatics America can’t even handle a withdrawal, much less a tough fight — at least an America led by leftist Democrats. ... Tehran believes regime change in Washington will allow the ayatollahs and their terrorist cults to survive ... and then get a nuclear weapon.”

And the result...

Political analyst Gary Bauer, former Chief Domestic Policy Advisor for Ronald Reagan, notes: “Democrats just landed a major endorsement — the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). That’s right. The terrorist group that slaughters Iranian civilians in the streets and has murdered many American soldiers is pleading with the American people to vote against Republican candidates this November.”

Bauer writes:

It makes perfect sense. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards remember that it was Democrat President Barack Obama who gave them a sweetheart deal that nearly allowed them to become a nuclear power. It’s the Democrats who want to open our borders once again and allow more mass migration from Third World Muslim nations. It’s the Democrats who have abandoned our ally, Israel. The mullahs know that Democrats like Michigan’s Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed will be in the U.S. Senate pushing legislation that is pro-Islam and anti-Israel. It’s the Democrats who are promising to cut off funds for our troops in harm’s way right now. By the way, if Democrats succeeded in forcing an immediate end to the war, that would mean surrendering the Strait of Hormuz to Iran. The IRGC loves that idea, but it would only make your pain at the pump much, much worse.

In fact, Iran’s IRGC published a 25-page propaganda letter to American voters urging them to oppose Trump and Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.

It reads just like Demo midterm talking points!

The letter declared: “Americans need to wake up. Now is the time, as the American political system is at its weakest. America’s national security and the lives of its service members are entrusted to someone who is not only an inveterate liar but is also an insanely avaricious man whose only motivation in life is the accumulation of greater wealth. The US economy is on the precipice of collapse, and yet he keeps on telling Americans that the economy is booming and the prices will soon start coming down. ... Soon, the dam will break, and the economy will implode, causing, unfortunately, great pain for Americans for many many years.”

Yeah, Demo talking points.

Of such propaganda, Bauer concludes:

Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, El-Sayed and every Democrat candidate should rush to the nearest microphone and publicly reject the endorsement of Iranian extremists. They should say, “We spit in the faces of these brutal thugs. We condemn them and their endorsement.” Democrats should make it clear that they do not want the support of bloodthirsty Islamic fanatics who chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” That’s what should happen today, but it won’t. Democrat leaders know that Islamists in places like Chicago, Dallas, Dearborn, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York City are a large and growing part of their party’s radical base.

Meanwhile, the Islamist threat is still a clear and present danger.

(Note: Today is the anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Hamas (read: Iran) attack on Israel. As I noted in “9/11: The Islamist Threat Is Still a Clear and Present Danger,” regarding comparisons between the Hamas attack and the 9/11 Islamist attack on our nation, in a nation of 9.4 million people, 1,200 Israelis murdered in that attack equates to almost 32,000 dead in America.”)

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