The Patriot Post® · Dems Defend Another Indefensible

In the ongoing case of the exploding narco-terrorists, President Donald Trump has once again been blessed by the low character of his enemies. And I don’t mean the narco-terrorists themselves. I mean the Trump-deranged Democrats who’ve been forced to defend the indefensible.

Take Connecticut’s Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. As he put it to the Autopen President’s erstwhile paid liar Jen Psaki: “What you need to do is you need to see two terrified men clinging to the wreckage of a ship. And these men are not, this is not Pablo Escobar out there, on a, on a, on a boat. Um, y'know, these are guys that probably didn’t have a lot of economic opportunity, and made a terrible decision to participate in the drug trade.”

So you see, these hapless drug smugglers are really no different than the poor schlub who picks your lettuce.

Here, I’m reminded of all the suicide bombers who probably didn’t have a lot of economic opportunity, either, and who probably just made a terrible decision to detonate themselves on behalf of The Religion of Peace™.

Speaking of self-harm, the Democrats have been committing one act of ballistic podiatry after another in their ongoing war with Trump. How so? By reflexively taking one suicidal policy position after another — from defending criminal illegal alien trannies to defending narco-terrorists.

As I pointed out a few months back, Trump has perfected a common-sensical two-step process for political success. First, by virtue of his mere existence, he’s forced the Never Trumpers and the Democrats to hate his guts; and second, he’s unearthed and embraced the issues that are wildly popular with the American people — the 60-40 and 70-30 and 80-20 issues — and thereby forced his political opponents to paint themselves into one emotively unhinged electoral corner after another. All just to spite Trump.

The result? Democrats have come out against closing the border, against getting rid of the criminal illegal aliens, against rooting out government waste, against getting rid of ridiculous foreign aid, and in favor of men competing against women in sports.

So hate-filled are the Democrats toward Trump that they’ll defend Hamas if Trump defends Israel’s right to exist.

As our Nate Jackson noted last week, Congress has set the parameters for how we handle drug traffickers and how we handle terrorists — with no overlap. But Trump is arguing — rightly, I believe — that there should be overlap because both of these entities pose very real and very deadly threats to the American people.

Just as Clausewitz called war a continuation of policy by other means, these deadly drugs are a continuation of war by other means. And the war is being conducted by the narco-terrorists — and by China — against the American people.

But that’s not how another Democrat, Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, sees it. “Everything that they’ve done has been illegal,” she shrieks. “It’s illegal under international law, it’s illegal under the Geneva Convention, and it certainly is even illegal under domestic law. It was essentially murder with that double-tap strike. It is a war crime. It’s illegal. However you put it, it’s all illegal.”

Republican Senator Tom Cotton sees things differently. “Any boat loaded with drugs that is crewed by associates and members of foreign terrorist organizations that are trying to kill American kids, I think, is a valid target,” he said. “I’m not just comfortable with it, I want to continue it.”

Donald Trump is a businessman. And businessmen become successful by solving other people’s problems. The flow of illegal drugs into our country is a deadly problem for the American people, and Donald Trump is attempting to solve it on our behalf.

Concerning the Democrats’ defense of the narco-terrorists and their knee-jerk persecution of the man whose administration is literally saving American lives, I’m reminded of Jack Nicholson’s Colonel Jessup from “A Few Good Men.” While the movie is pure Hollywood melodrama, and while its characters are mostly caricatures, the film’s climactic moment hits all of us who appreciate the awesome burdens and responsibilities of the American presidency.

As Jessup dismissively puts it to the idealistic JAG Corps lawyer: “I would rather you just said ‘thank you,’ and went on your way.”