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April 10, 2026

The Fifth Column

The Democrat Party is behaving like a fifth column — enemy sympathizers who undermine their own country.

Democrat leaders are so alienated from our country that I believe many of them want us to fail. Before they became the crazy party, they would have said something like this:
 
“We think the president made a mistake. He should have come to Congress for authorization of military action. But it has been a goal of every American president, Republican and Democrat, for over 35 years to ensure the Islamic Republic does not get nuclear weapons. Their support for terrorists must end. They will not be allowed to shut off vital shipping lanes. And so, we urge Tehran to take this deal.”
 
If Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries had said that, their poll numbers wouldn’t be in the toilet. But they didn’t say that.
 
On the very day that Iran was facing a hard deadline, Democrat leaders were attacking our government, not Iran’s. Jeffries actually attacked the ceasefire agreement.
 
This week, Democrats asserted the president was insane. They demanded that the cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
 
Democrats accused President Trump of committing war crimes. But it is Iran that has regularly engaged in such crimes.
 
They have used children as human shields around potential targets. They used schools as military command posts. They have funded terrorism. They slaughtered tens of thousands of Iranians in the streets. They seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran 47 years ago. They sent assassins to the United States to kill President Trump. All of these and more were war crimes.
 
The Democrat Party is behaving like a fifth column — enemy sympathizers who undermine their own country. And their radical left-wing base is full of enemy sympathizers. (Here and here.)
 
They claim the solution for dealing with the Islamic supremacists who control Iran is “more robust diplomacy.” But we have had 12 years of Democrat rule interrupted by two Trump terms, and their “robust diplomacy” failed.
 
During Barack Obama’s eight years in office, “diplomacy” gave us a terrible nuclear deal that ended up funding more terrorism. Four years of Joe Biden negotiating with Iran gave us more of the same. They accomplished nothing.
 
Imagine that President Trump did nothing about Iran. It wouldn’t be long before there was another morning like December 7, 1941, or September 11, 2001. Only instead of thousands of dead Americans, it would be hundreds of thousands of dead Americans. And millions of Americans would be furious that our leaders did nothing.

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