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The Federalist

Iran Nuked Us After All

The Federalist
Iran Nuked Us After All

Regime-change adventurism on the other side of the world caused a devastating regime change here.

But while most Republicans expected a beating, this was a bloodbath. Democrats not only flipped the House of Representatives and the Senate, but they did so with candidates such as James "God is nonbinary" Talarico in Texas and Muslim Brotherhood-connected Abdul El-Sayed in the Midwest. Too many red states saw major upsets, including Kansas, South Carolina, and, most disturbingly, Texas — three states that haven't had a Democrat senator in decades. Not even Republican Gov. Greg Abbott could hold onto his seat in the Lone Star State. Ohio flipped blue, as did North Carolina, Georgia, and Iowa.

Republicans can't convincingly pitch "affordability" when their latest war in the Middle East is putting the squeeze on Americans from every direction. Trump is delivering remarkably on deportations. He's honoring his commitment to law and order. Violent crime rates under this administration are in freefall, and patriotism is in vogue. This administration deserves credit for all of those things and more. But it really is the economy, stupid.

Just as Anthony Fauci exploited Trump's germophobia and helped tank his first term with devastating lockdowns, war-hungry Republicans hijacked Trump's current term with ill-advised foreign entanglements. And that's how regime-change adventurism on the other side of the world caused a devastating regime change here.

Things seem politically bleak for Republicans and the country in the foreseeable future. Democrats have been brazen about their plans to pack the Supreme Court; grant statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, which would give them even more congressional representation; codify Roe v. Wade as the law of the land; nuke the filibuster; hamper immigration enforcement and import Third World voters; and plenty more horrors the moment they're back in control. In short, they're determined to rig the game to maintain their power in perpetuity.

That means it will likely be even harder for Republicans to win the next time around. The GOP's only potential path to future victory — if they even want it — is to reject the failed foreign policy of forever wars and return to the ethos that made MAGA so great: smart economics, pro-tradition, law and order, strong borders, America first. That's how Trump broke from business-as-usual GOP politics to win in 2016 and 2024, and it's likely the only hope of winning in the future.

Back in January, George W. Bush's ex-speechwriter Marc Thiessen — just one among a chorus of neocons tempting the president toward another war in the Middle East — wrote, "There is no U.S. downside to striking the Iranian regime." He went on to confidently predict that before year's end, Trump would "visit a free Tehran — and receive a hero's welcome from the Iranian people."

Indeed, it is. Don't forget it.


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