Posted on 01/02/2018 9:15:24 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
President Trump is unpopular. He's unpopular because he's boorish, crude and silly; he's unpopular because he has a unique capacity to turn winning news cycles into referenda on his use of Twitter. But the United States under President Trump hasn't seen any serious anti-liberty revanchism. In fact, under Trump, regulations have dropped precipitously; the economy continues its pattern of growth; and press freedoms have actually been strengthened. Despite popular opinion, women aren't on the verge of enslavement into Vice President Mike Pence's "Handmaid's Tale," nor are black Americans in danger of resegregation or political disenfranchisement.
Yet while Iranians protest against a regime that reportedly hangs homosexuals from cranes, members of the hard left in the United States insist that protesters against the Trump administration demonstrate bravery similar to that of Iranians risking death by an Islamist regime. Huffington Post political commentator Alex Mohajer tweeted: "The #IranianProtests, the #Resistance, and @WomensMarch are all the same. Across the world, people are fighting autocracies and oppressive regimes. @realDonaldTrump is NO DIFFERENT than the oppressive Ayatollahs in Iran." Oddly, that movement of solidarity hasn't prompted those who walked in the Women's March on Washington to say a single word in support of the Iranian protesters to this point.
This idiocy doesn't merely spring from hatred for Trump but from a deep-seated need to justify the Obama administration's feckless Iran policy. Thomas Erdbrink of The New York Times reported that violence broke out in Iran after the demonstrators ignored "pleas for calm from President Hassan Rouhani" and termed Rouhani -- a tool of the mullahs -- a "moderate." Meanwhile, one CNN anchor fretted that Trump might put a "finger on the scale" against the Iranian regime. Members of the Obama administration took to Twitter to tell Trump to be quiet (Susan Rice, former national security adviser), chide Trump for failing to take in Iranian refugees (Samantha Power, former U.N. ambassador) and suggest that American policy has nothing to do with Iran's protests (Ben Rhodes, former national security adviser and architect of the Iran nuclear deal narrative). All of these administration members did nothing as President Obama watched dissidents die in the streets in 2009, and all of them actively abetted the maximization of Iran's regional power.
Herein lies the insanity of the left. Only nutcases on the right believed that Barack Obama's governance was morally equivalent to the Iranian government. In the main, conservatives thought that Obama pursued bad policies domestically and horribly immoral foreign policies. But many on the left seem to believe that Trump is merely steps removed from the ayatollahs. The ayatollahs agree, and they use that nuttery for public-relations leverage: No wonder Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted: "The U.S. gov. commits oppression inside the U.S., too. U.S. police murder black women, men, & children for no justifiable reason, and the murderers are acquitted in U.S. courts. This is their judicial system! And they slam other countries' and our country's judicial system. #BLM."
Trump isn't Khamenei. And the only recent administration to help build Iran's power is the Obama administration. Comparing the Trump administration to Iran's regime isn't just delusional; it's insulting and counterproductive. And the only people it helps are America's enemies.
Shapiro is a #NeverTrumper. He is also an a$$hole.
he actually made some sense here,..
even though he’s a schmuck.
He may be an a-hole, but he’s our a-hole. He has been stellar in fighting liberal morons and will give Trump credit where it is obviously due.
Even when he writes an article in support of Trump, as this one is?
Shapiro here is a voice of reason against the insanity of the Left.
I’m so sick of these #nevertrumpers like this guy, Shapiro and that other idiot, Max Boot. These guys are just big wusses who just aren’t comfortable around men. I guess they were picked on in Kindergarten or something.
I don’t care what the Left thinks. What the Media thinks. What the NeverTrumpers/GOPe thinks.
I find myself fast-forwarding past the lunatic, stupid Leftists that Hannity, Tucker, Ingraham, etc., insist on having on polluting their shows. I have no time to listen to the braying of idiots.
They should all take a tip from Lou Dobbs and keep the Leftists of their shows. Their shows would improve considerably.
I have no interest in “compromise” with these Leftist lunatics or to conduct “rational” discussions with irrational degenerates.
Or with so-called “Conservative Intellectuals” like Shapiro - “chin pullers” as Michelle Malkin likes to call them.
I’m only interested in the total defeat of the Left, the GOPe, the Deep State, and the Media. Period.
Agreed. We have to start gauging the former (and not former) Anti-Trumpers against their current body of work. I will take Ben Shapiro any day of the week over Max Boot or Bret Stephens. At least Ben fights and gives Trump credit where it is due, instead of being a whiny pu**y hat wearing wimp like those two.
Try actually reading this column. Shapiro really sticks it to the leftist blind spots regarding Iran.
Shapiro is one of the smartest Conservatives out there. Watch some of his YouTube videos. Very few can devastate a liberal faster than he can.
Unlike many of the RINOs, he gives credit to the President when he (Trump) gets it right. Shapiro is known to call out the President, when he disagrees with him, but is quite fair, in that he will praise Trump for the good things he is doing.
Shapiro is very consistent in his excoriation of the Left and their nonsense.
This article is one of those instances.
No quarter should be afforded these uncivil malignancies. They must be crushed to dust .
No wonder Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted: “The U.S. gov. commits oppression inside the U.S., too. U.S. police murder black women, men, & children for no justifiable reason, and the murderers are acquitted in U.S. courts. This is their judicial system! And they slam other countries’ and our country’s judicial system. #BLM.”
Get this guy a gig at ESPN!
One can no more reason with these clowns than one can reason with a hydrophobic dog.
They should all take a tip from Lou Dobbs and keep the Leftists of their shows. Their shows would improve considerably.
Totally agree. Life is too short to waste time listening to utter crap from leftists. Tucker's show is the worst: Night after night, he drags out the same tired, shrill leftists. Why?? I end up fast-forwarding through nearly the entire show most of the time.
I still enjoy most of Hannity's and Laura Ingraham's shows.
Is there any doubt Ben has Never been in a fist fight? In fact, I would venture to guess, he has run away countless times.
Lol, now there’s a visual that’s fitting!
Yes lil Benny is fast on his feet and even when he desires to begrudgingly give President Trump his just dues, he NEVER passes up a chance to add his special brand of snark. The beginning paragraph of this otherwise realistic analysis is case in point.
Ben was bullied when he was young (according to his own words).
He skipped grades, so the kids in his classes were older, bigger, and tougher than he was, but not smarter.
That's a formula for a challenge from the other guys. (I don't know how Ben dealt with the challenge though. He probably got beaten up a number of times.)
Calling Trump boorish, crude, and silly is not exactly supporting him.
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