None of this is new. I’ve said it all before. But it is
important to understand what the electorate will actually be getting out of
this.
One may legitimately ask: How can so many Americans be wrong, in my eyes? Doesn’t the magnitude of the electoral message against the war speak volumes about what the right thing to do really is? How can I say with any degree of confidence that the American electorate was so wrong?
The way to judge whether the electorate was right or wrong
is to see who sides with them and who doesn’t. As noted in the Algemeiner:
The Iranian regime has welcomed the Democratic Party’s sweeping victory in the US midterm elections, presenting the results as a rejection of President Donald Trump’s policies and his war against Iran…
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf was among the first senior Iranian officials to comment on the results. In a post on X, he wrote, “Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said No To War, and we endorse this message.” He also warned Washington against disregarding the American electorate’s wishes.
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei offered a different but equally hostile assessment of the American political system in his latest written statement, declaring that “the process of the US’s collapse has accelerated.”
I don’t know about anyone else, but getting high praise from
a terrorist regime like Iran for the way I voted would not make me feel too
good. It would instead give me second thoughts about whether I had made the
right decision.
Contrast this with what most Republicans had wanted. They
did not want to end the war with a whimper, leaving things in worse shape than
they were before the war started. They wanted to end the war with a victory
against a regime responsible for so much devastation in the world. You know who
agrees with them? The Iranian people who are not under the spell of
extremist Islamist ideology that rules in Iran.
While some Iranians see the Republican defeat as a setback
for an American president they hoped would bring an end to the Islamic
Republic, others fear that a Democratic-controlled Congress could weaken
Washington’s willingness to confront Tehran. In either case, the response is
disappointment…
Tehran has correctly portrayed the Democratic victory as
evidence of American opposition to the war. And they are thrilled! But ordinary
Iranians don’t share their government’s opinion. For them, it isn’t about which
party controls Congress, but which party is more likely to put pressure on the
Islamic Republic. The Iranian people don’t think Democrats are willing or able
to do that.
Thus, there was a great deal of disappointment in Iran over
Republican losses. Everyday Iranians want an end to the regime. Not an end to
the war without a victory…
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