Many predictions about the midterm elections in the United States are disastrous for the Republican Party: a defeat in the House of Representatives and perhaps also the loss of the majority in the Senate. The Republican Party could weather the electoral storm that almost always chastens the party of a president ending his sixth year in office.
But the Republican Party will not avoid a “thumping,” as George W. Bush put it after the Republican Party’s 2006 election defeat, if today’s Republicans do not stand up and loudly proclaim the wisdom of taking up the fight with Iran, as well as the facts that not only are we decisively winning the fight, but that the world will be a much better place when it is over, even if President Trump declares it, as General Ulysses S. Grant did in May. 1864, that “I propose to fight it out on this line if it lasts all summer.”
Grant prevailed within a year, but it was indeed a long and arduous march through Northern Virginia to the encirclement and eventual surrender of Richmond and the Confederacy and the surrender of General Lee’s army, even as other Union armies won on other fronts.
There will be no Appomattox in the fight with Iran, but there will be victory, and the Republican Party must preach that inevitability and the great wisdom and necessity of the fight.
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Every candidate in every partisan race must make their case, and that is easy to do: the Islamic Republic of Iran is an evil regime, a regime run by “crazies,” as Secretary Rubio declared when the fight began, a regime that has always terrorized its own people and the entire region (killing tens of thousands of its own people in January), and a regime that attacked fourteen countries after America and Israel resumed their fight against them as it would have done – with nuclear weapons! – if it could have acquired such weapons, as the left in America and Europe refuses to see or admit, let alone discuss.
The Republican Party must embrace “peace with victory” as its platform and make the case every day from every stage and in every interview.
It was not a “war of choice,” which the ignorant opponents of the struggle utter almost daily, but rather one of the necessary precautions against an existential threat to the region and the world.
The US Navy’s blockade of Iran and the likely return of combat operations will inevitably trouble the radical junta atop the rump regime, but that will take time.
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President Trump rightly informed his advisers this week (and the news was reported by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday evening) that he is determined to see it through. Bravo.
Americans have lost the muscle memory of victory. Once the conflict is over, the country will quickly regain an appreciation for determination.
The prediction of an electoral catastrophe for the Republican Party would mean losing at least statewide races in Maine (Senator Collins), Ohio (Senator Husted), North Carolina (open) and Texas (Senator Cornyn) or Alaska (Senator Sullivan) – an outcome that seems so unlikely as to pass almost without comment, but that extraordinary outcome is possible if the Republican Party remains committed to the fight with Iran. Every senator faced with challenges and every member of the House of Representatives must repeatedly explain the “why” and the “how” of the fight. If they do, voters will agree.
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The Republican Party candidates must argue loudly and convincingly that the battle with Iran is long overdue, that while the cost of thirteen American lives and countless wounded is incredibly high for the families who bear that burden and for the nation that mourns that loss, the battle and the blockade are stunningly successful and will inevitably crush the remnants of the old regime if the president is determined. It seems certain that President Trump is not about to “go shaky.”
The president understands what is at stake and has stated his single-minded purpose. Bravo.
The Republican Party should applaud and support him and explain that the costs he feels at the gas pump at home are nothing compared to the costs borne by the families of the fallen and the wounded, and that the extraordinary benefits of a humiliated Iran cannot be overstated.
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That fight to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is in its eighth week and going very well (except in the eyes of Democratic activists and the traditional media, but of course I’m repeating myself).
It crushed the Iranian military, and now the blockade ordered by President Trump is grinding the Iranian economy into dust.
Patience will ensure that the US emerges with a complete victory, but don’t expect the Democrats or the anti-American Europeans to ever concede that.
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Our Gulf allies and our closest ally, Israel, are very happy to see Iran put on its heels and the region made secure and stable for decades to come.
The anti-Trump forces have been unable or unwilling to see the extraordinary nature and success of the US military campaign, or the enormous boon to the region and the world that will come with the humiliation of the insane regime in Tehran.
The “Trump Distortion Effect” that operates on the left in America (to which almost all old media belong) and also in sclerotic Europe, automatically condemns everything that President Trump orders. That is why the left has set aside half a century of abuse of the world and its own people by the Islamic Republic of Iran to destroy Trump and the Republicans.
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It doesn’t matter. ‘Trust the people’ was Winston Churchill’s famous advice. President Trump has repeatedly advocated for what he has ordered the U.S. military to do and continue to do. He has Grant’s determination. Good.
This portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant is printed from original glass plate negatives by Mathew B. Brady. (AP Photo/Mathew Brady, File)
The 1864–65 campaigns of the Union armies, operating under Generals Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, cost tens of thousands of Union casualties but ultimately broke the back of the Confederacy’s slave empire. The men in blue voted overwhelmingly for Abraham Lincoln in the fall of 1864 over their former senior general, George McClellan, who adopted a “peace without victory” platform, which was in stark contrast to the Republican party’s “peace with victory” position.
The people carrying the greatest burden want nothing less than the dedication to win. Trump has that, and everyone knows it.
The Republican Party must embrace “peace with victory” as a platform and make the case every day from every stage and in every interview. It will take several months, and although the economy is very healthy overall, there is no escaping the temporary increase in gas prices. Republican Party candidates must argue for the necessity of that burden in the short term. Advocate for victory. Advocates a free Iran and a stable and secure Middle East.
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There is no victory for the Republican Party in November without demanding and defending victory in this battle. Ignore the old “echo chamber” created in the Obama years to defend the indefensible Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”), which attempted to enshrine in an executive order an Iranian glide path to nuclear weapons, surrounded by a forest of ballistic missiles that could hit Europe and ultimately the US
Americans have lost the muscle memory of victory. Once the conflict is over, the country will quickly regain an appreciation for determination.
President Trump and his administration understood the real danger. They refused the comfortable lies of the JCPOA.
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President Trump correctly understands the threat of a nuclear Iran. So he acted.
Serious Republicans should applaud Trump’s refusal to kick the can down the road. The Republican Party must make the same strategic argument that the president embraced. And they should start doing that now and never stop until the November votes are counted.
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