What would be even more shameful than six members of Congress publicly advising soldiers to refuse the orders of the commander-in-chief? Here is the answer: siding with the drug runners attempting to flood America with lethal poison.
In reaching yet another new nadir, this is the position leftists have effectively adopted in the latest outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). They utter not a word of approval about the thousands of lives that stand to be saved from Donald Trump’s interdiction against narco-terrorist couriers on land, sea, and air. Instead, they attack the president for the annihilation of one particular boat carrying narcotics to our country on September 2. They are playing gotcha, laser-focused on the supposed illegality of the so-called second strike against the vessel, which came after the initial strike failed to eliminate all the drug runners. This is the culmination of the left’s persistent efforts to delegitimize Trump’s strategy, which has now succeeded in executing more than 80 people and countless tons of lethal product on boats heading to US shores through the Caribbean Sea.
Trump vs Drug Runners – and the Left
Several Democrats are out in public strongly implying that this decision by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, for which Trump is ultimately responsible, amounts to a war crime. They utter not a word about the number of deaths in this country from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, conservatively estimated at 48,000 souls in 2024 alone, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC). To put it in perspective, that is almost the same number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War over a full decade. And yet Democrats demand that Hegseth be dragged before a Senate committee for the equivalent of a show trial. They were already up in arms about Trump’s strikes to begin with, but now progressives believe they have found a viable way to humiliate the administration.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), who is actually considered a relatively moderate Democrat, told The Washington Post: “Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said on CBS that if reports are accurate, the attack “rises to the level of a war crime.” And on CNN, Senator Mark Kelly, the grandstanding Democratic Senator from Arizona who was among the six Democrats advising soldiers to refuse orders they deem unlawful, echoed the same sentiment, as have several other Democrats.
The many on the left who strenuously object to the second strike or the entire enterprise somehow fail to see what is right before their own eyes: The drugs pouring in from South and Central America represent a clear and present danger, an unambiguous threat to our national security. Ending or severely limiting the threat posed by ruthless drug cartels undoubtedly requires extreme action, and Trump is not one to kick the can down the road. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who appears to be circling the drain as Trump closes the walls in around him, has essentially declared war on the US. What else would you call aiding and abetting the shipment of illegal drugs he knows for a fact will lead to the deaths of thousands, most of whom will be unaware that what they are ingesting is laced with a fatal dose of fentanyl? Is this really any different than aiming a gun at Americans and shooting?
Close to Home for All of Us
All of us know, with less than six degrees of separation, people in or surrounding our lives who have descended into addiction or died as a direct result of fentanyl, heroin, or cocaine. As is his wont, Donald Trump has addressed this mortal threat to the rising generations of Americans with the greatest urgency. He has shut down the southern border and sea lanes through the Caribbean, the two principal arteries for the drug cartels to push their poison into the US. This, after Joe Biden and his party did little to prioritize and thwart the number one killer of Americans between the ages of 18 and 45. But now, leftists are up in arms about a president and secretary of war who have finally taken decisive action against this scourge upon humanity.
If you can’t find it in your conscience to support every possible effort to stop fentanyl, cocaine, and even more deadly opioids from killing off hundreds of thousands more Americans, you have reached the point of utter moral bankruptcy. Perhaps leftists desperate to put Hegseth and Trump (again) on trial should revisit the iconic soliloquy by Jack Nicholson in the classic movie, A Few Good Men. Testifying as the defendant in a military court, Nicholson bellows about what must be done to defend the country, “you can’t handle the truth,” to the prosecutor, played by Tom Cruise. He then continues with a screed that seems remarkably pertinent to the American left circa 2025:
“I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.”
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