Well, it finally happened. After over four- and one-half decades of listening to the plaintiff cries of “Death to America,” an American president finally blackened the eye of Iran’s toxic, fanatical, and arrogant Ali Khamenei regime. While bluster about enacting retribution and judgment on the American Satan is sending shock waves of whining recriminations throughout the ranks of the Democratic party, Donald Trump has demonstrated that the Iranian regime is nothing but a degraded and empty shell military, its leaders engorged by their own gas bag of boastful threats of devastating reprisal. Phooey! The Iranian mullahs were no match for the stealth, timing, and precision of a resolutely launched strike by American B-2 bombers.

Why are Democrats so enraged by President Trump’s bold and decisive action against Iran’s rogue nuclear program? No doubt, it is because of embarrassment at their past failure in attempting to curb the growth and defiance of the world’s greatest exporter of terrorism. Under two administrations, i.e., Obama and Biden, the approach to dealing with Iran was marked by appeasement, passivity, and weakness, not to mention the release of billions of dollars of impounded Iranian monies back into Iran’s economy, 1.7 billion in cash during the Obama years alone, supposedly for humanitarian purposes to offset the effects of sanctions. While the initial goal might have been laudatory in curbing Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, the JCPOA failed to impose any restrictions with respect to Iran’s Ballistic missile program. In effect, this particular development quickly resulted in the resurgence of the chants of “Death to Israel,” and “Death to America.” Barack Obama’s largesse provided a most welcome stream of resources not only for missiles, but for the funding of Hamas and Hezbollah.

There is little wondering in why both Democrats and the Iranian regime are sharing mutual indignation at Donald Trump. Both are responding on their heels to Trump’s audacious and bold maneuver. Both never expected or anticipated that a U.S. president was still capable of decisively acting in the interests of not only his own country, but the world. Both are choking on their own empty bravado, and with each passing day, seen more as a parody of their own ineptitude, impotence, and fecklessness. The Democrats may be angry in the wake of Trump’s audacious action to not have been a part of the initial briefing process, and the Iranians might claim the effect of the massive destructive blasts at Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan was not consequential, but these are purely self-serving responses to offset the sting of reality: neither the Democratic party nor the Iranian mullahs can explain away Donald Trump’s decisive, masterful assertion of American power.