OPINION:
Just when you think that Democrats afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome couldn’t stoop any lower in their unhinged hatred of the president, they find new ways to disgrace themselves.
Over Memorial Day weekend, the Democratic National Committee and other Democratic Party entities crossed the line with a social media post on X and Facebook criticizing President Trump’s war with Iran. It was so tasteless that even other Democrats felt compelled to condemn it.
“Today, we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice,” the DNC’s post on Monday said. It featured photos of the 13 American service members, including three women, “who have died in Trump’s war with Iran.”
Just as an aside, we don’t recall the DNC being equally aggrieved by the deaths of 13 other military personnel killed in August 2021 in Kabul by a suicide bomber during then-President Joe Biden’s chaotic, horribly mismanaged withdrawal from Afghanistan.
But we digress.
It’s one thing to have honest disagreements with Mr. Trump’s decision to wage war on the radical Islamic theocratic dictatorship in Tehran to force it to surrender its stockpile of enriched uranium that could be used to build nuclear weapons. But it’s quite another for the DNC to politicize and exploit the loss of the lives of 13 heroic service members in such shameful fashion for the sole purpose of advancing the party’s anti-Trump political agenda.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Illinois Democrat (and no fan of Mr. Trump), is a combat veteran who lost both legs in the Iraq War in 2004. She publicly denounced her party’s social media post: “It is incredibly distasteful to use our heroic dead for a political attack on Memorial Day. I’m a Democrat, and I condemn this post by the DNC.”
Apart from being “incredibly distasteful,” to say nothing of exploitative, such partisan criticism of the war effort only serves to give gratuitous aid and comfort to the enemy.
Just as the left’s strident opposition to the Vietnam War in the streets of America in the 1970s encouraged Hanoi to persist (and ultimately enabled it to prevail), today’s anti-Trump/anti-Iran War agitation by Democrats can only serve to encourage the Islamo-fascist rulers in Tehran to hold on.
The regime is hoping American public opinion will pressure Mr. Trump to give up short of compelling it to surrender its nuclear materials and ambitions.
In the face of widespread, deserved criticism, the Democrats’ Memorial Day post was quickly taken down, but there were no accompanying apologies.
By contrast, Mr. Trump hailed the ultimate sacrifice made by the 13 service personnel after placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the traditional Memorial Day observance at Arlington National Cemetery.
“We lost 13 wonderful souls; wonderful, special people,” the president said, noting they had died to ensure Iran “will never have a nuclear weapon.”
Meanwhile, unlike Mr. Trump, the man those same Democrats sought to elect as vice president in November 2024 skipped Memorial Day ceremonies entirely.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was supposed to speak at a program at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis honoring the 267,000 service members and their dependents interred there. Veterans and other attendees confirmed that the governor was a no-show.
It speaks volumes — but not well — about Mr. Walz that he did find the time to attend a so-called Rise & Remember Festival on Monday in south Minneapolis honoring the memory of a drug-addled career criminal, George Floyd, on the sixth anniversary of Floyd’s death while resisting arrest in police custody on May 25, 2020.
Mr. Walz’s misplaced Memorial Day priorities in Minnesota make us shudder to think how he would have marked the occasion in Washington had he been elected to the second-highest office in the land. It’s yet another reason to be thankful that he wasn’t.
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