Axis of Bad: Many of the Very Worst People Are United Against Trump's Iran Strikes

Guy Benson / Townhall Tipsheet

 

'If [fill in the blank] is upset, that must be a good sign.'  We've all heard some variation of this political argument before.  It's negative partisanship, distilled.  I typically find such reductive pronouncements to be unhelpful and intellectually sloppy, but on occasion, they can be helpful and illustrative. President Trump's decision to strike a trio of the Iranian regime's nuclear weapons facilities presents a scenario in which the coalition of opposition helps make the case for why it was the right call.  There are some people with good-faith and thoughtful reasons they're against, or at least skeptical of, that American operation. 

 

But a broader, cursory examination of those who are most virulently angry about it (excluding many of the worst regimes across the globe) reveals a veritable murderer's row of the Chronically Wrong and the Fundamentally Bad.  I'd go so far as to say that if this exact group were to be collectively arrayed one one side of an issue of consequence, I'd likely find myself on the opposite side of them 99 times out of 100, if not all 100. Read more, see Xs an videos here.