GAI President and best-selling author Peter Schweizer says Democratic opposition to President Trump’s Iran strategy isn’t really about Iran — it’s about Trump.
Their best outcome is him losing. Their second-best outcome is the ayatollah winning.
Schweizer calls it “impeachment by proxy.”
“They know that politically, the best outcome for them is for Trump to lose. And then the second-best outcome for them is for the ayatollah to win. That’s really what they want. They want to see Trump humbled. This is, effectively, a way of having an impeachment by proxy. This is something they can attack him with and that they can cudgel him with,” Schweizer says.
Schweizer, whose track record on following the money and the motives is long and well-earned, reached for Reagan. The establishment dismissed Reagan, too. The establishment was wrong. Foreign policy results proved it.
“And it reminds me of something that one of the wise old men said about Ronald Reagan in the late 1980s, after he had so many foreign policy successes. This wise old man said, ‘Reagan knows so little, but accomplishes so much.’ Reagan, in other words, disproved and showed the establishment was completely wrong,” Schweizer says.
The fight underneath the fight, Schweizer says, is over America’s role in the world. The old isolationists worried about foreign contamination of America. Today, left-wingers worry about the opposite — that America will contaminate the world.
They see U.S. power itself as the problem.
“Democrats don’t want the United States engaged in the world, but it’s different
than the isolationism of Pat Buchanan or Robert Taft. They did not want the United States involved in the world,” Schweizer adds. “They were isolationists because they were afraid the world was going to contaminate America. What Democrats and some isolationist Republicans are concerned about is not that America is going to be contaminated, but that
we’re going to contaminate the world.”
Trump, Schweizer argues, is dismantling that worldview in real time. Consolidating energy resources and expanding American influence across the developing world.
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