HUGH HEWITT: Trump chose the decision to back down. The GOP has to make that case every day
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Most of the predictions about the midterm elections in the United States are dire for the GOP: the elimination of the House and possibly the loss of the Senate majority. The GOP can weather the electoral storm that always punishes the party of a president who is completing his sixth year in office.
But the GOP will not avoid “thumpin'” as George W. Bush put it after the GOP was eliminated in 2006 in the election if today’s Republicans do not stand up and loudly announce the wisdom of starting a war with Iran, and the facts that we are not only winning the war decisively but that the world will be a better place, even if Grant. May 1864, that “I propose to fight it in this line if it lasts all summer.”
Grant won within a year, but it was really a long and difficult struggle through Northern Virginia to the encirclement and eventual defeat of Richmond and the Confederacy and the surrender of General Lee’s Army, just as other Union forces won in other areas.
There will be no “Appomattox” in the war with Iran, but there will be a victory, and the GOP must preach that inevitability and the great wisdom and necessity of war.
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Every candidate of all races must answer, which is easy to do: The Islamic Republic of Iran is an evil regime, run by “madmen,” as Secretary Rubio said when the war started, that has been terrorizing its own people and the entire region (killing tens of thousands of its people in January), and one that has attacked 14 countries after America and Israel started the war again! – if it had been able to acquire such weapons, as the leftists in America and Europe refuse to see or acknowledge, much less to discuss.
The GOP needs to adopt ‘peace and victory’ as its platform and argue the case every day on every stage and in every interview.
It was not a “war of choice,” in which ignorant opponents of war come out almost every day, but rather it was one of the necessary means of confronting the threat that exists in the region and the world.
The blockade of Iran by the US Navy and the possible return of the military will bring the hard-line junta that runs the rump regime to heel, but it will take time.
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President Trump made it clear to his advisers this week (and the news was reported by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday night) that he is willing to see it all through. Well done.
Americans have lost the muscle memory of victory. It will soon receive a resolution notification once the conflict is over.
The prediction of the GOP electoral disaster would mean the loss of national races at least in Maine (Sen. Collins), Ohio (Sen. Husted), North Carolina (open) and Texas (Sen. Cornyn) or Alaska (Sen. Sullivan) – a result that seems so unlikely that it almost passes without comment, but that Gcro result would be strange in Iran. Each member of parliament who is challenged and each member of the House must repeatedly explain the “why” and the “how” of the war. If they do, voters will approve.
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The GOP candidates must argue loudly and convincingly that war with Iran is long overdue, that while the cost of 13 American lives and countless wounded Americans is incredibly high for the families who bear that burden and for a nation that mourns that loss, war and sanctions are incredibly successful and will surely crush the remnants of the old regime. It seems certain that President Trump is not willing to “go in peace.”
The president understands the stakes and has made his firm intentions known. Well done.
The GOP must applaud and support him and explain that the costs felt at home at the gas pump are nothing compared to those borne by the families of the fallen and wounded, and the extraordinary benefit of humble Iran cannot be overlooked.
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That war to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is in its eighth week and going very well (except for the eyes of Democratic activists and the legacy media, but then I repeat myself).
It crushed the Iranian military, and now the embargo ordered by President Trump is grinding Iran’s economy into dust.
Patience will see the US emerge victorious, but don’t expect Democrats or anti-American Europeans to ever admit that.
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Our allies in the Gulf and our close partner, Israel, are very happy to see Iran brought to heel and the region made safe and stable for decades to come.
The anti-Trump forces have been unable or unwilling to see the unusual nature and success of the US military campaign, or the great blessing for the region and the world that comes with the humiliation of the madman regime in Tehran.
The “Trump Distortion Effect” that works on the left in America (which includes almost all media), and sclerotic Europe, works automatically to criticize everything that President Trump does, so the left has put aside the abuse of the world and its people by the Islamic Republic of Iran to blast Trump and the Republicans.
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It doesn’t matter. “Trust the people” was Winston Churchill’s famous advice. President Trump often takes the blame for what he has ordered the US military to do and continues to do. You have Grant’s decision. Good.
This picture of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant printed from original plates by Mathew B. Brady. (AP Photo/Mathew Brady, File)
The 1864-1865 campaigns of Union forces under General Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman cost tens of thousands of Union casualties but ultimately broke the Confederacy’s slave empire. The men in blue overwhelmingly voted for Abraham Lincoln in the fall of 1864 over their former general, George McClellan, who ran on a “peace without victory” platform, which was a stark contrast to the GOP’s “peace and victory” stance.
People who carry a lot of responsibility want nothing more than to dedicate themselves to winning. Trump has that, and everyone knows it.
The GOP needs to adopt “peace and victory” as its platform and argue the case every day on every stage and in every interview. It will take some months, and while the economy is in very good health, there is no escaping the rise in gas prices. GOP candidates should argue against the need for that burden in the short term. Argue to win. Argue for a free Iran and a stable and safe Middle East.
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There is no victory for the GOP in November without seeking and securing victory in this battle. Ignore the old “echo chamber” that was created in the years of President Obama to defend the unstoppable Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”), which tried to put an order to manage the path of the Iranian glide towards nuclear weapons surrounded by a forest of missiles capable of hitting Europe and eventually the US.
Americans have lost the muscle memory of victory. It will soon receive a resolution notification once the conflict is over.
President Trump and his administration understood the real danger. They reject the comfortable lies of the JCPOA.
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President Trump is well aware of Iran’s nuclear threat. So, he did.
Serious Republicans should applaud Trump’s refusal to kick the can down the road. The GOP must make the same strategic argument that the president has adopted. And they should start doing it now and never stop until the November votes are counted.
Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor and host of “The Hugh Hewitt Show“Hear weekday afternoons from 3 PM to 6 PM ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on the Salem News Channel. Hugh calls Americans home on the East Coast and lunch on the West Coast to more than 400 embassies across the country, and on every broadcast platform where SNC can be seen. He is a regular guest on Fox News Channel on the Brett news program at 6 pm. Ohio and graduation from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. of television, MSN has also written for MSN television writers and moderated Republican debate scores, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in 2015-16 Hewitt focuses his radio show and column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians on and tens of thousands of Trump Republicans and Donald Bush’s 40 years in broadcasting.
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