November 10, 2026
Last week’s election was a big loss for Republicans and conservatives. Come January 3, 2027, control of both houses of Congress shifts to Democrats. When that time comes, things will definitely change, but not for the better.
Many Democrats and some Republicans blame the Iran war for causing many to shift their votes to Democrats. Hardly anyone wants to be at war, so there is that aspect. And the Democrats believe that the war is keeping gasoline prices up. However, even with the war, gas prices are lower than they were under Joe Biden’s horrible four years.
And did you notice that the gas prices took a dive AFTER the election? Was there an action among producers and merchants to affect the election?
But it is important to understand just why President Donald Trump felt the need to go after Iran.
Iran has a half-century of action against the US, including killing Americans. To help those who don’t know this history, here is some of it:
* 1979 Tehran Embassy Hostage Crisis: Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days.
* 1983 Beirut Bombings: Suicide bombers targeted the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in operations linked to Iranian-backed Hezbollah, killing 241 U.S. military personnel.
* 1996 Khobar Towers Bombing: A truck bomb exploded outside a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 U.S. airmen and wounding hundreds.
* 2003–2011 Iraq War Insurgency: Iranian-backed Shia militias and the Quds Force deployed explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) and sophisticated IEDs against U.S. service members in Iraq, resulting in the deaths of over 600 U.S. troops and thousands wounded.
* Recent Escalations and Direct Strikes: Attacks such as the 2024 drone strike on the Tower 22 base in Jordan, killing 3 U.S. service members, regional shipping and infrastructure disruptions, and missile strikes affecting regional U.S. bases.
* Assassination and Kidnapping Plots on U.S. Soil: Ongoing federal investigations and indictments regarding Iranian-sponsored plots targeting former U.S. officials and dissidents, including Donald Trump, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Salman Rushdie, and Masih Alinejad.
President Trump, the first and only President to take any substantive action in that long span of time, correctly understands that if Iran is allowed to keep working to develop nuclear weapons, some parts of our country would certainly be targeted. After a nuclear attack, even the most avid opposers of this effort to prevent that will change their opinion. But why wait for that?
To not accept the idea that it is past time to end Iran’s on-going efforts to destroy America is to not understand reality. And in order to finally get this done, there will be some negatives, as there always are in such situations.
Another important factor is the radicalness of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the Democratic Party now that the DSA and its irrational agenda are in charge.
Five new candidates backed by the DSA won House seats last week. Together with reelected Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., the number of DSA-backed members in the next House of Representatives is now seven or more.
This is a significant expansion of a movement that officially calls for abolishing the Senate, bringing the nation’s largest corporations under public ownership, and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with institutions controlled by Congress.
Other irrational ideas are:
• Abolishing ICE and ending enforcement of our immigration laws.
• Defunding the police, as a first step to abolishing them.
• Government-run health care that eliminates private insurance.
• Releasing all incarcerated people from prison.
• Abolishing private property.
The most consequential development is the DSA’s success in making ideas once considered politically unacceptable increasingly difficult for Democrat leaders to dismiss. If there are any Democrats left with the traditional Democrat mindset, they are badly outnumbered with the radical DSA movement that goes so far as to accept and support radical Islamists in our country, and in office, and their desire to subvert America.
Two noteworthy examples are recently elected U.S. Senator Abdul El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Public attitudes have shifted, too. Gallup reported in September that 65 percent of Democrats viewed socialism positively, compared with 50 percent in 2010. Among independents, the figure rose from 37 percent in 2025 to 45 percent this year. Overall, 43 percent of Americans viewed socialism favorably, a Gallup high. The DSA itself remained less popular: 38 percent favorable and 54 percent unfavorable.
Thomas Sowell is an American economist, economic historian, and social theorist. His brilliance and ability to see through the smoke of crazy ideas marks him as one of the most highly-read commentators. Among his many comments on socialism is this gem: "Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous."
The Democrats and others among the radical left would do well to study what Sowell and other knowledgeable folks know and say about socialism, communism, Marxism and the other dangerous ideas that are being proposed today. Taking a close look at what happened to Venezuela over the last few decades ought to be a wake-up call.
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