LARRY ELDER: On Iran, Democrats, Except Fetterman, Have Gone Underground

When it comes to criticizing President Donald Trump — and refusing to give credit for virtually anything — it’s full speed ahead for Democrat politicians.

On the economy, Axios just reported: “The stock market had been recently scraping new highs … The unemployment rate was 4.2%, and inflation was well-contained near the Fed’s 2% target.”

Gas prices are down, as is the retail price of eggs. Inflation, despite the tariffs, is at a four-year low. Wages are up.

That southern border has become a nonissue for much of the media. The New York Post recently wrote, “Border Patrol agents didn’t release a single migrant into the US last month — a staggering drop after the Biden administration allowed 62,000 illegal crossers in the country in May 2024. … Agents caught 8,725 migrants crossing illegally at the southern border last month. That’s a 93% decrease from May 2024, when 117,905 were nabbed, according to internal data obtained by The Post.”

Last April, then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before Congress insisting, “With the authorities and the funding that we have, (the border) is as secure as it can be.”

Democrats attack Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” not only as a supposed danger to the so-called entitlements but as an existential threat to the republic. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, “People will die if the GOP tax scam ever becomes law.”

On immigration, there is no shortage of Democrats whipping out the fascism card. About Trump’s deportation policy, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) recently said, “They are trying to end legal status in the United States.”

But where are the big Democrat voices on Iran, specifically on Israel military action and our country’s support to prevent the No. 1 state sponsor of terror from acquiring a nuclear bomb?

Former President Barack Obama, about the Trump administration, said days ago at a speech in Connecticut, “If you follow regularly what is said by those who are in charge of the federal government right now, there is a weak commitment to what we understood — and not just my generation, at least since World War II — our understanding of how a liberal democracy is supposed to work.”