The left’s compass always points to the perpetrator

 No matter the situation, the left has an uncanny affinity for those who hate America, the Constitution, liberty, and the rule of law.

Say what you want about leftists, but they’re reliable. You can always count on them to side with evil over good. This is nothing new.

Operation Epic Fury has exposed, yet again, the left’s cognitive dissonance. The tyrannical Iranian regime has suppressed protests, denied basic rights to its citizens, particularly women, and killed thousands in recent uprisings. It’s been exporting terrorism via proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah for decades. Many Iranians have reportedly welcomed the strikes as an opportunity for liberation, with Iranian exiles abroad supporting the action against the mullahs.

Rep. Ilhan Omar suggested the timing during Ramadan reflected bias against Muslim countries, claiming that President Trump targets them based on religion rather than violations of international law. Users on ‘X’ promptly lit her up in a series of pointed, often hilarious posts:

Predictably, leftist protests erupted across U.S. cities, organized by groups like Code Pink, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Democratic Socialists of America, and ANSWER. As usual, demonstrators waved professional-looking, pre-printed signs and decried the strikes as unprovoked, as if the last 50 years of the mullah’s tyranny and support for terrorism never happened. Their actions implicitly appear to defend the regime, despite its record of mass killings, proxy terrorism, and the ongoing suffering of its people.

Some U.S. media outlets amplified misleading Iranian claims, such as reports of a school bombing attributed to U.S./Israeli forces—later suggested as an IRGC missile mishap near a military site—echoing state propaganda from outlets like the Islamic Republic News Agency.

The left’s stance reveals a profound misalignment: while the left claims to champion human rights, women’s rights, and anti-imperialism, here it prioritizes opposition to U.S. and Israeli action over solidarity with Iranians resisting tyranny. The regime brutally oppresses its people—even cutting internet and utilities to quash dissent—yet has drawn little comparable outrage or protest from these quarters. Instead, leftists criticize Western intervention, even as Iranian citizens risk everything for liberty.

This pattern extends beyond foreign regimes. Domestically, the left has frequently and repeatedly shown a tendency to defend or minimize perpetrators while sidelining victims. George Floyd, whose criminal history included violent offenses and whose death sparked massive protests, was often portrayed almost exclusively as a victim of police brutality.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving perpetrator of the 2013 Boston marathon bombing that injured hundreds and killed three, received vocal support from leftists who either opposed his death sentence or emphasized mitigating factors such as his youth and alleged radicalization influences.

More recently, Luigi Mangione—accused of the premeditated street murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in 2024—has garnered sympathy and even admiration from some leftists, who frame his act as a protest against corporate greed, despite the cold-blooded nature of the killing.

The dissonance is clear: supporting “peace” by preserving a regime soaked in blood, or lionizing individuals with histories of violence and crime, contradicts advocacy for the oppressed and innocent. True peace-loving people worldwide, including many Iranians, see the strikes not as escalation but as a dismantling of “unspeakable evil.” Defending or protesting in favor of such perpetrators—while ignoring their victims—highlights a troubling inversion of priorities, where ideological opposition to established power structures overshadows the human cost of inaction against despotism, murder, and criminality.

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