Orange Man Bad, Ayatollah Good?

I’ve argued for years that if President Trump announced a cure for cancer today, the Democrats would rally in favor of mesothelioma and start eating asbestos just to stick it to him. I mean, these are the same people who decided to gobble down Tylenol like candy after President Trump said it might harm their unborn children. 

And for his latest trick, President Trump has driven his opponents to say that the Iranian regime is more for women’s rights than he is.

“I’m against Trump, so the Iranian regime” is the best summation of the last decade.

The interviewer is Arielle Scarcella, who simply asks a straightforward question and lets the Leftists make absolute fools of themselves.

I get it, Leftists. You think women’s rights start and end at the local Planned Parenthood. But abortion is not the end all, be all of what makes women free. It’s quite the opposite, actually, but that’s a topic for another column.

Since 1979, women in Iran have suffered greatly under the Islamic regime running the nation (as they do under all Islamic regimes). After the revolution, one of the first reversals was the Family Protection law, which gave women more rights in divorce and restricted polygamy. By 1983, it was mandatory that women wear the hijab in public. The punishments for not wearing a hijab have varied over the years, but culminated in the protests back in 2022 when Jina Mahsa Amini was killed by morality police for not veiling in public.

Women have had their cars confiscated and been barred from voting for not wearing the hijab in public, too. Abortion is highly restricted, with only exceptions to save the life of the mother or before the fourth month of pregnancy. In those cases, multiple doctors must diagnose the woman, and the Legal Medicine Organization must approve the procedure. Outside of those cases, it’s illegal. Iran has also cracked down on contraception and related services. In some states here in America, abortion is still legal, the Biden administration made getting the abortion pill as easy as going to your mailbox, and birth control hasn’t been outlawed, despite Democrats’ best efforts to lie that it would be banned.

In the 2022-2023 protests following the death of Amini, about one in ten of the slain protesters were women. For the most recent protests, there are conflicting reports of the number of dead, with the total ranging anywhere from 3,000 (that’s from Iran’s government, so I don’t trust it), to 30,000, according to The Guardian. It’s hard to say how many of those are women, but even if it’s similar to the ten percent we saw in 2023, that’s hundreds or thousands of women.

And there’s a reason why those people are protesting the Iranian regime. It’s not because things are going well. Quite the contrary: Iran’s economy is in a shambles, the regime remains totalitarian and oppressive, and people are fed up.

For weeks, the country has been without reliable internet and other infrastructure, and there are reports of Iranian soldiers going to hospitals to shoot the numerous wounded.

I would like one of these college students to point out where women in America are suffering in the same way. I would like them to provide proof of their claim that President Trump is worse for women’s rights than an Islamic regime that views women as chattel. 

They can’t, of course, because it’s not true. Yet it’s what they’ve been taught to believe, whether by professors or the media. All they know is: Orange Man Bad, therefore anything that isn’t Orange Man must be good. Of course, if they didn’t have the intellectual depth of a teaspoon, they could at least say both Iran and President Trump are bad for women’s rights. The latter is not, of course, but at least that way we could have a more honest discussion about the topic.

But they didn’t do that. They said Iran is better for women for no other reason than that they hate Trump. That’s 75 percent of the Left’s ideology these days: a knee-jerk response to whatever position the President holds. The other 25 percent is their deep-seated hatred of America, but I don’t have time to dive into that mess, too.

This is nothing more than political oppositional defiant disorder, and it would almost be amusing if it weren’t so dangerous.

I’ve argued for years that if President Trump announced a cure for cancer today, the Democrats would rally in favor of mesothelioma and start eating asbestos just to stick it to him. I mean, these are the same people who decided to gobble down Tylenol like candy after President Trump said it might harm their unborn children. 

And for his latest trick, President Trump has driven his opponents to say that the Iranian regime is more for women’s rights than he is.

“I’m against Trump, so the Iranian regime” is the best summation of the last decade.

The interviewer is Arielle Scarcella, who simply asks a straightforward question and lets the Leftists make absolute fools of themselves.

I get it, Leftists. You think women’s rights start and end at the local Planned Parenthood. But abortion is not the end all, be all of what makes women free. It’s quite the opposite, actually, but that’s a topic for another column.

Since 1979, women in Iran have suffered greatly under the Islamic regime running the nation (as they do under all Islamic regimes). After the revolution, one of the first reversals was the Family Protection law, which gave women more rights in divorce and restricted polygamy. By 1983, it was mandatory that women wear the hijab in public. The punishments for not wearing a hijab have varied over the years, but culminated in the protests back in 2022 when Jina Mahsa Amini was killed by morality police for not veiling in public.

Women have had their cars confiscated and been barred from voting for not wearing the hijab in public, too. Abortion is highly restricted, with only exceptions to save the life of the mother or before the fourth month of pregnancy. In those cases, multiple doctors must diagnose the woman, and the Legal Medicine Organization must approve the procedure. Outside of those cases, it’s illegal. Iran has also cracked down on contraception and related services. In some states here in America, abortion is still legal, the Biden administration made getting the abortion pill as easy as going to your mailbox, and birth control hasn’t been outlawed, despite Democrats’ best efforts to lie that it would be banned.

In the 2022-2023 protests following the death of Amini, about one in ten of the slain protesters were women. For the most recent protests, there are conflicting reports of the number of dead, with the total ranging anywhere from 3,000 (that’s from Iran’s government, so I don’t trust it), to 30,000, according to The Guardian. It’s hard to say how many of those are women, but even if it’s similar to the ten percent we saw in 2023, that’s hundreds or thousands of women.

And there’s a reason why those people are protesting the Iranian regime. It’s not because things are going well. Quite the contrary: Iran’s economy is in a shambles, the regime remains totalitarian and oppressive, and people are fed up.

For weeks, the country has been without reliable internet and other infrastructure, and there are reports of Iranian soldiers going to hospitals to shoot the numerous wounded.

I would like one of these college students to point out where women in America are suffering in the same way. I would like them to provide proof of their claim that President Trump is worse for women’s rights than an Islamic regime that views women as chattel. 

They can’t, of course, because it’s not true. Yet it’s what they’ve been taught to believe, whether by professors or the media. All they know is: Orange Man Bad, therefore anything that isn’t Orange Man must be good. Of course, if they didn’t have the intellectual depth of a teaspoon, they could at least say both Iran and President Trump are bad for women’s rights. The latter is not, of course, but at least that way we could have a more honest discussion about the topic.

But they didn’t do that. They said Iran is better for women for no other reason than that they hate Trump. That’s 75 percent of the Left’s ideology these days: a knee-jerk response to whatever position the President holds. The other 25 percent is their deep-seated hatred of America, but I don’t have time to dive into that mess, too.

This is nothing more than political oppositional defiant disorder, and it would almost be amusing if it weren’t so dangerous.