Republicans often rely on a handy set of allegations: Democrats want open borders; Democrats want to defund the police; Democrats want men to compete in women’s sports.

But these are just vague assertions: Democrats don’t really want men to compete in women’s sports. The disingenuous assertion that they do only obscures a complicated issue, but it still manages to generate considerable political leverage.

Here’s a new misleading assertion: Democrats—or anyone who has reservations about our war against Iran—are agreeable to Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons.

An example: Recently Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz said—overstating only slightly—that Iran is humiliating the U.S. in the current war. His ire provoked, President Donald Trump removed 5,000 American troops stationed in Germany and said that Merz thinks “it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.”

This is certainly not true. Few people outside of Iran think that it’s OK for the mullahs to have an atomic bomb. It’s not OK in the same way that it’s not OK for Russia, North Korea or China to have........

© The Korea Times