Trump in dangerous territory as he encourages Iran protesters while criticising his own |
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, as they say, which is certainly true for Donald Trump when it comes to protesters.
Brave Iranians who took to the streets en masse again on Tuesday night, despite the great risk to their lives, are “patriots” to the US president, and he is encouraging them to keep up the fight.
Iranians protest in Iran on Friday.Credit: AP
However, Americans who protest the deportation of alleged criminal aliens are “domestic terrorists”, in the view of the Trump administration, whose deaths at the hands of ICE officers are unfortunate but justified.
That is not to compare or liken the two sets of demonstrators and their causes, but simply to point out Trump lacks a principled approach to public protest. This may prove costly to the thousands of Iranians protesting the Islamic terrorist regime if Trump ultimately decides to cut a deal rather than intervene militarily to try to fatally weaken it or cut off its head.
As the regime brutally oppresses the uprising and reportedly prepares to hang dissidents, Trump has created moral culpability for himself by urging the demonstrators to keep fighting and indeed intensify their protest.
“Take over your institutions if possible,”