It is difficult to say whether the strange worldview of the current relationship between Democrats and the media can be attributed simply to a general Trump derangement syndrome – but the mad world of the left increasingly bears little resemblance to reality.
In this alternate universe, Eric Swalwell has been a liberal icon and invaluable resource for years, even though he has been a bit of a hardliner and sometimes serial sexual predator.
Maine Senate candidate Graham Blattner was finally the left’s “real thing,” a white, working-class liberal who could win again in the general election — even though he couldn’t get his story straight about whether his Nazi tattoo was an accident or evidence of his being brainwashed by a toxic U.S. military.
The left has created another fantasy world out of the current Iran war.
When President Donald Trump warned Monday that the Iranian regime could face terrible punishment for its ongoing drone and missile attacks, he was vilified as a modern-day Nazi, bent on mass death.
When Iran relented on Tuesday and demanded negotiations, Trump was suddenly accused of being naive and eager for peace.
Every day, the left tries to invent a new argument for America’s defeat, even as Iran suffers more unilateral damage.
Their idea is to encourage Iran to hold out, hoping that Trump — under sustained left-wing attack, international pressure to lower gas prices, and his own uneasy allies in Congress — will crumble and be crushed by the left as a taco once again.
Even more preposterous is that the left has promoted the fantasy that Trump’s demand that Iran hand over its nuclear materials mimics Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the so-called Iran deal.
But who can deny that, under Obama, the agreement enabled Iran to rearm more quickly through the lifting of sanctions, overnight cash transfers, and the unfreezing of its assets?
In contrast, Trump deals with the exhausted Iranian army.
Begging a fully armed and defiant Iran merely to postpone its acquisition of the bomb does not mean dictating a series of demands on a collapsing Iran that, if unmet, could lead to its real destruction.
Consider another fantasy: the charade of Democratic efforts to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on ridiculous charges of supposed aid in an unauthorized war, reckless handling of classified information, obstruction of congressional oversight, abuse of power, politicization of the military, and much more.
Note that Hegseth, in one year, fixed the recruiting fall crisis he inherited and which had persisted for years.
Indeed, it has now gone beyond recruiting goals by emphasizing that soldiers should focus on combat effectiveness, not on race, gender, or sexual orientation.
The Pentagon oversaw the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities in the summer of 2025 (no deaths), the military handover of Nicolas Maduro, the reset of a once-rogue Venezuela (no casualties), and the current war that has in a matter of weeks destroyed the military capacity of a once-feared theocratic Iran (with 13 dead so far).
Compare that with the former secretary, Lloyd Austin, who went AWOL without informing the White House that he was incapacitated for several days in the intensive care unit.
He oversaw the Pentagon’s historic misadventure in Afghanistan and ongoing unanswered attacks on American soldiers in the Middle East that have emboldened Iran’s terrorist proxies.
No Republican called for his removal.
The war in Iran is not “unauthorised”; It did not exceed the maximum of 90 days allowed under the War Powers Act.
Yet under current democratic logic, Obama’s seven-month unauthorized bombing of Libya was in effect a “war crime” – as was the months-long “unauthorized” predatory assassination campaign on the Afghan border that killed 500 people, including four American citizens.
Finally, for more than a decade, the left has waged a coordinated, often illegal, effort to destroy Donald Trump’s campaigns and presidency.
What is the lawfare that the Democrats did not approve?
The first impeachment of Trump hinged on hearsay evidence of a phony whistleblower who colluded with the devious Adam Schiff — with the approval of a partisan inspector general.
The Russian collusion hoax was coordinated by Obama’s FBI and the CIA.
Democrats have twisted the legal system to wage four years of legal warfare in five civil and criminal courtrooms.
Despite all this, Democrats like Susan Rice are now warning us that when the left regains power, their revenge to punish their enemies will begin again.
James Carville advises Democrats to keep quiet about their real plans when they return to power: pack the Supreme Court and end the 66-year-old 50-state union with two new blue states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. — all to get in an instant four left-wing senators and kill the Senate filibuster.
What is the one consistent theme in this alt-left universe?
No Democrat has outlined an immigration agenda, a way to arrest Biden’s criminal illegal aliens, an energy plan, a path to balancing the budget, anti-corruption measures to stop the looting of welfare, or a new strategic roadmap abroad.
Instead, the party creates alternative realities that require changing the system itself rather than working within it to appeal to the American voter.
Living with daily delusions and screaming at the demons of Trump raging in their collective heads is not the right way to run a country.
Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow at the Center for American Greatness.