MORNING GLORY: Trump is on the cusp of greatness. Khamenei is on the edge of the abyss

The quality betwixt the illusion of powerfulness and its world is the quality betwixt Ayatollah Khamenei and President Donald Trump. Trump is connected the cusp of joining the precise tiny fig of American presidents who reorder the world. Khamenei is connected the cusp of history’s abyss reserved for murderous fanatics. If Trump tips Khamenei implicit that edge, the president’s spot successful past volition beryllium secure. He volition person returned state to the large Persian people. 

The content successful the unlimited powerfulness of a totalitarian authorities to support itself and support its rulers is simply a unsafe conceit, arsenic Syria's Bashar al-Assad and Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro person some discovered. It whitethorn beryllium that Ayatollah Khamenei is successful the process of discovering the aforesaid hard reality: No government, nary substance however ruthless, tin endure for centuries oregon adjacent decades successful the look of a resentful population. 

Not adjacent the rulers of Rome astatine the tallness of the Caesars oregon the Severan dynasty, were guaranteed an endless tally of power. The Soviet Union, which possessed some atomic weapons and an omnipresent information service, survived lone from 1922 to 1991.  

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The Assad household took powerfulness successful 1971 erstwhile Hafez Al-Assad consolidated power successful Syria and kept it until December 2024, erstwhile his lad and different household members were obliged to fly to Russia.

"Papa Doc" Duvalier took powerfulness successful Haiti successful 1957 and held it to his decease successful 1971. He was succeeded by his lad Jean-Claude Duvalier, nicknamed "Baby Doc," who was forced to fly successful February 1986.  

Hugo Chavez archetypal tried to summation powerfulness via a coup successful Venezuela successful 1992, failed and past won powerfulness successful 1999, which helium ne'er relinquished until his death, erstwhile Nicholas Maduro took implicit the constabulary authorities until this month, erstwhile the American subject assisted American instrumentality enforcement connected the orders of President Trump to region Maduro to a New York Jail cell. 

The American authorities endures due to the fact that it rests upon the consent of the governed. Any governmental entity that doesn’t, enjoys, astatine best, an uneasy power punctuated by attempted uprisings of a radical desiring state and prosperity.

We are watching successful existent clip the 3rd effort of the radical of Iran to propulsion disconnected the shackles of the "Islamic Republic of Iran," imposed connected them by the fanatic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini successful 1979, which has oppressed the Iranian radical for decades years. Khomeini ousted the Shah of Iran successful 1979 and present the Shah’s lad whitethorn instrumentality arsenic a law monarch to regenerate Khomeini’s hand-picked successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This ayatollah is arsenic ruthless arsenic the archetypal and hundreds are being mowed down by his thugs successful a hopeless effort to bent connected to power of their kleptocracy, but the radical of Iran person seen their beingness savings wiped out, their drinking h2o polluted and their energy taxable to repeated outages. The state is connected the ropes and, humbled by Israeli and American aerial and rocket powerfulness past summer, the radical person begun their 3rd week of monolithic protests. If either the U.S. oregon the Jewish authorities supply the last push, the large radical of Persia — older than Christianity by 500 years — volition re-emerge and regain their spot among the large civilizations connected the planet. 

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Even arsenic the mullahs and their daze troops successful the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shudder and occurrence wildly into crowds of hundreds of thousands, truthful excessively does the dictatorship of Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel, successor to Fidel, and past Raul Castro look shaky. As with Venezuela, and Syria and the Soviets earlier them, the Cuban authorities depends upon the illusion of permanence. But, their radical cannot devour illusions oregon portion fantasies. 

Three times earlier the tyrants of Iran faced superior challenges to their power, but each clip — successful the precocious 1990s, during the 2009 Green Movement and successful 2022 with Iranian women's question which is wide known arsenic the "Woman, Life, Freedom," — the powerfulness of the ayatollahs was challenged, but those challenges were not supported with adjacent encouraging words by the American presidents of that era. Ayatollah Khomeini took powerfulness erstwhile Jimmy Carter was successful office, and Khamenei kept powerfulness during the aborted revolutions that happened nether Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

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In this contiguous convulsion of Iran, President Donald Trump has been a vocal protagonist of the Iranian radical seeking freedom. Just arsenic helium did with Maduro, President Trump has issued galore warnings to Khamenei. Just arsenic Maduro ignored them, truthful excessively has Khamenei responded with mockery of the president of the United States. The ayatollah has besides chopped disconnected his nation's net and cellular services and ordered his thugs to unfastened fire. 

Will it enactment again? Nobody knows. All we cognize is that a repressed radical cannot everlastingly beryllium held down. And that the presidents who assistance escaped them gain history’s applause and respect. 

Hugh Hewitt is simply a Fox News contributor and big of "The Hugh Hewitt Show" heard weekday afternoons from 3 PM to 6 PM ET connected the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast connected Salem News Channel. Hugh drives Americans location connected the East Coast and to luncheon connected the West Coast connected implicit 400 affiliates nationwide, and connected each the streaming platforms wherever SNC tin beryllium seen. He is simply a predominant impermanent connected the Fox News Channel’s quality roundtable, hosted by Bret Baier weekdays astatine 6pm ET. A lad of Ohio and a postgraduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law astatine Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 wherever helium teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous vigor amusement from Los Angeles successful 1990. Hewitt has often appeared connected each large nationalist quality tv network, hosted tv shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for each large American paper, has authored a twelve books and moderated a people of Republican campaigner debates, astir precocious the November 2023 Republican statesmanlike statement successful Miami and 4 Republican statesmanlike debates successful the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his vigor amusement and his file connected the Constitution, nationalist security, American authorities and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump implicit his 40 years successful broadcasting. This file previews the pb communicative that volition thrust his radio/ TV amusement today.

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