President Trump made the call.
It was time for regime change in Iran.
And Trump bombed Iran, and this stunning Civil War just broke out.
President Trump’s decision to wage a regime change war could define the 2026 midterm election campaign.
Democrats rode a backlash to the Iraq War to power in the 2006 and 2008 elections.
But President Trump’s previous military interventions were limited and brief.
Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance promised the war in Iran wouldn’t descend into an endless quagmire like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer – who supported the Iraq War and Joe Biden’s forever war in Ukraine – tried to straddle the line in his first reaction.
Democrats hate Trump, so Schumer needed to appease his base by denouncing Trump for failing to adequately lay out the justification for war and the scope of the mission.
But Schumer also knew Democrats needed to win in red states if they wanted to flip the Senate, so he defended the idea of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
“Iran must never be allowed to attain a nuclear weapon, but the American people do not want another endless and costly war in the Middle East when there are so many problems at home. The administration has not provided Congress and the American people with critical details about the scope and immediacy of the threat.
Confronting Iran’s malign regional activities, nuclear ambitions, and harsh oppression of the Iranian people demands American strength, resolve, regional coordination, and strategic clarity. Unfortunately, President Trump’s fitful cycles of lashing out and risking wider conflict are not a viable strategy,” Schumer’s statement read.
Congresswoman Ilan Omar (D-MN) chose the path of unfiltered rage.
Omar trashed Trump and claimed he launched an illegal war of choice.
“President Trump is unilaterally dragging this nation into an illegal and unjustified war with Iran without congressional authorization, without a clear objective, and without any imminent threat to the United States. This is a reckless abuse of power that puts both innocent civilians and American lives on the line for a conflict the American people do not want,” Omar ranted.
Omar fumed that war would push peace further out of reach,
“As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know that bombs do not build peace or create stability. Military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos. When we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction,” Omar added.
And Omar complained that the real victims were the civilians in Iran, as well as the countries Iran would retaliate against.
“We know who will bear the cost of this decision: innocent civilians caught in the crossfire and our young service members sent into harm’s way. This is the devastating human toll of another regime-change war. Already, children and families are paying with their lives. There is no moral or strategic justification for this bloodshed,” Omar continued.
Omar then declared that a War Powers resolution to constrain the war in Iran would pass the House of Representatives.
“The American people are exhausted by endless wars built on false promises and paid for with American and foreign lives. Congress must reassert its constitutional authority. We must vote immediately on the War Powers resolution authored by Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie. This unlawful operation must end immediately,” Omar concluded.
The fissure between Schumer and Omar showed Democrats may have trouble making hay out of the Iran War.
Before the strikes, an AP-NORC poll found just 21 percent of Americans supported war with Iran.
But if the biggest names in the Democrat Party are divided, the left won’t be able to settle on a message, and if the outcome of the war ends in America’s favor, Democrats will be left with no cards to play.
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