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MORNING GLORY: Trump has restored the GOP as the party of defense and deterrence

Democrats are the party of shuttered TSA stations at airports and open borders if they return to power

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published March 24, 2026 5:00am EDT

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As the fourth week of the battle with Iran opened, President Donald Trump announced a window of opportunity for negotiations. With whom no one outside of the president and his closest advisors knows. The president did not halt strikes on Iran, and Israel continued to pound its long list of military targets as well as the regime’s massive apparatus of repression while the U.S. focuses on degrading the military-industrial capacity of the mullahs. Iran is a country with shattered defenses and no ability to project targeted force. This was accomplished in three weeks. No wonder someone wants to negotiate even as others tell our left-wing media that Iran is winning. 

Commentators have lots of takes, almost invariably driven by their support of, or hatred for, either the president, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel as a whole or some combination thereof. 

No "takes" matter. The conflict will be judged twice: When major combat operations conclude and a year thereafter. There is an unquestionable level of success in "defanging" the regime while decapitating its senior leadership. While no civilian can know, we can guess chaos rages within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ("IRGC") as it both tries to survive and at the same time sees the command structure that remains jockeying among themselves for power in a post-war Iran. 

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