The American left is so desperate to weaken President Donald Trump before the midterms that it is doing something absurd on its face: laundering extreme-right journalist Tucker Carlson into a serious foreign-policy authority and former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent into a principled witness against President Trump’s Iran war.

Media and political elites have tried to turn Carlson into the emblem of a MAGA rupture over Iran and to recast dissent on the right as proof that President Trump somehow betrayed his own base. That is not neutral analysis. It is an attempt to turn one factional quarrel into a broader story of presidential fracture.

The irony is brutal. For years, the left treated Carlson as reckless, toxic, and beyond the pale. But the moment he became useful against President Trump, he was suddenly granted seriousness, strategic weight, and borrowed legitimacy. When the left needs Tucker Carlson to weaken President Trump, it is not exposing him. It is exposing its own bankruptcy.

Joe Kent makes the spectacle even worse. He resigned from his post after supposedly opposing the ongoing military campaign in Iran and is now under investigation over alleged leaks of classified information before his resignation (which could explain his sudden change of posture). But the deeper embarrassment is not only the investigation. It is the reversal. After the General Soleimani strike in 2020, Kent publicly argued that the United States should wipe out Iran’s........

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