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David Strom 2:00 PM | March 29, 2026
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YouGov just released a poll that reinforces my belief that one of the driving forces in liberal politics is the belief that we are the bad guys. 

It's pretty obvious. All the protests are driven by the claim that the United States has no right to exist, or that we are a fundamentally racist country, or some variation of those. Black Lives Matter. Decolonization. Open borders. The embrace of revolutionary movements. DEI. It's all basically the same idea: we are the baddies. 

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YouGov's poll was driven by the war against Iran, and one of the questions concerned the relationship between allies. It was not simply about whether our allies should help us in the war itself, but what roles the US and our allies should adopt in general. 

Conservatives thought that the US should help its allies, and our allies should help us in return. The relationship should be reciprocal. 

Liberals? Not so much. They believe that the US should help our allies, but that our allies really have no responsibility to do so in return. 

You know, kind of like how NATO has worked for decades. 

Views on whether allies should help the U.S. are highly polarized. While the vast majority (80%) of Republicans say that allies should help the U.S., only 25% of Democrats and 37% of Independents say the same. Nearly half (44%) of Democrats say allies should not help, as do 30% of Independents but only 5% of Republicans. There is also a split among Republicans: An overwhelming majority (90%) of Republican MAGA supporters say that U.S. allies should help the U.S. if asked, while only 62% of non-MAGA Republicans say the same.


There is more support among Americans for the U.S. coming to its allies' aid than the other way around. A majority (61%) of Americans say that the U.S. should agree to help its allies if they ask for help. Only 9% of Americans say it should not. Republicans (76%) are more likely to say the U.S. should help when asked than are Democrats (57%) or Independents (51%). And MAGA Republicans are more likely than non-MAGA Republicans to say the U.S. should help allies (81% vs. 66%). 

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To me, that disparity is really striking and indicates that a lot of Democrats and left-leaning people think that the United States should be atoning for its sins. 

That's nuts. For all the admiration the left (used to?) had for Europe, it's obvious that the social welfare states there could never have existed without the unwavering support the United States has provided those countries. We picked up the tab for their defense for 80 years. In return, we have been subjected to the snobs looking down their noses at us, and worse. 

I actually have some sympathy for the butthurt some Europeans feel about our not informing them about the when and where of our original strikes on Iran, except...really, we can't trust them even a little bit on operational matters. It's like trusting Adam Schiff to do the right thing. 

And it's not like they had no warning. I would think that the massive naval and air power buildup in the Middle East was something of a clue, as well as Trump's repeated warnings. 

Still, the Europeans have more excuse for being selfish than Democrats who disdain the United States have for wanting us to fail. Europeans, after all, have been spoiled by decades of living in daddy's basement, so being asked to be responsible is something of a shock. 

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What's the excuse of Democrats? Our failure to embrace their vision of American cities being filled with homeless people pooping in the streets, drag queens fondling our children, and criminals freely assaulting people? 

Apparently so. 

We aren't the baddies, and if Democrats can't see the medieval theocrats in Iran as the bad guys, we just have to ignore them and do the right thing as best we can. 

Conservatives are not always right—not by a long shot. It would be great to have an opposition party that begins with similar goals but thinks differently regarding how to get there, so we could have a productive debate. 

But when your opposition starts out with the assumption that we are the bad guys and deserve to fail, that's not remotely possible. 

At the No Kings rallies yesterday, the communists were out in full force. Of course, I don't believe all marchers were communists, but the fact that they were welcome (and that the media thought this was perfectly normal) tells you a lot. Just as they consider pro-Hamas marchers as a part of the liberal coalition. 

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If you can't see these causes as evil, you have lost the plot. It is the same as marching with the Nazis. In fact, communists have killed far more people than Nazis ever did. 

How do you have conversations with people who express solidarity with communists? 









































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