McLaughlin Poll: Voters Back Trump on Iran

Paul Schnee

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a global leadership summit on the end of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas at the Tonino Lamborghini International Convention Center in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, October 13, 2025. Photo by Daniel Torok – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Considering Iran’s 47 year long history of promoting vicious terrorist violence against America and the West, starting with the invasion of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 and holding 50 of its employees hostage for 444 days, it is impossible to believe that only 52% of Americans approve of military action against Iran particularly after its leaders told American negotiators they had just over 900 lbs. of enriched uranium and that within a matter of weeks they would be able to have a nuclear device allowing them to fulfill their policy of, “Death to America; Death to Israel”.

Clearly the Iranian regime, even now in its severely devastated condition and weakest moment, does not feel sufficiently threatened to surrender and hand over its enriched uranium. Although the performance of the U.S. and Israeli armed forces have produced astonishingly spectacular results in under two months, they have not produced the one circumstance that allowed the allies to win WWII which is to say they have not ELIMINATED the threat. We have severely impeded Iran’s progress to produce its own cache of nuclear weapons. This is excellent but not sufficient. If the regime survives what is to stop it buying nuclear weapons from China, Russia or North Korea or secretly manufacturing them in a friendly fascist country?

We must not forget that the Ayatollahs are committed and determined Islamic supremacists with a grim hydraulic grip on their messianic vision and apocalyptic ambitions. After 47 years of tormenting the world with demonic terrorism fueled by Islamic fascism they are not to be trusted and unlike China, Russia & North Korea they are NOT deterred by the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction.

Therefore, they have to be permanently eliminated. Not one vestige of their monstrously cruel and sadistically evil regime can be allowed to remain intact. Large sections of Iran’s ability to produce and ship oil will have to be destroyed bringing great hardship to the Iranian people and the kind of massive civil disorder whereby regimes normally collapse. A modern-day Marshall Plan will have to be instituted for Iran financed by the oil producing Gulf states.

It will take decades for Iran to recover, but the Iranian people are clever, resourceful and ingenious. With over 40,000 unarmed people horrifically murdered in the streets as well those recovering in their hospital beds by the IRGC and the Basij militia a few weeks ago the Iranian people have already demonstrated their desire to be free and in charge of their own destiny in their own country. By the way, one can’t help thinking that if Iran had a second amendment like ours a slaughter on such a scale would never have happened. However, since it did happen preparations for Nuremberg style trials should be made to hold those killers accountable along with all the other members of the Ayatollahs’ regime who have been persecuting Iranians at will for 47 long, cruel and suffocatingly repressive years.

It is obscene for us to be negotiating with people who, left unchallenged, would kill every non-Muslim, as well as Muslims with whom they disagree, in the most gruesome way. Domestic political considerations, including the temporary increase in the price of a gallon of gas, should hold no sway in the face of forever ridding ourselves of an Islamic, annihilationist and filthy ideology dedicated to emptying the future for us all.

If President Trump finishes the job by decisively crushing the Iranian regime and its ability to ever reconstitute its nuclear program, then the 52% approval rating for U.S. military action mentioned in the article below will sky-rocket, victory in the midterm elections will be virtually assured and he will go down in history as the only American president who had the moral clarity, the political will and the lethal determination to save western civilization from a catastrophic nuclear disaster at the blood-drenched hands of brutal Islamic supremacists.

https://www.newsmax.com/mclaughlin/midterm-republican-voters/2026/04/17/id/1253286/