The Democrats keep our Iranian enemies closer than our Israeli friends. They do this because they believe that the clerical terrorists in Tehran are, despite decades of statements to the contrary, our friends. It is a chicken-and-egg question whether the Democrats’ corollary belief, that Israel is a problem that needs cutting down to size, was a primary cause of their insane gamble on Iran or a collateral effect. Either way, they broke all their eggs without making an omelet. America’s regional credibility is a shell of its former self. It’s no yolk.

The State Department egged them on, but there will be no consequences for that. When you consider the cack-handed bumbling of America’s diplomats, it’s hard not to wonder if the State Department would do better if its senior personnel were elected like sheriffs, school board members, and dogcatchers. The Democrats would like to render themselves immune to the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the court of public opinion, but they are still obliged to go through the hoops of the old bread-and-circus every four years, at least for now. The exigencies of this electoral vulgarity explain why Quasi-President Kamala Harris, lobbed the softest of softballs by Bill Whitaker on CBS’s 60 Minutes on Oct. 9, suddenly noticed that Iran “has American blood on their hands” and named Iran as America’s “greatest adversary.”