Why are progressives always rushing to the defense of America's worst enemies?
Whether it's sharing a beer with MS-13 gang members, making excuses for child killers like Lindsay Clancy, glamorizing Luigi Mangione's killing of a health executive, celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk, or now, falsely equivocating the execution of terrorist traitor Nidal Hasan to 'ISIS beheadings', modern leftists really need to get their heads examined.
Democrats are now in a tizzy over the planned military execution of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, which is slated for December 3. Hasan murdered 13 people and wounded dozens more during his 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas. He was convicted by a military court and sentenced to death by firing squad. It is unclear if the execution will be televised, but there are reports that President Donald Trump is opposed to it.
One wonders if the execution of a traitor is triggering the radicalized Democrat Party, which is as explicitly as anti-American a party as the nation has ever seen.
That question is worth asking after a dumbfounding set of statements from Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and the hosts of ABC's The View, who have invoked ISIS beheadings, racial lynchings, communist firing squads and authoritarian regimes in response to the planned execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan.
Murphy was visibly stunned when CNN's Erin Burnett informed him of the plan.
"I actually hadn't seen that video. That's the first time that I'm learning he's going to televise it. I mean, that's disgusting. What, is he mimicking ISIS executions?"
"I mean, I understand that in this country we have the death penalty, but public executions is medieval," he added.
He went on to describe the proposed broadcast as "frankly one of the things that we abhor about terrorist groups."
It should suffice just to mention that public executions in a criminal justice context are meant to set an example for others who countenance committing heinous acts, such as treason and mass murder.
Murphy's invocation of ISIS thus makes a despicable false equivalency between a terrorist organization murdering American captives for propaganda reasons and the U.S. justice system carrying out a sentence against a convicted mass murderer.
Why the same party that had thousands of adherents rushing to celebrate the "public execution" of Charlie Kirk now acts like it has some kind of moral conscience should give all Americans pause.
The View took this argument a step further. And rather than merely spouting off in possible ignorance, as in the case of Sen. Chris Murphy, we are talking about purported media professionals discussing it on network air.
Whoopi Goldberg described private executions as "the last bastion of humanity," questioning what a public execution would say about America.
Sunny Hostin equated the possible public execution of a convicted terrorist to public lynchings: "I remember speaking to my grandmother and my great-grandmother from Augusta, Georgia, talking about the public lynching of black Americans with white spectators watching burning bodies and dangling feet from trees. And that is America - an America that people that are alive today live through. My father being one of them. And so, for me, the notion that people would watch an execution for sport is very unamerican and its disgusting. Not to mention that I don't believe in the death penalty.
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 12, 2026
Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed to authoritarian governments, declaring: "The only nations on earth that do this are Iran, North Korea one, Iraq ones that we don't lump ourselves in with generally from a morality perspective."
Griffin also warned that footage of Hasan's death could be used in terrorist recruitment propaganda, as if terrorists won't find reasons to attack Americans.
"We would be making a martyr out of him," she said.
Ana Navarro invoked the firing squads of Fidel Castro's Cuba, recalling political prisoners and dissidents who were executed while shouting religious and patriotic slogans.
"So, when I think of public executions I think of dictatorships, I think of inhumanity," Navarro said.
But Sunny Hostin took the sickening comparisons further. Hostin recalled stories from her grandmother and great-grandmother about racial lynchings in the American South.
"I remember speaking to my grandmother and my great-grandmother from Augusta, Georgia, talking about the public lynching of black Americans with white spectators watching burning bodies and dangling feet from trees," she said.
She connected those memories to the possibility of spectators watching Hasan's execution. Later, during The View's Behind the Table podcast, Hostin described the proposed execution as "the murder of another person by the government."
Sunny Hostin doubles down on equating the execution of convicted terrorist Nidal Hasan to "lynchings" of black men in the South and the beheading of Daniel Pearl by ISIS. She also calls the execution a "murder" by the state and claims it would be shown to children. https://t.co/B8uayiyrNb
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 13, 2026
She also recalled seeing footage of the terrorist beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl.
"I unfortunately looked at that," Hostin said, recalling the pain associated with the recording and a subsequent conversation with Pearl's widow.
Hostin expressed particular concern about the prospect of such images being livestreamed "in America, for children to see."
Taken together, these endlessly ignorant remarks illustrate how they have shifted the focus from Hasan's despicable crimes to the imaginary associations surrounding his just punishment.
Murphy sees ISIS. Navarro sees Castro. Hostin recalls lynch mobs and a murdered journalist. These comparisons, just to put it mildly, are delusional.
Daniel Pearl was an innocent man kidnapped and murdered by terrorists. Black Americans lynched in the segregated South were victims of racial violence, denied the protection of the law. Castro's political prisoners were executed by a dictatorship for opposing its authority.
Hasan was convicted of murdering fellow American service members.
At this point, we have to wonder if the modern left is even capable of distinguishing between good and evil. Or, if we might be less generous, it is excusing evil so that Americans lose all moral clarity.
Before this spate of murder apologias, the American left was excusing the communist atrocities of Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong and giving aid and comfort to the Viet Cong, such as exhibited by "Hanoi" Jane Fonda. Now, "progressives" are white-knighting Islamist fundamentalists whose track record of barbarism seems to go against everything their movement purportedly "stands for."
But the modern left, at the end of the day, doesn't stand for anything except its own power. That is why radicals have never met an enemy of America they didn't like.
So, why do Americans want to put government control into the hands of radical Democrats who clearly hate the country and who openly sympathize with criminals who commit acts of evil?
Yes, the Democrat Party has gone crazy. But even crazier are the American people who continue to vote for it.
