The DNC ‘s bumbling anti-American new chairman

After a bumpy start, Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin appears to have at last settled into his position — by putting his finger on the pulse of his party’s anti-American animus.

Soon after taking the reins in February, Martin’s DNC was in chaos, The New York Times reported, “plagued by infighting and a drop in big donations.”

Then there was last month’s blow-up over Martin’s murder of a 2024 autopsy detailing how the Democrats had managed to forfeit a second national election to Donald Trump — this time by an even wider margin. 

Yet despite his demonstrated incompetence, Martin now stands a chance of holding on to his job, thanks to his ideological alignment with the party’s overtly unpatriotic elites.

On Sunday, he weighed in on the historic uprising in Iran, where brave civilians are revolting against the barbaric theocracy that’s had its boot on their necks for the better part of a half-century — by drawing a tenuous comparison between his own country and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s, then condescending to critics of his foolishness.

“From Tehran to my birthplace of Minneapolis, people are rising up against systems that wield violence without accountability,” Martin posted on X, absurdly linking Iran’s “far-right theocratic regime that crushes dissent” with the deployment of federal immigration officers to Minnesota.

Hours later, he sought to respond to the thousands of commenters who pilloried his statement.

“If comparing the US to Iran makes you angry, ask why,” Martin instructed smugly. “Killing protesters. Crushing dissent . . . Terrorizing communities. That’s authoritarian behavior — anywhere.”

Tell us how you really feel, Mr. Chairman.

Does the tragic death of Renee Good during a hotly disputed incident during which she drove a large SUV toward a law enforcement officer really compare to the Iranian regime’s mass murder of innocent protesters?

And has President Donald Trump taken any action within a thousand leagues of the mullah-imposed Internet and communications blackouts meant to isolate the people of the proud civilization they’ve subjugated?

For most anyone whose brain hasn’t rotted beyond repair, these questions answer themselves: No, of course not.

But Democrats, against all available evidence and good reason, insist that the parallels between Trump and Khamenei are uncanny — because their entire worldview is predicated on the idea that America is exceptional for its flaws rather than its virtues.

Consider, for example, the comments of Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who this weekend identified the 1953 ouster of Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mosaddegh as the reason why the United States should not support the righteous protesters with strikes on Iranian military targets.

“The last time we intervened in Iran in a major way was 1953, when the CIA overthrew the Iranian regime to protect Iranian oil for the West,” Warner pontificated on “Fox News Sunday.” “Many historians would argue that led to the Ayatollah.”

This is a false fairytale told and retold by Democrats desperate to simplify every story into one in which their own country plays the villain.

Mossadegh was a wannabe autocrat who demanded full dictatorial powers and engineered dueling political and economic crises to achieve that goal — eventually pushing everyday Iranians to take down his government.

The United States played a role in Mossadegh’s downfall, but Warner’s summary is a butchered version of the truth — one that he and his fellow Democrats have long clung to in order to justify their incomprehensibly friendly posture toward the evil Iranian regime.

America’s internal boo-birds were similarly out in force after the daring capture of Nicolás Maduro, the communist thug who has spent the past decade running Venezuela into the ground.

Despite Maduro’s status as an indicted criminal who imprisons, tortures and murders his enemies, the American left nevertheless took his side over Trump’s.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani accused Trump of “unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation,” while Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) wailed that the operation sent “a horrible and disturbing signal” to the rest of the world.

These, too, are distortions.

Maduro is the one who robbed his countrymen of their sovereignty, by rigging elections and persecuting his opponents.

And the signal that Trump sent — that the United States can and will take action against anti-American strongmen — should serve as a comfort to the downtrodden and warning to their tormenters.

What’s so horrible and disturbing about that?

The Democratic Party is still compelled by its crippling, corrosive blame-America-first impulses that Jeane Kirkpatrick first called out 40 years ago.

So much so that they’ll self-flagellate, alter history and cover for the worst people on the planet to satisfy it.

Everyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knows that truth.

Even bumbling fools like Ken Martin.

Isaac Schorr is a senior editor at Mediaite.