David Frum

We'll just do it.

We'll just do it.

So the Democrats are conducting the DHS fight as if the Iran war is not suddenly agenda one item in Washington.

Obviously, the president has done something fantastically irresponsible with Homeland Security, as he's already done something fantastically irresponsible with the FBI.

And as he did something fantastically irresponsible by naming Joe Kent to be the counterterrorism person.

This person, gallant war record, personal tragedy, history, but whatever the reason, he is clearly –

mentally unstable, with crazy views, and should not be anywhere near the government of the United States, much less a national security portfolio.

So those are all crazy, irresponsible things.

How do you press the president on that point?

You have to say, you know, the Iran war is on.

The Iran war is a fact.

I think you have to get to his right on national security.

Say, Mr. President, you started a war of your own volition against the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, and you are leaving the homeland naked.

to Iranian terror attack and Iranian terror cells because you want to send a lot of guys who do roofing to prison or deport them.

That's your priority is deporting roofers.

You are leaving the country naked to terrorism.

And I think sometimes Democrats need to ask themselves, if the tables were turned, if you had some complete

I don't know who the Democratic Trump would be, but somebody as irresponsible as that playing games with national security for some completely unrelated agenda in the middle of a war against Iran.

What would the Republicans do?

Think about that strategy.