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On Tuesday’s Finnerty, Rob Finnerty called out Democrats for reflexively defending what he rightly labeled drug-smuggling terrorists while twisting themselves into knots over lawful U.S. counter-narcotics operations. Conservatives have watched in frustration as the party that once stood for law and order now reflexively sidebars with cartels and their enablers, dismissing lethal narco-operations as mere “shipwreck survivors.” This isn’t about cruelty — it’s about defending American lives from poison that pours across our borders and into our towns.
The controversy centers on a reported follow-up strike in the Caribbean where U.S. forces targeted a suspected drug-smuggling vessel and, according to several accounts, a second strike may have hit people who were initially in the water after the first attack. That follow-up has prompted Democratic lawmakers to denounce the move as potentially unlawful and to demand full transparency from the Pentagon and White House. The fog-of-war defense only underscores how Democrats have chosen optics over the reality of a ruthless international drug trade that targets our citizens.
Democratic lawmakers have been loud in their condemnation, with calls for investigations and even characterizations of the episode as a war crime if the worst allegations are true. Their righteous indignation rings hollow to millions of Americans who have seen their neighborhoods destroyed by cartel fentanyl and who want the government to fight back, not posture for cable news. If Democrats truly cared about the victims, they would back measures that stop the flow of poison rather than side with the traffickers’ narrative.
Conservative voices on Newsmax and elsewhere have been clear: these are not harmless migrants — they are operatives in an illicit supply chain that has slaughtered tens of thousands of Americans. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and President Trump’s posture of taking the fight to narco-operations is deterrence, plain and simple, and it’s the kind of decisive action Washington has lacked for decades. Democrats’ reflexive criticism of our military and law enforcement only emboldens cartels and undermines the men and women risking their lives to stop the fentanyl pipeline.
Let’s not forget the scale of the overdose catastrophe that has ravaged American families during the last several years, with annual overdose deaths ballooning into the hundreds of thousands before showing any decline. The human toll is not an abstraction; it is a national emergency that has continued through the Biden years, and it demands aggressive, unapologetic action at every point of the supply chain. Democrats who posture about rules of engagement while defending policies that keep our border porous bear moral responsibility for the bodies piling up back home.
If there are legitimate questions about the legality of any operation, of course they should be investigated — conservatives believe in accountability — but investigations must not be weaponized into a cover for inaction. The War Department and commanders on the scene must be supported while proper congressional oversight seeks the facts, not headlines. America does not get safer when political opponents reflexively side with smugglers and distract from the real crisis at hand.
Hardworking Americans want results: stop the fentanyl factories, choke off cartel logistics, secure the border, and back our commanders and law enforcement when they act to protect citizens. Rob Finnerty’s message is simple and patriotic — put American lives first, not the talking points of a party that has forgotten what it means to govern for the people. If Democrats continue to defend the traffickers’ narrative, they will own the consequences at the ballot box come next election.
