Praising a foreign dictator on state-run propaganda television used to be the kind of thing that got you blacklisted from polite society — let alone Democratic politics. Not anymore. Somewhere along the line, the progressive left stopped treating anti-American radicalism as a disqualifier and started treating it as a badge of honor. The guardrails are gone. And the results are exactly as ugly as you’d expect.

The acceleration has been impossible to ignore since Hamas murdered over 1,200 innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023. American activists torching flags on ivy-covered quads, vandalizing synagogues, screaming for intifada in the streets of Manhattan. But even measured against that grim backdrop, the latest chapter manages to break new ground — because this particular radical’s résumé reads like a Democrat Party donor brochure.

From The Post Millennial:

Calla Walsh, the founder of Palestine Action US and a former volunteer on Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign, praised Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as the “greatest anti-imperialist leader” within her lifetime after attending his funeral.

The 22-year-old appeared in an interview with Iran’s state-run PressTV to talk about her attendance at the funeral, where Walsh wore a hijab and traditional garb. She applauded the slain ayatollah as a hero who was standing up against America and Israel. “He was a leader to all people of the world who struggle against imperialism, arrogance, against Zionism, against genocide,” she said. “To me, he was the greatest anti-imperialist leader to have lived during my lifetime.”

Read that again, slowly. A woman who volunteered for a sitting United States senator’s presidential bid — Elizabeth Warren, no less — who worked on Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s campaign, who held a leadership position in the Democratic Socialists of America, just stood before Iranian regime cameras and declared the Ayatollah a hero of humanity. At twenty-two years old.

And spare me the “lone wolf” defense. Walsh wasn’t plucked from obscurity. She was cultivated. Democratic circles celebrated her activism starting at age 14. She’s the daughter of a Boston University English professor and a Harvard writing teacher. Prep school educated. Every privilege this country can offer, gift-wrapped and delivered. Her repayment? Jetting off to Tehran to grovel before the memory of a man who bankrolled terrorists across the globe.

“It’s still fair to say that the US has been more humiliated than it has ever been before in its history,” Walsh announced on Iranian state television — on the Fourth of July weekend, no less. This is what progressivism does to people. It doesn’t merely neglect to instill gratitude for American liberty. It methodically replaces it with disdain.

A trail of radicalism nobody bothered to stop

Here’s what makes Walsh’s Tehran pilgrimage so predictable: the warning signs were screaming. In 2023, she was arrested for vandalizing the New Hampshire office of an Israeli company. She promoted the infamous Mapping Project — a database cataloging the names and addresses of nearly 500 Massachusetts institutions tied to the Jewish community. Think about that for a moment. That’s not protest. That’s a target list.

She openly posted that “there is no ‘peaceful solution’ under military occupation” — a barely coded endorsement of violence. She chaired the National Network on Cuba and backed CodePink. Each step more radical than the last. And at no point did a single Democratic leader who once championed her say, “Enough.”

The tyrant she calls “humble”

The man Walsh flew halfway around the world to honor was no gentle philosopher. Khamenei’s regime crushed domestic protests earlier this year with breathtaking savagery — human rights organizations estimate between 7,000 and 30,000 demonstrators were killed. Those were Iranians demanding basic freedoms: speech, assembly, the right not to be shot in the street for dissenting. Iran under Khamenei funneled billions to Hamas, Hezbollah, and a constellation of terrorist proxies committed to destroying Israel and destabilizing the Middle East.

Walsh called this man “humble.” She suggested his teachings could be “especially” applied in the United States. The sheer moral bankruptcy of that statement should offend every American who understands what actual humility — and actual tyranny — look like.

The movement, not the individual

Warren’s office? Silent. Wu’s office? Silent. The Democratic establishment that nurtured Walsh from teenage activist to party darling has offered precisely zero words of condemnation. That silence is the whole story. One wayward 22-year-old doesn’t indict a movement. But the ideology that radicalized her, the institutions that enabled her, and the leaders who refuse to disown her absolutely do. When your political pipeline produces Americans who eulogize dictators on enemy television, the rot isn’t at the edges. It’s at the foundation.

Key Takeaways

• A former Elizabeth Warren and Michelle Wu campaign worker now praises America’s enemies on Iranian state TV.
• Walsh glorified a dictator whose regime killed up to 30,000 of its own protesters this year.
• Her radicalization followed a clear, traceable path through mainstream Democratic activist organizations.
• No Democratic leader who once elevated Walsh has publicly condemned her actions.

Sources: The Post Millennial, MSN