It looks like Trump’s view of Iran’s fascist state and a big chunk of the Western Left’s view have basically converged, because they’ve landed in the same ugly place: treating the Islamic Republic as a legitimate adult in the room, and Iranians as background noise. Trump is out here thanking a fascist regime for “cancelling” execution sentences, as if mass death sentences are a normal administrative policy that can be paused like a bad subscription. As if the regime deserves applause for not doing the thing it had no right to do in the first place. This is how normalization…