John Kass was, for many years, a columnist and editorial board member for the Chicago Tribune.
Now that he has left that paper he co-hosts a podcast and writes commentary on his own terms/answering to no one but himself.
His latest commentary , titled “Democrats Locked in Their Own Hell”, is about a subject I have been writing about extensively in recent weeks; the disastrous “progress” (regress might be a more apt word) of the Democrat Party.
Here is its key segment:
Today’s Democrat platform–what they do, not what they speechify or bleat–is quite clear on a number of points.
Men who fantasize that they’re women and pretend to be women (but have the physical power that male hormones have given them) have more rights to American sports than girls. They can pound girls to the ground, as volleyball player Payton McNabb was severely injured by a transgender opponent in 2022 and Democrats stay silent as Democrats proved during Trump’s speech when he recognized McNabb.
It is not a gray area. Senate Democrats recently and unanimously voted to protect transgender rights against women by refusing to support Republicans.
Democrat open borders policy that ushered in an untold number of foreign terrorists and deadly street gang members from Latin American prisons are to be protected. Anyone who threatens their power will be demonized and hounded by the jacobin mob that has been paid by U.S. tax dollars funneled through Dark Money and Soros operations via U.S. AID and other sources. These money funneling operations are protected by left-wing federal judges by Obama and his meat puppet who was on the Ukrainian payroll Joe Biden.
And street crime in the deep blue cities like Chicago are all but ignored to protect Democrat politics.
This is not the party of John F. Kennedy and Scoop Jackson. This is not the party of the Daleys of Chicago, or of “Tip” O’Neill of Boston. This not the party of common sense as was Harry Truman. This is the party of Soros and the bloody French revolution.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., called out his party after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress, warning that the Democrats are now ignored, like a blaring car alarm.
“A sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance. It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained. We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to—and it may not be the winning message,” the senator said in a post on X.
Most revealing the Democrats pointedly refused to stand and show some compassion for the 13-year-old cancer survivor D. J. Daniel–who was made an honorary U.S. Secret Service Agent during the speech. To make it worse, Democrats through their MSNBC high priestesses Rachel Maddow and Nicole Wallace mocked it all. D.J.’s father had this strong reaction for Maddow undermining his son’s moment.
And Democrats to their shame also snubbed the family of Alexis Nungaray whose daughter 13-year-old Jocelyn was raped and murdered by illegal migrants allowed into the country by Biden Democrats, and they snubbed the family another murder victim Laken Reilly .
What will the Democrats do?
After Americans witnessed last week, after we saw the contempt the human wreckage of their policies, there is not much they can do. They will try and scream their way to the mid-term elections, but if the Supreme Court upholds the president’s executive powers as expressed in the Constitution, all they have left are screams.
Many Democrats, from the hysterical lunatics performing on MSNBC to the taxpayer-funded Marxists of National Public Radio that joined other corporate media outlets in censoring and suppressing stories of Hunter Biden’s laptop were so amazed by Trump’s victory in November that they were left to gibber and gnash their teeth. And since his inauguration, Trump has moved rapidly to offer Americans what they wanted from government.
Not a handout. But common sense.
They can try and recapture what they had long championed and again become a party of the people, or they can continue following the discredited Clintons and Obamas down the sewer, while hoping against hope that Americans who rejected them in November 5 will be stupid enough to return to them for another beating.
After all, marketing is said to achieve miracles. Just ask the geniuses at Bud Light.
I don’t follow Mr Kass’s apparent animus toward the Clinton administration, and don’t understand why he thinks it led the Democrat Party into its current abyss. But I certainly understand his central point – in no small part because it is exactly mine; Democrats are committing themselves to a series of positions and engaging in behaviors that put them at odds with a large majority of the US public.
WHY would they do that – other than their current obeisance to/ownership by the hard left? If you can come up with a different reason I’m all ears.
Simply put, the Democrat Party has a clear choice: to either bring itself back to where most of the country – including key elements of its core constituencies, such as working people. Latinos, etc. – are, or to continue performing political suicide.
So far it looks a lot more like door #2 to me. I wonder when – make that if – its leaders will wise up and DO something about this.
