Democrats in positions of power continue to eschew decency and morality. Their strategy is to advocate for the total opposite of any policy espoused by the Right. This applies to a range of issues — from abortion limits to tax cuts to deporting criminal illegal aliens — but their moral bankruptcy was laid bare over their ghoulish response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
On Friday, the House of Representatives voted on a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk. It passed 310-58. While the Republicans were united, the other side of the political aisle was split in ugly ways. Only 95 Democrats voted “Yes.” Meanwhile, 58 voted “No,” 38 voted “Present,” and 22 didn’t vote at all. As The Federalist accurately put it, 118 members of the Democrat Party refused to condemn a political murder and honor the legacy of a man who was an influential and inspiring figure in American politics.
Is it disappointing? Absolutely. Is it surprising? No, not really. The Party of Unity, Tolerance, and Democracy™ refusing to condemn political violence is what we now expect from the Democrats. They only want Republicans to turn down the rhetoric while they vigorously fan the flames.
In the immediate wake of Kirk’s murder, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) held a moment of silence to pray for Kirk, his family, and the country. But when asked by a Republican to pray out loud, some Democrat members started a ruckus, shouting “No!” While many Democrats have since denounced political violence in all its forms, their lip service has failed to temper the more radical members of the Left.
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar made particularly despicable remarks. On Friday, CNN host Kaitlan Collins asked Omar about a video in which she claimed that “Dr. Frankenstein” (a.k.a. Charlie Kirk) was not a victim and that his “monster shot him through the neck” (i.e., Kirk was responsible for his killer). Collins tried to give Omar an out by saying that Kirk was a person, a husband, and a father; however, her appeal to humanity didn’t register. Omar doubled down on her disgusting rhetoric, replying:
What I find jarring is that there’s so many people willing to excuse the most reprehensible things that he said, that they agree with that, that they are willing to have monuments for him, that they want to create a day to honor him, and that they want to produce resolutions in the House of Congress honoring his life and legacy. I am not going to sit here and be judged for not wanting to honor any legacy this man has left behind. That should be in the dustbin of history, and we should hopefully move on and forget the hate that he spewed every single day.
What “hate” did Kirk spew? He said that there are only two genders. That man-woman marriage is ideal. That affirmative action and DEI are racist. That radical Islam is perhaps incompatible with the West. And that violence will ensue if Democrats and Republicans stop talking to each other. All of these are factually correct points. Suffice it to say, Omar would never have had the courage to debate someone like Charlie Kirk. Her ideas would quickly be dismantled and revealed for the garbage that they are.
Sadly, Omar wasn’t the only one to disgrace herself. After the House resolution, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also railed against Kirk, asserting, “His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.” Like Omar, AOC would never have had the courage to debate Kirk, mostly because she’s all bluster, anger, and ignorance personified.
Former Democrat-turned-independent Senator Joe Manchin was horrified by AOC’s comments. He was particularly dismayed at her not reading the room and leaving her criticism for another day. “This is not the place and the time for that at all,” he stated. “If the Democrats — if AOC and the far Left, the extreme Left I want to say — believe that’s where the party, the Democratic Party, is today, then that’ll tell you why you lost people like me, and an awful lot. Now, let me tell you what you’ve lost. Since the last election, they’ve been doing their national tour and thinking, boy, that’s something, we’re really getting into something. The Democratic Party has lost more than 160,000 Democrats that have basically left the party since the November election. So if that’s the way the Democrat Party is going, it’s getting worse, not better.”
Omar and AOC were bad, but Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett may take the cake. While being interviewed by CNN’s Dana Bash, Crockett explained that she was deeply hurt that only two white Democrats voted “No” on the House resolution because, according to her, Kirk was a racist. Crockett then elaborated, “The rhetoric that Charlie Kirk continuously put out there was rhetoric that specifically targeted people of color.”
Crockett offered no specific ways in which Kirk was targeting people of color — in fact, she ignored more than a decade of counter evidence — yet she continued, “And so it is unfortunate that even our colleagues could not see how harmful his rhetoric was, specifically to us. And I can tell you that a month prior to him passing away, he had actually gotten out on his podcast, and he was talking negatively about me directly.”
Herein lies Crockett’s real grievance: Kirk dared to criticize her. Did he call for violence against her? No. Did he merely call her ideas bad? Yes. In August, Kirk weighed in on the redistricting fight in Texas, and his criticism of Crockett pertained to her overt racism against white people — which is a legitimate problem. Kirk was also particularly critical of the Democrat Party putting its thumb on the scale to eliminate representatives who are white. The Democrats were shameless about this leading up to the 2024 election. However, Kirk observing what Democrats stated overtly until five seconds ago was apparently racist.
Crockett ended her diatribe by saying:
So, if there was any way that I was going to honor somebody who decided that they were just going to negatively talk about me and proclaim that I was somehow involved in the great white replacement? Yeah, I’m not honoring that kind of stuff, especially as a civil rights attorney and … knowing that there were people that died, people that were willing to die, that worked to make sure that voices like mine could exist in this place.
So, to me, just like we wanted to make sure that those Confederate relics were taken down, the idea of a new age relic being propped up was something that I just could not subscribe to. And it is unfortunate that more of my colleagues, even on my side of the aisle, could not see the amount of harm that this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities.
Ironically, Crockett is one of the worst fomenters of inflammatory rhetoric. In March, she called wheelchair-bound Texas Governor Greg Abbot “Governor Hot Wheels,” and more recently she called President Donald Trump a “wannabe Hitler.”
Omar, AOC, and Crockett are members of the radical Left. They are the worst of the worst when it comes to division, strife, and vitriol. They also seem to be calling the shots. No wonder they are happy to obfuscate or gaslight when it comes to taking accountability for their words. Their “leadership” trickles down and warps the Democrats into an unrecognizable party.
Kirk Derangement Syndrome is now the leftist issue du jour. They won’t collectively and wholeheartedly denounce political violence, and they will happily sully a good man’s name. They are living in an alternate reality, looking wackier and more deranged with each passing day.
