Politics


Gaslighting Hypocrites, or Just Unhinged?


Democrats ask if their party has lost the plot.


BY ALICE GIORDANO to bomb voronezh” is a common saying in Russia, referring to how the Krem- lin responds to foreign


threats in ways that harm its own citi- zens the most. These days, it could describe the Democratic Party here in America. An increasing number of party


members are asking: Has it become a party of gaslighting hypocrites, or has it been taken over by the unhinged? “I’d have to say it’s a lot of both,”


said Eugene Delgaudio, executive director of the Washington, D.C.- based Public Advocate of the U.S. Delgaudio said Democrats are no


longer embracing liberal versus con- servative ideologies. “Now they are keying each other’s


Teslas,” he said. “It doesn’t matter to them if it’s owned by someone who is transgender; that was yesterday.” Two of the party’s top fundrais-


ers recently left the party, including Lindy Li, who served as mid-Atlantic regional chair for the Democratic National Committee. She called Democrats “absolutely rudderless.” “Leaving the Democratic Party,


or even questioning the Democratic Party, is like leaving a cult. It’s terri- fying. I don’t want to be a part of this craziness anymore,” said Li. Evan Barker, who consulted for


dozens of U.S. House and Senate campaigns, estimates she has raised more than $50 million for Democrats over the years. Last November, she voted for


Trump. “The Democratic Party has lost


its way entirely,” Barker told News- week. “They mostly speak to the col- lege educated, the urban, and afflu-


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ent. Their tone is condescending and paternalistic.” Last year, then-state Sen. Susan


Talamantes Eggman, a California progressive, expressed bewilderment when her Democrat peers would not support a bill exacting stricter penal- ties against child traffickers. “We’ve got to move back into the


center, or we all look like fools and laughingstocks,” said Eggman, who left office after last year’s elections.


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ince 2009, Democrats have con- sistently picked Bill Clinton and


Barack Obama in polls as their all- time favorite presidents, despite both by far eclipsing President Donald Trump in the number of illegal immi- grants deported and the number of federal workers fired. Obama, in fact, earned the nick-


name “deporter in chief” for chucking 5.2 million illegal immigrants out of the U.S. in his first term. Then there was his “Campaign to


“We’ve got to move back into the center, or we all look like fools and


laughingstocks.” — Susan Eggman, former California state senator


Cut Waste,” which targeted more than $33 billion in taxpayer-funded expen- ditures — akin to Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. About 16 years earlier, at a 1995


press event, Clinton symbolized the 377,000 federal jobs he was cutting by brandishing a giant check made out to “The American Taxpayer” in the amount of $7.7 billion. Nevertheless, Democrats have mer-


cilessly labeled Trump and his cohorts as dictators for auditing federal waste. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,


has been one of the loudest voices in the Democrat battle cry that DOGE head Elon Musk was not elected, and yet Warren herself was once an unelected official appointed to a con- gressional panel to oversee federal gov- ernment spending. Today, Boston has become the


poster child for the party’s hypocrisies. Mayor Michelle Wu told a congres-


sional hearing in March the “false nar- rative” that immigrants “in general are criminals” is what is “actually under- mining safety in our communities.” Two days later, ICE arrested an


illegal immigrant in Boston on charg- es of assault and gross lewdness. Boston native Stiletto Dee, host of Street Talk, a podcast about the city’s radicalization by the left, pointed out that Wu has engaged in a variety of eye-raising decisions, such as openly holding a nonwhite Christmas party for city officials and joking at a St. Pat- rick’s Day event that she was “getting used to dealing with problems that are expensive, disruptive, and white.” In March, after an off-duty cop


shot and killed a man with a lengthy violent history for attacking people with a knife, Wu went on TV — not to praise the officer, but to extend condolences to the alleged attacker’s loved ones.


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