Whatever happened to the republic we knew growing up and well into our adult years? We had political disagreements, some of them quite heated. But what we’re living through today, thanks to deranged Democrats, is not only unfamiliar, it is catastrophic unless the left comes to its senses.
We often see charges from the political right that Democrats, socialists, and progressives want those who refuse to surrender to their agenda dead. Maybe it’s an overstatement. But when we see survey results that clearly show there is an uncontrolled sickness, a pandemic of depravity, we think maybe it’s more truth than an alarmist reaction.
A September poll asked 683 Democratic voters how they would feel if they “woke up tomorrow morning and saw the following news headlines.” The Center for Strategic Politics found that nearly nine in 10 (86%) said they would have a positive feeling if the headlines told them “President Donald Trump has been impeached and convicted by both houses of Congress and has been removed from office.”
Not surprising, yet still somewhat chilling.
But things get worse.
Fifty-six percent said they’d be happy learning that Trump had died overnight in his sleep, while 84% would be pleased if the 25th Amendment had been used to declare Trump “unfit by a majority of his Cabinet and removed from office.” Almost 60% would be delighted if a military coup had ousted Trump.
Some don’t need polls to express their distemper. They have forums that feed the Democrat-progressive-socialist ecosystem. Podcasters Jennifer Welch, “a darling of the liberal media” whose program is “a must-stop destination for any Democrat with lofty political ambitions,” and Angie Sullivan laughed hysterically for almost 30 seconds at the thought of “digging up Charlie Kirk” and murdering him again.
The best response to this that we’ve seen on social media noted that “The correlation between people who have ‘hate has no home here’ signs in their yard and agree with these ladies is probably close to 100%.”
An apology was issued, but it’s the sort that comes about only when the apologists are trying to do damage control, not when there is true remorse. We can say this with confidence because we know, as does anyone paying attention, that the left supports political violence at roughly twice the rate of the right.
The violent, retribution-driven left has a number of targets it desperately wants to ruin, imprison, and, if we’re reading the twisted implications correctly, in some cases execute. The list, of course, starts with President Donald Trump and includes Trump family members, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, various White House officials, Elon Musk, business executives who have supported the president, and even Republican voters, whom one just-elected Democrat believes belong in concentration camps — the sort with the gas ovens that facilitated the Holocaust. The American “Robespierres with guillotines” want blood, both symbolic and literal.
It’s sickening and disheartening to know that people have become so deeply disturbed and lost their humanity. How did a major portion of our citizenry become so mentally deranged?
That’s one of the bigger questions of our time, but we should also be asking ourselves: How do we cool the fever and unwind the rage? The answer, and our willingness to correct the course, will determine if we can keep our republic and preserve Western civilization.
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