The Democrat Party Has Always Been As Foul As Jasmine Crockett

Eddie Scarry  Visit on Twitter @eScarry

At the core of The Atlantic’s unnecessarily long profile on loud Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett is the argument that, “when the Republicans go low, the Democrats should meet them there.”

As Rachel Jeantel so famously put it, “That’s real retarded, sir.”

The notion that Democrats have for too long shown excessive restraint or pitched themselves to voters with a naive intellectualism while being punched in the mouth by brute Republicans is a hysterical myth, one that only persists because the media that helped create it continue to perpetuate it.

Going back as far as 2015, you undoubtedly heard both Democrat leaders and prominent dorks in the Washington news media call President Trump a “bully.” Hillary Clinton called him that. Joe Biden called him that. Joe Scarborough called him that. The New York Times called him that. The Washington Post called him that. The Wall Street Journal called him that.

Because average Americans are highly sensitive to injustice, the point of calling Trump a “bully” was always to manipulate their emotions, pressuring them to oppose him solely because important people were accusing him of attacking weaker people in cruel and unfair ways.

But while the average American may be innocently naive to a fault, he is not blind. Trump, as a political figure, has always been one (elderly) man confronting powerful forces: the Republican establishment, the Democrat establishment, the left-wing entertainment industry, and, most intimidating of all, the monolithic, corrupt national news media. That he was able to hit them where it hurt (often to hilarious effect) didn’t make him a bully. It made him the winner.

full story at https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/30/the-democrat-party-has-always-been-as-foul-as-jasmine-crockett/