Democrats Locked in Their Own Hell
By John Kass
Sunday March 9
What is the Democrat message? Do they even know?
Is the Democrat message pure Jacobin hatred for anything pro-American and anything that could be considered pro-President Donald Trump?
They’re feral creatures now, lonely, isolated, frightened without leadership, desperate for relevance, without any cogent message, terrified at what’s to become of them.
And quite mad, like inmates in Victorian lunatic asylum.
The other day Democrat pundit Chris Matthews appeared on a “Morning Joe” panel on left-wing MSNBC. He skipped the old Trump is Hitler shtick, ranting instead that Trump was Mussolini. He might as well have channeled the lunatic Renfield from an old Dracula movie, laughing maniacally, chanting “the blood is the life! the blood is the life!”
Some kind soul might tell Matthews and other MSNBC attention seekers that the blood of rats and birds and flies are not the life. Nor is jabbering paranoia. For political parties, votes are the life. And Democrats are determined to keep losing them.
Americans appeal to common sense, not to mad ravings.
Long ago, the Democrat Party had a choice:
Cleanse themselves of their Barack Obama infection, cleanse themselves of Obama’s racist and radical addiction to racial preferences that we know as DEI, amputate any limbs that were sodden with jacobin gangrene and try to become what they had been: a patriotic American party of the American working class.
Or, they could continue following the discredited Clintons and Obamas down the sewer.
The Democrats chose the sewer.
They didn’t do a damn thing except scream. And their childish foot stomping was on display for all the world to see last week at President Trump’s Congressional address.
They wore costumes. They waved their little bingo signs. They took a stand against women, by refusing to support a ban against men in women’s sports. Yet they wore feminist pink to gaslight their voters.
They showed themselves to be what we knew about them:
That they are not serious. They’re only about performance. They are the elite leftist clerisy living on money taken from working Americans, which is why they they hate their victims. And they’re quite dangerous.
Democrat women who voted against banning men from girls’ sports are wearing pink to protest President Trump. pic.twitter.com/uGSVAM8Kug
— George (@BehizyTweets) March 5, 2025
They’re morally bankrupt
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 pounded down, severely injured by a transgender opponent in 2022. And the Democrats stayed silent 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. They were anti-communist. This is not the party of the Daleys of Chicago, or of “Tip” O’Neill of Boston. This not the party of tcommon sense and Harry Truman. This is the Jacobin party of Soros, Obama 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.
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. pic.twitter.com/hNgX7ouLjX
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) March 5, 2025
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.
(Copyright John Kass 2025)
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Comments 49
Good morning John. Orthodoxy Sunday today. Democrats the one’s that I know have lost respect and love of Country. They want a third World Country and take from the Rich to give to the Poor while they steal and become Millionaire’s. How sad Scripture says we come on Earth with nothing and we will go to Heaven I pray with nothing. People forget the poor and do not realize we are all Brothers and Sisters and Christ and we must help one another. Why bother to go to Church otherwise if we do not follow his teachings.
What type of behavior does anyone expect from the current Democratic Party? Their only concern is having the power to shove to shove their BS in everyone’s face and line their pockets in the meantime. They have contempt for everyone who does not buy their line of garbage. Since the voters woke up, they cry in their time out corner and feel sorry for themselves. They have not done one constructive thing since Trump won, only pout and act out. Maybe Governor Money Bags can lead them to the Promised Land at the head of his army of crooks funded by the unions and enemies of our country. Good luck with that.
Well said. The democrats continue to bleat abortion as well. Even though over one million abortions performed after roe v wade was overturned. WHO stands up for the rights of the unborn ?
Everyone has been in that unborn position— if a woman wants an abortion she should be able to get one in a safe environment—and not be forced into a back alley— but counseling and alternative action should be explored so that the woman can make an informed choice and not funneled into abortion only.
When I grew up a Democrat carried a lunch box. Now, a demcrat wears a Pink P-hat and carries a murse, Back then a Denocrat hated Communism. Today, every democrat worships at the church of Karl Marx. Jack Kennedy was a Denocrat. Donald Trump is more like JFK than his kid and grandson.
Very well said. This so called symbolism began at Columbia in 1967.
Obama, Pelosi, and Harry Reid ruined their party! In 2008 in a wave election they took the Presidency, the House, & 60 Senate seats – then massively overreached on Health Care and stimulus, ignited the Tea Party revolt, and created a reverse tsunami that cost them the House, nearly 1000 state and local offices, and almost the Senate. A whole generation of young democratic office holders was lost and went, mostly, into NGOs. Pelosi hung on for 8 more years and kept her gerontocracy of chairmen in power far too long leaving the Dems with the walking dead leading teenyboppers [the squad]. Upon her return, she wasted her powers on impeachment and performance art while busting the budget and stuffing the civil service with lefties and creating slush funds for progressives. Now they’re reaping the whirlwind! It’s like ’94, when Clinton’s overreach on gays and health care cost the Dems the house after 40 years and most of their staffs were fired as they lost their chairmanships. Only now it’s worse – for them! For normal people it’s long overdue. Now if only some Republicans would run in the blue states on a DOGE and common sense platform.
Back in the day the Democrat Leadership Council tried to steer the party to the center and got Bill Clinton elected. He triangulated with the Gingrich Contract With America Republicans to balance the budget and reform welfare with work requirements. The DLC dissolved years ago, its last chairman was Harold Ford who is the Democrat on the Five At Five popular Fox program. These more common sensical Democrats have been cancelled by the leftist radicals of their party who were on display at President Trump’s speech to Congress.
To paraphrase former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Democrats, as they say, are tangled in their anchor chain!
Powerful column. Kass is uniquely capable of identifying these empty-headed, soul-ravaged Democrats. And they seem to have been presciently given a leftist scripture 100 years ago by the great expatriate poet T.S. Eliot:
“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass”
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Thank you David Bittinger for the Eliot on Sunday!!!
Or let’s have a little Yeats as well:
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
Fine choice, Robert. I’ll extend our little poetic tribute to America’s masked Marxists. This one’s by the Bard, perhaps accounting for the Squad and “The View”:
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
“They’re morally bankrupt”
When you’re morally bankrupt, your existence is meaningless.
I cannot wrap my head around the fact the some of my seemingly intelligent friends think DOGE is lying about all the fraud when it’s put before them.
I agree! Are they totally blind or do they simply not care?
No one wants to admit they have been lied to and hoodwinked!
You are correct! So many seemingly intelligent people just can’t get beyond the fact the majority of the US wanted (needs) Trump to change the direction we were heading. They all have serious TDS and can’t accept anything he or his administration does as being for the people.
I often wonder when the Dems decided to be The Socialist (I hate everything) party. A shame. I grew up when old man Daley was in charge. Quite the change to Lightweight and Stacy Gates little boy toy.
Thanks John. And I like reading the comments that follow too.
My old man was a Dem long ago ( he’s gone sadly). Back when they were the lunch pail, working class reps. Their slide into their current state did not happen over night. And the evil ideas they promote are in every corner of society. If you haven’t read The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom I recommend it. It’s from 1987 and still very relevant in explaining the role higher education plays in where we are today.
It’ll be a long road back and the left will wail and gnash their teeth. But if we stop fighting against their corruption we stand to lose everything we hold dear. Especially our faith and freedom. I owe my kids and grandkids the right to both.
Thanks John. My two loves in life are politics. As far as politics, the Demorats continue to entertain me, sort of a live version of the “Onion,” and when you think the Dems have pushed the limits of their moral depravity and nit wittedness(new word), another one of their Amadons steps up to the plate to deliver to stand and deliver.
Speaking of baseball, in Will County, Spring is around the corner for the robins have returning, geese are flocking in the air, farmers are getting ready to till, and it’s a great time to reread “Fielder’s Choice.” God bless all.
Excellent, Mr. Renfield, excellent.
The Dems are controlled by 3rd wave radical misandrist so called progressive feminazis.
But in politics things can change very fast. Despite no leaders in their party one must remember: Trump is a lame duck president and GOP has no on close to his style and magnetism. JD Vance? I don’t think so. Boring. I mean Trump reminds me of Abbie Hoffman: outrageous, unpredictable, funny, outspoken and yes radical. In 1 year the 2028 race for president begins. Obama was an unknown and deep state money made him president. Beware, things change very fast in politics. Some elatively unknown Dem will show up. Maybe some TRANSGENITAL ( I coined this term, maybe i’ll trade mark it, i like it cuz it pisses off the queers)
Thomas: You nailed it with Abbie Hoffman. Trump is all those things Abbie Hoffman was. Hopefully he does not possess his final tragic flaw.
And you also nailed it that “… in politics things can change very fast.” While everyone is celebrating Mr. Trump’s beatdown of the Democrats they fail to realize that EOs are ephemeral. They are not legislation. So everything he has done up to now can be reversed – and will be – by a future Democratic administration … which by the way is guaranteed sooner than later if DT’s inane tariff wars result in inflation, stock market crash (hence 401k crash), and an economic recession. Remember he promised otherwise. As a Democratic wise man once said: “it’s about the economy … stupid.” Who would have imagined that the “business environment” looked better under sleepy Joe’s marxist apparatchiks in the federal bureaucracy than now under Mr. Trump. It’s truly mind boggling. Like you said, the report of the Democratic Party’s demise is premature.
One more item John. Don’t praise Sen. Fetterman, he voted AGAINST preventing TRANSGENITALS in women’s sport.
Sometimes you think Fetterman may have had an awakening, and then this happens. Stupid is as stupid does.
Exactly, he was given marching orders by the transgenital queers: vote our way or u will ‘get primaried’. They will run someone against him.
Fetterman would probably do better as An independent or republican.
My common sense tells me it’s all about hatred of the President and having tantrums because the adult in the room took away their toys.
Yes, blind hatred can never create a positive outcome. Brainwashing does this to people. That and the narcisistic tendencies of the left. God help us all.
I watched Trumps address. I watched how the democrats behaved. It’s as if they have lost their souls and sound reasoning.
They have become a cult. And they continue to act like the performing monkeys they are.
My question is when will people wake up band see them for who they’ve become?
Thanks for your words.
Right. Don’t hold your breath! Check out Sasha Stone’s Substack/podcast for informed opinion and discussion on how a leftwing Democrat is now supporting Trump. Very interesting. Only wish we could have all our leftist friends and family listen or read some of her truth.
How did the Senate fail to muster the male ban in women’s sports? How can the Senators of all swing states won by Trump have safely opposed it?
With our own Dicky and Ducky, they knew they could safely oppose it without consequence. But let’s not let them escape the consequences now. Certainly even 80% of Chicago’s voter’s graveyards are outraged.
Dicky and Ducky! Love that!
Dicky and Ducky love that! I’m going to start using it.
Yianni,
Perfect recap of the current state of the former dem party. They’re toast, and I pray they remain in the dark sewer for decades to come, for we can ill afford a return to those days of yore where no one was in charge, and our porous borders allowed in criminals and illegals looking for a free ride. (BTW, I’ll be curious to see how many leftist visitors finally flock to Obamas temple on the park!) Socialism, as it was advertised to the American electorate by Soros and Joe mumbles, failed miserably, and will continue to do so, now that a new day has dawned. We’re never going back. Trump isn’t perfect, but then, are any of us? His common sense approach to the presidency has ushered in an age of reason and practicality, putting America first at all times. About time isn’t it??
Agree 100%. No going back. My stepson has 500 more days and he won’t have to go to war. People will see the value of peace and prosperity. These are the best of times. Unreal, and so grateful
Senator Fetterman talks the talk but when it comes time to vote, he toes the party line and votes against women’s sports.
California’s governor is also talking the talk but it remains to be seen if he’ll urge Californians to do anything to support women’s sports. Apparently he has no influence over California’s two blue Senators.
All Fetterman and Newsome do is talk the talk, but they won’t walk the line, because the talk is just a smokescreen. They will do the bidding of the money bags that finance their campaigns. They, and most of the Democrats have the spine of a jellyfish, because they don’t even know what they stand for, only what they are stand against, starting with common sense. Pathetic creatures all, shaking the bars of their self-inflicted cages, because they are powerless and still don’t understand why the voters turned against the Democrats. They must have a picture of Super Women pasted to their mirrors, because Superman is a racist pig in their view, and neither can help the Democrats now. The idiots still don’t get it.
The Democrats chose the sewer because they are sewer losers.
No, the Democrats chose the sewer because they are rats !
Despicable, dirty, infected vermin.
They renind me of the groups of college “protesters” looking for any cause to make them relevant. Their real message is “hey, look at us, we’re the wanna-be cool kids.” The graduates that never graduated.
We shall overcome!…we really don’t care, Margaret!
C’mon man! You mean dancing TikTok videos aren’t working? When that political party was turned over to Nancy Pelosi and Hilary Clinton the doom spiral was cast. All of the shrieking and yelling started then and now defines the Democrat/ Whig party now. There are many videos on YouTube of police trying to break up fights at wedding receptions. All involve family members going at it over old family slights that have been magnified over alcohol and bad behavior. Most are started by the females. One notorious video has a police officer trying to handcuff a combatant while his wife tries to grab the officers gun from behind. Thankfully the officer prevented a mass shooting by rendering her unconscious with a good punch to the head. A very nice typical middle class weddding degenerating to insanity. This defines the Democrat/ Whig party. That party is now led by the Clinton/ Pelosi acolytes and is nose diving to its deserved obsolescence. It doesn’t serve any purpose other than its bloated self interests. As career Democrats start to realize their looming unemployment approach my guess is they start leaning to the Libertarians or some other right center party keep them from the unemployment line. Send the Democrats to the dustbin of history like the Whigs. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of people
Thank you again for an awesome column. A few thoughts, don’t trust Fetterman he is 100% Democrat no matter what he says. Why is Hunter crying “no money”? what about his millions in all the offshore accounts????
I watched President Trump’s Congressional address, the Democrats behavior was beyond shameful.
Hunter either smoked it, snorted it or f*#%ed it away.
A very, very good kick the Dems in the ass article was written by Peggy Noonan, WSJ, MARCH 8 AND 9, 2025 entitled SNAP OUT OF IT DEMOCRATS. A must read,
Spot on, John. Keep up the great work.
Exposing the grift is the best thing to do to keep the rats in the sewer. I tell every Dem that doesn’t pay much attention about politics to look up the net worth of the grifters. Some of the Rs in on it also have to be exposed. 36 Trillion in the hole and what do we have to show for it? This is about saving the next generation, think of the children… Peace Out
I hope Musk keeps it up. Tell me how AOC is a multi millionaire. She was able to distribute $15,000. checks to illegals, among other things. Evil and corrupt. I’ll wait for the accountability part.
You’re not wrong. The Democrats have dabbled in identity politics blather since Obama’s rapid ascension to president. To put it frankly, he cribbed my high school senior year Individual Events speech in 2004 for his powerful and gut-checking DNC speech that summer. He is a powerhouse speaker and smart guy; but the Democratic bureaucracy took that and made some sort of taboo around his race, and then it became quasi-1984 when he vowed not to litigate the past and Bush’s blunders, which were far bigger and worse. It would have been impossible to be perfect, and perhaps the nation healed by this decision, but he adopted many Bush administration policies that followed from not prosecuting Bush. These were worst in the area of civil liberties and what masquerades as national security policy.
I’m still liberal, but I notice that the Democratic Party is no longer one for the working class or poor. The Republicans perhaps never were, except on the fringe when there were liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats. It is largely composed of language games and symbol games, whereas the Republicans struggle in this area, because public relations specialists and language experts and math mavens get scooped up by powerful Democrats. It is what it is.