{"id":1640,"date":"2025-07-18T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hushbeck.com\/blog\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:09:16","slug":"how-low-can-they-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hushbeck.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/how-low-can-they-go\/","title":{"rendered":"How Low Can They Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A  recent poll shows Democrats are at a low. \u201cThe poll, conducted between May and June by Unite the Country, a Democratic super PAC, showed voters perceived the Democratic Party as \u201cout of touch,\u201d \u201cwoke\u201d and \u201cweak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5395563-democrats-losing-support-white-voters\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In an article in Axios, Democratic lawmakers say their constituents are unhappy. They don\u2019t see non-violence tactics as working, and it is time for violence; there needs to be blood, and people need to be willing to be shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/07\/democrats-trump-resistance-violence-congress\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And this is after all the violent protests of the last few months. If the Axios story is true, things will only get worse. Holman recently said that this is going to lead to someone getting killed. Shortly after that, an assailant tried to kill an ICE officer, and the assailant was shot and killed. Unless they stop, more people will die. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would you expect? Democratic leaders have been pushing inflated rhetoric for decades. There have already been several attempts at murdering officials, such as the shooting of Republican congressmen at a baseball practice, the attempted assassinations of a Supreme Court justice, and the two attempts on Trump.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is different about Trump is that the inflated rhetoric didn\u2019t work. Yet, rather than try something different, they doubled down. Since 2016, it has only gotten more hyperbolic. Now, Trump is Hitler, his supporters are fascists, the police are the Gestapo, pigs, and the KKK. They kidnap people off the streets, or just disappear them. They send people to concentration camps in order to ethically cleanse the country. They are destroying democracy. If what the Democrats said were true, why wouldn\u2019t people resort to violence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attacks on ICE officers are up by over 800%. In the last week, there were two assassination attempts on ICE officers, the one mentioned above, and the other was a coordinated ambush by 12 people where a local police officer was shot in the neck. This group had the slogan \u201cFight Oligarchy.\u201d Perhaps, you did not hear about that because some of the major  \u201cnews outlets\u201d did not deem it worthy to mention the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Democratic Congressman, Salud Carbajal,  was given a business card by an ICE staffer. The Democratic Representative showed it to the protesters. The ICE official was later attacked by the protesters and had to go to the hospital. Meanwhile, other representatives and Leftist groups are giving lessons on how to fight back against ICE. But then, after all, how dare the administration try to enforce federal law, when Federal Law is supreme under the Constitution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Democrats loudly proclaim no one is above the law, such statements are not operative when it comes to them. They get to pick and choose the laws they like and determine when they apply, which, if true, would put them above the law by definition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democracy is based on persuasion. Issues are discussed to reach a consensus. Yet, it is very clear that the Left is not currently interested in persuasion. They use protests, not to change the hearts and minds of America, as the civil rights protestors did in the 1960s; they use them as an act of intimidation through the threat of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is the saying, The more things change, the more they remain the same. Both parties have gone through considerable changes. Yet, at their core, they have not changed. The Republican Party is the party of the individual and the Constitution. They are the party of individual rights that opposed slavery, preserved the Union, resisted Jim Crow, and fought for Civil Rights. They remain that today, and in fact, one thing Trump has done is return the party to Main Street and the working class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Democrats party is the party of groups. They fought to preserve slavery; they were the party of nullification and started the Civil War when an election went against them. When they lost the war, they still fought with the KKK and pushed Jim Crow. They resisted Republican efforts for Civil Rights until that became untenable in the early 1960s. Then they switched to pushing affirmative action to privilege certain groups over others, and identity politics. They complained when the Supreme Court said the best way to end discrimination was to stop discriminating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, instead of nullification, they have sanctuary cities, but it is basically the same thing. They want to nullify federal immigration law. Instead of the KKK, they have Antifa. They complained with some justification about Trump not accepting the 2020 election. Yet, now you have leading democrats questioning Trump\u2019s victory in 2024, and MSNBC is running stories about how Trump plans to steal the midterms next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They talk about threats to democracy, but fight the will of the people as expressed in elections. They manipulate language to get the poll results they want to justify their actions. For example, they refuse to use the legal term \u201cillegal alien,\u201d  instead using migrant, or immigrant. Then they tout polls showing most people support immigration, for we are a country of immigrants. This is something I too support. But they ignore other recent polls showing that a majority support deporting all people here illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last time I wrote that there was a chance for a compromise. I think there still is, but it isn\u2019t very likely. It would require the Democrats to put aside their hatred and work with Trump to seek one. They could protect the dreamers. They could probably protect some who have been here a while and are an integral part of their community. But they will not be able to protect all. Will they try to protect any? Probably not. They prefer their hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a key stat that reveals how disingenuous the Democrats are. They have told us they have only been concerned about the children for years. Yet under Biden, the government lost track of over 300,000 children, some of whom were trafficked into slave labor and sex work. They did not care. So far, the Trump administration has found about 10,000 of these children and is actively looking for the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do the Democrats want to help? Do they even care? Apparently not. When several children were found during the raid on the pot farm, instead of being upset over the violation of child labor laws, something the farm was known to have a problem with, Democrats were upset about the raid. For the Left, the problem was that the children were rescued.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than get some of what they want, they are in the streets violently demanding that they get it all. All or nothing. They are getting closer to getting nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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