‘F— the rules, we are going to win. Whatever it takes.’
The Democratic Party is hideously unpopular heading into next year’s midterms. This is a problem for the small faction of Democrats who think the party should prioritize winning elections over throwing performative tantrums and other theater kid nonsense. It’s less of a problem for the Democrats who are actually leading the party right now and setting the agenda for 2026. They are loud, obnoxious, profane, and passionate in their defense of illegal immigrants and other criminals. Rules? They don’t believe in rules.
“There are no refs in this game,” said Beto O’Rourke, the thrice-failed candidate for governor, president, and U.S. Senate, at a rally in support of Texas Democrats who fled the state to avoid doing their jobs. “Fuck the rules, we are going to win. Whatever it takes.” O’Rourke has emerged as one of the Democratic Party’s most prominent leaders after his political action committee paid for the private jet that took the fleeing Democrats to Illinois earlier this month. This week, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton asked a judge to order Beto’s arrest after the obnoxious Columbia grad violated a court order by continuing to raise money to support the fugitives.
O’Rourke, who flamed out of the 2020 primary after yelling profanely about abolishing guns, has also urged Democrats to fight harder in defense of the illegal immigrant community “that makes this country so goddamn great.” When Democrats reclaim power, he said, they would “drive that car like we stole it” to end deportations and approve a sweeping amnesty bill for unlawful residents.
It’s a message echoed by some of the most fashionable Democratic candidates across the country. Zohran Mamdani, the widely celebrated radical socialist vying to be the next mayor of New York City, has vowed to block federal immigration agents from operating in the city and described his efforts to secure taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal immigrants as one of his “greatest victories.” Omar Fateh, another radical socialist running for mayor of Minneapolis, recently said one of his top priorities would be protecting “our undocumented residents” from a “hostile federal government.”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas), the potty-mouthed diva who has become a rising star thanks to her public tantrums and phony accent, has argued that illegal immigration was “not a crime.” She most recently went viral for calling Donald Trump a “piece of shit” on her nationwide publicity tour. Vulnerable Democrats are enlisting Crockett to help them raise money for the midterms. Antonio White, a former Treasury official in the Obama and Biden administrations, penned an op-ed in The Hill this week urging Democratic leaders to follow Crockett’s lead. “She is the base. She is the moment,” he wrote. “Whether you like her delivery or not, she’s speaking a language people understand—and that’s exactly what this party needs.”
On Monday, Crockett and many of her fellow Democrats lashed out after President Trump announced the deployment of federal authorities to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C. Doing what comes naturally, Democrats reflexively adopted the position that rampant crime in our nation’s capital was not a problem that needed fixing. Channeling their oblivious response to inflation in 2024, Democrats insisted that “statistics” proved that crime was down in D.C., without mentioning that a local police commander was recently placed on leave for falsifying crime data.
Washington’s liberal residents protested in opposition to Trump’s assertion that crime was bad. Meanwhile, a man was shot and killed blocks away, which marked the city’s 100th homicide of the year. Even MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, who in 2024 demonstrated a willingness to say anything to help Democrats win elections, wasn’t buying the outrage. He criticized his fellow Trump haters for blasting the president in public while complaining privately that Trump was right about the out-of-control crime problem in D.C.
That didn’t go over well with MSNBC contributor Anand Giridharadas, who echoed the insane anti-anti-crime position most Democrats have adopted since 2020. “When I go to D.C., I’m not afraid of losing my wallet,” he said. “I’m afraid that my children’s freedom to breathe will be stolen in a world where climate change policy is non-existent.”
The loudest and most passionate voices in the Democratic Party have made their values clear heading into the 2026 midterms: F— Trump. F— the rules. Fighting crime is bad. Illegal immigration is good.
Good luck!
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