Democrat Party Has Always Been As Foul As Jasmine Crockett

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.

Let’s not forget whose finances were nearly zeroed out. Let’s not forget who sat in jeopardy of imprisonment. And let’s not forget who was shot, just shy of being killed.

Jasmine Crockett’s approach to politics isn’t new. Democrats have always been vulgar little deviants of no shame. But the difference between pre-Trump and now is that before, Democrats were largely able to rely on the media to do the work of viciously smearing their opponents for them, thus keeping their own hands clean and maintaining a veil of decency.

As vile as he was, you had to respect the late Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, if for nothing other than his tendency to openly express his contempt for his opposition, lying about it with reckless abandon (which was of course excused and tolerated by the media when they weren’t busying themselves mocking a Republican’s interracial family). But virtually every other Democrat got to play “norms and values,” hiding behind the Washington press, well shielded from any real scrutiny.

Trump changed that. Unlike most Republicans, the president isn’t afraid to do to Democrats what they’ve so successfully done to others and hidden from themselves. He’s not afraid to call them what they are and, best of all, have fun while he does it.

If Jasmine Crockett is a change for Democrats, it’s only in that she’s among the first to accept that she can’t hide what her party has been all along.