{"id":1398511,"date":"2022-03-24T13:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398511"},"modified":"2022-03-24T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:29:54","slug":"democrats-arent-just-extreme-anymore-theyre-weird-and-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-arent-just-extreme-anymore-theyre-weird-and-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Aren\u2019t Just Extreme Anymore. They\u2019re Weird And Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-arent-just-extreme-anymore-theyre-weird-and-gross%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398511&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Sam-Brinton.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s an article in The New York Times that every Democrat leader should immediately read, if only for this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/23\/opinion\/democrats-republicans-2022-midterms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one quote<\/a> from Isabell Sawhill of the left-wing Brookings Institution: \u201cThis large group includes some people who are just plain prejudiced but a larger group that simply resents all the attention paid to race, gender, sexual preference or identity and the disrespect they think this entails for those with more traditional views and lifestyles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sawhill was talking specifically about \u201cwhite working class\u201d Americans who have drifted from the Democrat Party, though she could just as easily have been talking about literally any group of voters. And she just as easily could have summarized it this way: \u201cAs Democrats become more weird and gross, they predictably become less popular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Sawhill refers to \u201call the attention,\u201d she means the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/17\/jussie-smolletts-black-gay-and-anti-trump-privilege-continues-to-save-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">absolute obsessions<\/a> that have become the defining features of the party: racial \u201cequity,\u201d transgenderism, \u201ctoxic masculinity,\u201d slavery\u2014\u00a0oh, and protecting the right of public school teachers to educate seven-year-olds <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/11\/ron-desantis-isnt-scared-of-mickey-mouse-or-any-corporate-interests-targeting-florida-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">about recreational sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s not to like?!<\/p>\n<p>That Democrats are expected to lose their control of the House and possibly the Senate in this year\u2019s election isn\u2019t a surprise. Along with President Biden, they\u2019ve been a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/20\/joe-biden-says-he-is-ready-to-help-you-understand-how-great-things-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complete disaster<\/a> in their attempt to run the country. They\u2019ve allowed <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/03\/crime-is-spiking-in-u-s-cities-because-democrats-literally-asked-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">violent crime to surge<\/a>. They\u2019ve caused prices on everything to go up. They refuse to do anything about the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/24\/the-biden-administration-is-cooking-the-books-on-illegal-immigrant-arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">catastrophe<\/a> at the southern border. And we\u2019re literally on the cusp of spiraling into World War III.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is happening precisely because Democrats have decided that nothing is more important than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Privileged-Victims\/Eddie-Scarry\/9781642931457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">race, gender and sexual identity<\/a>. It\u2019s not even close. Inflation? <em>Doesn\u2019t exist (okay, it exists but it will work itself out!)<\/em> The border? <em>Not a problem.<\/em> Crime? <em>Well, too many black and brown people are getting locked up so let\u2019s talk about something else.<\/em> Afghanistan? Ukraine? <em>Wait a second, somebody stop Ron DeSantis! He\u2019s preventing teachers from explaining to children why some men enjoy wearing high heels and panties!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Democrats have taken the seriousness out of everything with their preoccupation with pronouns, \u201cdiversity,\u201d and gender identity.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. President, we might have to shoot down some Russian aircraft, which would sharply escalate our role in the Ukraine conflict.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Okay, let\u2019s decide who gets to pull the trigger. Bring me names of some non-binary queers, throw in some womxn of color and a few Latinx. No Asians, please!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is barely even hyperbole. One of the Biden administration\u2019s high ranking officials at the Energy Department is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/new-biden-dept-energy-appointee-part-time-drag-queen-queer-activists-145352610.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cnon-binary drag queen\u201d<\/a> with a public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/biden-administration-installs-dog-role-playing-fetish-advocate-to-nuclear-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cdog-role\u201d fetish<\/a>. Biden\u2019s Supreme Court nominee this week <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/24\/how-can-ketanji-brown-jackson-rule-in-sex-discrimination-cases-if-she-cant-define-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declined<\/a> to define the word \u201cwoman.\u201d And his ambassador to the United Nations <a href=\"https:\/\/usun.usmission.gov\/remarks-by-ambassador-linda-thomas-greenfield-at-the-30th-annual-summit-of-the-national-action-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> last year that \u201cthe original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all ridiculous, all race and sex, all the time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not extreme. It\u2019s weird. It\u2019s gross.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an article in The New York Times that every Democrat leader should immediately read, if only for this one quote from Isabell Sawhill of the left-wing Brookings Institution: \u201cThis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}