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Democrats are again acting like they occupy the high moral ground of American politics.<\/p>\n

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But if 2026 has proven anything, it\u2019s that there\u2019s virtually nothing a left-wing candidate could say or do that would elicit condemnation from Democrats if doing so threatened their power.<\/p>\n

Democrats, for example, demand credit for their opposition to Maureen Galindo, the Texas House candidate who proposed putting American \u201cZionists\u201d (wink, wink) into concentration camps and castrating them.<\/p>\n

Galindo lost her Texas primary last week, but still won 36% of the vote \u2014 not a bad showing for a politician championing mass imprisonment of her political enemies.<\/p>\n

The question, though, is whether House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or anyone at Pod Save America or the Bulwark would have uttered a word in protest, had Galindo already won her primary before making those comments.<\/p>\n

All the evidence strongly suggests no.<\/p>\n

And by evidence, I mean their explicit support for slightly less offensive cranks, extremists, bigots and terrorism apologists like new party power broker Hasan Piker, or the socialist Hezbollah fan Abdul el Sayed in Michigan, or the Hamas apologist Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania \u2014 a guy who suggested the massacre of Jews at Bondi Beach was a \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation by \u201cZionists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imagine telling someone 20 years ago that a leading House candidate in a New Jersey district right outside New York City had both volunteered for an al Qaeda front in Europe and spent years being friends with \u201cBlind Sheik\u201d Omar Abdel-Rahman, the longtime jihadi preacher who was sentenced for seditious conspiracy after planning a \u201cday of terror\u201d in 1993.<\/p>\n

Adam Hamawy defended Abdel-Rahman during his trial \u2014 and yet not a single notable Democrat has called him out on it.<\/p>\n

Many of the same Democrats who expect Republicans to wring their hands over Republican Texas senatorial candidate Ken Paxton, a man tainted by corruption, have offered full-throated endorsement of a man who knowingly got and kept a Totenkopf SS Nazi tattoo for 20 years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just Graham Platner\u2019s mentally unstable ravings \u2014 including saying a Purple Heart recipient didn\u2019t \u201cdeserve to live,\u201d or that \u201call cops are bastards,\u201d or that white rural Americans were \u201cracist and stupid,\u201d or that the Virgin Mary was a \u201cskank,\u201d or defending child killers of Hamas, or contending that sexual assault victims bring it on themselves.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that he still uses unhinged Marxist language right now.<\/p>\n

Platner isn\u2019t the first skeeze to run for major office, but he might be the most extreme.<\/p>\n

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Only two elected Democrats, as far as I can tell, have spoken out about Platner\u2019s soft spot for Nazis.<\/p>\n

One is Sen. John Fetterman, who is under relentless attack from his own party for supporting Israel over Islamists; the other is Massachusetts Rep. Jake Auchincloss.<\/p>\n

Now, if Platner\u2019s opponent in Maine was a raging, corrupt ideologue, independents might be torn between two dangerous candidates.<\/p>\n

But the Republican in Maine is incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, perhaps the most milquetoast centrist member of the entire chamber.<\/p>\n

Some Democrats rationalize their support for a self-described \u201ccommunist\u201d by noting that control of the Senate is far more important than worrying about the individual ravings of unhinged candidates.<\/p>\n

Though gutless establishment Democrats did virtually do nothing to counter extremists during the primaries, there\u2019s a utilitarian logic to this thinking.<\/p>\n

But anyone espousing it is in no position to lecture Republicans about Paxton \u2014 or anyone else, for that matter.<\/p>\n

The 2026 elections will be held during the second term of an unpopular presidency, so there\u2019s no telling how many Democrats will win.<\/p>\n

Or perhaps the new reality is that pro-Islamist Marxists are now an influential part of the contemporary Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

How popular such a party will be nationally moving forward is yet to be seen.<\/p>\n

I am constantly being assured that Democrats are the adults in the room.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m supposed to believe that self-styled socialists are not only going to uphold norms, decency and democratic institutions but also improve the economic conditions of Americans.<\/p>\n

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That contention clashes with every shred of historical evidence we possess.<\/p>\n

Democrats had a chance to be normal.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve chosen crazy.<\/p>\n

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner. X: @davidharsanyi<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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