Trump Is Not To Blame For Democrats Electing Violent Extremists

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Trump Is Not To Blame For Democrats Electing Violent Extremists

By: Mark Hemingway
November 07, 2025

Democrats have a long history of defending and electing party leaders engaged in the worst behavior imaginable, while Republican voters are still rejecting extremists.

While liberal America is justifiably triumphant about Tuesday night’s election results, a lot of professionals are quietly worried about extremism infecting the party. Certainly, electing a mayor of New York who’s an unfortunate hellbroth of communism, Islamism, and “defund the police,” is not someone you want defining your party nationally.

And then there’s the problem of Jay Jones, the Attorney General-elect of Virginia, who won handily despite being caught sending text messages wishing death on a Republican colleagues’ kids — and this wasn’t some flippant message. After he did this, he called up his colleague on the phone to further argue his point about needing to watch kids die in order to make political progress. He also appears to have deceived the state and faked community service hours as part of a punishment for being caught driving 116 mph.

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I live in Northern Virginia, and much to my own discomfort, there’s no way to get around the fact Jones owes his victory to a bunch of my liberal neighbors deciding in the middle of a government shutdown triggered by congressional Democrats that they’re fine with wishing death on children if it helps protect the cushy federal jobs and lucrative government contracts that make Northern Virginia one the wealthiest areas of the country.

So how did we get here? Well, the professional political class has fallen back on the obvious, all-purpose explanation, because forever and always the problem is Donald Trump. Or so says Tré Easton of the Searchlight Institute:

I don’t think VA Dems should seek Jay Jones’s resignation. Voters were fully aware of the facts and elected him. I don’t think you’re about to see a bunch of Dems doing and saying stupid sh-t because they can. I DO think, that thanks to Trump, the bar for disqualifying behavior is now in hell.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/07/trump-is-not-to-blame-for-democrats-electing-violent-extremists/