By now, you’ve probably heard about how Politico recently published a batch of private messages from young Republican operatives. The conversations included some antisemitic and racist jokes and language that was bad. The Young Republican National Federation wasted no time at all after the scandal broke and called for the immediate resignations of leaders in the organization. No one made excuses, and accountability came quickly. That should’ve been the end of the story.
This scandal didn’t happen in a vacuum. It actually exposed something quite dark about the Democratic Party, which fell eerily silent when operatives exposed its own candidate in Virginia, Jay Jones, for sending private messages that were not jokes or crude humor but open fantasies of political murder. The Democratic candidate for attorney general wrote about how he felt former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, deserved "two bullets to the head."
“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot,” Jones wrote. “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”
Jones even expressed that he wished that Gilbert would witness his young children die so he might change his political views on gun rights. This is a candidate for statewide office dreaming up murder scenarios about his political rival and the rival's children. You’d think that would spark universal condemnation. But it didn’t. Not a single Democrat has called for Jones to drop out of the race.
The alarming part isn’t just the messages themselves but what they reveal about the moral rot at the heart of the Democratic Party’s “compassion” act. Because even as Republicans clean their own house, the left continues to shelter people like Jones, who could potentially be Virginia's top law enforcement officer.
Where’s the outrage now? Chuck Schumer was quick to throw around words like “sickening” and “vile” about the Republican operatives but hasn’t mustered a single syllable about Jones’s violent rhetoric. Just silence.
Sen. Tim Kaine, also from Virginia, went further; he said he “still supports” Jones because Jones had apologized. That’s it.
BREAKING: Senator Tim Kaine (D) says he STILL SUPPORTS JAY JONES after text messages revealed Jones fantasized about shooting a Republican and his children.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 7, 2025
DISGUSTING https://t.co/aPRbslzH0i pic.twitter.com/KwAAue8cUc
Nothing about accountability, nothing about standards, just the belief that saying “sorry” erases a fantasy about murdering a political opponent and his children. Imagine believing that.
Jones isn’t sorry for what he said; he’s sorry he got caught. His so-called apology wasn’t about remorse; it was about saving his political career. Yet Democrats tripped over themselves to “condemn” his words and then immediately forgive him. Why? Because they have an election to win.
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If an apology is all it takes, then every Republican student or staffer who said something offensive in that text thread should receive instant forgiveness upon an apology. But that’s not how it works. The media, the left, and even fellow party members hold Republicans to a higher standard. Democrats, meanwhile, get a free pass to say or do whatever they want, no matter how vile, as long as they mumble an obligatory “sorry” afterward.
Joe Biden had a long history of making racist and antisemitic comments before he became the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nominee. Strangely, that never mattered to the Democrats who put him in office.
Democrats make the rules, break them whenever it suits them, and expect the rest of us to play along. They scream about “decency” and “accountability,” yet laugh off fantasies of political murder from one of their own: a man running for attorney general of Virginia, no less. When they’re exposed, a half-hearted apology is suddenly enough to wipe the slate clean. That’s not accountability; it’s corruption dressed up as virtue.
Vance is absolutely right. The hypocrisy on the left isn’t just glaring; it’s dangerous. When Democrats excuse or downplay political violence because the offender has the correct letter after their name, they’re sending a message that they’re above societal norms and mores. Their tolerance of Jay Jones’s violent fantasies says everything. It tells us who they really are, and it’s not the party of “compassion” or “justice.” It’s a movement that protects its own, no matter how low they sink.
