The fact that I have to keep asking this question is a problem. There's a part of me that wants to believe Democrats are largely decent people, and I suspect most of them are. But the people they vote for, cycle after cycle, are starting to make me wonder. Two stories this week cut straight to that question, and both left me wondering what happened to basic decency. Are these really the leaders Americans keep returning to power?
The last time I asked this question was when Tulsi Gabbard resigned to stand by her husband as he battles bone cancer. Whatever your politics, that was a deeply personal decision.
Yet Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) couldn’t leave it alone. After a token expression of sympathy, he declared that Gabbard’s “only positive contribution” to national security was her resignation. Coming from a man who spent years pushing the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, it was a particularly cynical attack.
He wasn’t alone. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) brushed aside the circumstances of Gabbard’s departure. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) posted, “Good riddance.” Norma Torres (D-Calif.) mocked the administration’s hiring decisions. These are members of Congress choosing cruelty over class, and doing it publicly.
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But lame duck Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) took it to another level entirely.
Last year, Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf to death at a football stadium in Frisco, Texas. The facts of the case were clear, but Anthony's legal team pushed a bizarre self-defense claim, arguing Metcalf pushed him during a dispute over Anthony sitting under the rival school's tent, as if pushing someone justifies stabbing them to death. It wasn’t even true. Multiple witnesses identified Anthony as the aggressor. On Tuesday, a jury agreed and delivered a guilty verdict.
The left racialized this case from day one because Anthony is black and Metcalf was white, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) made sure everyone knew exactly where she stood. She questioned whether the knife Anthony used even qualified as a "deadly weapon." She insinuated, with zero evidence, that Metcalf had acted in a racist manner. She compared the Metcalf family's grief to "the agony black women live in every day." Her entire framing reduced a murdered 17-year-old to a prop.
Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison, which, frankly, seems too short to me, but Crockett questioned the sentence with language that cast Anthony as the innocent victim. "35 years for a kid who had decided to go under a tent that was not his team's tent, as it was raining and simply didn't want to be put out in the rain by some random kid that he didn't know who was larger than him?” Crockett asked, before drawing a comparison to police shootings to argue Anthony deserved the same benefit of the doubt.
Jasmine Crockett says that Karmelo Anthony was justified in stabbing Austin Metcalf to death:
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 10, 2026
"He decided to go under a tent and simply didn't want to be put out on the rain by some kid he didn't know... There was no mercy seen when this black boy said 'I was scared.'" pic.twitter.com/hU2kXiTfER
Then she went further. "If a 300-pound man is beating me, like on top of me and beating me down. I'm not limited to fist," Crockett said, before arguing that a football player's body could qualify as a deadly weapon. Seriously?
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) suggests that she also would have stabbed Austin Metcalf: pic.twitter.com/TBn3txFSAi
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 10, 2026
Eyewitness accounts directly contradict everything she described. Multiple witnesses confirmed Anthony was the aggressor. Crockett even admitted she hadn't followed the case, using phrases like "as I understand it" before delivering sweeping declarations about what happened. She expressed no grief for Austin Metcalf, offered his family no acknowledgment, and arrived at her conclusion based entirely on race. She then spent considerable time finding ways to accuse the victim of deserving it.
This is what the Democrat Party produces. Horrible people, through and through.
