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Yes, the Crazy Left Is Trying to Rule the World
The midterm fight echoes broader political battles across Europe and Latin America
By Robert Knight
In case you haven’t noticed, Democrats are going bananas trying to win America’s midterm elections. There is also leftist political mayhem in other countries, but more about that later.
In Michigan, a campaign ad for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed features a couple complaining about high prices.
Holding a bunch of bananas, she tells her presumptive husband to put back some eggs, asking rhetorically, “We have to set that $7 aside—for killing Palestinians?”
Then they talk about how America sends billions in aid to Israel. This is akin to saying “the Jews are making you pay higher prices for your groceries.”
Mr. El-Sayed, an Islamist, said that his campaign didn’t run the ad, which in fact was from an outside group. But he refused to denounce it and doubled down, saying he didn’t want Americans paying to “drop bombs” on other countries.
In Texas, Democrats are running fake Christian James Talarico against Attorney General Ken Paxton, hoping that voters won’t notice the wolf’s hair poking out from Mr. Talarico’s sheep suit. His campaign slogan should be: “I’m living proof that even the devil quotes Scripture!”
In Colorado, Democrats are pulling out all stops to defeat a ballot initiative that would prohibit sex mutilation surgeries on minors, and another keeping female sports for females.
In Alaska, Democrats put a fake candidate on the ballot by the same name as incumbent U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican, to try to siphon off enough votes to elect Democrat Mary Peltola.
On Oct. 28, the New York Times reported that Ms. Peltola and national Democrats collaborated on this ranked-choice voting scheme to steal the election.
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to delay certification of the election.
On cue, Sen. Adam Schiff, the shameless California Democrat who led the first impeachment of Mr. Trump, said Republicans were trying to “subvert the elections.”
This is like Bernie Madoff accusing someone of playing fast and loose with a client’s money.
Not to worry, Mr. Schiff. U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, an Obama appointee, threw out the suit on Nov. 1.
Elsewhere, a group of “Democratic donors, dark-money groups and left-leaning super PACs has spent more than $10 million backing five independents in Republican-leaning areas,” according to Fox News.
In Nebraska, Idaho, and South Dakota, for instance, Democrats withdrew from their races, putting independents who lean Democrat on the ballot.
This makes sense because progressives have made “Democrat” synonymous with crazy, deviant, Islamist, or communist.
The party continues to push transgender insanity at all levels despite the public’s overwhelming revulsion against fictionally reworking God’s natural order and telling parents to like it or else.
The Democrats’ lockstep obsession with transgenderism doesn’t play well in states that President Donald Trump won by an average of 28 percentage points, like the ones mentioned above.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are pulling the party further left.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a human weathervane who is already campaigning to be president, told a PBS interviewer that the Democratic Party was “pretty aligned” with the DSA, especially on banning fossil fuels and having the government seize the health care system.
The DSA platform also calls for dismantling our constitutional republic and having wide open borders, confiscatory taxation, free housing, free food, free childcare, defunding the military, and forcing acceptance of transgenderism and abortions up to birth.
This is so flat-out insane you might think it is a hostile caricature, but it is real.
Now, a look at some other countries dealing with their version of Democrats.
Great Britain’s Labour party has moved further left under Prime Minister Andy Burnham, and the Green party is gaining adherents with its “eco-populist” schemes and pro-Palestinian stances.
Jews don’t feel safe in the UK anymore, and the media are deliberately underreporting major protests by traditionalist Brits against mass immigration.
France continues to be convulsed with leftist protests and riots, despite President Emmanuel Macron offering a billion euros to them for college campuses and student grants. The socialist student/labor movement rejected the deal and has planned more demonstrations.
In South America, it’s been mostly good news, with a string of countries voting out leftists and installing free market governments, led by Argentina’s Javier Milei.
In Brazil, however, the trend toward Latin American liberty stalled with the Oct. 25 re-election of Luis da Silva, a socialist ally of the communist regime in Cuba who had served three previous terms.
Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former conservative President Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison for allegedly trying to overthrow the government, had won the first round of voting, but came up short in the runoff.
Mr. da Silva had a little help at the last minute. His former personal attorney, whom he appointed as a Supreme Federal Court justice, ordered the polls to stay open two hours longer at Mr. da Silva’s request.
When the vote was in, surprise, Mr. da Silva was declared the winner.
If it reminds you of how ballots were counted in some U.S. states on and after Election Night in 2020, well, you must be an “election denier” like me.
Another justice appointed by Mr. da Silva ordered Mr. Bolsonaro to surrender his passport, but the candidate and his family fled the country and wound up in Miami.
Mr. Bolsonaro was wise to get out and come to what is still a free country.
On Nov. 3, we will learn just how long we might remain that way. I am cautiously optimistic that the pollsters predicting a blue wave will be deeply disappointed.
Illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times.
Beware of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
By Robert Knight
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appears to be readying for a presidential run in 2028.
The telegenic Democrat was on a speaking tour last year in early primary state South Carolina. In September, he has a book coming out entitled, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country,” a reference to Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
His publisher summarizes it this way: “By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, he believes we can start to heal as a country.”
Compassion and kindness are God-given, but I thought we were in the midst of healing from the nightmare of the Biden years, with its promotion of atheism, illegal immigration, sexual anarchy, and attacks on Catholics and pro-lifers.
Mr. Beshear, like Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, identifies as a Christian and a moderate and gets priceless media cover while supporting the Democratic Party’s radical social and economic agenda.
In 2023, for instance, he tried to block a state bill protecting minors from “gender affirming care.”
The law prohibits doctors from subjecting gender-confused teens to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, disfiguring surgeries.
The law also bans males from competing on girls’ sports teams. Most people think this makes sense.
Beshear insisted that such a law “would hurt kids and their families” and violate “parental rights.”
He claimed there was no evidence of widespread harm. To which I would say one butchered child is too many and that evidence of harm is voluminous, including the growing number of suicides and trans-related violence.
On the same day of Mr. Beshear’s veto, both houses of Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode it. Naturally, a federal judge, Rebecca Grady Jennings, issued an immediate injunction halting enforcement. The case is still in litigation.
A year earlier, Ms. Jennings, one of President Donald Trump’s few clunker appointees, struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks and requiring medical oversight for abortion pills.
Gov. Beshear also vetoed that bill, and the legislature overrode him.
In South Carolina, which went for Mr. Trump by 30 points, Mr. Beshear emphasized his Christian faith while boasting that he was “a proud, pro-LGBTQ+ governor.”
This is a stance that ignores Jesus Christ’s clear restating of God’s creation of male and female and God’s marriage-based sexual morality from Genesis.
According to the Washington Post, Mr. Beshear said, “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” How about protecting them from quacks who sterilize them and turn them into lifetime medical cases?
By the way, politicians love to haul out the term “children of God” like a magic amulet. The Bible says we’re all created in the image of God, but that we’re not children of God unless we believe in Him and submit to God’s authority. Until then, we’re on the other team, and I don’t mean the New Jersey Devils.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 says. If we’re automatically children of God, we wouldn’t need to be, as Jesus said, born again.
Anyway, Mr. Beshear is not the only wolf in sheep’s clothing. Democrats have become quite adept at using Christianese and buzzwords to fool people. President Barack Obama often gave biblical scholars heartburn over his misappropriating Jesus’s words to justify sexual sin and confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
In Texas, state Rep. James Talarico is battling hard-left U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. Like Mr. Beshear, Mr. Talarico touts his Christian faith while cleaving to a radical agenda.
“He delivers left-wing orthodoxy in centrist packaging and fights Christian nationalism with Scripture,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
If you’re a patriotic Christian, he’s talking about you and your family as a threat to America.
Much of his rhetoric revolves around Marxist class envy, such as, “Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.”
During remarks opposing a bill protecting kids from transgender treatments, he said, “Jesus never once condemned transgender people.”
Well, Jesus didn’t need to, and He welcomed all repentant sinners. The Hebrew Scriptures are crystal clear on sexual morality. Sexual confusion is the province of paganism, which historically often involved child sacrifice as well.
Any comparison to the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Democratic Party inferred by readers at this juncture may not be coincidental.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC, Mr. Talarico said, “Christian nationalism is dangerous. … When politicians use the Bible to push division and hate, they’re not following Jesus; they’re using His name for their own agenda.”
This is classic projection, accusing your opponents of exactly what you’re doing.
Illustration by Alexander Hunter / The Washington Times.