It is becoming quite apparent that in the Age of Trump, the Democratic Party has become the party of anarchy. Democrats supported the criminal George Floyd and the BLM and Antifa riots that followed his death. These riots were organized anarchy, whether in Minneapolis, Portland, Oregon, Seattle or elsewhere. Democratic Party politicians and political leaders supported the anarchist rioters and condemned the police who tried to restore order. Now, the Democratic Party-supported anarchists are supporting the “protestors” who interfere with lawful ICE raids in Los Angeles, New York City, and elsewhere. (RELATED: The Democrats Have Normalized Political Violence)
Democratic Party officials at all levels of government have demonstrated that in opposing Trump’s governing agenda, anything, including dangerous, violent anarchy, is fair game.
The championing of illegal aliens is now the cause célèbre of Democratic officials, whether in Democratic mayors’ “sanctuary cities” or counties where George Soros-supported Democratic district attorneys promote soft-on-crime, anti-police agendas. Even Democratic judges have gotten in on the act, as evidenced by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest for obstructing federal agents in the lawful performance of their duties in connection with attempting to make a lawful arrest of an illegal alien in the county courthouse. Democrats are for illegal aliens because Trump is trying to arrest and/or deport as many as possible, as he promised during the 2024 presidential campaign. (RELATED: Sanctuary Cities: The Dangerous Illusion of Virtue)
The most recent and blatant example of this is the reaction of Democratic leaders to Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to restore order in Los Angeles, where pro-illegal alien protestors and rioters have violently interfered with ICE raids designed to enforce federal criminal laws. The rioters, some of whom have thrown rocks at federal law enforcement vehicles and engaged in other violent acts against ICE agents, have the effective support of Democratic officials, including in Governor Gavin Newsom’s office, who blame Trump, not the rioters, for the clashes in California. Fox News reports that the Governor’s office compared the violent pro-illegal alien riots to sports celebrations.
There was a time when Democratic officials and political leaders were for law and order — Frank Rizzo as mayor of Philadelphia, Richard Daley as mayor of Chicago, George Wallace as governor of Alabama, John Connally as governor of Texas, and many others.
Self-described liberal Gannon University history professor Jeff Bloodworth traced the Democratic Party’s move away from law and order politics to the New Left’s influence and later capture of the party in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 1968, Republican Richard Nixon and third-party candidate George Wallace both ran “law and order” campaigns, combining for more than 56 percent of the popular vote in that year’s presidential election. When Democrats ran New Left-supported candidate George McGovern in 1972, Nixon won 49 states in one of the greatest landslides in presidential election history.
The House of Representatives recently passed two bills to crack down on sanctuary cities, but only five of 213 House Democrats supported the bills. George Fishman of the Center for Immigration Studies shows how, during the Biden administration, Democrats effectively transformed themselves into a pro-illegal immigration party. Fishman believes this is a crucial reason why Trump won his second term as president in 2024. Trump essentially ran a “law and order” campaign, with immigration and serious crimes committed by immigrants as key talking points throughout the campaign.
There are no more Frank Rizzos or Richard Daleys in the Democratic Party. Trump Derangement Syndrome has transformed them into the party of anarchy.
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