Democrats have surely heard the sage advice that when you’re in a hole, drop the shovel and walk away.
But they aren’t listening, and are still digging themselves in deeper and further out of favor.
With the party out of power and wildly unpopular, last week demonstrated that many leading Dems are not just clueless — they’re also heartless.
Their poor grip on reality surfaced through their choices of heroes and villains.
Like so many junkies, they are driven by Trump Derangement Syndrome to make one terrible decision after another.
On Thursday, some New York City officials, including Comptroller Brad Lander, were among a dirty dozen arrested by Homeland Security agents in lower Manhattan.
The pols staged a sit-down in the 10th-floor hallway of a federal detention facility for illegal immigrants arrested by ICE officials.
The area is closed to the public, but the officials demanded they be allowed to inspect the holding cells.
Told no, they sat on the floor for an hour chanting “NYers against ICE,” and waved a banner saying the same thing.
Tag team operation
Meanwhile, another group of Dem officials tried to block the facility’s garage doors where agents enter and leave with detainees.
They too were arrested, including Jumaane Williams, the radical public advocate, who demanded the release of all those being held.
Got that choice?
All illegals good, all ICE agents bad.
It takes a special kind of lunacy to see our country that way.
The next time those Dems need a cop to stop a crime or protect them, they should instead try to get an illegal immigrant to do the job.
Naturally, the disease has spread to Chicago, where protestors embraced the same nonsense at similar facilities Friday.
There, federal agents used tear gas and pepper balls to scatter about 100 people, including two Dems running for Congress.
Reports say there were clashes outside the ICE building, with demonstrators trying to block government SUVs from entering and leaving the facility.
Ugly as they were, the demonstrations were just warm-up acts for even more infuriating expressions of leftist hate and idiocy taking place in Congress.
The spectacle there wasn’t just dumb, it was absolutely vile.
It emerged that Jimmy Kimmel is the Dems’ new hero, and Charlie Kirk their villain.
The result is that they couldn’t pass a camera or a microphone without accusing President Trump of being a dictator or fascist who is trying to squelch free speech.
Nor could most of them condemn the assassination of Kirk.
It’s nothing short of remarkable that Kimmel, a second-rate comic on his best days, has been elevated to martyr status because his bosses at Disney made a business decision to suspend his repugnant program.
Nothing new there, of course.
If somebody really, really hates Trump, as Kimmel did on a daily basis for years, that’s enough to make him $16 million a year and a hero to many troubled souls on the left.
The amazing thing is that he and his followers haven’t learned anything, or come up with a new and better argument for their political agenda.
The bar is pretty low — an argument that has at least one foot in reality and appeals to people who love America would mark a major upgrade.
House Republicans gave the Kimmel Dems an easy opportunity to show some decency on that front. But supporting a resolution honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk was a bridge too far for most to cross.
The resolution condemned the assassination of the Turning Point USA co-founder and commended law enforcement for moving quickly to arrest and charge Kirk’s alleged killer.
It also expressed condolences to his wife, Erika Kirk, and their two young children, celebrated Charlie’s “steadfast dedication to the Constitution, civil discourse, and Biblical truth.”
It added that he “inspired a generation to cherish and defend the blessings of liberty.”
Those are clear facts, and the proposal further urged the public “to reject political violence, recommit to respectful debate, uphold American values, and respect one another as fellow Americans.”
It was a boilerplate appeal for national unity based on civility and patriotism following an unspeakable assassination.
Similarly, its condemnation of political violence is hardly controversial, or shouldn’t be.
The resolution should have been an easy yes vote for any elected official regardless of party, race or religion.
Such resolutions are traditional attempts to show that our government is united around common values in a moment of turmoil and violence.
Rotten Dems abstain
As such, the vote should have been unanimous.
But more than half of the 213 House Dems refused to support it.
A total of 58 of them voted no — imagine that!
And 38 more voted “present,” meaning neither yes or no, including city Dems Dan Goldman and Grace Meng, The Post reports.
An additional 22 couldn’t be bothered to vote at all, including South Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres and Westchester’s George Latimer.
Shame on them.
Thankfully, the measure passed 310-58, with 215 Republicans and just 95 Dems voting yes.
Kirk smears
Before the vote, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez disgraced herself with a floor speech that was mostly a sickening broadside against Kirk.
Although she said we “come together as a country to denounce the horror of killing,” she quickly pivoted to attack Republicans and the man who was assassinated at a public event in front of his wife and children.
She insisted the resolution “brings great pain to the millions of Americans who endured segregation, Jim Crow, and the legacy of that bigotry today.”
She also said, “We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was,” and went on to smear him by distorting his history and falsely claiming he “sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.”
Thankfully, a dissenting and more compelling view comes from New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
He called Kirk “a modern day Saint Paul,” adding “He’s a missionary, he’s an evangelist, he’s a hero.”
Speaking on Fox News, Dolan went on to say Kirk is “one I think who knew what Jesus meant when he said the truth will set you free.”
The enormous gulf between his view and AOC’s reflects the split that is tearing America apart.
The gap is packaged as partisan, but the hatred for Trump has metastasized into a cancer that is poisoning millions of hearts and minds over topics and people that are not political.
In that way, Kirk’s murder has revealed an unfathomable divide where any common ground is elusive. AOC’s slander of the victim was bad enough, but even worse are the many people who openly praised and even cheered the assassination.
They are well beyond the pale, but there’s no need to guess which political party they support.
That’s not to suggest everything Trump says or does is right, but it does illustrate the stark choice all Americans face.
Are you with America, or with the leftists who want to destroy it?
by Michael Goodwin NYP
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