Democrats Have Devolved Into the Party of Cruelty and Sadism

As the Department of Homeland Security shutdown slouches through its seventh week, this outrage should convince voters that the Democrats have devolved into a delivery system for pain. Yet again, the so-called “Party of the Little Guy” relishes in making regular Americans writhe in agony so Democrats can score political points and weaponize whatever partisan advantage they can muster. Hope and Change have decayed into Cruelty and Sadism.

Since Valentine’s Day, American travelers have stood in hours-long lines that have snaked through airport terminals, out front doors, and into parking structures. Wait times have stretched into three and even four hours. Anxious babies have exhausted young parents before flights. Older passengers have shifted carry-on bags between their weary shoulders as their backs and knees buckle. Throats have parched at security checks as boredom approaches paralysis. If not Hell, Democrats have turned U.S. airports into Purgatory with wings.

But, after enduring this agony, travelers have boarded their aircraft and jetted back to normal. For TSA agents, things have been far tougher. Most have worked valiantly without pay. While President Donald J. Trump’s executive order has begun to pay their back wages, many remain delinquent on credit cards, car loans, rents, and mortgages—through no fault of their own.

TSA agents have taken second jobs. Others have relied on food banks. Some have slept in their cars. Roughly 500 simply have quit their jobs. Who can blame them?

In the interim, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and other Senate Democrats repeatedly have torpedoed Republican attempts to reopen DHS. Democrats’ goal: Make ICE leave illegal aliens alone.

This would be bad enough in peacetime. However, Operation Epic Fury is returning Iran to its Paleolithic roots. The ayatollahs could dispatch deep-cover agents to exact revenge here, or lone rats could stage bespoke pro-Tehran mayhem. Throughout all of this, Democrats have made TSA personnel fret about their finances rather than stay as focused as electron microscopes on suspicious luggage and sinister passengers.

Amid fears of seaborn drones blasting U.S. ports and seaside communities, Democrats have blocked Coast Guard funds! Rather than drive death far from America’s shores, Democrats have kept Coast Guardsmen distracted, broke, and hungry.

But making Americans ache is standard operating procedure for Democrats.

? Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., gave the game away when he described today’s DHS shutdown gambit: “It’s not forcing any change. In the meantime, we’re making people hurt.” This echoed House Democrat Whip Katherine Clark’s comments during last fall’s Schumer shutdown, which deprived poor Americans of Food Stamps. The Massachusetts lawmaker acknowledged that “there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer.” Nevertheless, she added: “But it is one of the few leverage times we have.”

? Under former President Joe Biden, Democrats obliterated the U.S.-Mexico border. In poured at least eight million illegal aliens or, as Democrats see them, their future governing majority. Taxpayers groaned as they underwrote “free” hotel rooms, food, healthcare, and schools for foreign invaders.

? Some came here to work, albeit unlawfully. Others, like Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Medina, 25, arrived with uglier motives. He breached the border on May 9, 2023. The Biden Administration released Medina, of course, whereupon he burrowed into the American interior. He was arrested for shoplifting that June 19 and once again was unleashed under Chicago’s “sanctuary city” laws. (Sane people should embrace the more accurate expression “refugee city.” There is nothing sanctified about “sanctuary” jurisdictions.)

While occupying free lodging for illegal aliens, Medina allegedly shot Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman, 18, in the back of the head on March 19. She ran away from Medina after he surprised her while visiting a pier where Chicago meets Lake Michigan. Gorman’s wound proved fatal.

“Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life,” Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis stated. “She was failed by open-border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder. We are calling on Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods.”

? Mexican illegal alien Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, also wanted more than just “a better life.” American Megan Bos, 37, apparently visited his Chicago-area home in March 2025. According to Mendoza-Gonzalez, Bos became unresponsive after a drug overdose. So, he left her to die in his basement. Days later, police say, he stuffed her decapitated body into a garbage can, soaked it with bleach, and let her decompose for two months.

After Bos’ corpse was discovered that April, Mendoza-Gonzales was arrested. However, thanks to radical-Democrat Gov. Pritzker’s pro-illegal-alien “sanctuary” policies and his no-cash-bail SAFE-T Act, Lake County Judge Rhonda “Randie” Bruno freed Mendoza-Gonzales! He walked out of Bruno’s courtroom and savored Chicago’s charms for two months. Finally, Trump 47’s ICE nabbed Mendoza-Gonzales last July 10.

? During COVID-19, Democrats gleefully locked down their constituents, banned church services, barricaded California’s beaches, blocked Michiganders from their rural cabins, and forced COVID-positive residents into New York’s nursing homes, killing 12,473 previously uninfected seniors.

Democrats notoriously closed schools for far too long, never mind that the virus barely affected children. Isolated from their playmates, some kids grew depressed and committed suicide. This cohort is damaged for life. But, hey, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten wanted unionized teachers to stay home. So what if weepy kids whacked themselves?

Meanwhile, California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom violated his own anti-restaurant decree to feast at the über-posh French Laundry in Napa Valley. Vineyard owner Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., secretly visited a shuttered beauty salon for an illegal hair-do.

Today’s sick, evil Democrat Party deliberately steers citizens into, not out of, harm’s way. It has become a clear and present danger to this constitutional republic.

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