What happened to the Democrats?

 Robert Curry - American Thinker  There’s only one way such a deeply arrogant and out-of-touch party can continue to win elections.

"The opposition by Democrats to this commonsense reform is all Americans need to know about what the Democrat party has become."

"Michael Goodwin, writing at the New York Post, made a claim remarkable for its simple clarity: “The Democratic Party We Once Knew Is Dead.”  You and I can readily agree with Goodwin, but the party is certainly not dead and gone. What has it become? 

"Victor Davis Hanson provides the answer:

There is no Democratic Party. There’s a Socialist Party. But it’s a very weird Socialist Party. It’s a ... [pyramid] with a lot of very wealthy, globalized elites that run things at the top. Nothing in the middle of the pyramid. And then an expansive big base of poor people, of immigrants.

"The Democrats, Hanson explains, no longer champion their traditional constituency, those whom he refers to as “the white middle working class.”  As a result of abandoning their traditional source of political power, “the Democrats can’t win elections with open, transparent balloting, one-day balloting, and they know it.”  Consequently, the Democrats are going all out in their opposition to any and all election integrity measures and all out in championing the new constituency they are banking on: immigrants and (especially) illegal aliens. 

"America now has the largest number of residents not born in America in all of American history.  Hanson puts the number at 53 million, which is likely correct, but the Democrats already no longer need to compete with Republicans for the votes of the American middle, the middle that once upon a time decided the outcome of elections in America.  Thanks to mail-in balloting and a voting system that is non-transparent to a truly astonishing degree, even the homeless are being used by the Democrats to determine election outcomes.  For example, fraudsters have been caught on camera paying “homeless people to forge names, forge addresses and forge signatures of registered voters.” 

"Our current voting system allows for mail-in voting in much of the country.  Only the perpetuation of this system will allow Democrats to remain a going concern politically.  If and when they take control of the White House and Congress, the Democrats will make illegal aliens into citizens by the tens of millions, and Democrats will have a lock on every future election in America." . . .More..

Robert Curry is the author of Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea and Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World.

Bruce Springsteen shrugs off ‘blowback’ over anti-Trump, anti-ICE rhetoric

 Bruce Springsteen shrugs off ‘blowback’ over anti-Trump, anti-ICE rhetoric: ‘I don’t worry about it’

"Following the January death of Renee Good, Springsteen has repeatedly taken aim at U.S. "Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even telling agents in Minneapolis to “get out” of the city during a concert earlier this year.

""If you believe in democracy, in liberty, if you believe that truth still matters, that it’s worth speaking out, that it is worth fighting for, if you believe in the power of the law and no one stands above it, if you stand against heavily armed masked federal troops invading American cities and using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens, if you believe you don’t deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest, then send a message to this president,” Springsteen told a crowd.

“'And as the mayor of that city has said, ‘ICE should get the f*** out of Minneapolis,'” he added." . . .

Bruce should remember this: John Mellencamp Booed Off Stage For Praising Joe Biden

Paid to Rage: How Astroturf Protesters Hijack the First Amendment: Crowds on Demand

But first some context: Organize Protests & Rallies for Advocacy | Social Cause Protesting | CROWDS ON DEMAND  "Crowds on Demand is your home for impactful advocacy campaigns, demonstrations, PR stunts, and corporate events. Services available nationwide." . . .

 Jay Rogers - American Thinker  

"America’s experiment in self-government requires citizens at the controls, not contractors.  Time to require they wear a name badge."

"The First Amendment was written for citizens, not contractors. It was designed to protect the Boston Tea Party — not a corporate logistics operation with pre-printed signs, walkie-talkies, gas masks, and a direct deposit agreement.  Yet that is precisely what American protest culture has become in the era of billionaire-funded nonprofit networks.  The gap between the constitutional ideal and the operational reality has grown wide enough to drive a bus of Crowds on Demand participants through.

"Adam Swart, CEO of Crowds on Demand, confirmed to Fox News in August 2025 that his firm has seen a 400% surge in paid protester requests year over year.  Compensation runs from the low hundreds per gig — varying by location, duration, and, as Swart put it, the challenges of holding a progressive sign in rural Mississippi.  Swart insists that his roster consists of sincere advocates.  But when the marketplace for dissent has a clearing price and a staffing agency, what we are witnessing is not civic engagement. It is astroturfing — a term coined for tobacco-industry lobbyists in the 1980s and since perfected by a left-wing apparatus that has transformed manufactured outrage into a funded career path.

"The complaint here is on constitutional grounds.  When hidden money turns protests into paid performances and foreign-adjacent networks coordinate the logistics, the democratic signal that lawmakers and courts are supposed to interpret becomes noise.  As John Stuart Mill understood, the marketplace of ideas functions on honest exchange.  Conceal the subsidies, and you distort the debate.  People have a right to protest, but should billionaire-funded organizations operating like professional advocacy firms enjoy the same disclosure exemptions as private citizens gathering spontaneously at a town square?

"The fingerprints of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) are not subtle.  A September 2025 report by the Capital Research Center documented that since 2016, OSF has directed more than $80 million to organizations tied to terrorism or extremist violence.  More than $23 million went to seven U.S.-based groups the FBI classifies as engaged in domestic terrorism, including the Ruckus Society, which trained activists in property destruction during the 2020 riots.  Another $18 million flowed to the Movement for Black Lives, which co-authored a guide glorifying Hamas’s October 7 massacre and instructing activists in infrastructure blockades and false identification.  OSF denied the characterizations.

Jay Rogers is President of Alpha Strategies and a financial professional with more than 30 years of experience in private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and wealth management. He has a B.S. from Northeastern University and has completed postgraduate studies at UCLA, UPENN, and Harvard. He writes about issues in finance, constitutional law, national security, human nature, and public policy.

All Quiet on the Leftist Front

 Guest Essay by Bree Lindquist  

"I find it deeply ironic that those who fling the word “Nazi” around the most freely in 2025 seem to have no problem with actual mass-killings of Jewish people."

. . . "Why was antisemitism ever fashionable, in the United States, no less?

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.  -Aldous Huxley

"Blind piety isn’t goodness. Standing up for your own rights is not hatred. And sacrificing society’s most vulnerable on the altars of ideology and agenda is hardly “progressive.” Most reasonable people living in a free society would agree with all of the above claims, but depending on who you ask, the devil is in the details. “Pious”, in what way? What exactly are the “rights” you’re standing up for? And who are society’s most vulnerable?

"Increasingly, the answers leftists give to the above questions fail to satisfy my sense of justice. I don’t believe that only fundamentalist conservative Christians can be blindly pious towards some ideal or cause. I reject the claim that “rights aren’t like pie”, because sometimes, the demands of one group will absolutely infringe on the rights of another. And I call bullshit, with my whole chest, on the claim that the most vulnerable people are comfortably first-world men in dresses who want access to women’s protected spaces, because the most vulnerable remain who they have always been: women and children, like Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir.

"A society that fails to prioritize the safety and welfare of women and children has achieved terminal velocity toward its fall. This can be illustrated in the culture of terror nurtured so lovingly by Hamas in Palestine, where their own women and children are used as human shields and chattel, and neighboring women and children are raped and slaughtered without remorse or shame.

"Hamas did not just kill these gentle innocents. They were brutally murdered, in fear and pain, a reality that their surviving husband and father must contend with for the rest of his life. He survived, but he may never live again, learning in increasingly lurid detail how the futures of his most precious loved ones were snuffed out." . . .

Children murdered by Hamas' bare hands

New ransom note detail raises alarm over Nancy Guthrie's fate, claims she has 'gone to be with God

 MEAWW   

“I think the reason they didn’t pay—if, in fact, they didn’t, and I don’t believe they did—is because they never got proof of life. I mean, you and I knew at the beginning something was off, in that the ransom was not requested immediately.

"Nearly eight weeks into the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the case has taken another uneasy turn due to a troubling claim buried inside one of several ransom notes.

"Nancy, the mother of 'Today' anchor Savannah Guthrie, vanished from her Tucson, Arizona home on February 1. Since then, her family has put up a $1 million reward for any information leading to her recovery.

"In the days after she disappeared, multiple ransom notes began surfacing. Savannah later revealed in an interview with Hoda Kotb on 'Today' that two of them were believed to be legitimate. One reportedly landed at KOLD News 13, while another was sent to TMZ, demanding a hefty Bitcoin payout.

"During a March 28 appearance on 'The Megyn Kelly Show', former FBI agents James Hamilton and Maureen O’Connell weighed in after host Megyn Kelly cited an X post claiming one note “allegedly states the sender apologized, claiming they did not realize how serious her heart condition was and that she had ‘gone to be with God.’” . . . More...

Muslim Cheerleaders Are Making the Same Mistake as the Trans Lobbyists

The Daily Sceptic

"The tipping point, jumping the shark, enough is enough – however you want to express it, the communal prayer in Trafalgar Square was one raised bottom too many for a lot of people, Nick Timothy MP included. It is worth pausing for a moment to consider why it was this particular event that aggravated the ordinary chap in the street. I think it’s less the specifically Islamic aspect of the event, rather the in-your-face-nature of it all. It seems that those seeking to make Islam ‘mainstream’ and ‘nothing to be frightened of’ and ‘just another way of being’ are making the same mistake as the extreme end of the trans lobby: forcing it down our throats.

"Britain is a tolerant country but what we dislike more than anything is ‘showing off’. The kids have an aversion to ‘try hards’ or ‘pick mes’ those types who always want to be first, at the front of the queue or given a special pat on the head. There is something instinctively British about this modest attitude and it’s one that special interest groups would be wise to remember.

"To read the rest of this article, you need to donate at least £5/month or £50/year to the Daily Sceptic, then create an account on this website." . . .

Victor Davis Hanson on Meeting Fang Fang: 'You Would Have to Be Stupid Narcissistic Idiot to Fall for Honeypot'

Breitbart   

"Tuesday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about Eric Swalwell.

"Marlow responded to Hanson’s comments that Swalwell had to be dumb and self-centered by saying, “It’s true, and they could make that guy the Governor.”

Commenting on the above: Victor Davis Hanson Reveals He Was Approached by Fang-Fang, He Simply Wasn't Stupid Enough to Fall for It

"Tuesday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about Eric Swalwell.

Marlow responded to Hanson’s comments that Swalwell had to be dumb and self-centered by saying, “It’s true, and they could make that guy the Governor.”

.. . . "Hanson said it was easy to recognize her intentions, arguing that someone would have to be a “stupid, narcissistic idiot” to fall for what he described as an obvious honeypot trap.

VDH: Eric Swalwell wasn’t the only one Fang Fang approached in CA — he was just the one stupid enough to fall into the trap.
"I wrote some critical things of China, and Fang Fang came to see me."
“The way she changed accents and how she was dressed, you would have to be a… pic.twitter.com/DPtVFJdpym

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 1, 2026

UPDATED: Former Rock Star Bruce Springsteen Turns Concert into 3-Hour Anti-Trump Lecture

 Nolte: Breitbart  

"Throughout his career, his music and concert monologues were universal in their approach and appeal. Of course, he was political, but he was always thoughtful in the way he expressed himself and never divisive."

"Former rock star Bruce Springsteen turned a sold-out rock concert in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into a three-hour political lecture.

"What’s most striking about these quotes is not that they are divisive and dishonest (although they are that), but that it’s all platitudes, empty slogans, and thoughtless talking points:

We are living through some very dark times. Our American values that have sustained us for 250 years are being challenged as never before. We’ve got our young men and women’s lives at risk in an unconstitutional and illegal war.

We are here in celebration and defense of our American ideals. Democracy, our Constitution and our sacred American promise, the America that I love, the America that I’ve written about for 50 years, that’s been a beacon of hope and liberty around the world, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration.

The richest men in America have abandoned the world’s poorest children through death and disease, through their dismantling of U.S. aid.

We are abandoning NATO and the world order that’s kept us safe and at global peace for 80 years.

Our museums are being told to whitewash American history of any unpleasant or inconvenient facts like the full history of the brutality of slavery. You want to talk about snowflakes? We have a president who can’t handle the truth.

While working Americans struggle, our president and his family enrich themselves by billions of dollars training on the people’s office in corruption unmatched in American history.

To many, we are no longer looked upon as an often imperfect but strong defender of democracy standing for the global good, we are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave.

We are now, to many, America the reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation. That is this administration’s and this president’s legacy.

So many of our elected leaders have failed us that this American tragedy can only be stopped by the American people. So join us and let’s fight for the America that we love.

"And on and on and on he went like this, like your lesbian aunt who shows up uninvited at a family wedding, for three freaken hours.

"Springsteen intends to do this through May 27 on this 20-stop anti-Trump tour.

"It’s all so cynical." . . .

Springsteen, De Niro and Greta Thunberg; society's brain trust 

UPDATE: EXPOSED: Bruce Springsteen Hijacks Concert for Anti-Trump RANT as Fans Demand Refunds | Next News Network

"Bruce Springsteen, the aging rocker whose glory days are decades behind him, shamelessly hijacked a sold-out concert in Minneapolis to subject paying fans to a three-hour anti-Trump political lecture instead of the entertainment they paid good money to see.

"According to reports, the former rock star spent more time bashing President Trump's successful second-term agenda than actually performing the hits that made him famous back when America still cared about his opinion. This is what passes for "entertainment" in liberal circles – forcing captive audiences to endure leftist propaganda. . . .

. . . "Social media erupted with disgust over Springsteen's partisan stunt. "He's promoting foreign belief into Americans wave life instead of defending America. He promoting communist socialist agenda," fired back one fed-up patriot on Twitter, perfectly capturing what millions of Americans think about these Hollywood has-beens.

"THIS IS HIS ONLY HOPE OF FILLING A VENUE. HAS BEEN," posted another user, highlighting the sad reality that Springsteen apparently needs Trump Derangement Syndrome to sell tickets these days.

"The timing couldn't be more pathetic. Here we have President Trump delivering on his America First promises – securing the border, bringing back jobs, and restoring American strength – while Springsteen whines from his millionaire bubble to folks who just wanted to hear "Born in the USA." . . . More...

Bruce Springsteen slammed as 'traitor' after ripping America during Minneapolis concert rant  "Bruce Springsteen used a concert stage in Minneapolis to deliver a blunt warning about the state of America, leading critics to label the musician a "traitor."

"Springsteen unleashed four pointed political speeches during the opening night of his "Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour" on Tuesday." . . .

Battle of the murals

 Bill Ponton - American Thinker 

 "I say in a civilized nation there is no question as to which mural should be displayed and which should be discarded."

"Providence Mayor Brett Smiley wants a mural of Iryna Zarutska taken down because the intent of those funding the mural is misguided and divisive. I don’t agree, and have an opinion that runs counter to his. I believe this nation needs many more murals of Iryna Zarutska as a reminder of what happened to her. Moreover, I want those murals to supplant every mural of George Floyd, the patron saint of losers. That’s right. I want every mural of George Floyd to be painted over with a mural of Iryna Zarutska. Elon Musk could fund the effort. Which mural is more deserving of display?

"The mural of a bum who went his whole life not amounting to anything. Who was in and out of prison for crimes as serious as threatening a pregnant woman with a gun if she did not reveal the whereabouts of hidden drugs and money. Who’s only notoriety is that he downed a lethal dose of drugs before being taken into police custody for passing off a counterfeit bill.

"Or, the mural of a young woman who fled from war-torn Ukraine seeking refuge in America, working hard to better her lot in life and then having that life taken away from her by a crazed racist black killer while other blacks looked the other way." . . .

‘I got that White girl’: Charlotte stabbing suspect's shocking admission caught on video

. . . "On September 9, Trump used the case to again criticize cashless bail, a policy he says allows dangerous individuals to reoffend. He said, "This cashless bail started a wave in our country where a killer kills somebody and is out on the street by the afternoon, and, in many cases, going out and killing again, cashless bail."  

Elon Musk posted: "End Wokeness @EndWokeness: 0 AP stories on this deadly attack; 0 PBS stories on this deadly attack; 0 NYT stories on this deadly attack;  0 NPR stories on this deadly attack; 0 WSJ stories on this deadly attack; 0 BBC stories on this deadly attack;  0 CNN stories on this deadly attack; 0 WAPO stories on this"

In 1987, Trump predicted this . . .

 Don Surber

"He explained what needed to be done in Iran. Now he is doing it."

"In 1987, Barbara Walters of ABC (then owned by Capital Cities) interviewed Donald and Ivana Trump. He was 41 and they were still married. Walters asked him about Iran, which had a decade earlier had broken international law by seizing the U.S. Embassy and holding all its American employees hostage.

"In so doing, Iran committed an act of war, which Jimmy Carter ignored. We had the military but not the will as we had elected in 1976 a commander-in-chief unfit for the office.

"Nobody outside of Georgia noticed that while Carter was governor, Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox ran the state as state Senate president. Carter was his Lurleen Wallace—except Carter lacked a beautician’s license.

"Fearing Carter’s replacement in 1981, Ronald Reagan, Iran immediately released its hostages upon his inauguration as president. I don’t think the mullahs pooped from Reagan’s stunning election until he took office.

"In the 1987 Walters interview with Trump, the Iran segment began with him making a speech, in which he said, “Because I’m running for the presidency. I’m here because I’m personally tired of seeing this great country of ours being ripped off.

" 'But as far as Trump is concerned, our allies are only part of [the problem]. The real culprit is Iran. Why couldn’t we go in and take over some of their oil which is along the sea?”

"He was not clairvoyant. His prediction was accurate not because he could see the future but because he could see the present. NATO and Iran haven’t changed much since then but they grew in size and belligerence over the decades.

"Walters asked him, “How would you do that? Would you send in the Marines? Would you take a chance on a war?”

"Trump replied, “Let them have Iran, you’d take their oil. That’s what I [would do].” . . .

"Trump said, “I don’t believe they would. Next time Iran attacks this country, go and grab one of their big oil installations. Grab them and keep [it]. Get back your losses. Because this country has lost plenty because of Iran.'” . . . More...

Eight justices shut down Colorado's 'egregious' censorship of talk therapy in 'conversion' ban

  Just The News 

"Justice Kagan says Jackson's dissent contradicts itself"

"Colorado was cruising for a judicial bruising when it struggled to defend its ban on so-called conversion therapy for minors at the Supreme Court last fall, with several justices skeptical of its last-ditch argument that plaintiff and licensed counselor Kaley Chiles didn't actually violate the law with her talk therapy for kids struggling with gender identity and sexual orientation.

"That bruising came down Tuesday in the form of an 8-1 ruling against the law, with only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting, in a worrying sign for similar bans in half the states but also for red states that might try to ban so-called gender affirming counseling.

"The issuance of the majority opinion, a slim 23 pages without the summary, three months before the court typically issues its final decisions of the term, showed how closely aligned the six right-coded and two left-coded justices were on the core issues of the case.

"The court reached the same tally at least twice in high-profile First Amendment cases in the past five years.

"In 2021, over a lone dissent by Chief Justice John Roberts, SCOTUS authorized lawsuits against public officials such as university officials for censorship without measurable economic harm to the victims, in that case student evangelists.

"Months later, with Justice Clarence Thomas in dissent, SCOTUS prohibited K-12 schools from regulating student speech in contexts that are not school-supervised, including social media outside of school hours, based on the speculative threat of disruption on campus." . . .

SCOTUS: Colorado Can’t Ban Counselors from Helping Minors Escape LGBTQ Ideology 

 “Counselors walking alongside these young people shouldn’t be limited to promoting state-approved goals like gender transition, which often leads to harmful drugs and surgeries. The Supreme Court’s ruling is a victory for counselors and, more importantly, kids and families everywhere.”

 Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Not the Idiot You Think She Is – HotAir  

"The reason why KBJ couldn't provide a definition of a woman is not that she has none; it is because the definition literally does not exist until she conjures it in whatever context she needs to. As with her assertion about state power and treating trans kids, it all depends on the context. What she believes about state power depends entirely on whether it gets her the outcome she wants." 

. . . "Now, it is still possible that KBJ is simply a DEI hire without much of a brain in her head, but the fact that she makes no sense to us is not evidence of that. When I was in graduate school ran into perfectly nice and relatively smart people who would argue that physics isn't real; it is a social construct. Gravity exists solely because we believe it does." 

Democrat Kings Want Our Heads

  J.B. Shurk - American Thinker  "American leftists held another “No Kings” rally last weekend.  Democrats and their ideological allies gathered in city parks and town squares to tell the rest of us how awful we are.  They screamed obscenities and called us “fascists” and “Nazis.”  They demanded President Trump’s removal from office.  Some even brazenly wished for his death. 

"To non-leftists, these things are cringeworthy spectacles.  The participants look loony and behave immaturely.  They are not serious people.  Their messages make no sense.  How are they able to protest so vocally if they are living under the yoke of tyranny?  How are they able to call for President Trump’s death if he is truly a malevolent king?  Such riddles are never asked or answered.  We are expected to treat their hurt feelings as reasonable justification for their demands to overthrow the government.  

. . . "Tina Peters sits in jail for fighting election fraud in Colorado.  Social media platforms still censor conservative voices.  A leftist assassinated Charlie Kirk.  Other leftists have repeatedly tried to assassinate President Trump.  And leftists continue to call us “fascists.”  . . . 

. . . "Until leftist criminals who promote violence against the rest of us are held accountable, America will continue to descend into madness.  Until prominent Democrats are prosecuted for serious crimes, two-tiered “justice” will remain.  President Trump takes his constitutional oath seriously.  It is the Democrat Party that is filled with lawless, bloodthirsty kings."   More...