For The First Time In My Life, I’m Going To Speak Positively About A Democrat

Over the years, some might say, I have been slightly critical of Democrat politicians. At times, I have even been, arguably, a tiny bit rude when describing them. 

I have used mildly uncharitable language. Certain words have been thrown around — words like demons, Satanists, perverts, degenerates, bastards, morons, half-wits, imbeciles, freaks. And that was just over breakfast this morning. 

Of course, all of those descriptions were accurate and, if anything, overly generous. But I will admit that they do qualify as criticisms. And I can tend to criticize these people on a relatively frequent basis. 

I am going to take things in a different direction. For the first time in the history of my life, I am going to speak positively about a Democrat. In fact, I am going to highlight a Democrat candidate that I support. 

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Granted, I don’t support most of her views. We no doubt disagree substantially on the issues. But she is, without question, the most eloquent, compelling, persuasive, intelligent, and virtuous Democrat candidate to run for office since at least the 1840s. 

I’m not going to vote for her because I don’t live in her district or her state, and also because voting for a Democrat is spiritually equivalent to selling your soul to Satan, but from afar I will offer my admiration and moral support. 

Her name is Jaime West, running for county council in Fayette County, Indiana. She recently appeared on a candidates forum hosted by a local news station. Clips from her interview have gone massively viral. 

Many people have noted that she is, for a Democrat, shockingly cogent, fluent, and well-spoken. By Democrat standards, this woman is one of the great political figures of our time. The Democrat Party should immediately make her their presidential nominee for 2028. They certainly don’t have anyone better. 

Here, then, is Jaime delivering her remarks:

Now, there are a few things that come to mind right out of the gate, as it relates to Ms. Jaime West, having watched the entire interview with great care and attention and having taken copious notes. Specifically, I have 10 important points to make:

1) She seems to have obviously drunk two and a half liters of chardonnay before this appearance. And apparently, along with appearing to be a raging alcoholic, she also delivers groceries. If you’ve ever ordered groceries for delivery, this actually makes a lot of sense. 

Anyone who’s ever used Instacart knows what it’s like to order paper towels, a box of spaghetti, and a gallon of milk and then have someone pull up in your driveway nine hours later with toilet paper, a jar of mustard, and a bottle of soda in a flavor that you didn’t know existed. Instacart allows substitutions, so if an item you order isn’t on the shelf, the driver can substitute a similar item for it. 

The problem is that Instacart drivers interpret “similar item” as any item that also exists in a three-dimensional plane. They look at similarity in a more metaphysical sense. I thought they were just being philosophically rigorous in their thinking. But it turns out these people — including Uber Eats drivers — are actually sauced out of their minds. So that solves the mystery. Already, Jaime has enlightened us more than any other Democrat ever has. 

2) Before you laugh so insensitively at this woman who seems absolutely sloshed, I want you to stop and think about the courage and determination on display. This brave woman seemingly woke up that morning, had some coffee, had three Xanax, had a couple shots of vodka, had a couple more, then two more after that — which, in fairness, was a pretty standard American breakfast in the 1950s — and despite being apparently hammered and bombed into oblivion, she still had the wherewithal and persistence to get in her car and show up for this televised interview. That’s not an easy thing to do. 

And what’s more, she is trying to use really difficult sentences for an apparent drunk person. Before you pass judgment on her, why don’t you try guzzling nine margaritas and then looking into a camera and saying a phrase like “emergency services”? I mean, this woman even tried to say “rural communities.” I botch that on the show all the time, and I’m not even drunk when I film the podcast usually. So have some respect for this woman, and frankly for the whole drunkard community, which she is so bravely, and I would say nobly, representing. 

3) The first five minutes of Jaime West’s remarks come in response to a single prompt. The invitation to “tell us about yourself” launched her into a twisty, rambling, discursive, tangential, only vaguely intelligible monologue that had little if anything to do with the question that was asked. This reminds me of every conversation I’ve ever had with my three-year-old. You might think that you don’t want your public officials to resemble three-year-olds. First of all, it’s way too late for that. Second, Scripture says that we should be like children. So in a certain sense — which is a totally theologically incorrect sense, for the record — this woman is an inspiration. 

4) If you have ever said that you want to vote for someone who is just a “regular person,” an average Joe or Jane, well, here you go. Allow me to introduce you to Jaime West, a regular person. I hate to sound elitist, but this is what voting for a regular person means. Which is why I’ve always said I want to vote for people who are not regular. 

I want them to be well above average, above regular, in terms of intelligence, virtue, coherence, and so on. If you want a truly regular person, this is what you get. This woman is exactly the kind of person you would expect to encounter at the DMV or Walmart, which is to say she’s regular. 

That rant Jaime delivers about seven minutes into the discussion about data centers is remarkable in that it exactly resembles — in every detail — the rant 10 million drunk aunts will be delivering around the Thanksgiving table next month. Take the average person, give them 3 to 5 servings of alcohol, ask them about current events, and this is precisely what you get, for better or worse. 

5) That said, credit where it’s due: I do unironically agree with one point that the seemingly drunk left-wing wine aunt made on the data center issue. If a trillion-dollar tech company wants to build a data center in a community, they should be required to invest heavily in that community. In fact, they should do it without being required. Wealthy tycoons used to build schools, parks, libraries, hospitals, and museums, and inject money and resources into public institutions and the community at large. 

Modern tycoons, especially these Big Tech freaks, with the exception of Elon Musk, generally don’t do anything like that. It may be only leftists who point this out, but that doesn’t make it a left-wing point, and it doesn’t make it wrong, even when the leftist who says it doesn’t know where she is or what planet she’s on. So she got this one right. Even a blackout drunk clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. 

6) The whole interview with West is incredibly profound, but in the final two minutes she so deftly and skillfully weaves together the various intellectual threads of her argument. I found it not only persuasive but frankly unnerving in its power and elocution. 

7) She presents many compelling arguments, but I thought the most convincing was when she said, “The sheriff’s nephew threatened to blow my head off, but you know, what are you gonna do?” 

Fascinating. Brilliant. Think about what she’s saying here. The sheriff’s nephew. What does that mean? It seems to establish the hereditary nature of power. We are not merely governed by those we elect, but by the networks those in power establish, the oligarchy, the instruments of coercion that lie outside of elected office. 

“Threatened to blow my head off.” What do we take from that? I would say it introduces that enduring and even ancient problem of institutional force set against the individual — the timeless collision between personal liberty and the state, which our Founders grappled with, and whose intellectual and moral tradition has now been taken up, dare I say, in even more eloquent terms, by this incredibly drunk woman from Indiana. 

8) And then we come to the brilliant pivot where she takes us from a political observation to something almost transcendent. “But you know.” Three simple words that erupt onto the scene, suddenly, out of nowhere, reminding us of the limits of rational inquiry, the futility of standing before reality itself and demanding justice on our own terms. 

9) Finally, she asks, perhaps rhetorically but perhaps not: “What are you gonna do?” Some would take this as a call to action, a cry in the night, a Paul Revere moment. Indeed, perhaps that’s exactly how she meant it. 

On the other hand, perhaps this is less a question than a display of a kind of existentialist acceptance of the absurd nature of being. This brings to mind Albert Camus, the 20th-century French philosopher whose entire catalog this woman has no doubt read and understood. 

10) But she is operating with a far more advanced philosophical understanding, recognizing that indeed sometimes the sheriff’s nephew threatens to blow your head off — your head of all things, the source of rational thought — and the only choice you have is to get on with your life, to get on indeed with your seventh bottle of Pinot Noir. Is this resignation? Is it surrender? No, it is wisdom, I say. It is the moral courage that can be found in fighting a battle you can’t win, and winning a battle you can’t fight. 

Now, does any of that make any sense? No. Will Jaime West even remember doing this interview when she wakes up in the morning? No. Was any of this remotely worth your time? Also, no. 

But in the words of a great woman: “What are you gonna do?” That’s something for us all to reflect on.