Americans may not be in love with everything President Trump is doing, but they really hate the radicalism of Democrats.
According to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/cnns-harry-enten-reports-an-all-time-high-percentage-of-americans-think-the-dems-are-too-liberal/">CNN</a>, among voters who say the Democrats are now too liberal, the percentage rose from 42% in 1996 to 48% in 2013 to 58% in 2025.
Democrats continue to swivel to the Left. It&#8217;s truly insane. After Donald Trump shellacked Joe Biden, their decision was, “Perhaps we should move further to the Left.”
Bernie Sanders, a career useless person and a leech on the ass of American society for all of his eight decades, has somehow become the ideological thought leader of an entire major party in the United States.
This is totally psychotic. Totally crazy. The man has produced nothing of value. He has the political mentality of a seven-year-old. Everything he says is along the lines of the fortune cookie idiocy only found in small children.
Yet, somehow, this has gained all sorts of credibility inside the Democratic Party base.
According to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/11/bernie-sanders-mejia-left-primaries-new-jersey">Axios</a>:
<blockquote>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is feeling emboldened by progressives&#8217; shock victory in a New Jersey special House primary last week — and sizing up his next targets. The senator has endorsed over a dozen progressive House and Senate candidates who are aiming to reshape the Democratic Party. 
Asked in a phone interview where else he thinks the left can win upset victories, Sanders pointed to a &#8220;Fighting Oligarchy&#8221; rally he is doing on Friday with Nida Allam, who is challenging Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.). &#8220;That might be another area where progressives can win a strong victory,&#8221; he said. Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller challenging Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), also has &#8220;a strong chance to win,&#8221; Sanders said.</blockquote>
All of this is following the victory of leftist Analilia Mejia to succeed now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill in a special New Jersey primary election last week. “Mejia will have to win an April general election to get seated and then another primary in June to keep the seat for another two years, but New Jersey&#8217;s Democratic establishment is now beginning to coalesce around her,” Axios stated. 
Of course, Democrats have decided to coalesce around her because this is the way it works. Apparently, neither party has the stomach to simply say to its most extreme actors, “No, you don&#8217;t get to hang out with us.”
Sanders told Axios that she ran on a strong, progressive agenda and will stand up to “oligarchs” while comparing her to Zohran Mamdani.
Sanders has also endorsed leftist House candidates in Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, California, Utah and Montana. He is also backing radical Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Graham Platner in Maine, the man who had the SS logo carved into his chest and then had to pretend that&#8217;s not what it was. He also endorsed radical leftist Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota, as well as Maine gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson.
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The Democratic Party is swiveling out to the Bernie Sanders Left.
Let us never forget that Bernie Sanders’ ideas have failed everywhere they&#8217;ve ever been tried. They are garbage ideas, trash ideas.
His latest trash idea is that he wants a moratorium on data center construction.
Okay, cool. Let&#8217;s just destroy economic growth in the country. Sounds great.
His chosen proteges have already destroyed tens of thousands of jobs across the country. You&#8217;ll recall AOC — bartender turned congresswoman turned media sensation because of her “fresh-facedness” — who, when Amazon was thinking of relocating to her district, killed it, thus shoving tens of thousands of jobs out of her own district, a major win for her constituents.
And now Sanders wants to destroy data center construction. On MS NOW, he said, “We have not a clue. We are totally unprepared for what is coming. We&#8217;ve got to slow this thing down.”
What is he talking about? Slowing down AI, because redistributing misery is better than redistributing prosperity.
Sanders says that AI is bad because it alienates workers from their labor.
The real issue, of course, is that businesses might do well on the stock market and, in general, that’s what he wants to oppose.
If Democrats want to choose the “Let&#8217;s destroy the economy wing” of the party, good luck to you.

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Republicans are beginning to panic as polls show them losing popularity before the upcoming midterm elections. In a party Zoom meeting to discuss the crisis, GOP Senator Samuel T. Schnorrer from the great state of Lassitude told his colleagues, “When I first saw the new numbers, I nearly lost my head. I started babbling like a crazy man about passing laws and cutting entitlement spending before it drives us into insolvency. Thank God my consultant was there to slap me in the face until I came to my senses and realized: if we start passing laws and all sorts of loony stuff like that, we might be blamed for the results. I think we just have to stick to the original game plan of shaking our fists at Democrats on Fox News.”
GOP Congressman Lorne Loveless from the persistent state of hysteria, blamed President Trump for the bad poll numbers, saying, “The president keeps doing things. Things are bad, especially when you do them. That’s why we do nothing. It literally means &#8216;no thing.&#8217; It’s right there in the word. Really, being a congressman is not that complex if you know how to speak English. Also you have to know when to stop speaking English before you actually say something and instead just keep shaking your fist at Democrats on Fox News.” 
The polls do confirm that Trump’s actions are alienating some people in the party’s coalition. According to one poll — Nikolai Kaminski — sixty-seven percent of Republicans feel Trump is not carrying out their wishes that he would make government smaller while not cutting any of their benefits, bring down prices while continuing to print massive amounts of money so they don’t lose any of their benefits, and deport illegal immigrants without making it hard to find someone to mow your lawn while you pay him crap wages and shout, “That’s mucho dinero, amigo!” because what the hell does he know, he doesn&#8217;t even speak English.
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According to another poll — Stanislaw Dabrowski — fifty-five percent of Independent voters feel the news under the Trump administration is far too chaotic and they yearn for the days when they could kick back in front of the TV and watch President Biden shuffle around aimlessly calling America racist while reporters marveled at his ability to lick an ice cream cone and fall down a flight of stairs at the same time.
In yet another poll — this one at the Spearmint Rhino Club in Oakland — seventy-five percent of Republicans who listen to Tucker Carlson blame Trump for sending Christian men to die for Israel in Carlson’s imagination. Ninety-five percent of Carlson’s listeners who named their first-born sons Adolf are also angry that Trump prevented the Iranian mullahs from acquiring nuclear weapons, which would’ve sure come in handy the next time their pagers blew their testicles off.
Finally, according to the traditionally reliable north poll, eleventy-six percent of readers of the New York Times, a former newspaper, are furious at the things they read about Trump doing in the Times and are deeply concerned he might start doing them in real life as well.
Democrats are seizing on these poll numbers to launch attacks on the administration that they feel will resonate with the public. Democrat strategist Lilith Abaddon rolled over in bed and told a reporter, “Affordability was a good issue until people discovered inflation was caused by president Biden printing massive amounts of money, before tripping over a sandbag, flying out the door, bumping into a little girl and burying his nose in her hair while calling half the electorate fascist. So now, we’ve cleverly switched to harping on deporting illegal immigrants who came swarming into the country by the millions while president Biden was falling off his bicycle and lying face down in the mud for three hours before anyone realized he was no longer running the country. Right now, we feel the idea of defunding ICE will be really popular with millions of poor refugees who came to this country simply looking for a better life with their 72 virgins in heaven.”
As for Republicans, they say they will continue to beat back the tide of unpopularity until their fists get tired from being shaken on Fox News.
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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked War Secretary Pete Hegseth from stripping Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of his rank and military pay.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, appointed by former President George W. Bush, comes after Hegseth censured Kelly over the video he helped produce with five other Democrats urging military members to disobey &#8220;illegal orders.&#8221; In response, Kelly sued Hegseth, arguing that his First Amendment rights were violated.
In the 29-page <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.288365/gov.uscourts.dcd.288365.37.0_2.pdf">ruling</a>, Judge Leon wrote that Kelly&#8217;s First Amendment defense &#8220;is likely to succeed on merits,&#8221; adding, &#8220;This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly&#8217;s First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees.&#8221;
Leon said Hegseth&#8217;s argument &#8220;that military servicemembers enjoy less vigorous First Amendment protections&#8221; due to their obligations to the country has never been applied to &#8220;retired servicemembers&#8221; by a court.
&#8220;This Court will not be the first to do so!&#8221; Leon added.
Leon&#8217;s ruling means that the War Department cannot proceed with its actions against Kelly as the court continues to consider the case. Kelly, a retired Navy officer and astronaut, ripped Hegseth and President Donald Trump after Leon&#8217;s ruling was released.
&#8220;Today a federal court made clear Pete Hegseth violated the Constitution when he tried to punish me for something I said. This is a critical moment to show this administration they can&#8217;t keep undermining Americans&#8217; rights,&#8221; Kelly <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUqtAMFj5Ul/">said</a>. &#8220;I also know this might not be over yet, because Trump and Hegseth can&#8217;t admit when they are wrong.&#8221;
Hegseth <a href="https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/2022035474337214836">vowed</a> to appeal the judge&#8217;s ruling &#8220;immediately,&#8221; writing, &#8220;Sedition is sedition, &#8216;Captain.'&#8221;
In the video, the Democrats said the Trump administration &#8220;is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.&#8221;
&#8220;Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution,” the Democratic lawmakers told U.S. service members. “Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.&#8221;
The Trump administration labeled the video as &#8220;seditious,&#8221; with President Trump suggesting the Democrats&#8217; behavior was &#8220;punishable by DEATH.&#8221; Trump later clarified that he was not calling for the Democrats to be executed, but added, &#8220;I think they’re in serious trouble.&#8221;
When the War Department launched its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/war-department-reviewing-serious-allegations-against-sen-mark-kelly-after-dem-military-message?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=War+Department+Reviewing+%E2%80%98Serious+Allegations%E2%80%99+Against+Sen.+Mark+Kelly+After+Dem+Military+Message">review</a> of Kelly&#8217;s participation in the video last November, it cited a military code that makes it a crime “to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the military or naval forces of the United States” and “to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by any member of the military or naval forces of the United States.”
The Justice Department also sought to bring charges against all six Democrats involved, but earlier this week, a federal grand jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grand-jury-refuses-to-indict-dem-lawmakers-over-video-urging-military-to-disobey-illegal-orders">declined</a> to sign off on an indictment. The other Democrats involved in the controversial video include Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, Rep. Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, and Reps. Chrissy Houlahan and Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania. All of the Democrats who helped make the video are military veterans or former members of the intelligence community.
The video was released as Democrats — and some Republicans — condemned President Trump&#8217;s authorization of strikes against suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.
This article has been updated with additional information.

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The following is an edited transcript excerpt from &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1910-breaking-trans-school-shooter-murders-nine-in-canada?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.&#8221;
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In the last couple of days, the media has been forced to acknowledge reality on multiple fronts, beginning with one of the most controversial bills going through Congress right now. Senator Mike Lee, a great Republican senator, is the champion behind the bill and it’s called the SAVE Act.
What is the SAVE Act? It&#8217;s the Safeguard American Voting Eligibility Act, which says you need to prove that you&#8217;re eligible to vote if you want to vote. 
Simple, right? This should easily pass.
Not only can they not get the Democrats to vote for it — because Democrats want the illegals to vote so that they can rig elections and steal votes from the American people — apparently, the Republicans can&#8217;t even get the Republicans to vote for this. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says there aren&#8217;t anywhere close to the votes to nuking the filibuster, which would be required to get the SAVE Act through. So, although that idea continues to be put out there, it doesn&#8217;t have a future.
Making Americans submit ID in order to vote — safeguarding American elections in the most basic way — doesn&#8217;t have a future, not just because of Democrats who obviously don&#8217;t want to secure our elections, but because of Republicans.
So, you might say, well, some of these senators, you know, they&#8217;re representing whole states and some of those states are kind of purple. You know, maybe this is really a controversial issue. You know, the Democrats hate voter ID and maybe it&#8217;s controversial among Republicans.
Thank you Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
Here’s what CNN has to say about the issue:
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Voter ID is overwhelmingly popular with everyone except Democrat politicians.
CNN: &#8220;The bottom line is this: Voter ID is not controversial in this country&#8230; it is not controversial by party and it is not controversial by race.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/XYzmcnTw1s">pic.twitter.com/XYzmcnTw1s</a>
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/2021289992971055217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>What&#8217;s the racial breakdown on this? Because I think a lot of people make the argument that people of color, nonwhite Americans, have a harder time procuring a photo ID to vote. But even here, take a look here. Favor photo ID to vote: 85% of white people favor it, 82% of Latino voters, 76% of Black Americans favor it. So the bottom line is this: voter ID is not controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo ID to be able to vote.</blockquote>
Not controversial in the least.
I was surprised by these racial polls — and actually by the partisan poll too. Basically every Republican supports voter ID, but even 71% of Democrats favor voter ID. Yet zero percent of Democrats who are in elected office support voter ID.
You have 76% of Black people — this is the most reliably Democrat racial group, the group that we are told is specifically being disenfranchised by voter ID — more than three quarters of them support voter ID.
When you look at Latinos, it&#8217;s even higher: 82%. We&#8217;re told Latinos are being discriminated against, it&#8217;s hard for them to get ID.
And white people are close to the Latinos at 85%.
Everybody supports voter ID except for elected Democrats, none of whom support voter ID. Why? Because they are trying to steal elections. This isn&#8217;t tinfoil hat stuff. This is the only way to explain the discrepancy between elected Democrats — politicians, operatives, activists — and ordinary voters. Basically everyone in the country supports voter ID. The only people who don&#8217;t are the ones who particularly work to run and win elections.
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What you&#8217;re going to hear from the establishment media is, well, actually, you know, it&#8217;s very rare for illegal aliens to vote in elections. It&#8217;s very rare for people who are ineligible to vote in elections.
Right. Sure. Okay. 
The libs have told you a lot of lies over the years, and I&#8217;m not going to go through the litany of them now but I just want to take you back a few months.
Do you remember when the Democrats shut the government down? The Democrats shut the government down because they wanted to try to juice their numbers before some special elections. And the Republicans came out and said you&#8217;re shutting the government down in order to give health care to illegal aliens.
And the Democrats uniformly said, no, we are not. We do not give health care to illegal aliens. That is not true. That&#8217;s a lie.
By the end of the shutdown, the Democrats were inveighing against the Republicans because they said this is so awful — illegal aliens can&#8217;t get food, they&#8217;re losing their health care, they&#8217;re losing their SNAP benefits. They completely contradicted themselves over the course of weeks. Not years, not even months but weeks. They told you illegal aliens don&#8217;t get health care and welfare, and then they told you we have to reopen the government so that illegal aliens can get health care and welfare again.
The Democrats tell you that illegal aliens are not voting, but they are fighting tooth and nail against the vast majority of their own voters to prevent voter ID. Why? I think it might have something to do with the fact that illegal aliens are voting. The Democrats are counting on illegal aliens to vote. Even beyond illegal aliens, there are plenty of other ineligible voters who are not illegal aliens — voters who maybe are bussed in from out of district, voters who maybe because of felonies or other issues are not allowed to vote. Regardless, they need to minimize ballot security measures.
The only explanation—the only explanation—for the Democrats to fight against their own voters on this issue is that they want to steal elections. If you don&#8217;t get that at this point, I don&#8217;t know how to help you.

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The following is an edited transcript excerpt of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1909-treason-americans-trash-their-own-country-at-the-olympics?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show.</a>&#8220;
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During the Bad Bunny halftime show at the Super Bowl a slogan appeared on the big billboard at Levi’s Stadium, right next to a Bud Light ad. Very fitting. 
The message was posted in all caps on a white background in black text and reads:
“THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE”
Then a guy on X <a href="https://x.com/WesleyBout/status/2020692160153370972">tweets</a> it out and writes this message above the image: “imagine getting mad about this and still thinking you’re a good person.”
The post has taken off and gone totally viral. Over 4 million views at this point.
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Imagine getting mad about this and still thinking you’re a good person <a href="https://t.co/jWdNzJmCCE">pic.twitter.com/jWdNzJmCCE</a>
— Wesley (@WesleyBout) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesleyBout/status/2020692160153370972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Why would you get mad at the transvestite, anti-American, vulgar, degenerate rap singer babbling in a foreign tongue that the vast majority of Americans don’t understand, featuring two men grinding on each other in front of a sports game that is supposed to be viewed by children? 
Why would you get mad about that? How could you get mad about that when he put up a sign that said, “The only thing more powerful than hate is love”?
Imagine getting mad about this meme. This is a meme that the Right uses to make fun of the Left, and the Left is just now doing it sincerely and unironically. And the meme is this: While they’re killing people, slaughtering babies, mutilating little children, flooding the country with rapists and poison peddlers and murderers, the Left comes out and says, Yeah, but we stand for love. We define everything we do as love and everything you do as hate. So we’re actually the good guys. Did you know that?
Did you know that when the libs redefined marriage for basically the first time anywhere in human history, they did so in such a way that excludes mothers from their children’s families — or alternately excludes fathers from families — and leads to all sorts of horrible things, up to and including creating children for the purpose of denying them their natural mother and father? Really heinous stuff. But what did they say? They said, Love is love. Love wins. How could you oppose love? We have defined the disordered things that we’re doing, that are contrary to reality and to the common good and human flourishing, we’ve defined them as love. And if you oppose us, you hate love.
Checkmate, conservatives.
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This is like when Anthony Kennedy decided to abdicate his responsibility to interpret the law as a Supreme Court justice. Instead, he decided to write cheap romantic poetry that is fitting for an eighth-grade English class. He decided that his interpretation of the Constitution was going to find a right to privacy, just as he earlier, in an abortion case, had found a right to define the sweet mystery of life somewhere in the Constitution.
I don’t know where it is.
And they say, Look, we support mystery, we support love, we support life.
That’s the key here. Because when your lib friends send that meme around — hate is worse than love, love beats hate — how could you get mad at that? 
At that point, you should tell them that you are pro-life. And they are angry at people who are pro-life. How? Imagine being against life and thinking you’re the good guy.
And what would they say? They’d say, No, no, no, but you’re not really pro-life. You’re anti-choice. You want to control women’s bodies.
They would use all of their own silly euphemisms.
That’s when you say to them: Okay, before we get into the abortion issue, I just want to point out you have granted me the premise. You have accepted the premise that sometimes people use words in ways that can be misleading or tell a partial truth, or at the very least can be euphemistic. You’ve granted that point, right? Okay, great. So you don’t like my phrase “pro-life”? I think pro-life is an honest phrase that accurately depicts what we’re talking about. But you dispute that. Okay, fine.
Then let’s dig into the real substance of it. I support the law coming in and restricting women from going to a medical professional to kill her baby. That’s what we’re talking about. You want to get past the euphemisms and the slogans? That’s what we’re talking about. And what you support is women being able to kill their babies in defense of their own disordered autonomy. Right? That’s what we’re talking about.
With marriage, you support excluding mothers or alternately fathers from marriage and denying babies their natural mothers or fathers. Okay. That’s what you support, along with other acts that we don’t even need to get into when it comes to gay marriage. I support that babies have a demonstrated right to their mothers and their fathers.
Nevertheless, I think you will find that the libs love to promote all their slogans: “love beats hate,” “love is love,” “love wins,” or whatever. I think you will find conservatives, on the other hand, are more than happy to put the slogans aside and talk about the real issue.
The libs will focus on more and more hyperbolic and preposterous slogans. They will do whatever they can to avoid looking at the real issue. They will only speak in euphemisms, and that very fact tells you everything you need to know.
Yes, all politicians use slogans, but the way they use them tells you everything you need to know about the issues.
Conservatives use slogans and euphemisms to try to convey the truth. The Left uses slogans and euphemisms to deny the truth.

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The following is an edited transcript excerpt from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1908-crossdressing-puerto-rican-hijacks-america-s-favorite-sports-event?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show.</a>
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A Democrat from Texas went full mask off with his contempt, and his political party’s contempt, for white people.
Here is Texas State Representative Gene Wu:
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Rep. Gene Wu (D) goes mask off:
&#8220;Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/CrxsPqlkLI">pic.twitter.com/CrxsPqlkLI</a>
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/2020327211648324001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Wu says,
<blockquote>I always tell people the day that the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country now. We are. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair. But the problem is our communities are divided. They’re completely divided.</blockquote>
One of our problems is our communities are completely divided — when we should be totally united against the majority.
White people are still the majority of the country, probably not for long because of birth rates and migration. But today, the Year of Our Lord 2026, white people are still the majority of the country. And this guy comes out and says, “We need to stop being so divided. We need to be united to go get rid of the majority.”
Hey everybody, I just want to bring us all together here to say, “Go kill Whitey.” All right?
And this is only different in degree. It’s not different in kind from the other sort of rhetoric we hear from Democrats and the Left broadly: calls to abolish whiteness, calls to minimize whiteness, to apologize for whiteness. The coalition of the ascendant of the people of color who are perfect, and the white people who can do no good. This is just a more extreme version, which is to say the oppressor is white, the oppressed are non-whites, and the non-whites need to overthrow the whites.
There are some people on the Left, and even on the squishy Right, who have complained in recent years about the supposed rise of white racial consciousness in America. Now, I question the premise. There’s basically no white racial consciousness in America.
In fact, a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/02/05/most-black-adults-say-race-is-central-to-their-identity-and-feel-connected-to-a-broader-black-community/">Pew Research Center study</a> from February 5, 2020, titled &#8220;Most black adults say race is central to their identity and feel connected to a broader black community,&#8221; found that whites were the least likely to be racially conscious. 
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Every other racial group has a very high racial consciousness. When asked, is your race extremely important or very important to your identity, 56% of Asians said yes, 59% of Hispanics said yes, and 74% of black people said yes, being black is extremely or very important to how they think about themselves.
Only 15% of White people answered yes. 
White people have no racial consciousness. Every other group has significant racial consciousness, like majority racial consciousness. White people have basically none. But let’s say the premise were true, even though it’s not, that there is a serious uptick in white racial consciousness. What do you expect? Democrat politicians are going on air, saying we need to gang up on whitey. We need to target whitey. We need to overthrow them. We need to punish them. We are demanding a racial consciousness for this group.
If there is an uptick in white racial consciousness, isn’t that just a rational response to what you guys are doing? I want no apologies for this from the Right. No haranguing from the Left. The only response to this “kill whitey” stuff is to say: Well, I guess they consider us a racial group. I get it. I guess we have to proceed accordingly — that is, in accordance with justice and the Constitution and all the rest of our founding documents. 

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Two top Democrats put in some extra effort to oppose voter identification initiatives — even as polling indicates that a broad majority of their own voters favor the policy.
Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) joined ABC&#8217;s Jonathan Karl and CNN&#8217;s Dana Bah, respectively, to explain why they have continued to oppose a policy that has overwhelming support from both parties and across multiple demographics.
On &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Karl referenced a recent Pew Research Center poll in which 83% of respondents said they would support voter identification requirements — and that when broken down by party, 95% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats would support such measures.
&#8220;Is that something that you can support? And if not, why?&#8221; Karl asked.
&#8220;It&#8217;s still going to be something, Jonathan, it&#8217;s still going to be something that disenfranchises people that don&#8217;t have the proper Real ID, driver&#8217;s license ID that don&#8217;t have the ID necessary to vote even though they are citizens,&#8221; Schiff claimed. &#8220;This is another way to simply try to suppress the vote. And the last thing I think we want to do is discourage more people, more citizens from voting.&#8221;
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A new Pew Research Center poll shows that 71% of Democrats are in favor of requiring photo ID to vote. Sen. Adam Schiff disagrees, telling ABC News&#8217; <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> that it is “another way to simply try to suppress the vote.” <a href="https://t.co/Sp8hHSWy8u">https://t.co/Sp8hHSWy8u</a> <a href="https://t.co/2sHLJlXXjL">pic.twitter.com/2sHLJlXXjL</a>
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On CNN&#8217;s &#8220;state of the Union,&#8221; Jeffries could easily have been reading from the same script as Schiff as he responded to a similar lines of questioning from anchor Dana Bash.
&#8220;I understand that you don&#8217;t support things like a passport, for example,&#8221; Bash began. &#8220;But requiring basic ID in order to vote is really popular. A Pew poll from a few months ago showed 83% of Americans, including 71% of your fellow Democrats, support requiring an ID to vote. Why are they wrong?&#8221;
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Why are Democrats against ensuring only Americans are voting in American elections? <a href="https://t.co/JW7gKIRAN0">pic.twitter.com/JW7gKIRAN0</a>
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&#8220;I haven&#8217;t said that they&#8217;re wrong,&#8221; Jeffries insisted before explaining why he was still opposed to the measure. &#8220;We know that states are the ones that are empowered to conduct elections, and every state should be allowed to decide the best way to proceed to ensure that there&#8217;s a free and fair election.&#8221;
&#8220;The question is that — what Republicans are trying to do is to engage in clear and blatant voter suppression,&#8221; he added.
Neither one explained why it was &#8220;suppression&#8221; to require voters to have the same kind of identification already required for people who want to purchase alcohol or cigarettes, travel by air, open a bank account, pick up a prescription, or receive government benefits — among other things.

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A year in the political wilderness has united Democrats in their hatred of President Trump’s policies. From the ICE raids to the tariffs to the supposed “cover-up” of the Epstein files — a strange “cover-up” indeed, as it involved President Trump arresting Jeffrey Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and then carrying out the single largest declassification in American history.
No matter the facts, Democrats hate what President Trump has done. They screech their displeasure from headshot boxes on cable news to the streets of Minneapolis. Yet ask Democrats what they would do instead, and they fall mute. I learned this from my debate with the crown prince of young Democrat commentary, Harry Sisson, and his fellow traveler Chris Mowrey in the latest episode of Bar Fight.
Neither presidents Barack Obama nor Joe Biden focused a moment’s thought on Jeffrey Epstein; President Trump alone has taken proactive measures to bring justice in the case. Nonetheless, the young Democrats Sisson and Mowrey object to Trump’s handling of it. What would they do? Who would they prosecute? They can’t quite say.
Trump’s tariffs have wreaked havoc on the economy, the young Democrats claim, amid all-time stock-market highs, real wage gains, month-over-month rent price declines, low unemployment, low inflation, and a GDP that keeps beating expectations. Okay. What sort of policies would they have him pursue instead? What economic ends do they even desire? Free trade or reindustrialization? Real wage growth or mass migration? Bueller? Bueller?
The ICE raids somehow threaten our democracy, which one recalls voted for those very same raids fourteen months ago. All right. Whatever their objection to the raids, do the young Democrats at least agree that the illegal aliens must go? Yes? Or, well, no. Maybe? Harry had the good sense to change the subject, while his friend Chris simply refused to answer—a predictable evasion for which Harry still owes me twenty bucks.
Democrats are poised to make major gains in the midterm elections. They’ve honed their complaints. The only thing they lack is a sense of what they want to do instead.
You can watch our whole discussion on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/bfs-260207-sub?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel">latest episode of Bar Fight</a>, exclusively on DailyWire+.

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The following is an edited transcript excerpt of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1906-libs-in-minneapolis-create-their-own-border-patrol?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.
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Liberals in Minnesota have had it with ICE raids and Border Patrol, so they’ve decided to take matters into their own hands with a novel plan to keep the people they don’t want out of their communities.
They are, quite literally, creating a system to control who comes and goes.
In the middle of the road at 32nd and Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis, activists erected a makeshift roadblock, turning the intersection into a roundabout. Cars slowed as drivers noticed. Some honked, others asked questions. One man even brought food for the people standing watch.
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When asked how it felt to see a community checkpoint in his neighborhood, one local shrugged it off. It felt “fine,” he said. He didn’t have any trouble with people “helping out.”
<blockquote>Wade Haynes has been standing at that corner twice a day for one reason: to stand up against ICE activity and “keep his community safe.” He chose that corner. Others chose other intersections. He found it inspiring. “Wow,” he said. “We’ve got folks out there who are kind of taking care of us, looking out for us.”</blockquote>
Taking care of them? Looking out for them?
Some might say policing their communities.
And the way they’re doing it is by erecting structures in the street on the corners — stopping points. Some might even call them “borders,” staffed by people who check to make sure that only the right people get into the community, and that the people they don’t want stay out.
Many people, including some on the Right, have questioned President Trump’s tactics in Minneapolis. But you can’t argue with results — and the results of the Minneapolis raids are that Trump got anti-ICE liberals to invent Border Patrol.
That’s the beautiful part.
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Trump actually trolled the Minneapolis Left into reinventing everything they claim to oppose: border patrol, wall checkpoints, cops, enforcement. “We need our own ICE to deport these ICE agents,” they cry, without a trace of irony.
This is what always seems to happen when utopians on the Left — of all stripes — dream up their perfect society.
They start by declaring that society as it exists is no good:
<blockquote>We’ve got markets. We’ve got people making money. We’ve got private property. We’ve got exploitation — we don’t want any of that, man! 
So what are we going to do? We’re going to move to a commune. A farm in the middle of nowhere. It’s going to be beautiful — not like this city, not like this town. We’re going to live together in harmony. Some people are going to grow the food. Some people are going to bake the bread. Some people are going to watch the kids. It’s going to be amazing. We’re going to have a diversity of labor.</blockquote>
Oh, you mean we’re going to have a market economy?
<blockquote>Well, yeah, but this time it will be perfect. And we’re all going to take care of each other, man.</blockquote>
Oh, you mean like police?
<blockquote>Yeah, man.</blockquote>
And so, without realizing it, they invent society as it has always existed — just with the assumption that this time, they’ll do it right.
<blockquote>That’s the problem with our society, they say. We just didn’t do it right.</blockquote>
And now, in Minneapolis, they’ve reinvented Border Patrol.
It’s so beautiful.
So I say: take them at their word.
Yes, we do need people to keep our communities safe. 
Yes, we do need checkpoints to keep the people we don’t want out. 
Yes, we do need a group of people to take care of the community.
If that’s what they believe, then flood Minneapolis with even more ICE agents, Mr. President.

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Alex Pretti died amid a breakdown of public order in Minneapolis, where local authorities — just as they did in 2020 — allowed unrest to steadily escalate without effective intervention.
We’ll never know exactly what went wrong in the chaotic melee of organized harassment, noise, and obstruction of federal agents by bodies and vehicles in Minneapolis. But the circumstances were there, day after day, that made serious injury or death inevitable at some point. If not Pretti, then someone else.
Senior federal officials made assertions about Pretti’s intent before waiting for the full facts. Meanwhile, the national media instantly presented him as a hapless observer expressing his free speech rights, ruthlessly gunned down by out-of-control agents. A more complicated picture emerged later, with <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/new-video-appears-to-show-alex-pretti-interaction-with-ice-officers-over-a-week-before-his-death/__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1YWglO78AoKLMmCbIp5LYqidTnqAKyS7FBZyDlg1tU-Sndjw0XJyRSPD1VXk0ps5dvD4NajfhN3cuENrujMsSSHEfFA$">video</a> of Pretti some days earlier spitting on a DHS car and kicking out the taillights. Independent reporting also revealed national <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/heres-whos-really-behind-the-minneapolis-ice-resistance-movement/__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1YWglO78AoKLMmCbIp5LYqidTnqAKyS7FBZyDlg1tU-Sndjw0XJyRSPD1VXk0ps5dvD4NajfhN3cuENrujMsTAbAYVE$">funding</a> and <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/minnesota-signal-gate-did-lt-134523155.html__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1YWglO78AoKLMmCbIp5LYqidTnqAKyS7FBZyDlg1tU-Sndjw0XJyRSPD1VXk0ps5dvD4NajfhN3cuENrujMsMiUYchA$">organization</a> of the supposedly organic and local anti-ICE protests.
Politicians in Washington opportunistically pounced on this premise to attack DHS funding.
With the chaos on the ground, it’s easy to lose track of the big picture. The strategy of the Left, led by its most extreme activists but now supported by mainstream elected officials, is to neuter or end enforcement of immigration law inside the country.
Gone are the days of Bill Clinton, who signed a 1996 law that increased penalties for entering the United States illegally and made it easier to deport illegal aliens. Even Obama mostly accepted his duty to enforce United States immigration law, admitting that he couldn’t wave a magic wand and allow every illegal alien to stay.
Joe Biden’s presidency changed all that. Emboldened by their success under Obama with DACA and other measures to weaken enforcement, and unrestrained by Biden’s out-to-lunch management, Left-wing activists went to town.
Catch-and-release at the border, unlawful mass parole, and billions of taxpayer dollars to grease the machinery brought millions into the country over four years.
Back in office, Trump quickly shut down the open border. Things got stickier when it came to interior enforcement to carry out the deportations ordered by immigration judges after due process. In states where local law enforcement honored ICE detainers, criminal aliens could be picked up safely inside government facilities. In “sanctuary” jurisdictions — which include many major United States cities — it was extremely difficult.
The Trump administration chose to go in hard, with high-visibility arrests in resistant Democrat-run cities that energized his base voters but made uncomfortable viewing for many Americans who want law enforcement but don’t like seeing how it sometimes must be done.
The legacy media would have you believe that the Pretti shooting changed people’s minds in Washington and led Democrats to call for defunding ICE — and even some Republicans question continued funding without certain changes. But don’t be fooled — even before Minneapolis, immigration activists and the politicians they elected did not accept the deportation of any foreign national, whatever the law said or the courts decided.
If you asked the protesters in Minneapolis whether any alien should ever be deported from the United States, and if so, for what reasons, I doubt they would admit to any. “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wpaonline.org/black-female-leaders-in-the-criminal-justice-reform-movement/__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1YWglO78AoKLMmCbIp5LYqidTnqAKyS7FBZyDlg1tU-Sndjw0XJyRSPD1VXk0ps5dvD4NajfhN3cuENrujMsDWhzCXI$">Abolitionists</a>” on the Left want to end criminal justice as we know it, and that includes immigration law.
Minnesota politicians like Tim Walz and Jacob Frey speak of all migrants as “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/minneapolis-protests-and-the-role-of-state-controlled-national-guard/__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1YWglO78AoKLMmCbIp5LYqidTnqAKyS7FBZyDlg1tU-Sndjw0XJyRSPD1VXk0ps5dvD4NajfhN3cuENrujMsBZuKjpA$">neighbors</a>,” and “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/doj-launches-investigation-into-walz-frey-for-allegedly-impeding-law-enforcement-minnesota-minneapolis-ice-shooting-renee-nicole-good__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1YWglO78AoKLMmCbIp5LYqidTnqAKyS7FBZyDlg1tU-Sndjw0XJyRSPD1VXk0ps5dvD4NajfhN3cuENrujMssic7YgU$">fellow Minnesotans</a>,” as if those are attributes conveyed simply by physical, and not legal, presence. They do not accept a distinction between legal and illegal aliens.
Indeed, that is now the underlying philosophy of the “progressive” Left. They believe everyone should be allowed to enter the country and apply for asylum, and that even those unqualified should not be deported. They want all the “newcomers” to be able to tap into federal welfare programs. (And if they commit fraud to get benefits to which they are not entitled, we should go easy on them because to prosecute non-Europeans for crime is “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ilcm.org/latest-news/targeted-ice-enforcement-of-somali-community-in-minnesota-is-racist-and-islamophobic/__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1YWglO78AoKLMmCbIp5LYqidTnqAKyS7FBZyDlg1tU-Sndjw0XJyRSPD1VXk0ps5dvD4NajfhN3cuENrujMspQSBMJc$">racist” or “Islamophobic</a>”).
In Minneapolis, hundreds of people, led by well-funded political activists, are deliberately pushing the envelope of free speech beyond protest into physical action.
What is their goal? It is not to be heard, because everyone knows their views. It is not to have a conversation, because they are aware that the tactical-level agents they confront have no authority to stop operations.
The goal is to intimidate the federal government to stop enforcing laws in Minneapolis — to nullify federal law. The physical confrontations are designed to provoke a reaction — ideally not lethal, but some photogenic verbal or violent response to elicit sympathy. Whistles, screaming, throwing objects, blocking roads, and insulting armed officers at close range are orchestrated mayhem with a purpose.
In Minneapolis, the tactics may have worked, for now. President Trump may have concluded that the political benefit of urban confrontations is outweighed by the risk of defections from vulnerable Republicans and the alienation of swing voters marinating in mainstream media.
Political reality often outweighs objective truth and black-letter law. Trump’s border has been a massive success. And while the battle over interior enforcement isn’t over, in Minneapolis, the open-borders Left won a skirmish.
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Simon Hankinson is a senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center and author of “The Ten Woke Commandments (You Must Not Obey)” from Academica Books.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
This article has been edited for clarity.

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The following is an edited transcript excerpt from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1905-lib-mom-threatens-to-murder-her-kids-because-of-ice?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.
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Five years ago, the big issue in America that showed the impaired judgment of Democrats was transgenderism. It&#8217;s not that guys playing on girls tennis teams or guys going into the girls bathroom were the biggest issues, it&#8217;s that those were the issues that most clearly showed the impairment of judgment among Democrats. You don&#8217;t know what a woman is? Then you don&#8217;t know anything. That&#8217;s why it was such a big issue.
Now, in 2026, the question is, what is an American? What is a nation?
The big issue has now shifted from transgenderism to immigration. And that&#8217;s what largely impelled Trump to a popular vote victory. It’s also what&#8217;s causing the riots in the streets, because most Americans voted for mass deportations. But the liberals don&#8217;t want to give up their mass migration strategy because they are counting on mass migration to fundamentally alter the demographics and the political order of America so that they can have a permanent electoral majority.
Which leads us to the protests over ICE.
Why are unhinged white liberal men and women going out and provoking cops to shoot them on behalf of protecting mass migration?
Why are mothers and CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/us/teenage-brothers-ice-watchers-minneapolis?Date=20260202&amp;Profile=CNN&amp;utm_content=1770064615&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">encouraging</a> young teenage boys to skip school, to obstruct law enforcement and put themselves in dangerous situations?
What is the political unrest all about?
Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, just told us on C-SPAN.
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA): &#8220;I have deep concerns about the fairness of our elections in &#8217;26 and &#8217;28…If it doesn’t scare the heck out of you, it should.&#8221;
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Senator Warner says,
<blockquote>I remember back, you know, a year ago at this time when people would often ask me when they were seeing the actions of the Trump administration, you know, do you think we&#8217;ll have free and fair elections in 26 or in 28? And my response at that point was, you know, I think you&#8217;re overreacting. I have deep concerns about the fairness of our elections in 26 and 28. Right now. I have concerns about the elections in primaries in our country. I have a lot of concerns about the elections that may take place in Virginia in terms of a redistricting referendum.</blockquote>
We were told for about five years that anyone who ever questions the legitimacy of elections is a terrible, insurrectionist traitor who needs to be thrown in solitary confinement.
And now Mark Warner, based on nothing, is already questioning the legitimacy of the 2026 and 2028 elections, including primaries.
It&#8217;s very strange, especially because when conservatives raised questions about the election in 2020, it was after the libs had changed all the election rules, in some cases illegally and unconstitutionally.
So there was this huge change. I think it was fair to question the elections in that specific, once in a lifetime circumstance where you just change all the election rules, you get rid of a lot of the protections that protect against fraud.
But before 2020, it was basically only the Democrats who questioned elections, and they questioned Bush v. Gore, taking that one all the way to the Supreme Court.
They didn&#8217;t really question in 2004 because Bush won it so handily. Then they won in 2008 and in 2012. They changed election rules in 2020. And now, just after the 2024 election, they&#8217;re already saying 2026 and 2028 are going to be rigged.
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So, it means they&#8217;re probably not feeling as good about the upcoming elections as they previously did. Also, they&#8217;re trying to set the stage for political violence, for political unrest. That&#8217;s why these riots are happening now.
Notice, the riots weren&#8217;t happening in the first part of the year with the Trump administration. You had mass deportations almost immediately and they weren&#8217;t really kicking up then. Well, it&#8217;s kicking up now that we&#8217;re looking ahead to the midterms, and they probably started it a little too early. Winter is not the best time to riot, especially when the libs who are too sensitive don&#8217;t like the cold that much.
But that&#8217;s what this is about. The reason the unrest is kicking up almost immediately after 2026 begins is because this is all about the elections they want to win. They have two objectives here: First, they want to create great instability that will allow them to exert more control over elections, which always opens up the question of fraud. Second, they want to make a threat. And the threat is: we&#8217;re going to keep violently rioting if we don&#8217;t get our way.
That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re after. It&#8217;s all about elections.
We will see if their strategy works. As an issue, however, the immigration matter works well for the GOP. Republicans are completely on the right side of immigration by basically any public opinion poll.
In terms of the political violence, though, the Left just might be able to ram their way through.
That remains to be seen.

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