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Sunday, May 10, 2026

The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!

The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!

For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions.

Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, and Social Security were their trademarks -- often rapidly achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative.

By the 1970s, Democrats still deplored antisemitism. Party officials had rejected their own segregationists to champion civil rights.

Presidents like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy all supported strong defense and military deterrence.

All that is now passe.

So, the current Democrat Party is no longer truly democratic at all. Its new spirit and methods resemble the radical Jacobin Party of the French Revolution. Today, Democrats claim that if any opponent gives a Roman salute, he is a Nazi -- while insisting that one of their own with a Nazi tattoo is not.

Jacobinism rejects Martin Luther King Jr.'s emphasis on the "content of . . . character." It instead prefers fixating on "the color of . . . skin."

It aims to divide the nation arbitrarily between the noble oppressed and the toxic oppressors.

So these new Jacobins have institutionalized racially separate college dorms and graduation ceremonies, along with hiring and promoting on the basis of race.

The new Jacobins destroyed the southern border and welcomed in 10-12 million illegal aliens, seen as a future proletariat constituency. Today's Jacobins would now ridicule Bill Clinton's 1990s calls for secure borders and an end to illegal immigration as "fascist" and "racist."

The most recent nihilist developments in American society can be attributed to these Jacobin "Democrats": biological men competing in women's sports; critical legal theory that normalizes cashless bail; race-based reparations; violent felons arrested and back on the street hours later; radical abortion on demand until birth; attacks on the concept of the cultural "melting pot"; and opposition to organized Christianity.

These agendas lack broad majority support. So street theater and violence focus on Tesla dealerships, ICE officers, conservative campus speakers, and, at times, any journalists covering the unrest.

Jacobins make excuses for pro-Hamas campus violence, which often targets Jewish students. The often violent and corrupt Black Lives Matter movement was a Jacobin ancillary.

Free speech is labeled "disinformation" and "misinformation" – synonyms for not toeing the Jacobin Party line. Until recent pushbacks, near-religious radical green agendas warred against fossil fuels and cost the working classes billions of dollars for sky-high fuel and electricity costs.

Like the Robespierre brothers of old, the most radical Jacobins are so often to be found among the wealthiest and most privileged Americans. Radical New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani grew up as a rich Ugandan. Radical, self-described communist Maine senatorial candidate Graham Platner attended one of the most elite and expensive prep schools in the United States.

When avowed socialists Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders barnstormed the country, they did so via private jets.

Radical "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar cannot decide whether she is worth $30 million or nothing. Hard-left California billionaire, gubernatorial candidate, and radical environmentalist Tom Steyer is a billionaire who jump-started his fortune by investing in coal plants overseas and offshoring profits to avoid taxes.

At least 10 states are drafting laws to tax the net worth, as well as the income, of "billionaires and millionaires," apparently for their "social" crimes. Mayor Mamdani taps on the window of philanthropist Ken Griffin as a warning to get out of town. The mayor of Seattle scoffs at the rich leaving her state with their billions due to new punitive taxes, offering a sarcastic "bye."

In the old days, Democrats were embarrassed by their radicals and distanced themselves from the Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Black Panthers. Today, left-wing bomb throwers are the Democrat Party.

Hasan Piker, another multimillionaire, $200,000 Porsche-driving communist, has openly supported "social murder."

So Piker praised Luigi Mangione's targeted murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Meanwhile, Jacobins on social media expressed disappointment that all three assassination attempts on Donald Trump failed. The arsonist who burned down Pacific Palisades was a Mangione acolyte and saw his destruction as a revolutionary act, perhaps a form of mass "social murder."

Jacobin politicians call for Trump to be "eliminated," label him as a "fascist," and call for "any means necessary" to end his presidency. The aim is to lower the social and psychological barrier to violence.

The Jacobin Democrats of today are systematically destroying the legacy of the Democratic Party. And why not?

Their model is not the American Founding, but the radical mandated equality – and violence – of the French Revolution.

https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2026/05/07/the-democratic-party-is-dead-long-live-the-jacobins-n2675694?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-ttmwvR3qBX&utm_term=&_nlid=ttmwvR3qBX&_nhids=ncGAXF4aFjebls

What Does He Know? Dan Bongino Offers Chilling Warning to Barack Obama.

What Does He Know? Dan Bongino Offers Chilling Warning to Barack Obama.

Matt Margolis

I still can’t believe that Barack Obama had the audacity to lecture Americans during his recent interview with Stephen Colbert about presidents misusing the Justice Department.

"The White House shouldn't be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever," Obama said. "The idea is that the attorney general is the people's lawyer. It's not the president's consigliere."

As I’ve pointed out before, the only president who arguably weaponized his Justice Department more than Barack Obama was Joe Biden. Barack Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, literally called himself Obama’s wingman. And, of course, Merrick Garland tried to put President Donald Trump in prison.

"Barack Hussein Obama is the king of weaponization," White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement. “And documents declassified last year revealed he was present for key meetings that led to critical steps in the opening of the Russia Hoax investigation against President Trump." Jackson added that "President Trump has restored integrity to the Department of Justice that Obama and Biden broke."

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Of course, Colbert never challenged the insinuation that Trump is the one weaponizing the Justice Department. But Dan Bongino was just as furious about Obama’s comments as I was — and the warning he fired back should make Obama very nervous.

The former FBI Deputy Director fired back hard on his radio show. The warning he delivered wasn't vague, and it wasn't polite.

"I'm gonna tell you, because what Barack Obama, former president, said the other day on, was it Colbert's show? No, no, no. We're not... No, no. Sorry. No, we're not, we're not doing that," Bongino said. "You know, I know things too, Mr. President, and so do you. Not pretending I was at your level. You were the president. I was just the deputy director of the FBI, but it's not a small thing, and I'm not letting you get away with this. No chance."

That is not the language of a talk show host venting into a microphone. That's a man with institutional knowledge, speaking directly to a former president who apparently understands exactly what's being left unsaid.

Bongino stopped short of specifying what information he was sitting on, which is precisely what makes the warning so striking. As the former FBI deputy director, he doesn't deal in rumors. He’s had access to files, briefings, intelligence, and the kind of details that never make it onto cable news until someone decides the time is right.

What was Bongino talking about? Rumors on social media suggest it involves the Russian collusion hoax, surveillance, and unmasking, with details that might soon surface. His message to Obama is a clear warning: don’t push this.

I think Obama wants to play the role of the elder statesman riding back into town to defend democratic norms. What he’s getting instead is a reminder that he left skeletons behind when he left office, and based on what Bongino said, those skeletons won’t be secret forever.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/09/dan-bongino-offers-chilling-warning-to-barack-obama-n4952671?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

It's Going to Be a Long, Very Hot Summer in Blue Cities

It's Going to Be a Long, Very Hot Summer in Blue Cities

David Strom

Expect more riots. More political assassination attempts (hopefully thwarted). More attacks on Jews and synagogues.

More of everything that is tearing our society apart.

Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars are flooding into radical organizations from billionaires both here and abroad, and God knows how much from the Chinese Communist Party. Democrats have been doubling down on their violent rhetoric, even after the latest assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Expect it to get worse, not better. The ICE riots in Minneapolis took place during a nasty cold snap, yet the protesters turned out. Nurses described their murder fantasies of using drugs to paralyze and kill agents, hotel workers tipped off protesters who stormed hotels, and restaurant workers posted about poisoning the food of law enforcement officers.

And that was all about defending rapists and paedos. The riots over the summer will be about everything, because they are not about the issues, but about the Revolution™.

Riots at synagogues will become a thing, and if you don't expect that random Jews will be targeted for beatings or perhaps worse, you are being naive. The level of rage being directed at them is off the charts, and the Democratic Party is basically endorsing it.

I expect looting, more shootings on the street. It got very little attention, but there was a shooting on the Washington Mall of a man with a gun who was watching Vice President Vance's limousine. It's unclear if there was a threat to him, but there will be.

Texas Man Charged in Shooting at Secret Service Agent Near the Washington Monument on the National Mall
“We will prove this defendant carried an illegal firearm into the heart of Washington, D.C., opened fire at Secret Service officers near a crowded intersection, and shot an innocent bystander who was simply crossing the street with his family,” said @USAttyPirro. “My office will pursue the most serious charges available against anyone who brings gun violence to our streets, particularly when that violence unfolds steps from the seat of our government and the path of the Vice President of the United States.

Add to the political violence the general mayhem found on Blue city streets.

NEW: Police seize nearly 80 dirt-bikes and ATVs after trapping dozens of teens during an illegal street takeover on a California bridge (HELICOPTER FOOTAGE)
Video shows riders trying to push through traffic to get out, before realizing every exit was blocked
Most of them ended up abandoning their bikes and running on foot\
Nine people were arrested, including one who tried to hide in the water. Police also recovered two firearms and impounded several vehicles used in the takeover

During the George Floyd riots in 2020, much of the destruction was in the service of looting, not to make a political statement. We remember the burning down of the Third Precinct and all the political statements, but for many, the riots were just an excuse to loot and destroy. Lawlessness begets lawlessness.

Antifa is ready. The No Kings people are ready. Schools and colleges will soon be out, so the ground troops will be available. All they are waiting for is for all the stars to align, and the rioting will begin.

This is a prediction, not a news report. I see everything building, but I have been wrong before. Perhaps I am too cynical, but I expect this summer to be bad in preparation for the midterms.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/06/its-going-to-be-a-long-very-hot-summer-in-blue-cities-n3814673

Democrats Say 'Heil Platner!'

Democrats Say 'Heil Platner!'

Kurt Schlichter

Democrats Say 'Heil Platner!' — *AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File*

With the recusal of ancient Governor Janet Mills—she was just too normal to compete in today's slippery-slope-to-totalitarianism Donkey Party—Maine’s Democrats are about to nominate a guy who generates more punchlines than a Don Rickles roast. He’s really got it all. He’s stupid, offensive, a spoiled rich kid, a commie, and so much more. His schtick is that he’s just a working-class oysterman, a stubble-bearded blue-collar guy who’s going to give all those billionaires who are oppressing Mainers what for. But when anybody thinks of him, they’re thinking of him as Herr Oberstoysterfuhrer.

You know, the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

Let’s understand that it’s not just a Nazi tattoo. It’s a Nazi tattoo, squared. The swastika was not enough for this guy. He had to take it to the next level. He had to go get the Totenkopf, which is the symbol of the guys who ran the concentration camps, ground into his pecs. He didn’t just get a pin from one of their caps and keep it in a drawer. It’s not on a T-shirt. He lay back and endured considerable physical pain to have somebody etch it into his skin forever. And again, it’s not enough for him to be showing solidarity with the Nazis as he goose-steps across the stage. He’s got to show solidarity with the specific Nazis who specifically murdered the Jews specifically. But see, that’s on-brand, because he doesn’t like the Jews very much. And Jews, don’t you feel special, because he doesn’t seem to like anybody. Thank you, Internet, where nothing ever dies. That's how we know how he feels about blacks, gays, Christians, women who say “No,”and Mainers. Summing it up, he’s not a fan.

But hey, maybe we’re being a little hard on him. To be sure, he’s got some excuses about why it’s not his fault that he was running around with a Nazi tattoo for most of his adult life. After all, who among us hasn't spent a couple of decades with a symbol of genocidal mass murder imprinted just underneath his right nipple? Well, all of us, but let’s hear Himmler out. He claims he had no idea what it was. Sure, for decades he had no idea what the thing he paid money for some guy to grind into he flesh was. When he saw "Schindler’s List," whose happy ending ruined it for him, he must have thought it looked cool and failed to connect the dots.

That’s Excuse Number One, that he's a half-wit. Excuse Number Two is, “Well, I was in the military, and you know how they are, and I just kind of fell in with that bad crowd.” Yes, he’s blaming the military for his Nazi tattoo. The guy is adding blue falconry to his lengthy list of personal failures. I spent 27 years in the military and never met one single guy with a Nazi tattoo. Maybe I just didn’t get around as much. Maybe we didn’t run in the same circles. Or maybe he’s just That Guy, the problem child dirtbag that every single unit has, and who everyone wants to throw a blanket party for.

Now, there’s a third possibility, and it’s not really an excuse. It’s that he is lying. He totally knew what Der Tramp Stampen was and liked it and got it on purpose and only covered it when he got recruited for this Senate campaign, but before it became known. Being entirely consistent with his entire worldview, this explanation seems the most likely one. After all, he’s a big fan of Hamas, and Hamas feels about Jews like…well, Graham Platner feels about Jews. By the way, this is the first time I mentioned his name, yet you knew exactly who I was talking about—the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

Yet, Maine Democrats seem to like this guy, though not as much as out-of-staters, who gave him 87% of his cash. He’s loud and stupid, and that seems to be the Democrat vibe du jour for 2026. He’ll certainly fit in in the Dem Senate caucus—with his insistence that all chicks are just asking for it, he’ll be a great running buddy for Ruben Gallego now that Eric Swalwell’s been #MeToo’d into oblivion. Ladies, you've been warned!

Establishment Democrats are very nervous, as they should be, because, you know, the guy has a Nazi tattoo, and all the rationalizations of lefty podcaster, politicians, and commie randos can't rationalize that away. They are still trying, but it is tough because, you know, it’s a Nazi tattoo, and they just spent a month faking outrage at Elon Musk for waving at people, as if that was evidence he wanted to be the headliner at Nuremberg.

Their new argument is that “OK, he had a Nazi tattoo, but do you really think he’s an actual Nazi? Come on! He’s not a national socialist. He’s a different kind of socialist!” He did call himself a “communist,” and he explicitly channels Bernie Sanders, so all the pieces fit. Maybe he doesn’t idolize Hitler. Instead, he idolizes Stalin.

He’s on the record as stating that, “I am not a secret Nazi.” Well, when you get a Nazi tattoo, it’s not much of a secret. It brings to mind the 2010 Delaware Senate race when Christine O’Donnell (R-Salem) declared, “I’m not a witch.” And she’s not a senator either.

So, how is this rich kid cosplaying as a working man going to play in Maine, where its famously independent voters have elected the only Republican in all of New England? He’s up against Susan Collins, the moderate Republican beloved by many of us hard-core right-wingers for her toughness and dedication to her state, as well as coming through with common sense when we need it. Go ahead and think that Susan Collins isn’t as right-wing as she could be—I think she could be more right-wing, but I don’t get a vote because I’m not from Maine. She’s a splash of red in a sea of blue, and that’s good enough. In fact, you’d love to live in a city run by the likes of Susan Collins. She’s not a bomb thrower like we are; she’s just a solid, good-government type with integrity. In a city run by Susan Collins, you could leave your keys in your car, there’d be no potholes, and the only crime to speak of would be a bunch of rowdy teens tee-peeing a moose. In a city run by Graham Platner, you’d have hobos squatting on the street corners, drug addicts infesting the park, and sinkholes on Main Street. The only difference between a city where Platner is der Fuhrer—I mean “mayor”—and a regular Democrat blue city is that he would probably order his municipal employees to invade Poland.

All the polls say Susan Collins is down, but don’t buy it. After all, Platner’s volk were looking like they’d win in 1942, but this election’s not until the figurative 1945. All the polls in 2020—and I mean all of them—had Susan Collins polling down against the relatively normal Democrat who was running against her then. And by normal Democrat, I mean somebody who was socialist-adjacent but who doesn’t literally have a Nazi tattoo imprinted onto her décolletage. And Collins still beat her handily.

That’s the thing about Maine. Maine voters are rugged and independent, and they clearly don’t like outsiders telling them who they’re going to vote for. The normal ones are not going to talk to pollsters. The Democrats, in what passes for Maine’s big city, are more than happy to explain to a pollster that, “Yes, I’m delighted about the opportunity to vote for the guy with a Nazi tattoo. He’s better than Donald Trump because Donald Trump is a Nazi, you know.”

But here’s another thing about Susan Collins. She’s not a novelty act like this freak. She’s a real politician, an old-school one. She and the GOP are going to make sure everyone knows about this degenerate commie poser. She’s also the chair of the Senate’s Appropriations Committee. That means she spends money. That means there are tens of thousands of Mainers who owe her their jobs. She delivers. Do you think if Graham Platner gets elected, a Republican Senate—the Dems will not take the Senate, partly due to candidates like this guy—is going to send one cent to Bath Iron Works and reward him? Ha! Let’s see if you can eat hatred for Donald Trump, because that’s what’s on the menu in Maine if you lose Susan Collins.

This Dummkopf with the Totenkopf is going to get his tail kicked all over the Maple Syrup State by Susan Collins. He’s going to waste a ton of money because out-of-staters think they’re somehow going to tell Mainers what to do. Ha! Maine is the graveyard of Susan Collins’s challengers, and next November she’s going to bury Lil’ Adolf with the rest her political opponents. And the beautiful thing is, the next time the Democrats start whining about how Republicans are Nazis, we’re going to smile and say, “At least we didn’t vote for the guy with the Nazi tattoo.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/05/07/democrats-say-heil-platner-n2675639?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-ZfVRusQQXU&utm_term=&_nlid=ZfVRusQQXU&_nhids=nc1pYuvZFz4kls

Saturday, May 9, 2026

Kash Patel Says FBI Lied to Obtain Warrant to Spy on 2016 Trump Campaign

Kash Patel Says FBI Lied to Obtain Warrant to Spy on 2016 Trump Campaign

Jeff Charles

Kash Patel Says FBI Lied to Obtain Warrant to Spy on 2016 Trump Campaign — *AP Photo/Seth Wenig*

FBI Director Kash Patel said the Bureau lied to obtain warrants to spy on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

This has been an ongoing issue ever since it was revealed that forces within the FBI and other agencies sought to use their positions to prevent Trump from winning the election and also to disrupt his presidency.

From Fox News:

FBI Director Kash Patel accused the FBI of lying to obtain surveillance warrants to illegally spy on President Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and subsequent first term.
Trump has long accused his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, and former President Barack Obama of being ringleaders in an alleged spying conspiracy against his campaign, an allegation both have denied. Patel detailed the yearslong federal investigation into the alleged surveillance on the latest episode of "Hang Out with Sean Hannity."
"It took me two years of my life to prove the following: that a political party in the United States of America in the 21st century would go overseas and hire some bogus intelligence asset to manufacture fraudulent, fake, unverified information, funnel that to not just the intelligence community, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation," he said.
"And then take those packaged lies that they had paid for with campaign finance funds and go into a secret surveillance court and illegally spy on your opponent to be the president of the United States."
Patel's comments come as scrutiny intensifies over the federal government’s use of spying power and following Congress’ renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for 45 days.
Section 702 of FISA permits authorized U.S. officials to collect phone calls and text messages of foreign targets, but in doing so can also capture Americans’ communications – a piece of legislation Trump strongly opposes.
Patel told Fox News that FISA warrants – some signed by former FBI Director James Comey – were used to illegally spy on Trump and top officials, including himself, during the 2016 campaign and in years that followed.

"I was illegally spied on by the likes of Rod Rosenstein (former U.S. deputy attorney general) and Chris Wray (former FBI director) and 10 other staffers on the Hill and people who were elected to serve this country in the halls of Congress,” Patel said.

He noted that the warrants were later rescinded by the FISA court in 2018.

National security hawks argue that the measure is necessary for monitoring terrorists, cyber threats, drug traffickers, and other foreign dangers. Conversely, civil liberties advocates argue that it empowers the federal government to incidentally collect Americans’ communications without seeking a warrant.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/05/06/kash-patel-says-fbi-lied-to-obtain-warrant-to-spy-on-2016-trump-campaign-n2675626?utm_source=thdailypmvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-9qAV6NZmUB&utm_term=&_nlid=9qAV6NZmUB&_nhids=ncM71F6kIEqbls

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