I am endlessly fascinated by the way the Democratic Party abuses Americans in general, and their own voter in particular. The examples are many, but the most notable ones include their love of illegal immigration, which threatens not only our safety, but makes housing less affordable and suppresses wages on other jobs (thus harming Blacks and women), and their wholehearted embrace of the trans agenda, which not only erases women but strips us of our privacy, our safe spaces, and our ability to compete fairly.
Time and again, Democrats demand these groups continue to vote for them while they continue to treat all of us with obvious contempt.
So when I saw Nate Silver try to argue the problem with the Democratic Party is that they took the high road, I have to ask: when was the last time the Democratic Party took the high road?
Part of what today's piece tries to reconcile with is that "when they go low, we go high" has to be seen as a tactical failure for Democrats. pic.twitter.com/Jtd2uBBxN1
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 25, 2025
This was said by Michelle Obama at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, four years after Barack Obama and Joe Biden accused Mitt Romney of giving a woman cancer, said he would re-enslave Black Americans, and sicced the IRS on conservative non-profit groups to thwart their influence on the 2012 election.
In the decade after that statement, here are just a few examples of the time the Democratic Party took the 'high road:'
After Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump that year, Democrats pushed the fake 'Russian collusion' hoax on the American people, claiming that President Trump collaborated with Vladimir Putin to tip the election in his favor. Opposition to Hillary Clinton and her election loss was rooted not in the American public's profound dislike of the woman but in sexism.
They spent the early months of the first Trump administration calling the president a Nazi and a dictator. On June 14, 2017, Rep. Steve Scalise and others were shot at a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game. Democratic Party fan boy George Takei said the 'universe' was making a social justice statement with the shooting, because the officer who saved Scalise's life happened to be a Black lesbian.
In 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters told Democrats to harass any Trump administration officials they saw in public places, and DHS head Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to leave a Mexican restaurant under the threat of an angry mob (who also targeted her home). That was the same year they accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of being a rapist, claims that were later refuted by the supposed victim -- who had never even met Kavanaugh.
The first attempt to impeach President Trump came in 2019, based on allegations he asked Ukraine to investigate corruption that the Democrats themselves also wanted investigated.
In 2020, Democrats smeared President Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. They attacked her for saying 'sexual preference' instead of 'sexual orientation.' Sen. Maize Hirono asked her if she'd sexually assaulted anyone, and Sen. Tammy Duckworth claimed Barrett believes babies conceived via IVF shouldn't exist. That year, they also let BLM burn our cities to the ground while calling those of us who opposed COVID restrictions 'grandma killers.'
After Joe Biden won the presidential election, he made a point to spend his term smearing Americans as 'White supremacists' and 'domestic terrorists.' His administration targeted pro-lifers and continued the Left's war on the Little Sisters of the Poor while pushing to mandate religious hospitals provide 'gender affirming surgeries.' He gave his infamous red speech in Philly, too.
Throughout all of this, the Democrats continued calling President Trump 'Hitler' and an 'existential threat to democracy' until a lunatic tried to assassinate him in Butler, PA, last July. Even after that, they continue ramping up the violent rhetoric, blaming President Trump for the assassination attempt. Before the 2024 campaign, they promised to put President Trump in prison and tried kicking him off the ballot in a few states.
To 'protect democracy,' of course.
I could write a novel on the myriad ways the Democratic Party has failed to take the high road these past 13 years, and I've barely scratched the surface here. But the fact remains: the reason the Democratic Party is in a shambles today is not because they 'took the high road.'
It's because they got down in the gutter. And they seem determined to stay there.
