A Washington Post opinion writer came out swinging against Democrats who complained he hasn’t been tougher on President Donald Trump.

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    Shadi Hamid wrote Monday, “I’m more critical of Democrats precisely because I expect more from them.”

    Ok…

    On the other hand, “Democrats consistently fall short of the very ideals they profess to champion.”

    With you so far…

    Examples of Democrats’ “hypocrisy,” according to Hamid, include, preaching tolerance and inclusion “while marginalizing pro-life Democrats, talking down to Black and brown voters, ignoring religious conservatives and dismissing the growing ranks of Americans who felt the party had become too radical on issues such as gender identity. On policy, what was once the working-class party chose to prioritize things such as college debt relief, which disproportionately benefits the wealthy.”

    Who knew the problem with Dems is actually they need to be more conservative? Really what we need is there to be absolutely no distinction between parties at all, not even relatively minor ones. Instead of an ineffective resistance, we, the American public, demand Chuck Schumer to actually give Donald Trump and Elon Musk a blow job live on C-SPAN. Thanks Hamid. Fuck you.

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    Billionaires moving mountains to shift the Overton Window. Near-complete control of the mainstream media to convince the people that their dwindling paychecks, impending layoffs, growing credit card balances, and impossible costs of living are somehow caused by anything other than the greed of the parasite class.

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    If only the WaPo and other media outlets spent even 10% of the effort they waste on Democrats to report on the MAGA fascists Trump wouldn’t be in office.

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    The grand irony of the Democratic establishment morphing into the very elitist caricature they once railed against is almost poetic. Preaching inclusivity while sidelining pro-life voices and Black voters? Classic. They’ve abandoned the working class to chase the approval of coastal thinkfluencers, swapping union halls for Ivy League debt seminars. Hypocrisy as performance art.

    Obsessing over Trump’s buffoonery is a distraction tactic, a way to avoid confronting their own rot. Virtue-signaling about January 6th while ignoring the quiet authoritarianism of their own policy failures. Rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship, but with more hashtags.

    If making Democrats uncomfortable is the price of honesty, then Hamid’s doing the Lord’s work. A party allergic to self-reflection deserves its slow-motion irrelevance. Keep squabbling over pronouns while the world burns.