If you think the Democrat Party is fractured now—stick around.
It is only going to get worse before it gets any better, especially after Democrats line up in supporting Molotov throwing rioters protesting ICE’s removal of criminal illegal immigrants.
Would that the rioters show such enthusiasm attacking ISIS as they do ICE.
In the end, given President Donald Trump’s determination to rid the country of thousands of illegal immigrant criminals, the anti-law enforcement rioters will end up like ISIS, and ICE will still be standing.
And the fracturing of the rudderless Democrat Party will continue because there is no one to steer the ship. It is all hands on wreck.
The latest example of divisiveness among Democrats is the vote in the U.S. House last week condemning the alleged fiery antisemitic attack on Jewish Americans by Mohamed Soliman, in Boulder, Colorado.
Soliman, an Egyptian who overstayed his visa, was arrested after he allegedly shouted, “Free Palestine,” while throwing Molotov cocktails at Jewish demonstrators, many of them elderly, seeking release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
The resolution was filed by Rep. Gabe Evans, a Republican from Colorado.
Evans’ resolution was approved by the Republican controlled House on a 280 to 113 vote. All the 113 negative votes came from Democrats, three of them from Massachusetts.
However, 75 Democrats voted for the measure even after House Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York railed against it and mocked Evans for filing it.
“Who is this guy?” Jeffries asked. “He’s not seriously concerned with combating antisemitism in America. This is not a serious effort. This guy’s going to be a one term member of Congress. He’s a complete and total embarrassment.”
Evans is a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot who served in Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan, rising to the rank of captain. He later became a police officer who used his flying experience to fight wildfires in Colorado as well to conduct search and rescue operations.
Jeffries never served in the military.
Soliman’s attack came less than two weeks after the two young Israeli embassy staffers where shot and killed outside a Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., by another antisemite fanatic shouting pro-Palestinian slogans.
The three Massachusetts members of the House who followed Jeffries lead and voted against the measure condemning the antisemitic Boulder terrorist attack, were Democrat progressives Katherine Clark of Revere, who is Jeffries minority whip, Ayanna Pressley of Boston, and James McGovern of Worcester.
The trio however, would probably vote to condemn Israeli for its preemptive attack on Iran’ nuclear weapons program, even though Iran has promised to use a nuclear weapon on the U.S.
Jewish American voters in their district and elsewhere will surely take notice come campaign contribution time.
Voting in support of the measure were Reps. Richard Neal of Springfield, Jake Auchincloss of Newton, Seth Moulton of Salem, Stephen Lynch of South Boston, and William Keating of Bourne.
Congresswoman Lori Trahan of Westford, the co-chair of the Democrat Policy and Communications Committee, took a hike and did not vote on the issue, which tells you something.
Ordinarily the state’s nine-member contingent to the U.S. House votes down the line as a unit in favor of Democrat policy as outlined by the party leadership.
But on the issue to standing up to the growing cancer of antisemitism in the country, Democrat politicians in Massachusetts are split locally as they are nationally.
It shouldn’t be that way, but it is, with many Democrats supporting antisemite terrorists rather than American Jews.
And they wonder why their party is falling apart.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: [email protected].
