Understanding Democrats: The Angry, Un-American Party of Violence Dec 13, 2025 1:00 pm By Stephen M. Kirby Leave a Comment
This is not the Democratic Party of your grandfather…This is a new Democratic party. We’re bringing a knife to a knife fight. — Ken Martin, Chair of the Democrat National Committee, August 5, 2025.
Some folks might initially recoil at the harsh assessment the title of my article makes about one of the two major parties in the United States. And there are undoubtedly some Democrats who will disagree with the title of this article and the attitudes and beliefs expressed by other Democrats throughout this article. But I will let the surveys, polls, and quotes from Democrat leaders and elected officials speak for themselves. This is the condition of the Democrat Party today.
Democrats are Angry
In an early 2025 poll, 81% of Democrats believed the Democrat Party needed to be Much/Somewhat More “combative” toward President Trump. [1]
House Democrats speak – July 2025: At town halls in their districts and in one-on-one meetings with constituents and activists, Democratic members of Congress are facing a growing thrum of demands to break the rules, fight dirty – and not be afraid to get hurt. House Democrats told Axios they see a growing anger among their base that has, in some cases, morphed into a disregard for American institutions, political traditions and even the rule of law…Axios spoke to more than two dozen House Democrats for this story, with many requesting anonymity to offer candid insights about their interactions with constituents and activists…“Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot” when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios. “Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” the lawmaker said. A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them “civility isn’t working” and to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy” …A sixth House Democrat said that when they try to persuade voters to channel their frustration into a focus on winning back Congress in 2026, “people who are angry don’t accept that. They’re angry beyond things.” [2]
The Guardian Newspaper – September 2025: Democrats want your attention, and they’re done asking politely. Several months into Donald Trump’s second term, presidential aspirants, members of Congress and party officials are abandoning carefully calibrated messaging in favor of gut-level rhetoric that is angrier, rawer and unapologetically more profane… [3]
A September 2025 Pew Research Center survey found that 44% of Democrat/Lean Democrat felt anger toward the federal government; the survey noted:
Democrats’ anger is higher now than during Republican President Donald Trump’s first term, when a peak of 34% expressed anger. It’s also the highest share expressed by members of either party in surveys dating back to 1997. [4]
Democrats Have Little Pride in the United States and Prefer Socialism
During President Trump’s March 5, 2025, speech before a joint session of Congress, Congressional Democrats refused to applaud for, among other things:
The capturing of an ISIS terrorist that masterminded the Abbey Gate attack
A young boy fighting brain cancer
A call to lower taxes for middle-class Americans
Americans joining the military in record numbers
Law and order
Protecting women’s sports
The United States of America
Working together to Make America Great Again
Recognizing only two sexes
Defeating inflation
Unleashing American energy
Ending waste, fraud, and abuse in government
Securing our border
Restoring American shipbuilding
Improving America’s defenses
Pursuing peace in Ukraine [5]
In June 2025, Gallup asked about being proud to be an American. 92% of Republicans were Extremely/Very Proud, only 36% of Democrats felt the same way. Gallup pointed out that this was a drop among Democrats from 62% in 2024. [6] It is interesting to note that in 2015, during President Obama’s second term, 80% of Democrats were Extremely/Very Proud to be an American; the number for Republicans was 90%. [7]
Also in June 2025, Fox News asked about being proud of the United States. 85% of Republicans said they were proud of the United States; only 36% of Democrats said they were proud. [8]
A July 2025 YouGov report of various polls found that: [9]
- 22% of Democrats described themselves as “Not very patriotic”; 10% of Democrats described themselves as “Not at all patriotic.” Only 7% of Republicans had such views.
- About half of Americans (51%) have an American flag at home. This includes 68% of Republicans and 37% of Democrats.
- Around one-quarter (23%) of Americans say they display an American flag at their home every day, including far more Republicans (38%) than Democrats (11%).
- 57% of Americans correctly think that Republicans are more likely to display an American flag than are Democrats.
- 38% of Democrats do not believe President Trump legitimately won the 2024 election.
Socialism
In September 2025, Gallup asked about views of Capitalism and Socialism. 66% of Democrats had a positive view of Socialism; only 14% of Republicans had such a view. [10]
Democrats Support an Oppresive Government
In January 2022, during the Biden presidency, Rasmussen Reports conducted a COVID-related survey. The survey asked the respondents if they Strong Favor/Somewhat Favor the following:
- President Biden’s plan to impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on the employees of large companies and government agencies? Democrats – 78%, Republicans – 22%.
- Federal or state governments to fine Americans who choose not to get a COVID-19 vaccine? Democrats – 55%, Republicans – 19%.
- Limit the spread of the coronavirus by having federal or state governments require that citizens remain confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine? Democrats – 59%, Republicans – 17%.
- Limit the spread of the coronavirus by having federal or state governments require that citizens temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine? Democrats – 45%, Republicans – 14%.
- Federal or state governments to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications? Democrats – 48%, Republicans – 14%.
- Federal or state governments to require unvaccinated citizens to use a smart phone app or wearable device that tracks unvaccinated people to ensure that they are quarantined or socially distancing from others? Democrats – 47%, Republicans – 13%.
- Temporarily remove parents’ custody of their children if parents refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine? Democrats – 29%, Republicans – 7%. [11]
A disturbingly large percentage of Democrats appeared to have no problem with using federal and state governments to fine or imprison those engaging in free speech, remove people from their homes or confine them to their homes, and track those who refuse to get a COVID shot, among other things. This is reprising life in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. And according to this poll, a lot of Democrats in the United States have no problem with that – apparently as long as they are in charge.
Democrats Support Political Murder and Violent Political Rhetoric
In a September 2024 poll, 55% of Democrats/Lean Democrats said that America would have been better off if Trump had been assassinated in Florida in September 2024; in contrast, GOP/Lean GOP was 8%. 46% of Democrats/Lean Democrats were not sure if America would have been better off; in contrast, GOP/Lean GOP was 9%. [12]
In an April 2025 poll, the National Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University found that 50.2% of left-of-center voters stated “it would be at least somewhat justified to murder” Elon Musk; that number rose to 56% when asked about murdering Donald Trump. And 59.6% of left-of-center voters thought it was acceptable to destroy Tesla dealerships in protest. [13]
According to a September 2025 YouGov poll, 77% of Republicans think it is “always unacceptable” for a person to be happy about the death of a public figure they oppose. Only 38% of Democrats feel the same way. [14]
A Brookings survey found that support for political violence among the Left had increased from 17% in October 2024 to 26% in October 2025; the corresponding numbers among the Right were 29% and 17%. [15]
Violent Political Rhetoric
President Joe Biden:
*Called President Trump’s supporters “garbage.”
*Said he’d like to “smack” Republicans “in the ass.”
*Told donors that “it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
*Said he wanted to “beat the hell out of” President Trump and “smack him in the mouth.”
*Fantasized to a crowd about Trump being delivered a “coup de grace” or death blow.
*Said “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic…there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”
Vice President Kamala Harris:
*Said “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
*Said “…what’s at stake this election and the clear threat the former president represents to our democracy.”
*When asked about being stuck in an elevator with President Trump, Mike Pence, or Jeff Sessions, responded “does one of us have to come out alive?”
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) repeatedly talked and laughed about “punching” President Trump.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said that President Trump must be “eliminated” to protect democracy.
Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) said Trump “needs to be shot.”
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said “I will go and take out Trump tonight.”
State Sen. Maria Chapelle-Nadal (D-MO) posted on Facebook “I hope Trump is assassinated!”
State Rep. Scott Hamann (D-ME) suggested he would assassinate the President if he came within ten feet of him.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) stated “Donald Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy … Republicans just flock in one line. That’s something that endangers democracy. That’s what happened in the 1930s. The Germans just walked in line with Hitler and Stalin.”
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) compared Hispanic Trump supporters to “Jews for Hitler.” [16]
California Governor Gavin Newsom (August 2025): “I’m sick of being weak. We’re going to punch these sons of bitches in the mouth.” [17]
At the September 13, 2025, Polk County, Iowa, Democrats’ annual Steak Fry, Democrat congressional candidate Xavier Carrigan stated:
Some voices are already demanding we meet in the middle, to negotiate, to compromise, to tone down the fight,” he said. “They tell us that fighting won’t move us forward. So let me be very clear. Capitulation got us here. Weak spines and strongly worded letters got us here. Going high when they go low got us here. So I say when they go low, we drive our knee right into their face.
There were many Iowa Democrat leaders and elected officials at this event, including Rita Hart, the Chair of the Iowa Democrat Party, but there was no criticism of Carrigan’s comment. [18]
An October 2025 Gallup poll found that only 28% of Democrats thought their party had gone too far in using inflammatory language to criticize their political opponents; this was down from 45% in 2011. [19]
Politics War Room with James Carville and Al Hunt – “Collaborators” [20]
James Carville is a well-known Democrat Party strategist and political consultant. Carville co-hosts “Politics War Room” with Al Hunt. During the October 22, 2025, episode (time mark of 8.0) Carville and Hunt start discussing President Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” Hunt referred to the Compact as an “extortion racket.” In reality, the Compact offers preferential access to federal funds to universities in exchange for adopting a set of specific policies. The Compact includes policies such as:
- Equality in admissions and standardized testing.
- Ensuring a marketplace of ideas with a broad spectrum of viewpoints among faculty, students, and staff.
- Nondiscrimination in faculty and administrative hiring.
- Capping international student enrollment to make more room for deserving American students.
- Student equality, with students treated as individuals and not on the basis of their immutable characteristics, with due exceptions for sex-based privacy, safety, and fairness. Women’s equality requires single-sex spaces, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, and fair competition, such as in sports. [21]
Hunt and Carville discuss which universities have agreed to the Compact and which have not. Carville says that those who have agreed with the Compact are “collaborators.” At this episode’s time mark of 10:50, Carville states:
But all of the people that, that, that bent a knee to this, I think history is gonna really, really [unintelligible]…You, you know what we do with collaborators. [my emphasis] And I, I, I, I think these corporations, something, my fantasy dream is that this nightmare ends in 2029 and I, I think we ought to have radical thing. They all ought to have their heads shaven, they should be put in orange pajamas, and just be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public should be invited to spit on them. The universities, the corporations, the law firms. All of these collaborators should be shaved, pajamaed and spit on [my emphasis]…I don’t know about Lockheed…but the people that, that unnecessarily bent a knee to this guy , no way. No way, and, and the idea is you have to pay more because you did this, because it is the only way that you’re going to discourage future collaborators in the United States…It’s a moral judgement. If you bend a knee to a, a criminal tyrant, and that’s what he is. Understand, he is a criminal…He is a tyrant. He has no use for democracy. He has no use for the values of this country. And you are collaborating with this and it will bring eternal shame to your company.
No Democrat public official has criticized or disagreed with Carville about these remarks.
Trumps’s Severed Head – What Are These People?
In 2017, a photograph was displayed in which “comedian” Kathy Griffin was shown holding a replica of what appeared to be the severed head of then President Donald Trump. She received a lot of criticism and eventually apologized. However, displays of President Trump’s severed head have continued over the years. I have put together a collage of nine “severed head” appearances over the years at different events/locations across the United States. These include the University of Alaska Anchorage, the Fountain Hills, Arizona Democrats, and the June and October 2025 “No Kings” rallies. I titled the collage “Understanding Democrats: The Fixation with President Trump’s Severed Head. What Are These People?” This collage is available at drive.google.com.
Here is an interesting side note about the “No Kings” rallies. A Brookings survey found that college educated women made up 59% of the participants at the June 2025 “No Kings” rallies; 88% of these women were white, 97% of the women were “Left Leaning” and had voted Democrat in the latest presidential election. At the October 2025 “No Kings” rallies college educated women made up 57% of the participants, 86% of these women were white, 90% of the women were “Left Leaning” and 92% had voted Democrat in the latest presidential election. [22]
Conclusion
What does the future hold for us? Unfortunately, I tend to agree with Byron York’s assessment:
Some Democrats are calling on their elected representatives to engage in violence against the policies of President Trump. At the same time, groups that might be characterized as militant allies of the progressive Democratic movement are resorting to violence in an effort to obstruct the president’s enforcement of federal immigration law. Some radicals have committed politically motivated murder, for which they received support in some far-left circles. And it is all happening in the context of one of the two major political parties experiencing a sharp drop in the most basic measure of civic devotion: pride in being an American. It’s a troubling picture, and nothing on the immediate horizon suggests it will improve any time soon. [23]
Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of six books and numerous articles about Islam. His latest book is Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials.
[1] x.com
[2] axios.com
[3] theguardian.com
[4] pewresearch.org
[5] whitehouse.gov
[6] news.gallup.com
[7] masslive.com
[8] foxnews.com
[9] today.yougov.com
[10] news.gallup.com
[11] rasmussenreports.com
[12] napolitaninstitute.org (Mini-crosstabs)
[13] networkcontagion.us
[14] x.com
[15] brookings.edu
[16] More at donaldjtrump.com
[17] theguardian.com
[18] desmoinesregister.com
[19] news.gallup.com
[20] youtube.com
[21] washingtonexaminer.com
[22] brookings.edu
[23] texasinsider.org |
