Here is Kurt Schlichter editorial from Townhall.com, posted on 2/19/26, and entitled What Do the Dems Do After They’ve Done Their Worst and It Flops? I will comment on the article; here it is:
Kurt: “
What Do the Dems Do After They’ve Done Their Worst and It Flops?
Kurt Schlichter | Feb 19, 2026
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When you hear that Donald Trump and, by extension, we patriots are the most fascist, racist, sexist, corrupt, perverted, and also fascist monsters in the history of ever, you have to wonder something. You don’t wonder why they’re saying it. You know why they’re saying it. They’re liars and dirtbags, and they are losing their grip on power, and they’re desperate. What you have to wonder is “Where do they go from here?””
My response: They are throwing mud at Trump, Republicans and conservatives in hope that it will stick and that the voters will become disenchanted, and turn against us, but that is not occurring.
Kurt: “That’s a great question. Pity the Democrats. They’re kind of in a quandary. Where do you go next when you call somebody “literally Hitler” and nothing happens? Where do you go when you call somebody “racist” and he doesn’t care? Where do you go when you call somebody “sexist” and he wonders what’s wrong with being sexy? Where do you go when you label somebody “corrupt” and he starts a bitcoin company? Where do go after you scream that someone is Epstein‘s pal, and the world doesn’t collapse because you called him Epstein‘s pal?
Where do you go next when you say the worst things imaginable about someone, and it doesn’t matter?
That’s where we are now, and it should be no surprise to anybody who has ever heard about the boy who cried “Wolf.” Maybe the left doesn’t like that fable because they’re assuming the gender of the brat who fakes alarms over dreaded predators and finally gets gobbled up when the dreaded predator arrives, and nobody believes him, her, or them. Regardless, they’re not paying attention to the moral of the story.
Nobody who doesn’t already believe the Democrats believes them now. We’ve had ten years of Trump, and by extension, we patriots, being bombarded with the worst possible accusations and…nothing? Calling somebody “Hitler” should mean something. Hitler was bad, really bad, and to equate somebody with Hitler should be something that one takes seriously because no serious person would casually equate another with Hitler, unless the accused had done something positively Hitlerean. But that’s not the case today. It doesn’t mean anything because everything they say, every lie, epithet and slander, is meaningless. They call Trump “Hitler.” Everybody knows he’s not Hitler. So, no one cares that he gets called “Hitler,” least of all the guy who’s supposed to be Hitler 2.0.
What they make are objectively false claims. That goes without saying. It’s an interesting tangent to ponder what the people offering these slanders actually think. There are two options. First, they are stupid people who actually believe these stupid lies. That’s entirely possible. Being a Democrat is closely correlated with being a moron. But being a Democrat is also closely correlated with being a cynical exploiter of morons. The second possibility is that these Democrats think their constituents are morons, and more often than not, they are correct.
But whether they believe it or not is really beside the point.
The point is that hyperbolic slander is the best they’ve got. This is their only weapon right now, and it’s firing blanks. Remember, they don’t have any power other than what we give them. For them to rule over us requires that we allow them to rule over us. In the past, we defaulted to the American political system, where one party would win the election, and it would take power, exercise power, pass laws the opposition didn’t like, then have another election, and then things would eventually change. We took turns running things. America operated on the consent of the governed. We never really thought about not consenting because the system seemed to work pretty well, not perfectly, but pretty well.”
My response: We should take turns being in and out of power, sharing power, but always a loyal, tolerant majority and a loyal opposition. But that has changed, Democrats and Leftists increasingly are authoritarian ideologues, and they just want to own the country, and enslave all, silencing any sddissidents.
Kurt: “But things changed a couple of decades ago. The Democrats convinced themselves that we conservatives are morally unfit to participate in our own governance, that the act of exercising electoral power won at the ballot box by anyone who wasn’t a leftist was inherently illegitimate. We’re Americans, we’re citizens, we’re voters, and we need to shut up and do what we’re told because everything we want to do is bad, and we can’t do them because Democrats stopped consenting to being governed when it is our turn to govern.
That’s where it gets concerning. There are two ways they can go. They can try to take power back in the appropriate and proper way, which is by winning elections. Whether screaming like five-year-olds having a tantrum because Mommy took their blankie will work to convince the American people to trust Democrats with power again is an open question. If the economy continues to boom, the Republicans stand a pretty good chance of defeating the historical trends against them in the midterms, regardless of how shrilly Dems and their affiliates scream. If people perceive the economy is still Biden-bad, the Republicans are going to lose because of that, regardless of what the Democrats say.
But remember that these are religious fanatics, and their religion is leftism. “
My response: Kurt rightly identifies Democrats and Progressives as religious fanatics, and their ideology is their secular religion, leftism. There is congruence between this claim and mine that cultural Marxism is a holy cause, and the woke capturing of the public and private institutions is the mass movement, and the true believers are the Leftist faithful.
Kurt: “The fight against Republicans is not just a political match but an actual jihad. Again, we’ve already seen people murdered. That should be no surprise. One of the collateral effects of all this screaming about how Donald Trump, and we, are the enemies of humanity who are literally the worst people who have ever existed is that some of these leftist creeps believe it and will act on it. When you simultaneously label your political opponents as outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse, while also losing to those political opponents, you create a level of frustration that is going to drive some of your acolytes to violence. And that won’t be entirely unwelcome to the Democrat establishment. As we’ve seen, they don’t mind violence. They see it as politics by other means – ironically, since Clausewitz is a dead cisgender male identifying person of pallor. But what we’re talking about here is wide scale, targeted violence, at least on the level of the small-scale insurgency by the left that detonated thousands of bombs and killed hundreds of people in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Those “Days of Rage” could happen again. And it could be even worse, because now you have state governors and officials collaborating with the left. That takes it all up a notch. The potential is real for real trouble. The hate is out there, and it’s being fueled by the very language we’re talking about here. But on the right, we’re not in the mood to take any more casualties. We’re not in the mood for games. We are not giving up our dogs to please Dem constituents. And we are definitely not in the mood to become second-class citizens in our own country.
If there’s a fight coming, we’ll fight back.
This could get very ugly. These people are playing with fire, but they don’t understand that we’re not going to play along. The conflagration they ignite may very well end up burning them instead of us.”
My response: The people and conservatives are tired of being slandered and slapped around, and we are ready to counter-punch.
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