The Masochistic Democrats Hate You — And Beg You to Hate Them Back – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

Every once in a while, you run into something that strikes a chord with you and makes your head nod. You’ll say to yourself, “Yeah, that’s not just true, it’s incandescently true.”

And scrolling through X on Wednesday, I stumbled on just such an item:

So far this week, I’ve learned that…

If you murder white teenagers.

Or

Are an illegal immigrant gang banger and wife beater.

Democrats will throw all of their money and political power behind you.

— Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) April 16, 2025

Boy, he’s not kidding.

Except Dilley’s observation is a little incomplete, because it misses a pair of other news items that help to illuminate why America has come to justifiably hate the Democrat Party and particularly the Hard Left that has become its active ingredient.

But he’d be correct simply on the Karmelo Anthony case alone.

Everything about Anthony, the 17-year old black high school track athlete who brought a knife to a track meet and plunged it through the heart of a white kid who had shoved him in a dispute over whose team was in proper possession of a tent at the meet, is horrifyingly bizarre.

Anthony claims he did what he did in self-defense. But Austin Metcalf, his murdered victim, had no knife, nor had he a gun or even a bat. Metcalf was possessed only of a determination to evict Anthony from the tent and the willingness to physically remove him, and for that willingness he paid quite dearly. Metcalf’s twin brother Hunter held him as he died, and Anthony confessed matter-of-factly to the police that he’d responded to being shoved by reaching into his bag, pulling out his knife, and stabbing young Austin to death.

“Touch me and see what happens,” was what Anthony told Metcalf. And then he showed him when Metcalf wasn’t impressed with that threat.

If it’s possible, the murder was the least weird thing of this saga.

Because after it happened, Anthony’s family set up a GiveSendGo for his “legal defense” and proceeded to raise close to a half-million dollars in just a few days. Then an over-friendly judge dropped his bail down to $250,000, meaning he was out on the streets for just $25,000 after an admitted killing. Why? Because his family was too poor for a larger bail amount.

Then the Anthonys moved into a $900,000 house they’d rented. Neighbors reported frequent Amazon deliveries. Then apparently there was a brand-new Cadillac Escalade parked in the driveway.

Meanwhile, as is irritatingly common in cases like this, there is a “minister” whose past is less than clean:

Dominique Alexander, a self-described minister and activist with a violent history, has thrown his weight behind Karmelo Anthony, the young teen accused of fatally stabbing fellow teen Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet.

Alexander recently celebrated Anthony’s release on bond via an X post, stating, “Karmelo Anthony is SAFE at home,” framing it as a community victory. However, Alexander’s extensive criminal history raises questions about his credibility as an advocate.

In 2009, Alexander was arrested for causing serious bodily injury to a 2-year-old child, resulting in a subdural hemorrhage and retinal hemorrhages, injuries doctors attributed to abusive head trauma, according to the Dallas Observer.

Alexander admitted to shaking the child but claimed the injuries were accidental. He faced a first-degree felony charge but avoided significant jail time through plea deals and probation.

In 2016, he was sentenced to five years for probation violations, though he served only eight days, according to The Dallas Express.

“In 2017, Alexander was indicted on felony theft charges related to a 2016 business dispute in Denton County. The charges were enhanced because of a previous conviction for forgery,” the outlet reported.

In 2019, Alexander was indicted for felony family violence after allegedly assaulting his partner, Keyaira Saunders, though the charges were dropped when she declined to cooperate.

This is a Texas case, so it’s reasonable to expect the bloody new prosperity of the Anthonys will come to a screeching halt in a brief time and Karmelo will end his life in the state penitentiary at Huntsville. But it’s nonetheless amazing to see such wretched excess, especially when it’s being defended by some of the usual suspects.

This is just one example. There were many.

#KarmeloAnthony is an exceptional, upstanding, suburban, young teen boy. He is an honor roll student, works an honest job, and he’s a hero! If we allow them to paint this teenage boy as some Thug or reckless “YN”, we failed, and no Black boy in America is safe! https://t.co/mGd638Npsu pic.twitter.com/ABn1xqHqVh

— National Reparations Commission (@T_A_Activist) April 8, 2025

It’s a really, really bad idea to get on the Karmelo Anthony bandwagon. Thankfully there is only a relatively small number of people choosing to do so. The Metcalfs’ inevitable wrongful death suit against Anthony will likely soak up whatever is left of that online fundraising swag eventually, which is perhaps why they’re living so large at the moment rather than trying to save any of it.

But as horrid as the Anthony case might be, it seems as though the Kilmar Garcia bandwagon is a good deal bigger. And that’s just as bizarre.

Garcia is the “Maryland Dad” being glorified in the legacy corporate propaganda press for having been arrested and deported. He’s an illegal alien from El Salvador who’s suspected — officially, mind you, as in with court findings — of membership in the ultra-violent Salvadoran MS-13 gang and who has been under a deportation order since 2021, though a judge had suspended that order.

Furthermore, Garcia has a past that includes allegations of domestic abuse.

The Trump administration nabbed him and shipped him off to El Salvador, where he’s now in that country’s famous CECOT prison. And this has turned him into a cause célèbre. The Washington Examiner’s Conn Carroll explains what an abjectly stupid idea it is to have done that:

To hear Democrats like Sen. Chris Murphy (D-RI) tell it, Garcia was just an innocent, doting father who was randomly targeted by the Trump administration to be sent to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center. The Supreme Court then ordered Trump to return this “legal” resident back to the United States. Trump has refused, sending our nation into a constitutional crisis. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) has even announced he is going to personally travel to El Salvador to bring Garcia home.

The problem is that Democrats leave a lot out of Garcia’s story, and the truth makes Trump’s failure to return him quite reasonable.

For starters, Garcia was not in the United States legally. By his lawyer’s own admission, he entered the country illegally in 2011. Then, eight years later, Garcia was arrested at a Home Depot while illegally soliciting employment. The Prince George’s County Police Department then transferred him to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which began deportation proceedings against him.

As a defense to deportation, Garcia tried to claim asylum, claiming his life was in danger from the Barrio 18 gang. But his asylum claim was denied and the judge ordered his removal. The judge did, however, grant Garcia a “withholding of removal” order, forbidding his removal to El Salvador, but this did not make him a “legal” resident. As Garcia’s own lawyers admit, “Should [the Trump administration] wish to remove Plaintiff Abrego Garcia to any other country, they would have no legal impediment in doing so.”

The Supreme Court did, as Democrats claim, hold that the Trump administration erred in sending Garcia to El Salvador. But the Court also held that the District Court needed to be more clear on how the Trump administration should “effectuate” his release from his custody in El Salvador.

Garcia’s own lawyers, and many Democrats, have argued that the Trump administration should threaten to withhold funding to El Salvador payments meant to compensate them for the detention of 261 illegal immigrants deported from the United States until El Salvador agrees to release Garcia.

But this is exactly the type of political foreign policy question that courts have no authority to venture into. Is Garcia’s detention more important than keeping the other 260 illegal immigrants, most of whom are violent offenders, locked up? Should Trump risk disrupting his relationship with President Nayib Bukele for this one illegal immigrant who has no right to be in the United States to begin with? These are all political questions courts are not equipped to answer.

I’m agnostic about whether Garcia belongs in that prison. Frankly, that’s a question for the authorities in El Salvador to resolve. But the idea that somehow anyone’s rights are being violated because an illegal alien with a questionable and violent past was sent home is ridiculous.

And Van Hollen, Murphy, and the nauseatingly performative Cory Booker white-knighting for the “Maryland Dad” are not doing their side any favors. This isn’t quite the Karmelo Anthony case in terms of the Left’s position being utterly indefensible (if only because of the incarceration issue), but the public clearly favors mass deportations and the MS-13–affiliated Garcia would certainly be high on the list of people worth deporting.

And then there’s Maine.

The Justice Department is now taking that state to court for civil rights violations arising from its refusal to ban boys from competing as women in its high school sporting events. This after a months-long controversy in which the president directly challenged the state’s governor, Janet Mills, on her trans advocacy.

Maine’s political class went into open defiance of Trump after that, despite the federal Department of Education threatening to cut off Maine’s funding and other federal levers being pulled.

So Attorney General Pam Bondi did what she had to do…

.@AGPamBondi announces a civil lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education over their consistent and willful refusal to protect women and girls in sports and other private spaces.

“We have exhausted every other remedy.” pic.twitter.com/sJOlRdoa0t

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 16, 2025

But on the Left, Mills is being lionized — including by the New York Times, which glorified her for “not being fazed by loud men.”

Bondi and Education Secretary Linda McMahon are not men, but OK.

And finally, we have Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, who was just referred to the Department of Justice for committing the same crime she prosecuted Trump for, in a kangaroo court in New York City:

A criminal referral against New York Attorney General Letitia James has been filed with the DOJ, alleging that James had “falsified records” to get home loans for a Virginia property that she claimed was her “principal residence” in 2023 – while she was serving as a New York state prosecutor.

Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director William Pulte sent the missive to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche, claiming that in late August 2023 – weeks before she launched her civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization for inflating the values of its properties.

In 2021, James also purchased a 5-family Brooklyn property, but has “consistently misrepresented the same property as only having four units in both building permit applications and numerous mortgage documents and applications,” the letter noted.

Loans secured for this property could have reduced her mortgage interest rate by as much as 1% – leaving James with lower monthly payments under the federal Home Assistance Modification Program (HAMP) since it was listed as containing just four units, according to Pulte.

What lesson can we draw from all of this? The rabbit hole actually runs much deeper, you know — there are several other developments proving the same point.

Which is what explains all of this is contempt. Contempt by these people for their fellow Americans.

Those idiots throwing money at Karmelo Anthony’s grifting slimeball family aren’t doing so because they’re being conned. They know exactly who they’re giving their cash to. They’re rewarding Anthony for killing a white kid; it’s as simple as that.

That’s contempt.

And the politicians and media flacks turning Kilmar Garcia into Ward Beaver know exactly who he is. They don’t care, because they want all the Kilmar Garcias they can have in this country. The more the merrier, because they know they can make vote-serfs out of the Kilmar Garcias; regular Americans would never be beholden to them like Garcia and his fellow undesirables would be.

And because if they can gum up the works and stop Garcia’s deportation, then, as Trump adviser Stephen Miller pointed out, it will take centuries for the administration to get rid of the 20 million illegals Joe Biden let into the country. They will be made into Democrat voters, by hook or crook, long before then, and in that way they would dilute, if not cancel out entirely, the votes of American citizens who hold Democrats in shockingly low esteem.

That’s contempt.

Similarly, a Democrat-run Maine that insists on inflicting male athletes on female athletics in flagrant defiance of a federal government that was elected in large measure to put a stop to this very thing, and a New York attorney general prosecuting Trump and others for lying on a mortgage application when she herself is alleged to have done exactly that, are utterly contemptuous of the American people.

They absolutely hate us.

And the polling numbers prove that we absolutely hate them.

Sanity would dictate that a political party that seeks to win elections would be going about mitigating this impasse. Is that happening?

To the contrary. It’s getting worse. Almost to the point of open warfare between the Democrat Party and ordinary America — or, if your reaction is that this war has been going on for a while, warfare on a scale and with a level of transparency we’ve not seen before.

I can’t explain this any other way than that on some level the Left in this country suffers from a very strong strain of masochism. They would rather suffer humiliations, or worse, than change their behavior for the better. It’s like they get off on being wrong and make martyrs of themselves for experiencing the consequences they engender.

So be it.

If suffering is what they want, then the folks we’ve elected to run the government ought to give it to them good and hard.

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