The Democrats' long plod to November features a new wave of unimaginably detestable idiot candidates mixed with some old-guard cameos

Over at Instapundit, Stephen Green asks What in the Actual Hell Is a Democrat These Days? 

Allow Damian Bennett to provide an answer:

With must-win competitive campaigns to control at least one chamber of Congress to thwart Mean Mr. Mustard, the Ds have raided central casting for unelectable crazies and Schweinehunde.

If any evidence is needed, t'is provided by our old pal from Virginny. After reviewing Damian's four exhibits, be sure to read his Coda in the final couple of paragraphs…

NOVEMBER! Democrats be like...

Big Fatties Enter DNC 2026 Thunderdome

Democrat Party: 

"Pay Attention. THIS is who we are."

The Democrats' long plod to November features a new wave of unimaginably detestable idiot candidates mixed with some old-guard cameos. With must-win competitive campaigns to control at least one chamber of Congress to thwart Mean Mr. Mustard, the Ds have raided central casting for unelectable crazies and Schweinehunde.* Let's take a look at some of the headliners.

* This makes the mid-terms the Republicans' to lose. [Hard sigh.] Hold your bets.

Exhibit A: Eric Swalwell (xCA-D)

Given enough rope, a Democrat hangs him/herself. Swalwell, a go-to media cudgel for beating on the Trump WH, had been fed so much rope he hung himself from the high gallows of frontpage headlines, page six tattle, and 'breaking' chiron crawls. When the trap opened, it was his mentor groomer, Nancy Pelosi, pulled the lever and left him to twist in the wind. Where he dangles to this very day.

• Eric Swalwell Announces Run For California Governor, Vows To Be ‘Protector And Fighter’ November 21, 2025
• Nancy Pelosi Calls On Swalwell To Drop Gubernatorial Bid Following Sexual Assault Allegations April 10, 2026
  
• Eric Swalwell Suspends Governor Campaign After Sex Attack Allegations April 12, 2026
• Eric Swalwell Resigns From Congress After Bombshell Sexual Assault Allegations April 14, 2026
  
• How Nancy Pelosi Backed Eric Swalwell’s Rise In Congress April 14, 2026
• Pelosi Says US Should Add Biden To Mount Rushmore — Despite Rumors She Angled For His Ouster:
  ‘Such A Consequential President’ August 4, 2024
  [Followed by 'My Little Echo']
  
• Swalwell Gushes That Biden Belongs On ‘Democratic Mount Rushmore’ August 18, 2024
• Nancy Pelosi Denies That Democrats Turned A ‘Blind Eye’ To Eric Swalwell’s Behavior:
  ‘NO IDEA WHATSOEVER’ April 14, 2026
• California Democrats Admit They Knew About Eric Swalwell's Sexual Misconduct All Along April 17, 2026

Exhibit B: The Clingy Bidens

Will the nation never be free of the Bidens? The Bidens aspire to American royalty of sorts, part Borgia Court, part Lady MacBeth, part Ubu Roi.

• Stunning Moment Jill Biden Congratulates Husband Joe 'Like A Child' After His Trump Debate Disaster June 28, 2024
  “Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question.”
• CNN Panel Stunned By Jill Biden Boasting That Biden Was Himself At Debate June 28, 2024

You know, ON SECOND THOUGHT...

• Jill Biden: I Thought Joe Was Having A Stroke At Last Debate May 27, 2026
  “I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never.”
• Jill Biden Wondered If Husband Joe Had Been Drugged During 2024 Debate Disaster,
  Before He Said: ‘I Really F—ed Up, Didn’t I?’ May 28, 2026
  [As advertised, sharp as a tack analysis.]
• Democrats Enraged By Jill Biden’s Book As Ex-first Lady Puts Joe’s Disastrous Debate Back In The News May 28, 2026
  
• Rep. Adam Smith (WA-D): ‘Only Thing I Want To Hear From Jill Biden Is I’m Sorry’ May 28, 2026
• Liberals Of All Stripes Whip Out Pitchforks As Jill Biden Admits She, DNC Duped Them May 29, 2026
• Joe's 2024 Exit Results In Hunter Biden's 'Art' To Face Value Plunger October 12, 2024
• @GOPoversight On X January 9, 2024: James Comer (KY-D), Chair: "Today, we interviewed Hunter Biden's art dealer, Georges Bergès. He revealed how Hunter Biden's amateur art career is an ethics nightmare. It turns out, the vast majority of Hunter Biden's art has been purchased by Democrat donors."
• 'I'm Still Bitter': Hunter Biden Dropped By Art Dealer After Surprising $1.5M In Sales January 16, 2024
  According to Bergès, he was left paying for the embattled first son’s $60,000 art shows: “I paid for them. Yeah, I’m still bitter about a lot of that stuff.”
• 'MILLIONS OF DOLLARS' WORTH Of Hunter Biden's Art Reportedly Destroyed In LA Fires January 16, 2025
  ['Millions of dollars' worth—'reportedly'—why be modest? 'BA-zillions of dollars' worth, because delusion comes cheap.]
  
• Boo-HOO: Hunter's Grift Machine Has Run Dry So Now He Can't Afford To Litigate His Civil Cases March 6, 2025 
•  No One’s Buying Hunter Biden’s Terrible Paintings Any More? I Wonder Why March 11, 2025
  

On to the next grift.

• Hunter Biden: I’m ‘100 PERCENT IN’ ON CAGE MATCH With Don Jr. And Eric Trump April 10, 2026

Exhibit C: Graham Platner

Democrat Jew-hate is now out in the open -- and what a relief! No more pretending it's a beef with Israel. No more threatening just Zionists. Nope, it's back to basics with straight up Nat-ZEE guy.   

• From ‘No Kings’ To ‘Yes Nazi’ — Democrats Stand By Graham Platner October 22, 2025
• Democrats Double Down And Inject The 'Copium' As The Latest Graham Platner Scandal Unravels May 31, 2026
• Bulwark, Matt Yglesias Embrace Graham ‘Nazi Tattoo’ Platner March 5, 2026
• Elizabeth Warren Endorses Graham ‘Nazi Tattoo’ Platner In Senate Race March 19, 2026
• Sen. Blumenthal (CT-D): Platner’s ‘Heart Is IN THE RIGHT PLACE’ May 1, 2026
  [Can only assume he means situated in the mediastinum, at the level of thoracic vertebrae T5–T8. That's what he means, yes? Yes?? YES???]
• Sen. Blumenthal (CT-D): ‘My Stomach Turned’ When Trump Called Putin His Fabulously Good Friend August 15, 2025
• Sen. Kim (NJ-D) On Graham Platner: ‘I’ll Work With Anyone Fighting Against Trump’ May 31, 2026
• Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-D) To Rally With Embattled Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner: ‘I Am Proud Of Him’ May 31, 2026
• Sen. Murphy (CT-D): Platner Admits Mistakes, Trump Denies His Corruption June 1, 2026
  
• ABC’s Hostin: Platner ‘Allegations Are True’ But Our Country In ‘Grave Peril’ June 1, 2026
  Sunny Hostin, “The View” co-host: “He’s [scil., Platner] also made racist remarks against African Americans. So he’s a cheater, he’s an antisemite — because the fact that he had that tattoo for 20 years and ‘didn’t know what it was’ is a lie. So he’s a liar, a racist, an antisemite, he’s a homophobe. So, he’s all the things, and character does matter. But, we have someone that has almost unbridled power in the White House at this point. There are no checks and balances, and the only way that we can maybe bring a bit of our democracy back is by having a Congress that functions and that has this checks and balances. And I do think one of the only ways is to win that seat in Maine. So I, like Cory Booker, said this is a concern, but our country is in grave, grave peril.”
  [Liar, cheater, racist, antisemite, homophobe to bring back “a bit of our democracy”. This is so on-brand for TDS.]
  
• Democrat Senate Candidate Graham Platner Boasted Of Masturbating In Porta Potties May 19, 2026
  In discussion about nostalgic military smells: “I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a portashitter … that blue water smell conditioned me.”
• Senate Candidate Graham Platner Seen In Shocking Topless, Towel-wearing Selfie From Hook Up App Kik May 30, 2026
• Graham ‘Nazi Tattoo’ Platner‘s Disqualifying Scandal Rap Sheet — 14 And Counting June 1, 2026
  [More scandals, more apologists, because, you know, wicked Susan Collins (ME-R).] 
  

Exhibit D: James Talarico

James Talarico is the DNC's idea of a Christian Democrat, that is to say a full-bore Democrat with a Sunday side hustle -- who is not an Episcopalian (he's Presbyterian). They are running him in TX as Beto lifted from the grave.

• James Talarico Beats Jasmine Crockett In Democratic Primary For U.S. Senate March 3, 2025
• Bitter Jasmine Crockett Blames 'Cheating' After Vote Counts In Texas Senate Race Don't Go Her Way March 4, 2025
• James Talarico On YouTube March 4 (5), 2026: “They’re going to throw everything they have at us. They’re going to call me a radical leftist. They’re going to call me a fake Christian. They’ll call our movement un-Texan, un-American. They’ll call us a threat. The only truth is, we are a threat…to their corrupt system.”
  
• James ‘God Is Non-binary’ Talarico Says Displaying Ten Commandments Is ‘Violence March 10, 2026
• James Talarico Denounces Ten Commandments Displays In Public Schools As ‘UnChristian’ April 23, 2026
• After Being Asked About ‘God’s Sausage’, James Talarico Says Christians Don’t Care About God’s Gender March 20, 2026
• James Talarico Doubles Down On His ‘God Is Non-Binary’ Nonsense April 23, 2026
  
• James Talarico Is Facing Serious Questions About His Creepy Conduct With Kids May 5, 2026
  Talarico asked his students — sixth graders — to read a passage from The [Margaret Atwood's] Handmaid's Tale, a novel steeped in sexual violence and reproductive slavery. His team later clarified that he never asked students to read the full book, just a passage to find similes in.
  [►Classic PEDO-ADJACENT DEMOCRAT MENTORING and juvenile wedge indoctrination.◄]
  
• Texas Democratic Senate Nominee James Talarico's Church Includes Porn In Its Library May 30, 2026
  [B]ooks accessible to children in the library at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin [included] materials with "illustrations of oral sex and masturbation," discussions of "anal rape and incest" and graphic explanations of "gay sex." Other books reflect Talarico's theology that "God is queer" and promote gender confusion in children, including political activism for "trans kids" and LGBTQ Presbyterians.
  
• Texas Democrat Senate Hopeful James Talarico Refers To Women As ‘Neighbors With A Uterus’ May 29, 2026
  [This puts him a notch above Biden nominee KJB.]

Talarico is a 'Christian' much the same as Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden are 'Catholic', which is to say they are neither Christian nor Catholic. What they are are hardcore cutthroat Democrats. It is NOT Christianity that informs Talarico policy, it's the DNC. 

• James Talarico On X May 8, 2020:  “White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go—through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious.”
• Video Surfaces Of Dems’ Senate Nominee Talarico Calling For ‘Dismantling’ Of Prisons March 5, 2026
  Talarico 2022: “Poverty is violence, Pollution is violence, and yes, prison is violence. ... It's hard to imagine a world without prisons. Just because it's hard to imagine doesn't mean you shouldn’t.”
• James Talarico June/July 2022 Sermon, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church:“Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state capitol, and you better believe I’ll be giving sermons on that too.”
• Proud Elephant On X March 5, 2026: THIS IS INSANE: Texas Democrat Senate Nominee James Talarico wrote a letter [June22, 2022] to Joe Biden begging him to issue an executive order that would have created abortion clinics in every federal courthouse and national park.
• Texas Democrat Senate Candidate James Talarico Says Bible ‘Silent On Abortion’ May 29, 2026
• Franklin Graham Rebukes James Talarico’s Claim That The Bible Is ‘Silent On Abortion’: ‘Absolute Lie’ May 31, 2026
  E.g., Jeremiah 1:5: Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
• ‘No Ban, No Wall’: Texas Dem Senate Candidate James Talarico Pledges To End Trump’s So-Called ‘Muslim Ban’ March 23, 2026
  
• James Talarico Pushing Veganism To End 'Existential' Threat Of Climate Change March 17, 2026
• Talarico Promises Future Like ‘The Jetsons’ If We Fight Climate Change May 29, 2026

It's endless crazy. [Thoughtful pause.] Talarico does know he's running for statewide office in TX, yes? 

• Talarico Walks Back Comments On Religion And Gender After Paxton's Win May 27, 2026
  The Texas Democrat described some of his earlier comments as "cringey".
  
• ‘Some Statements … I Certainly Regret’: Talarico Tries To Pivot Away From Leftism After Gaining Party Nomination May 27, 2026
• Talarico Recants Past Statements, Says He Was 'Intentionally Provocative' By Calling God 'Non-binary' May 29, 2026

CODA

Here's a Q, how does a national party on the 20% side of every 20/80 issue manage competitive near parity with an opposition on the 80% side? One would think the 20 percenters would poll closer to their standing on the issues. [A terrible obvious insight occurs!] Could gerrymandering and ballot fuckery be the political 'miracle' that keeps the 20 percenters competitive? Or is it the dark powers and deep state hiding behind an illusionary democracy?

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