What someone prioritizes indicates what they care about most, and one of the most significant realizations that Democratic politicians have demoted the American public’s interests is their response to the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who illegally entered the United States, has been placed in the middle of a political battle between the Trump administration’s hardline deportation efforts and Democratic opposition.
Recently, ICE determined that it will deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he rejected a plea deal that would have sent him to Costa Rica instead.
Garcia’s lawyers claim these are retaliatory actions by the Trump administration to send him to Uganda, despite his rejection of being sent back to his homeland of El Salvador for fear of imprisonment in CECOT.
When Garcia was deported initially to El Salvador, there were accusations of his having MS-13 gang affiliations, which led to his indefinite imprisonment in their massive prison system until a U.S. judge intervened, forcing the Trump administration to bring Garcia back.
As a former Democrat, I concluded long ago that the Democrats have completely lost the plot and strayed from common-sense political consensus. Both parties used to at least tacitly claim they were against illegal immigration, and it would have been a debate about who had the stronger will to enforce their rhetoric.
However, since Donald Trump entered the political scene, they’ve abandoned common-sense principles if they align with what Trump wants. If Trump is “America First,” then they must take the position of making America last and smearing our country’s great name with the same fervor that Trump declares love for it.
These actions of being chronic political contrarians have led to this moment of making a martyr out of a foreign national who broke our immigration laws to enter this country in the first place.
When several Democratic elected officials, like Senator Chris Van Hollen, flew to El Salvador to sit down with Garcia and metaphorically kiss his feet, I realized that the Democrats have no interest in the demands of the average American.
These are people elected to represent the American citizenry. Yet, they put more effort into communicating their demands for justice for an illegal immigrant and show far more empathy for the circumstances of his family than for any American I’ve ever seen.
These are people who pay political strategists and have a staff to manage their political optics. Yet, they still concluded that rallying behind a suspected gang member and an illegal immigrant is worth risking their political careers. This tells me that the rot doesn’t end with politicians like Van Hollen. They are a byproduct of a Democratic Party political apparatus that has more empathy for criminals and non-citizens than for law-abiding citizens.
Their behavior reveals who they truly align with, and it’s not the working-class American trying to make ends meet who wants their elected politicians to represent them fairly.
Since I disassociated from the Democratic Party, I’ve seen them bend the knee to elitist causes and stand in the face of immigration authority to demand that people who knowingly broke the law never face repercussions.
The wave of flights to support Abrego Garcia sparked copycat behavior to oppose what the overwhelming majority of Americans want demonstrably: mass deportations and enforcing the rule of law.
Americans have witnessed the bad acting performance by Senator Alex Padilla as he screamed at Kristi Noem during a Homeland Security press conference and New Jersey Democrats fighting with ICE officials in front of cameras in Newark, NJ, shortly after a peaceful tour of their facility.
We no longer think these actions by officials are committed by a few Democratic rogue actors, which is why 63% of Americans hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, marking it the lowest rating in three decades.
Americans are noticing that we are no longer the Democrats’ priority, and if their irrelevance continues, they’ll never win us back as voters.
