Democrats may want to take the Abigail Spanberger strategy into the 2026 midterms, but they can't stop being crazy.
I mean seriously crazy. On everything.
The difference today isn’t between right vs left. It’s normal vs crazy. https://t.co/K3wIauL8vA
— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) February 25, 2026
The Democrats and the left-wing media are very upset about Donald Trump calling the Democrats crazy...but seriously, they are actually crazy. It's not just the gender madness, or the insistence that pedophile rapists are aspiring citizens in need of protection, or their fascination with regime-change-loving CIA officers who lie for a living. It's absolutely everything, including their inability to cheer for our Olympians, and their reflexive hatred of men.
CBS's Major Garrett admits President Trump successfully drew a clear contrast with Democrats tonight:
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 25, 2026
"They can’t even applaud basic commonsense things." pic.twitter.com/iaM3WhfG5v
Beege wrote a great piece yesterday, tearing liberals a new one, and I assumed the story would be a one-day controversy about liberals having a tantrum (again). Beege is the perfect author for such a piece because she has a keen sense of the absurd.
According to VOX
— Lane Kendall (@lanedeankendall) February 24, 2026
Winner: Communist traitor Eileen Gu.
Loser: US Men’s Hockey.
You do not hate the media enough. pic.twitter.com/kcqHtMn0k8
Sally Jenkins of The Atlantic kicked off the hate for the men's hockey team, and the entire left piled on. The men missed the moment because they didn't trash Trump, America, or even the American flag. They were upbeat, patriotic, and proud of their victory over Canada. They love the troops, for God's sake!
Publicly supporting women is nice, but what really matters is what men do behind closed doors. What matters is how they hold each other accountable.
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) February 24, 2026
The men’s hockey team shouldn’t get a pass because they were in the locker room—that’s where women need their support the most.… pic.twitter.com/8SoUQnCBKr
The New York Times weighed in, of course, trashing the team for not hating on our president, because that is what the moment requires or something.
Nazis!
Is the NYT ok?
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) February 25, 2026
They're making it sound like the US ice hockey team shouldn't have accepted an invite to meet Hitler after winning the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Very strange that this attitude about how "this isn't a neutral climate," doesn't apply to Eileen Gu.
They could've just… https://t.co/N3kbBaKCy0 pic.twitter.com/EenrZNiW2P
They're making it sound like the US ice hockey team shouldn't have accepted an invite to meet Hitler after winning the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Very strange that this attitude about how "this isn't a neutral climate," doesn't apply to Eileen Gu.
They could've just as easily written:
"This isn't a neutral climate. This isn't a neutral country. And in a world this polarized, the proximity to China carries weight whether Eileen Gu is being intentional or merely naive."
But no. They write this about the gold-winning US hockey team taking a congratulatory call from President Trump and accepting the invitation to appear at Trump's State of the Union instead.
I understand how hating America is virtually a job requirement for being a journalist these days, but even a sports journo? C'mon man!
The Olympics are supposed to be unifying. They are, quite obviously, competitions between countries, substituting athletic competition for the more conventional guns and bullets. China may be our most worrisome adversary, and we have warships facing off on hair triggers in the Pacific, but at the Olympics, we can root for America without worrying about a shot being fired.
“Apologize for laughing”: the perfect distillation of the modern left. https://t.co/FpaVAFLiDH
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) February 24, 2026
The media chose to lionize the American who turned her back on her home country to compete for China, and decided to trash the American hockey team because...well, they are men who are patriotic.
The NYT just did a hit piece on the US men's hockey team for not rejecting Trump's call pic.twitter.com/NEl46YQ9So
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 24, 2026
Trump celebrated America's victory on ice by inviting the team to the State of the Union and congratulating them before the Congress, the country, and the world. The media and the Democrats were very unhappy with the team.
MSNOW’s Symone Sanders: The USA men’s hockey team “allowed themselves to be used as political props."
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 25, 2026
Miserable people. Just miserable. pic.twitter.com/5LDOaT6URW
Democrats complained that Trump gave Medals of Honor, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and comfort to the victims of horrific crimes. As Ed pointed out, they couldn't stand up for Iryna Zarutska's mom, and wouldn't even share with Trump the sentiment that government should focus on defending Americans against vicious criminals.
According to VOX
— Lane Kendall (@lanedeankendall) February 24, 2026
Winner: Communist traitor Eileen Gu.
Loser: US Men’s Hockey.
You do not hate the media enough. pic.twitter.com/kcqHtMn0k8
They are crazy.
Senator Fetterman eviscerates Ilhan Omar and his Democrat colleagues for their outbursts during President Trump’s State of the Union.
— Overton (@overton_news) February 25, 2026
You can tell he’s genuinely embarrassed by what his party has become.
FETTERMAN: “The constant kinds of yelling and screaming, and now holding… pic.twitter.com/4hBkiD9h4x
FETTERMAN: “The constant kinds of yelling and screaming, and now holding up signs and for doing all these things, I don’t think…I don’t care if it’s a Republican or Democrat, it’s the president.”
“Just don’t do that! Don’t do that.”
“Respect the office regardless of who is in that, and now for me when half the people in my party haven’t showed up and then some of them have chosen to yell and say and scream during all of it, I just don’t think that’s what we want.”
“And I don’t believe as a Democrat, I think like dancing frogs really moves the ball for us as a party, either.”
The Spanberger strategy the Democrats want to follow depends entirely on Democrats not appearing as crazy as they are, and it is possible that individual candidates might pull it off.
Chuck Schumer: Democrats were justified not standing when asked if the government should protect Americans over illegals because of ICE.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 25, 2026
“It was legitimate and right not to stand."
Chuck doing his best to defend the indefensible. https://t.co/We1OXYGJTi pic.twitter.com/jQabnP4tVb
But the Democrats have a crazy problem, and you can't just tell crazy people to stop being crazy. Crazy people think they are sane, and not everybody is a CIA operative trained to deceive like Spanberger.
WATCH: MS Now's Jen Psaki dismisses the acknowledgements of the U.S. Men's hockey team, victims of illegal aliens and awards to military heroes as "the circus entertainer part" of the State of the Union address.
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 25, 2026
JEN PSAKI: As I was watching that, I was just thinking about the… pic.twitter.com/1svt9rpSeH
JEN PSAKI: As I was watching that, I was just thinking about the fact that we were just over eight months from the midterm elections. And that is no matter what number of people battled through that nearly two hour speech, it's still going to be his largest audience of the year. And if you're sitting in a White House before a speech for any president, you're thinking about a couple of things. How does the president use that speech to give a message to not just the people in the chamber, but his political allies out there about what they should be talking about, what the agenda is, what the winning message is. And Trump decided to double down on things that are hugely unpopular. I mean, to your point, it was like a three part speech. There was the gross violent pornography part of it. There was the circus entertainer part where he was bringing out unrelated people and vignettes. And then there was a part that was policy-ish. Right? And that was doubling down on tariffs. In the ABC poll, 58 or…I’m sorry. 72% of independents disapprove. And doubling down on immigration and his policies where 58% disapprove. So if you're a Republican sitting in there, you're a Republican running for office. That is not a speech that gives you a guide. That is not a speech that helps you out there try to win.
Most Democrats are like Circle-Back Barbie and can't hide their craziness. Radicals may be able to do it, like a KGB officer or Communist Diplomat, but Democrats as a group are more like Kim Jong-Un or Ayatollah Khameini, and are totally incapable of hiding their inner thoughts.
Meanwhile at the Democrats’ counter state of the union event…
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 25, 2026
The absolute state of the Democratic party pic.twitter.com/IzinCEPiuI
The mere thought of "cisgender" white males makes their heads spin as much as an MS-13 gang member makes them swoon. Criticizing illegal aliens or lifelong violent criminals makes them angry.
SICKENING. Democrats refused to stand for Iryna Zarutska's parents. pic.twitter.com/CRQOTNOvQB
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 25, 2026
Celebrating the victory of Team America—a bridge too far. Instead, cheer on the traitor who left America to compete for Communist China.
Imagine wearing a Ukrainian Flag pin and your entire Democrat Party won’t stand up for Iryna who was murdered in cold blood. https://t.co/MEQHUz10QX pic.twitter.com/mvEtQfYdSf
— Tyler Bowyer (@tylerbowyer) February 25, 2026
Democrats may not want crazy to be their brand, but crazy is what they are. And crazy is not something you can turn on or off.
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