Democrats stand by their man Jay Jones
It’s too late for Democrats in Virginia to get a replacement, and so they’re sticking with the deathwish-on-opponents-fantasizing Jay Jones, their candidate for AG. They idea is that the “D” after his name will be enough, and perhaps it will.
But there’s also this [emphasis mine]:
A random person gets popped in the face at a Trump rally for any number of reasons that might arise at a close gathering of thousands of people, and for days we’re treated to a national lecture from the media about the rise of right-wing violence. But a Democrat’s text messages are made public and in them he suggests he’d rather shoot a Republican than Hitler, and, well, the race is roiled! And those messages are a few years old, anyway, so what does it matter?
Like the Post, the nerdy Politico also ran a headline portraying Jones’ sadistic deliberations as though they were merely a bad poll for Democrats rather than a depraved and disqualifying revelation. “Democratic candidate’s ‘abhorrent’ texts threaten to shake up bellwether Virginia elections,” it said. The word “abhorrent” was apparently something that had to be attributed to someone in quotes — in this case, Jones himself — rather than standing on its own as an objective fact. And my, oh, didn’t the messages shake up the campaign in a bellwether state. We’ve got a nail-biter!
It’s simple. The media react one way when it’s political violence they can attribute to Republicans and a different way when it’s demonstrably coming from Democrats. They do that because they sincerely believe one form of political violence is justifiable. We know which one it is.
In other words, they agree with Jones and they’re not the bit scandalized or even offended by what he wrote. I’ve discussed this violent deathwish prevalence among Democrats before. I’ve seen it shared – quite casually – by people I know, and that’s been true for about a decade. Usually it has been about Trump, but it seems to have broadened in recent years to include the GOP in general. The Overton Window has moved considerably:
The political commentator Joshua Treviño has postulated six degrees of acceptance of public ideas: “roughly”
unthinkable
radical
acceptable
sensible
popular
policy
Among Democrats, I’d say that the idea of the assassination of opponents has reached the “popular” phase. It’s not official policy yet, but it has a great deal of approval.
Typo: “there’s also this” has no hyperlink.
Kate:
Thanks, fixed.
Democrats won’t ditch Jones because then the Republican would continue to be AG. Power over principle, every time, and violence to gain power is fine.
“Among Democrats, I’d say that the idea of the assassination of opponents has reached the “popular” phase. It’s not official policy yet, but it has a great deal of approval.”
At the end of that path lies civil war. Its madness for the reality rejecting ‘woke’ to imagine that a policy of assassination can lead to anything else but self-destruction.
Among Democrats, I’d say that the idea of the assassination of opponents has reached the “popular” phase. It’s not official policy yet, but it has a great deal of approval.
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Not sure. I continue to be a participant on a blog with a scrum of partisan Democrats on its comment board. Reactions to Mr. Kirk’s murder sorted into four categories.
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1. Not us. Tyler Robinson is a Nick Fuentes admirer / put political messages on his ammo because he’s a video game enthusiast.
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2. Kirk had it coming to him as he said things which are ‘hateful’.
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3. Kirk was a practitioner of rhetorical trickery.
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4. [Dead silence] (from people ordinarily opinionated).
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There was no other response. They’re OK with shooting the opposition.
There was no other response. They’re OK with shooting the opposition.
I think 1 above is a response where they are just trying to cut their losses, since they know how bad it looks.
I’ve said it before.
My own sister wishes Trump had been killed at Butler.
In the very first sentence you wrote John Jay, not Jay Jones.
The assassinations of the 1960s (JFK, RFK, MLk.) came at a time when the country was deeply divided over Vietnam and Black rights. Lots of violence and murder. We survived it because law enforcement kept bat its job and eventually cooler heads prevailed.
There has always been a Silent Majority of people who do the normal thing. They work their jobs, pay their taxes, help their friends and neighbors, and raise their families. The Silent Majority isn’t as large as it used to be, and our institutions weren’t infested with anti-American activists like they are now. IMO, it’s going to take a much more engaged effort to stop this attitude that violence is acceptable.
The big effort right now seems to be against ICE. The interreference with feral law enforcement is getting out of hand. An insurrection may have to be declared, and more force used to cool the hot heads down. I hope it doesn’t come to that.
People like Pritzker and Newsome are stirring the pot. They may need to face possible arrest for obstructing federal law. It shouldn’t be that way, but here we are.
Marisa:
Thanks, fixed.
@ Neo > “Among Democrats, I’d say that the idea of the assassination of opponents has reached the “popular” phase. It’s not official policy yet, but it has a great deal of approval.”
Someone should break the news to the Democrats that when your accepted, and endorsed, party policy is the assassination of opponents, you have officially become the Baddies.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-we-the-baddies
In re the skulls on their caps, see Neo’s LI link in Round-up #2; here’s another story, from The Federalist, along the same lines.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/22/leftists-downplay-dems-nazi-tattoo-after-calling-hegseths-christian-ink-white-nationalist/
What Jay Jones said doesn’t matter to Dems or the press, just that Republicans ’pounced’ to use it against Dems. Shame on Republicans for being so rude. (Sarcasm).
Isn;t fantasizing about murdering your opponent’s psychotic behavior?
Democrat voters cannot be dissuaded from voting for a democrat regardless of anything the dem candidate says or does.
So here we have Jones calling for the MURDER of his opponent and the opponents children !!!!! and the entire democrat establishment is just fine with this.
Of course, the reason for this is that the Democrat establishment – and demokrat voters – would not blink an eye if Jones’ opponent and children were in fact murdered.
This is how democrats think; anything and everything that will gain them power is acceptable. Think Stalin, Hitler (the German one), Pol Pot., Mao, etc.
Not sure which is worse ;the dems don’t know how they look from outside or they don’t care.
“Isn’t fantasizing about murdering your opponent’s psychotic behavior?”
Possibly not. But fantasizing about killing their children in front of them probably is.
But they support loving, mostly peaceful assassinations. That makes it OK.
I don’t know what Sears was thinking interrupting the debate the way Trump did in 2020. It was painful. But none of the issues she was raising were addressed by Spanberger. She stonewalled on everything. I’m not even sure she gave a concrete answer to anything. I’m sure the Democrats saw this as a huge win for her, and some controversy was generated by a political cartoon mocking Sears angry outbursts. Frankly, despite being a strong supporter of hers, I didn’t see what the uproar was about.
But the conclusion above is correct. Nothing any of these candidates say or do will change most people’s minds.
@Rick Gutleber: Nothing any of these candidates say or do will change most people’s minds.
Most.
There is a slow inexorable leak among the ranks of Democrat voters. That’s how Trump won decisively in 2024.
I don’t see that changing. Dems keep running further to the left. AOC and Crockett are raising big bucks from the small donations of woke voters. The big donors are sitting on their hands.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/10/23/who-is-winning-the-democratic-party-civil-war-n4945165
Don’t get cocky, but can you say “doom loop”?
Ray:
Evil or psychopathic perhaps, but not psychotic.
I considered calling him a sociopath but that didn’t seem extreme enough.
Liberals are a safety threat.