Posted on 10/07/2026 12:42:14 AM PDT by ma_che62
A long list of prominent conservatives have referred to leftists and Democrats as dumb, stupid, incompetent, crazy, and insane. In 2007, Ann Coulter wrote the book “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.” Both Rush Limbaugh and President Trump regularly referred to Democrats as “Dumbocrats.” More recently, the leader of the House Freedom Caucus called Democrats “the crazy party,”... Matt Margolis titled a piece in PJ Media this year “Democrats Are Too Stupid to Heed This Warning,”..
Conservatives need to understand that this tactic can not only contradict the more serious messages they’re trying to convey about leftist policies, it can also remove responsibility from leftists for their malevolence. Consider a recent interview in which Representative Jim Jordan explained that the left’s open-border policy was part of a shrewd, long-term plan to bring in new Democrat constituents, with sanctuary-city policies as another step in that plan. Yet in the same interview, he called the policy “Just stupid” and “one of the dumbest policies I’ve ever heard of,” and in a later interview, adding, “just about every single position today’s left adopts is crazy.”
So we are told that leftists are shrewd, long-term planners who are simultaneously stupid and crazy. Which is it? The distinction may seem trivial, but it’s not.
Stupid or Strategic? To call leftist leaders or their policies stupid is therefore more than an unfortunate choice of words. It can mislead conservatives regarding what they are confronting.
We don’t tend to think of stupid people as evil. Perceived stupidity neutralizes perceived intent and, to some degree, perceived blame. “Stupid” is not the word that comes to mind for figures like Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, and it would have done us no favors to describe the Axis powers in World War II as merely stupid or crazy.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Yep. And during the morbid 8 years of the obama àdministration all the “reasonable” democrats were pushed out. Virtually all remaining dems are all in for the destruction of America.
They’re evil because of who they belong to.
Yes, I read the article.
I get paid for less words though.
“they want the side effects ... it is part of their strategy to increase power ...”
Yes, exactly!
I think most here understand the truth. The left hierarchy is not stupid. They are calculating, strategic and relentless. They are cultural terminators who will not stop until the culture and all decency is destroyed.
Bravo...you just hit it out of the park!
If all the Left is stupid, we really need to redefine what stupid means because these “crazy,” “insane,” “stupid,” people almost all have advanced degrees from “prestigious” universities...where all of the PHD’d professors are Leftists.
So well said and thank you for your posts on this subject!
Unfortunately, it’s the conservatives...people who vote the way we vote...who are the stupid, asleep, not-realizing-what-is-happening, ones. That’s because we are too blind to recognize that the so called insane, nuts, crazy, stupid, out-of-their-minds are malicious, malevolent.
IT DOES NOT MATTER IF COMMUNISM NEVER WORKS; WHAT MATTERS IS THAT IT IS TANTAMOUNT TO A RELIGION TO THE LEFT.
Fetterman comes in mind, lately?!
Hopefully You are correct …… Hopefully.
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