Posted on 10/06/2026 7:22:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The “Dumbocrats” Narrative
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,” and JD Vance framed the contrast between the parties as “common sense vs. crazy.” Matt Margolis titled a piece in PJ Media this year “Democrats Are Too Stupid to Heed This Warning,” and posited that somewhere between the 1990s and today, the Democratic Party lost its mind.
Some of this stuff gets a chuckle, but conservatives need to be careful with this narrative.
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.
The Left Has Its Useful Idiots
To answer that, we need to distinguish between leftist leadership and its dominant agenda on the one hand, and its useful idiots on the other.
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The leadership of the DemocRATs all seem to hate Western Civilization. That is why they are so willing to ally with muslims.
Bonhoeffer’s take on stupidity and evil seems appropriate.
“...we are told that leftists are shrewd, long-term planners who are simultaneously stupid and crazy.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink”
― George Orwell, 1984
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984
My mom called it “the loony left”
I think it actually goes further than that --- they hate those who are successful. That includes western civilization because we are the most successful culture in history. But within those living in western civilization, they love the failures and hate the successful. I think that's largely due to intense insecurity and resentment.
‘Bring on the Apocalypse’ has been the Sabbatean plan since before Adam Weishaupt convened the Illuminati.
All I know is the vast majority of leftists are stupid and/or ignorant.
And those who lead them brilliantly evil.
The rats are evil, not stupid.
...and the Republicans still think it's all a political game.
They live in anti-American leftist marxist fantasy land, which is the opposite of reality.
I’m seeing absolute suicidal stupidity on the left in action today.
President Trump is on his way to Baltimore to announce a $4 billion investment in reopening the Sparrows Point Shipyard.
It closed in 1997. The nearby steel plant finally ceased operations in 2012.
Baltimore residents have been pining for the return of the glory days of heavy industry ever since.
And of course, when Trump announces that Valtimore will be adding over 3000 jobs building submarines, the left goes bat guano crazy in hating the idea. Because Trump.
Headline implies that understanding can be incorrect. To the contrary, incorrect understanding is misunderstanding.
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