The Democrat party is a dumpster fire. They got smoked in the ’24 presidential election, they lost control of the Senate and maintained their minority status in the House, they’ve forced a prolonged and unnecessary government shutdown, and none of their “leaders,” which mostly nowadays consist of far-left extremists, look like promising candidates in ’28.
Their party sucks—just ask some of them, they'll tell you. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman knows (profanity alert):
Sen. Fetterman: “I'm apologizing that, that we can't even get our shit together and just open up our government.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 31, 2025
On Schumer’s claim that things are better every day for Ds: “Ask the hungry people on Saturday…This is not some shitty game show about who's winning or whatever.” pic.twitter.com/3ShdItR8UQ
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This is one in a long string of pointed criticisms Fetterman has made against his side—criticisms we here at RedState have made repeatedly. Then why does he still belong to the party? It’s because he wants to work for the poor and the disadvantaged: Those "are the kinds of people—why I’m a Democrat, fighting for people just like that.” However, I don’t even need to point out the obvious flaw in his argument; he did that himself, adding, “Now it seems like we’re moving against our core values to keep our government shut down at this point, as now we’re approaching 33 days.”
You said it, not me.
HBO comedian Bill Maher is another conundrum. He regularly unloads on the inherent idiocy and unseriousness of today’s Democrat party, yet he still insists that it's the GOP that endangers America.
SEE: Bill Maher Wrecks the Left on Their Disgraceful Rhetoric After Kirk Assassination
Here he is in one of many, many clips thrashing the extremist Dems (warning for graphic language):
Bill Maher delivers a brutal message to Democrats still calling Trump “Hitler.”
— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) September 13, 2025
Kirk is dead, and Maher has had enough of this sh*t.
“Okay, first of all, assholes, he’s not Hitler. Okay? An insult to everybody in the Holocaust, to begin with. Second of all, calling somebody… pic.twitter.com/WAN0HiJf0q
Second of all, calling somebody Hitler makes it a lot easier to justify things like assassination. Let’s put a s***load of that away, shall we?”
Although Maher explained in June that he was “never was a Democrat to begin with," he generally still supports them because “they just always are less scary and insane than the Republicans.” Really, Bill? I can find one of dozens of your monologues that emphatically prove otherwise. In fact, to a casual observer, it would certainly seem like you spend a lot more of your time eviscerating the Left in recent years than you have criticizing the Right.
Perhaps the most frustrating case of hypocrisy is James Carville, the Ragin’ Cajun, the lead strategist on Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign and a key adviser on his 1996 reelection effort. He’s most famous for popularizing the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid,” an aphorism that all politicians should repeat every day in the mirror as they brush their teeth to start the morning.
Carville notes that former Vice President Kamala Harris’ book tour—an agonizing adventure in which she backstabs virtually every former ally and lays the blame of her epic election loss at the feet of almost anyone she can think of besides herself—concides with former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's own book tour where she focuses excessively on her skin color and her sexuality and deflects when asked about her very real failures and her betrayal of the country in covering up for Biden’s obvious mental decline. Carville couldn’t hold back, and, speaking on his “Politics War Room” podcast Thursday, pretty much nailed it.
Kamala Harris has a book out. She has a right to do that. Most people who lose a presidential race have a book out. And the reviews will have to speak for themselves. But it's like, she's thinking about running in 2028 and we need this and that.
All of the people in the world, and I'll just say this very blunt, I do not feel sorry for her. You were the DA of San Francisco. You were the Attorney General of California. You were United States Senator of California. You were Vice President of the United States. You were handed the uncontested nomination to your party. And I've met her husband. He's this utterly lovely, successful man, right? You know, you're well off. It's not, I don't feel sorry for you.
There's no pity here. And I can't stop you from running again, but I can promise you, you're not gonna get the nomination.
Come write for RedState, James – we’ve been saying the same thing all along.
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He also had some brutal advice for Ms. Jean-Pierre, who, if you didn’t know (don’t worry, she’ll tell you), is the first queer black female to ever serve as press secretary. Never mind that the Democrats can’t even decide what a female is; she makes it clear that even if this is her only accomplishment, it’s enough.
“And then I'm treated to Karine Jean-Pierre,” Carville says. I’ll just print the rest of the transcript here: we report, you decide.
AL HUNT: Oh my God. Go ahead.
[They discuss a reporter who asked KJP questions in an interview.]CARVILLE: Right! And she goes on, promoting the book, okay? They've done books, you go on. Well, they ask you about the book, okay? That's what your question's gonna be about. And she started tagging him that she shouldn't answer that because she's a black lesbian female. Lady, please, do your book tour, and then shut the f*ck up. Please.
HUNT: James, she said that it was outrageous that some people thought that the nomination shouldn't be handed to Kamala Harris. And then she said, she goes on and she says, of course I knew she couldn't win. Well, what the hell is the point of a nomination if you can't win? She has every right to publish the book, but I have every right, James, not to read it.
CARVILLE: I agree, and one's opinion is not determinative by their gender, their race, their sexual identity, or anything else, you know? People, some people are wrong, some people are right. But God d*mn, I wonder if these people have any self-awareness. I mean, does somebody say that she has a publisher? Does her wife or, well, I don't know, whatever. Does somebody say, man, what you're saying makes utterly no sense at all.
Carville has been wrong on almost every single national issue in recent years, but at least he is able to see, unlike so many of his compatriots, that the Democrats are a failing party that does not have the best interests of America in mind and is lost in the wilderness.
But why are you still a Democrat then, Mr. Ragin' Cajun, when you have been one of the more effective voices in pointing out just how terrible they are? “We’re the party for the people that are trying to make it, and (they’re) the party for the people that have it made,” he said ludicrously in March. “When you have that dichotomy, everything flows from that.”
Of course, that whole narrative is complete malarchy, as the Democrats are now the party associated with the rich and the elite, and the GOP is now more often considered by Americans to be fighting for the working class and the poor. It's been a complete role reversal. Keep up with the news, James.
He added that the party needed to become “an effective and smart opposition party, not a bunch of hoo-ha screaming and yelling.” But James, hoo-ha screaming and yelling is exactly what they’re all about, as you yourself continually point out.
Carville, as I said, is wrong on most issues, and he’s not suddenly a hero for the conservative side. He does, however, have an uncanny ability for a leftist actually to admit where they’ve gone so terribly wrong. I frankly take satisfaction in watching libs realize just how dumb and extreme so many on their side have become.
Carville, Fetterman, and Maher have all three (frequently) acknowledged the flaws in their extremist party, but I will only be fully impressed and respectful of them when they realize that they are no longer wanted and jump ship. In the meantime, it’s at least somewhat satisfying to watch Democrats twist themselves into pretzels trying to justify why they’re still Democrats—when they themselves are pointing out all the reasons they should not be.
