Democrats and MS-13, a springtime love affair

Political parties need votes from people, and voters do not like being murdered or seeing their countrymen killed. So you would expect all politicians to take their side on least on this.

But when it comes to Democrats, you’d be wrong about that.

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the country was fairly united, mostly due to the shock and horror at what had just happened. But within a couple of weeks, that unity was gone.

What manifested itself on that horrible day as Democrats and Republicans spontaneously singing “God Bless America” on the steps of the Capitol, quickly became for the left a public discussion of what we did to make them hate us so much and how we were all “little Eichmanns.” It took less than a week after 9/11 for Barack Obama's friend and pastor to deliver his famous "God damn America" sermon on how “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

I remember encountering this attitude in a friend at the time. “We deserved this," she chatted me on AOL Instant Messenger, "because of what our country does in foreign policy.” At first, I thought she was joking. She was not. It was the last time I had communication with her. I simply could not respect someone with such demented ideals.

Democrats have long been wandering down this path, but now they seem to be running down it. And when you watch the latest chapter of this saga — the love affair between Democratic politicians and MS-13 gangsters — you almost can't avoid asking what the political left has against our country, and why it is so fond of its enemies.

They have embraced an alleged MS-13 gang member, an illegal alien from El Salvador who had been living in Maryland. The man's wife called the police on multiple occasions and accused him of domestic violence. Yet they are now working tirelessly to reverse his deportation, even though voters in heavily Democratic Prince George County are not on their side. They feel safer after the deportation.

Why would any elected official create such a spectacle around something so unpopular? The answer is simple: President Trump. If Trump is on one side of an issue, Democrats can be counted on to take the other, no matter how insane it is. And they will trample each other to get there, even if there is a trove of video of them proclaiming the righteousness of Trump's position from some time not long ago. Nothing else matters but opposing Trump.

So intense is the Democrats' hatred of Trump that they don’t even seem to notice they are supporting an alleged domestic abuser and implying that his wife, who unambiguously accused him of terrorizing and abusing her, filed false police reports.

And it’s not just Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the so-called "Maryland man" in question — it’s every gangster, no matter how violent or how long they’ve been terrorizing communities in this country. They travel to visit them. They rush to get them returned. Their non-profits rush to pay for their defense. They compare these face-tattooed gangsters' imprisonment to the mass murder of innocent Jews in the Holocaust.

Trump Derangement Syndrome can explain only so much of this psychosis. The other part of it is that you and your community simply don't rate as priorities for Democrats.

Derek Hunter is host of the Derek Hunter Podcast and a former staffer for the late Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.).