A former Democrat strategist is sounding the alarm over the way members of the party have been humiliating themselves since the election of President Donald Trump.
Dan Turrentine, who still claims allegiance to Democrats, spoke to Fox News on Friday, saying party members were “embarrassing” themselves during the president’s address to a joint session of Congress last week.
“I love my party, but tonight was a new low. I get silence on this or that policy, and the raw politics of the base’s anger. But, for not a single D to stand to applaud a boy’s brave battle with cancer, or a man’s admission to West Point, was a classless disgrace,” he said in an X post the day after Trump’s speech.
“And maddeningly, while overall Trump’s speech was politically good, there were political holes that could be exploited, juvenile taunts that voters hate, and comical lies. But much of that will be buried by our self-inflicted stupidity,” he said.
When he spoke to Fox News host Jesse Watters, he continued his critique of Democrats.
“Jesse, it’s embarrassing. I mean, I guess fake it till you make it, I mean, I think a lot of them right now have kind of lost their minds,” the strategist said.
“They’re trying to kind of out-Trump, Trump. They’re not being who they are, right? Trump is an authentic street fighter, like it comes natural to him to do the taunts to try to get in people’s heads. We need to go back to just like the basics here,” he said.
He went on to mock the cringeworthy TikTok-style videos members of the Democrat Party released after the speech.
“They more sound like sophomores with a TikTok account at this point. So I think the problem is there is no leader at this point, Jesse,” he complained. “Hakeem Jeffries clearly is not Nancy Pelosi.”
WATCH: Fox’s @JoeConchaTV thinks Democrats “should have a new rule going forward: ‘No More Singing’. This ain’t 1960 any more! The problem for them is that they have ceded the common sense block of voters – a massive amount of voters.”
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The Democrats were so unhinged that one of their longtime representatives, Al Green of Texas, found himself being censured by the House.
Members voted to censure Green the following day after he interrupted President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday night. He joins a small number of congressmembers censured in the history of the country.
The measure passed with ten Democrats joining Republicans in support. Green himself voted “present,” as did first-term Rep. Shomari Figures (D-AL), Fox News reported on Thursday.
“Al Green’s childish outburst exposed the chaos and dysfunction within the Democrat party since President Trump’s overwhelming win in November and his success in office thus far. It is not surprising 198 Democrats refused to support Green’s censure given their history of radical, inflammatory rhetoric fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital.
The outlet noted that the 10 Democrats who voted to censure Green are Reps. Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; Jim Costa, D-Calif.; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y.; Jim Himes, D-Conn.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.
Republicans moved swiftly on Wednesday to introduce competing resolutions to censure Green, with three separate proposals being drafted within hours of each other.
Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), whose resolution ultimately received a House vote on Thursday morning, had reportedly contacted Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) immediately after Trump’s speech ended Tuesday night to begin drafting a censure resolution.
Meanwhile, the House Freedom Caucus sought to follow through on its earlier warning that any Democrat who disrupted Trump’s address would face censure. At the same time, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) introduced his own censure resolution against Green, which quickly gained more than 30 House GOP co-sponsors.
On Wednesday afternoon, Newhouse took to the House floor and designated his resolution as “privileged,” a procedural move that forced House leaders to act on the measure within two legislative days, Fox noted.
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