Even after the Democrats’ big midterm win, that message is still echoing across the liberal landscape.
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message → echo → landscape
Only recently embraced as a top candidate for the Michigan Senate nomination, Stevens is now portrayed as an unstable, menacing traitor by her self-described friends.
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Stevens → embrace → friends
Stevens now has the misfortune of being an object lesson for anyone who may stand against the far left.
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who → have → left
They are going to “burn the witch” to deter anyone else from getting in the way of the mob.
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They → go → mob
As soon as the House flipped, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the expected chair of the House Oversight Committee, posted a two-word message: “Lawyer up.”
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Garcia → flip → message
Rage politics leaves little room for dissent or compromise.
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politics → leave → dissent
Indeed, Stevens seemed to spur the party into becoming a collection of Madame Defarges, knitting names into the list of the walking dead.
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Stevens → seem → dead
After she declared that she would split her ticket and vote for Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed, Democrats across the country declared Stevens mentally ill.
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Stevens → declare → country
Some used the attack literally, feigning deep concern over her safety — the way you’d describe a friend found raving on the subway about being probed by aliens.
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you → use → aliens
GOP Rep. Nick LaLota claims victory against ‘kinky’ challenger Chris Gallant to hold onto Long Island seat
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LaLota → claim → seat
GOP braces for mad dash to push conservative bills through Congress before Dem takeover
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GOP → brace → takeover
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Florida → build → wave
Lawyer George Conway encouraged her to check into a mental facility immediately (he is, after all, a Juris Doctor).
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he → encourage → facility
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D- Md.) explained to CNN in the tone of an intervention, “I have been worried about her all last week.
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I → explain → her
She’s a human being.”
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She → ’ → ?
Former Republican Bill Kristol said Stevens “seems to have had some kind of breakdown or something.”
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Stevens → say → breakdown
Zeteo editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan called Stevens “a disturbed, deranged, dishonest woman.”
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Hasan → call → Stevens
From Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump, the left has often falsely portrayed Republicans as being mentally ill, with liberal psychiatrists supplying the patina of medical authority.
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psychiatrists → portray → authority
Indeed, after Goldwater’s presidential run, the American Psychiatric Association adopted the “Goldwater Rule” to bar doctors from making such unethical diagnoses of individuals without evaluating them — a standard that later practitioners routinely violated.
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practitioners → adopt → that
It’s a tactic made infamous by the Soviets, who invented conditions such as “sluggish schizophrenia” to lock up dissidents in mental hospitals.
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who → ’ → hospitals
Nikita Khrushchev explained that mental illness was the only plausible explanation for anyone who opposed communism.
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who → explain → communism
From the perspective of many politicians, Stevens must be mentally ill to risk everything for mere principle.
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Stevens → risk → principle
Establishment Democrats have caved to the far-left mob in promising to pack the Supreme Court and calling the defense of our constitutional institutions as mere “nostalgia” or dangerous “incrementalism.”
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Democrats → cave → nostalgia
In such company, Stevens looks like an escapee from St. Elizabeths Hospital for the criminally insane.
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Stevens → look → insane
Other Democrats are turning to sexist attacks, like strategist James Carville, who described her as a “used condom.”
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who → turn → condom
Or they claim she’s simply under the influence of her fiancé, Jason Turkish: “All I can say is that any woman who abandons her friends when a new guy comes along is no friend at all,” wrote Susan Wild, a former Pennsylvania congresswoman.
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Wild → claim → friends
Such sexism has long been denounced by liberals, but in this case they feel free to deploy it.
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they → denounce → it
Stevens notably only made her decision after El-Sayed refused to reject an antisemitic commercial that supported his candidacy by arguing that Jews were taking money from Michigan families for food — a claim that El-Sayed himself echoed in his final campaign speech.
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Sayed → make → speech
Whether Stevens is insane, or a brainless woman, or just a “traitor,” Democrats are calling for her expulsion from their party caucus.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) ominously suggested to Politico that action would be taken for “her terrible decision.”
Stevens, he said, “isolated herself from the House Democratic caucus.
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he → call → caucus
We will have a discussion about appropriate next steps upon our return.”
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We → have → return
In higher education, this is all too familiar: Universities have long maintained a groupthink culture with little tolerance for dissent.
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Universities → maintain → dissent
The attacks on Stevens expose the sheer hypocrisy of the “big tent” claims of the Democratic Party.
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attacks → expose → Party
Stevens challenged Democrats like Jeffries to tolerate her right to disagree with the party consensus.
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Stevens → challenge → consensus
He responded by suggesting that she may be formally expelled for the sin of opposing a candidate who holds what she believes to be antisemitic views.
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she → respond → candidate
The result is an entire party deranged by groupthink, a political version of “Lord of the Flies,” primed to chase down any member that’s deemed an outsider.
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that → derange → member
What’s missing is the single voice of “Simon”: “Maybe there is a beast . . . maybe it’s only us.”
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it → miss → Simon
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
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Turley → sell → Revolution
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