John Kass: Democrats are isolated, directionless, obsessed with performance

CV NEWS FEED // Veteran political analyst and journalist John Kass is warning that the Democratic Party is spiraling into self-destruction, with no clear message and a growing disconnect from the American people. 

A longtime columnist and former editorial board member of the Chicago Tribune, Kass argued in a March 9 article on his news site that Democrats have abandoned their working-class roots in favor of radical ideology, leaving them politically isolated and increasingly desperate.

“Is the Democrat message pure Jacobin hatred for anything pro-American and anything that could be considered pro-President Donald Trump?” Kass wrote. “They’re feral creatures now, lonely, isolated, frightened without leadership, desperate for relevance, without any cogent message, terrified at what’s to become of them.”

Kass criticized the party’s obsession with symbolism and performance rather than governance, pointing to their response to Trump’s recent address to Congress.

At the event, instead of engaging with policy, Democrats staged protests, refused to support bans on men in women’s sports while wearing “feminist pink,” and ignored Trump’s recognition of female athlete Payton McNabb, who was seriously injured by a male competitor.

Perhaps most striking, Kass said, was the Democrats’ refusal to stand and acknowledge 13-year-old cancer survivor D.J. Daniel, who was made an honorary U.S. Secret Service Agent. They also ignored the families of murder victims Jocelyn Nungaray and Laken Riley, who were killed by illegal migrants. 

“They showed themselves to be what we knew about them: That they are not serious,” Kass said. “They’re only about performance. They are the leftist clerisy living on money taken from Americans. And they’re quite dangerous.”

Kass argued that Democratic policies on immigration and crime have further alienated voters. He criticized the Biden administration’s open border policies for allowing criminals and terrorists into the country, while crime in Democrat-led cities continues to rise with little acknowledgment from party leaders.

“This is not the party of John F. Kennedy and Scoop Jackson,” he wrote. “This is not the party of the Daleys of Chicago, or of ‘Tip’ O’Neill of Boston. This [is] not the party of common sense as was Harry Truman. This is the party of Soros and the bloody French revolution.”

Even some Democrats are recognizing the party’s failures, Kass noted. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., recently admitted that Democrats’ behavior during the president’s speech only made Trump appear more composed and presidential by contrast.

Democrats are becoming “the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to,” Kass warned.

Kass said that Democrats now face a critical choice: return to their roots as a party of the people or continue down the path of ideological extremism. If they fail to change course, he warned, they will remain politically isolated, “locked in their own hell,” while Americans move on without them.

“They can try and recapture what they had long championed and again become a party of the people,” he wrote, “or they can continue following the discredited Clintons and Obamas down the sewer, while hoping against hope that Americans who rejected them [on] November 5 will be stupid enough to return to them for another beating.”