Though they rarely practice what they preach, Democrats often pretend that America could be a better place for all if everyone could simply put their differences aside in the name of love, peace, unity, harmony, and all that jazz.
Once he made it past the presidential primary campaign, this was more or less Joe Biden’s entire mantra, which his supporters in the mainstream media enthusiastically picked up on and ran with well beyond Election Day.
What he (and they) mean, of course, is that they would prefer their political opposition abandon their principles and shut up while the left does all the governing and ruling and making the laws.
In the real world, however, things just don’t and will never work that way as long as there is even one conservative or Republican left willing to stand up to the left and, when necessary, use their own arguments against them.
Which brings me to Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy. In 2007, Kennedy – who was state treasurer at the time – left the Democratic party and never looked back after growing “increasingly at odds with his party — getting into public disagreements with [then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco] and with one of the party’s main power brokers, Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom.”
Of his party switch, Kennedy told Roll Call in 2016 – the year he was elected to serve in the U.S. Senate – that “I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party. You can’t anymore.”
Kennedy also firmly believes in gun rights. Case in point, this recent NRA-touted ad from Kennedy where he gets right down to the point in talking about how he believes “love is the answer, but you oughta own a handgun just in case”:
Naturally, the ad triggered anti-gun activists like David Hogg:
Aww. Bless his heart.
It’s a statement Kennedy’s made for years, going back at least to his 2016 Senate campaign, if not further: