Democrats’ Theater Kid Politics Is A National Sinkhole

The Federalist 

If you don’t remember the name Mallory McMorrow, you may remember the nickname she got after the Democratic National Convention in 2024: Lizard Lady.

McMorrow, a Michigan state senator, is running for a seat in the United States Senate. She danced into the state Democratic Party convention over the weekend like this, with a band and giant cut-out copies of her own face:

As one of her opponents in the Democrat primary said, “That’s what you get when you don’t have a message.”

But not having a message is the message in theater kid politics. It’s the prevailing cultural flavor of the party. The performance is the politics.

California is in deep trouble: on a rapid path to insolvency, burdened by widespread homelessness and urban decay, plagued by epic levels of social services fraud. Also, here’s what the state’s most powerful legislators choose to fight for:

A coffee shop decided not to have “pride” flags anymore, so Sen. Scott Wiener leapt into action. If you don’t know Wiener, he’s the genius who wrote the successful bill to free adults from registering as sex offenders when they commit statutory rape with minors if there isn’t a ten-year age difference between them. Twenty-one and sodomizing a 12-year-old? Don’t worry, Wiener’s got your back. What important work the California legislature does.

The total absence of seriousness, reality, decency, or anything resembling a thought is rapidly becoming the Democrat norm, as we culturally collapse into a 24/7 showcase for the master thespian in elected office. Given a forum to seek information from the secretary of Health and Human Services late last week, Democrats in the House asked important questions like this:

That’s Rep. Haley Stevens, who provided this important leadership during the pandemic:

Consider the possibility that we no longer have politics, and have replaced political argument with a kind of never-ending sequel to High School Musical. If we locked them all in a middle school auditorium and turned on the spotlight for them, their souls would be fed and watered like thirsty geraniums, and the rest of us could just go on with our lives. Send word if you know of a vacant middle school.