Hakeem the Extreme: Bitter Jeffries Unloads Rage at Voters, Athletes, and Reality

RedState 

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) has always had a slightly desperate air about him since he took over the reins from Rep. Nancy Pelosi in November 2022. He lives in her shadow, and in fact, many observers consider him her puppet.

He has grown increasingly bitter over the years as his political impotence is exposed almost daily by the Republicans, who keep trumping him on issue after issue. He's gone from just being generally unlikable to bitter, vitriolic, and resentful, and his endless rage stands in stark contrast to the optimism and hope that Trump and the GOP radiate.

He was at it again on Tuesday, using inciting rhetoric at a progressive event to further inflame his base. Even in an era where we’ve seen increased political violence, this is the kind of language he inexplicably finds appropriate:

Jeffries, who stands to gain the House speaker’s gavel if Democrats take the majority in the midterm election, said that "part of how we as House Democrats view this moment, either MAGA extremists are going to break the country, or we're going to break them, and our goal is to break them."

During the panel, Jeffries assured, "As a guarantee, we are taking back control of the United States House of Representatives in November."

"We will defeat them," he continued. "We have to beat them electorally, and then we have to break their spirit, because of the extremism that's being unleashed on the American people, that's completely and totally unacceptable."

What even is this?! He wants to “break” over half the voters in this country (77 million) who chose Trump in ’24? That’s some pretty sick stuff.

Minnesota GOP Rep. Walter Hudson summed things up nicely:

Conservative Actor/Director/Producer/Author Nick Searcy, director of “Gosnell,” had some choice words for the divisive NY rep: “The good guys don't say things like this. The super villains do.”

Hakeem the Extreme wasn’t done, though. On Tuesday, he stood on the Capitol steps, joining forces with the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), to stoke racial division by calling on black athletes to boycott the powerhouse athletic conference, the Southeastern Conference (SEC), to protest redistricting areas in southern states.

You mean the kind of redistricting effort that you heartily endorsed just days ago in Virginia, and an illegal gambit that even the VA Supreme Court couldn’t stomach? Or the kind of trashing of the state constitution promulgated by California Gov. Gavin Newsom with his Prop. 50 scheme?

Let’s see if we can undermine race relations and send them back to another era:

Leader @hakeemjeffries: This is an unprecedented moment with an attack on Black political representation, and it requires an unprecedented response. We are here in solidarity with the NAACP and its call for athletes to boycott SEC institutions in these states that have unleashed these Jim Crow racially oppressive tactics.

Bitterness, angst, fear, and hate: those appear to be the Democrats’ main political postures since Biden was finally exposed as a puppet president and sent packing. Hakeem is even outdoing his sclerotic counterpart in the Senate, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and it’s dangerous.

No matter how much rage and hate rhetoric Jeffries spouts, it will never make him captivating or appealing to anyone but his most hardcore acolytes. In the meantime, however, he’s doing a lot of damage.