Part of the difficulty Republicans have in running against contemporary Democrats is believability. So bizarre is Democrat rhetoric, so anti-American, hateful, and deranged, that many Americans, including fellow Republicans, find it difficult, even impossible, to believe. Even when video of Democrats calling for the deaths of Normal Americans is provided, it’s easy to dismiss it as faked or produced by AI. I mean, who actually says such insane things? How can anyone running for Congress hate America and Americans that way? Who talks like that?
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Plenty of Democrats, now indistinguishable from Communists, do. One of them is Shelly Headen, who is running for the North Carolina state legislature. Headen has recently shut down her social media accounts. Here’s why:

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As Breitbart News reported:
Headen was reportedly visiting Dachau, where the memorial states that 41,500 people were murdered.
In social media photos, Headen is seen smiling as she stands in front of what appears to be crematorium ovens, which were used by the Nazi SS to burn the bodies of Jews and other prisoners who died or were murdered at the camp.
Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
Yes. Photographed smiling while standing in front of ovens at Dachau, where demonic evil once reigned and which stands as a reminder of the depths of depravity to which man is capable, Headen proudly wrote that those ovens are where Trump supporters belong.
Who smiles in that horrific place, where the ghosts of millions linger? Who can be there, see that, and experience anything other than mind-numbing horror? Headen can, and judging from their social media comments and speeches, innumerable other Democrats can do that and worse.
And Headen wasn’t done:

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A day earlier, Headen’s comments surfaced calling for an apparent terror attack on United States soil, in which she said, “I think our only hope is an attack on US soil… preferably Alabama, Louisiana… where the stupid people are.”
That’s former Democrat Governor Roy Cooper posing with Headen. He hasn’t distanced himself from her, but a “Cooper spokesman” tells us the former governor condemns political violence and says we ought to “speak responsibly.” That’ll show her. This will come as no surprise:
Notably, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D), who is Jewish, has not made any public comments or responded to at least two separate media inquiries to his office.
Democrats excel at excess and at defending even the most insane and bloodthirsty among them. To be fair, some Democrats in NC have pulled support for Headen.
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I don’t know Shelly Headen. Perhaps she’s a decent person who fell in with bad–very bad–company, but what evil could have possessed her to post such things, to align herself with historic, demonic horror?
It’s not hard to understand. That’s the accepted, expected status quo of the Democrat Party. How many Democrats were upset at the failure of three Trump assassination attempts? How many routinely call for the blood of Trump, other Republicans, and Normal Americans? How many, whose lawns are festooned with “hate doesn’t live here” signs, spew vicious hatred online? How many proclaiming their moral superiority call for the deaths of the police, dox them, and other Normal Americans? How many engage in violent protests over the enforcement of immigration law properly written by Congress? And how many make it absolutely clear they want Normal Americans—largely but not exclusively Republicans—dead?
These people aren’t merely engaging in unhinged rhetoric. They’re serious. They want much of America dead so that they can establish their one-party, utopian, Communist state, which hasn’t really been tried yet. They’re superior beings, so they’ll get it right where Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and others failed. They’ll establish paradise on Earth.
That’s why Democrats will never stop trying to disarm Americans. They really do intend to rule with an iron fist, and armed, capable Americans stand in their way.
Realistically, most of those screaming for the blood of Americans are cowards. They won’t start their communist revolution themselves. They expect others to do it, and when they do, they’ll join in. The madness of mobs is an ever-present danger because people who would never commit crimes of all kinds, including murder, by themselves, will when covered by the anonymity of mobs.
And that’s where Shelly Headen and plenty of other Democrats come in. If they want the support of the Democrat machine, they must appeal to the lunatics who really do want most Americans dead and will kill them, or at least push others to do it. The Democrat Party is that far gone. They no longer try to hide their true beliefs and intentions.
It wasn’t long ago that no sane Democrat would say or do such things. Now, it’s virtually a minimum requirement for candidates at every level.
They really do want us dead, and we’d better take them at their word.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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