“The View” host Sunny Hostin was outraged — outraged! — that all Democrats didn’t walk out after self-righteous crank Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) got booted for yelling impotently during President Trump’s speech to Congress.
Sadly, that would’ve been in line with the attitude most lefties are taking these days: Witness congressional Dems’ bizarre singing of “We Shall Overcome” on the floor of the House Thursday as Green was rightly censured.
“I expected the rest of his Democratic caucus, the rest of his colleagues, to walk out with him,” Hostin said Wednesday.
But … why? What would that have accomplished?
A seal-clap moment for journos at the New York Times — and nothing more.
Hostin justifies this because Trump’s presidency so far “is not normal. It is a five-alarm fire.”
Yet were that true, the literal last thing Democrats should be doing is walking out.
They should be fighting like hell to block Trump’s agenda, doing everything they can to leverage the GOP’s super-narrow House minority and in general making their case on policy 24/7 to the American people.
Big, blubbering acts of theater will have literally zero effect; indeed, visible public abdications often empower opponents.
Same with the bingo-hall paddles various Democrats held up to (incoherently) criticize Trump during his speech.
That should be obvious even to a witless racist like Hostin.
November’s results show that Americans are tired of Democrats’ political theater: They want action on inflation, the border and crime — plus an end to woke social engineering.
They made this beyond clear at the voting booth, yet almost all Dem electeds are refusing to listen.
Hence the paddles, Green’s election denial (he screamed at Trump, falsely, “You don’t have a mandate”), Hostin’s malarkey, Thursday’s syrupy singing and every other bit of empty rage.
The sad truth?
Dems are resorting to this theater-kid insanity because they have nothing beyond the same failed policies — and it’s easier to act out than do any real rethinking.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
