Graham: Dems failing political math of Boulder attack

Democrats have a math predicament No Person Is Illegal Free Free Palestine Jews set ablaze by an antisemitic undocumented immigrant in Boulder Colo The question now is whether the party can change the calculations with its current coalition The facts in the Boulder matter aren t contested Mohamed Sabry Soliman is an Egyptian national who was in the country illegally when he turned his improvised flame thrower on peaceful activists supporting the hostages held by Hamas Also not in dispute The Democratic Party s stance on the issues of perimeter assurance and anti-Israel rhetoric It opposes the former and has a discomfiting tolerance for the latter Democrats have spent decades burnishing their brand as opponents of immigration enforcement They blocked President Trump s first-term attempt to build a dividing line wall and they unanimously supported provision to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the United States On the crime front the vast majority of Democrats in Congress voted against the Laken Riley Act passed in response to the gruesome murder of a Georgia college participant killed by an undocumented alien who had previously been arrested on other charges and disclosed And Democrats continue to aid sanctuary city policies across the country As for the party s Free Palestine challenge the surge of antisemitism in the party s coalition is hardly emerging news Just ask Gov Josh Shapiro the popular Democrat who could have helped Kamala Harris carry the must-win state of Pennsylvania but whose standing as a practicing Jew and a supporter of Israel made him politically suspect in his party During this year s Passover season an antisemitic assailant snuck into the governor s mansion while Shapiro and his family slept and set the building on fire The attacker cited Shapiro s stance on Gaza as his motive quoting language often heard among progressives In Rep Rashida Tlaib s chants of From the River to the Sea Palestine Shall Be Free led to a censure resolution by the House of Representatives The slogan is a regular feature at anti-Israel rallies and appears in Hamas propaganda While the censure resolution easily passed the House only Democrats voted in favor of it An additional Democrats voted in defense of Tlaib Not surprisingly the party has seen its advocacy among Jewish voters slipping In Fox News and the Associated Press exit polling discovered just of Democrats voted for the Harris-Walz ticket the lowest percentage since the Reagan era But the bigger difficulty is that typical Americans who tune in to politics only around Ballot Day continue to pick up the message that if you like undocumented aliens and hate Israelis the Democratic Party is for you That is a simplistic and incomplete description of an entire political party whose nominee won of the vote in the November voting process However preponderance voters don t do complexity and nuance If Democrats keep holding Free Palestine rallies and suing to get undocumented immigrants with gang ties back into the country voters will react On a modern episode of his Way scheme veteran political journalist Mark Halperin declared left-leaning reporters giving Democrats a pass on this math obstacle aren t doing them any favors The dominant media is wrapping them in blue bubble wrap and leaving them comprehensively vulnerable to reality So why aren t Democratic leaders stepping up to address this matter within their ranks Democratic operative Dan Turrentine who also appeared on Halperin s show put it like this They re afraid of their base A lot of senators and governors have this super-progressive to of the electorate and they re like I don t need the headache of going to war with them so I say nothing That was Kamala Harris principle during her campaign Turrentine mentioned During the campaign Democrats and their allies tried to give Harris cover on her role in the Joe Biden age cover-up and her extreme stance on transgender issues New books about the Biden White House reveal that the press shrugged off the age issue And when news outlets bothered to cover the transgender topic it was to denounce Trump for even bringing it up What happened Democrats lost the House Senate and White House At present plenty of Democrats insist their party doesn t have an undocumented immigration or antisemitism difficulty that it s all right-wing spin In they may be reminded of another political theorem There is no tuition in the second kick from a mule Michael Graham is the managing editor of InsideSources com