Democrat ‘Civil War’ Means Party and Its Demands on Guns Will Move Farther to the Left

“Wes Moore’s star is rising as Democrats look for a comeback,”  The Hill reported Thursday. “Moore’s political prospects have only gained steam in the party in recent months, as Democrats desperately try to find someone to lead them out of the wilderness, to save them.”

“Wilderness” is being kind. A recent NBC News poll found “Just over a quarter of registered voters (27%) say they have positive views of the party, which is the party’s lowest positive rating in NBC News polling dating back to 1990.”

As Politico admits, “Democrats … Should Be Very Afraid.” True. So, what are they doing about it?

Younger Democrats are pushing the Old Guard out. Nancy Pelosi surrendered Democrat leadership after ramrodding the loss of the majority, and now the knives are out for Chuck Schumer, who is “facing intense pushback from Democrats after supporting partisan Republican-crafted spending bill.”

“Couldn’t happen to a nicer pair,” gun owners (who aren’t Fudds) could say. And it’s not just the very top catching heat.

Furious Democrat constituents have been disrupting town halls and demanding to know what Party notables like Mark Kelly, Ruben, Gallego, and others, are going to do about challenging leadership, repeating narrative themes that boil down to “You’re not fighting!”

Who will fight, and not just Republicans, but their own fossilized party bosses?

“Ocasio-Cortez leads poll of Democrats on which leader ‘best reflects’ party’s ‘core values’,” The Hill reports. “Depressed Democrats Find Hope at Bernie Sanders Rallies,” The Wall Street Journal observes.

What an interesting admission on core values. That ought to play well in flyover country—all those red “MAGA” counties you see on a political map— the places urban Democrats look down their noses at and disparage as “deplorables” and worse.

“[Democrat strategist] James Carville says Dems were ‘stupid’ for ignoring rural US voters — and they ‘ought to apologize’,” the New York Post notes. Perhaps, but then again, what do they offer them, particularly the rising AOC/Bernie contingent, perhaps best journalistically represented by unabashedly leftist publications like Mother Jones, leading its pack of Antifa sympathizers with race-baiting headlines like “Are White Rural Americans the Real Threat to Democracy?”

(As an aside, Carville, squarely in the Old Guard, was “certain” Kamala Harris would win the presidency, and predicted one month ago the Trump administration would “collapse within 30 days,” so it might be in Republican interests to encourage more Democrats to listen to him.)

What’s clear is Democrats are desperate to bring their numbers up, and to do that they need a leader who is not as polarizing as the uncloseted Bolsheviks yet ticks off enough boxes to where even the radicals will have a tough time attacking him as a person (that is, resorting to their main tactic of personal destruction politics). That some think they may have found one is evidenced by The Hill’s promo piece for Wes Moore. If he can emerge as a leader in the midterms, the prospects for having a dangerous presidential challenger in 2028 go up.

The Maryland governor has a lot going for him in a game where image is everything. He’s young (46), energetic, personable, photogenic, and black, meaning any white lefty thinking of criticizing him had better think twice lest he commit the unforgiveable sin of — forget about criticizing — not kissing up. And the PR machine is already shaping a personality narrative crafted for wider media amplification:

“Wes Moore is the Captain America of Democratic politics,” said Jamal Simmons, a prominent party strategist who worked for former Vice President Kamala Harris. “He’s a veteran, an athlete and a Rhodes Scholar who still connects with everyday people. He’s the best of us but doesn’t act like he’s better than any of us,” Simmons said.

They’re building him into the new Obama.

What’s not to like if myth-building propaganda is what inspires you, that is, if you’re a typical Democrat voter? Besides, the party and its media allies will gloss over, or more likely just ignore “misunderstandings” like Moore’s lie of omission about being a Bronze Star recipient.

Being a doctrinaire Democrat, Moore is, of course, big on turning to citizen disarmament to distract the gullible from his utter inability/unwillingness to address the real reasons behind Baltimore’s routine homicides. So, headlines like “Maryland governor signs gun-control bills tightening requirements, NRA sues,” and “Maryland governor signs Biden-inspired bill establishing ‘Center for Firearm Violence Prevention’” become the routine instead.

“I’m proud to have earned the endorsement of Everytown for Gun Safety. I will be a governor whose highest priority is keeping families safe from gun violence,” Moore declared on Facebook during his campaign for governor. “#GunSenseMajority #MooreForMaryland.”

It’s tempting to look at the disarray the Democrat Party finds itself in, to declare “Woke” is dead, and that Trump’s win means a new day is upon us. Now is not the time to relax. The world doesn’t.

While we’ve seen recent moves by the Trump administration to appease gun owner concerns by “reconsidering” suppressors, presenting a “pro-gun” ATF Chief Counsel, and cleverly rendering Chuck Schumer’s appropriations rider against ATF restoring rights impotent by removing ATF from the equation, the fact that there were (and still are) gun owner concerns shows nothing can be taken for granted. Dominant parties typically suffer losses during the midterms, and there’s plenty of time for national and world disasters, combined with a hostile media, Democrat, Swamp, and Globalist machinations, apparatchik judges, Vichycon Quislings, uncontrollable acts of terror, and more to turn a critical mass of the electorate against the Republicans.

While the country as a whole may not be ready for an AOC White House bid in 2028, a potential coalition builder like Wes Moore is another matter altogether. If Democrats manage to turn things around, look for every executive action and Justice Department reconsideration on guns to be reversed. Then ,look for all-out attacks on the right to arms. And Clarence Thomas ain’t gettin’ any younger.

To gun owners: Take all political threats seriously. Barring disqualifying information coming to light, this Moore character could turn into a credible political threat. Don’t take middterms for granted. And remember, Democrats play the long and organized game.

To President Trump: Give gun owners even more reason to take your pledges to them seriously. Keep ’em coming.

About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.