Stop Calling Them Democrats

... When one reads the Declaration of Independence, it cannot be debated that America, unlike any other Nation, was established on the premise of individual rights, freedoms, and liberties. But here we are two and a half centuries later, being told that America is not about the individual, their indomitable spirit, resolve, and entrepreneurship. America is, after all, as leftists would believe, centered around the manifestation of centralized government control. There is no such thing as an individual manifest destiny or equality of opportunity, just the equality of outcomes that is touted by the so-called progressives...

It is time that we understand that there is a political party called Democratic, but that label... has nothing to do with who they are. It is time we stop calling them Democrats and use references that align with their principles, values (or lack thereof) and political philosophy. Back when I was in Congress... I asserted that there were some 75-80 communists on Capitol Hill. I was referring to the Congressional Progressive Caucus. If people were astute enough to read and comprehend where the reference "progressive" emanated, they would see that it was a rebranding by the European communists in order to dupe the West, meaning America, into accepting them and their philosophy...

We should also stop calling Democrats liberals; they are not. True classical liberalism is that of its founder, John Locke, and can be found in his Second Treatise of Government, circa 1689. It was Locke whom Thomas Jefferson studied to frame our Declaration of Independence based on Locke's Natural Rights Theory...

There are two offshoots of Marxism. The first is the economic model, which is socialism... A socialist economic model centers upon wealth redistribution... The whole DEI nonsense was just cultural Marxism that promotes a communist ideal. To believe that the government can make it all equal in some aspect is ludicrous and delusional, but that is Marxism...

The Democrats' Empty Threats of Oppression, by Kurt Schlichter, 2 February 2026.