Myth of the Moderate Democrat? Poised for Power, Dems Do the Full Spanberger

Among our political eponyms are terms such as “borked” and “gerrymandered.”

Can we now add a new one, “spanbergered,” after Governor Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.)?

If so, it appears the voters just got spanbergered on November 3.

The meaning, of course, is to have fallen victim to a bait and switch. Spanberger did this in Virginia, running on kitchen-table issues and then turning hard left upon taking office in January. This isn’t exactly, though, what the Democrats who won the midterms are doing.

They’re not waiting to take office to drop their masks.

It’s as if they’re saying, “Oh, you believed that ‘moderate’ stuff and the ‘affordability’ promises? Ha-ha — psych!” This is especially true regarding Second Amendment rights.

Addressing this Thursday, commentator Mike McDaniel opened with the example of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a supposed Democrat “moderate.” Fresh off an election victory, Shapiro is now joining his radical confederates in calling for packing the Supreme Court. (Brief video clip below.)

Shapiro euphemizes this as “reform,” which also masks true intentions. In reality, leftists are simply upset that the Court stands in their unconstitutional agenda’s way. If they can add four more Ketanji Brown Jackson-like, DEI justices, however, the body will happily rubber stamp their agenda.

Taking Aim at Your Guns — and More

And what is that agenda? Squelching Second Amendment rights figures prominently, even though nary a peep about it was uttered during the campaign. But there are other ambitions, too. Beginning with Shapiro’s state, PJ Media reported Tuesday:

For the first time in over 30 years, the Democrats will control the governorship and both the Senate and the House in Pennsylvania — the trifecta. Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) has already made it clear that he won’t let the opportunity go to waste.

The day after Election Day, Shapiro rattled off a short list from a much longer list of things he and the Democrats plan to do to take away citizens’ freedoms, kill unborn babies, destroy small business, and plunge the long arm of state government deep into pockets of everyday Pennsylvanians.

Then there’s this, per PJ Media:

In a message on the Gun Owners of America (GOA) website, Pennsylvania state director Val Finnell said, “I’m not going to sugarcoat it: Pennsylvania gun owners are facing an unprecedented crisis in Harrisburg…. When the new legislative session convenes, gun control will not just be on the agenda — it will be at the very front of the line.”

PJ Media notes that Shapiro is angling for the White House in 2028. Consequently, he must polish up his leftist credentials for the Democratic primaries. Observers could wonder, however: Does hope spring eternal?

That is, Shapiro is Jewish, and his party doesn’t much like Jews nowadays.

But Keystone State residents aren’t the only ones getting spanbergered. Take Texas and its far-left Democratic Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa. (And “take Texas” can now assume the flavor of Henny Youngman’s old joke, “Take my wife … please!”) Shooting News Weekly (SNW) noted Tuesday that in the past, Texas Democrats played “Kabuki theater” with gun control.

Those days are over.

As SNW tells us:

Yesterday, Dems wasted no time in filing [hundreds of] … bills designed to transform the state and make it indistinguishable from California (from whence so many of the imports [out-of-state residents] came), New York, Illinois or, most recently, Virginia.

And, of course, this is just the tip of Texas Democrats’ left-wing-agenda iceberg, too.

Next is Minnesota and Moderate™ Governor-elect Amy Klobuchar (D). She just said that she was “excited” (sounds fetishistic) to be working with fellow Democrats on an anti-Second Amendment bill. As Fox News wrote Wednesday:

The bill Klobuchar referenced is SF 4067, an omnibus gun-control package that passed the Minnesota Senate 34-33 earlier this year but has not received a House vote. The measure would prohibit federally licensed firearms dealers from selling certain semiautomatic military-style assault weapons, including AR-15s, as well as large-capacity magazines capable of holding more than 17 rounds. [Why “17” is the magic number was not reported.]

The legislation would allow current owners to keep the covered firearms and magazines, but require them to obtain an ownership certification from the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and renew that certification every three years.

My, how magnanimous. Of course, the current political-cultural trajectory will, if not somehow altered, even make grandfathered ownership illegal. Australia-like gun confiscation may lie in our future.

Mask-drops Are Predictable

Commenting on this revelation of Democrats’ true colors, the aforementioned McDaniel writes:

But wait a minute! Aren’t all the democrats, state and federal, supposed to be laser-focused on affordability? On lowering gas, housing, and energy costs? Isn’t that what they ran on, what they promised? Sure, but as Otter said to Flounder in Animal House: “You [screwed] up; you trusted us.” Now that they’ve won, they’ve dropped the pretense; they’re revealing who and what they’ve always been and always intended, and gun control is at the top of their “to do” lists.

Forget for a minute that … Texas miraculously turned blue. Forget every reason to think the midterms were won by massive, nationally coordinated fraud, but by all means, go here later so you won’t forget entirely.

Affordability always was, of course, a ruse. In fact, Democrats apparently intend to resume pushing the greentopian agenda, which would make energy prices explode.

As for firearms, why are they a priority with America’s murder rate being its lowest since perhaps 1900? For one thing, Democratic officials have to pay off their hard-left supporters, which include anti-gun lobbying groups. Then there’s another theory:

McDaniel believes they want the people disarmed and easy prey for statist predators.

He also points out that the Democratic gun-control proposals will, largely, be found unconstitutional.

That is, unless the statists seize the White House in 2029 and can pack the Supreme Court first. After all, it can take years to adjudicate these matters.

In the interim, the Democrats “have plenty of leftist judges who will go along,” McDaniel notes. And “if they take complete control of government in 2029,” he adds, “we’ll quickly discover that there never were any Democrats, only stealth Communists.”

If this reminds you of the proverbial story “The Scorpion and the Frog,” well, it should. And as this site notes of the story’s moral: “Some [people’s] natures cannot change, no matter what reason demands.”

This election season, the electorate got spanbergered — big time. Many voted for people who never wanted prosperity for you, only total power for themselves.