The D Word

By Joseph Catena

Laura Ingraham said she wasn’t supposed to say it, but she said it anyway. Quite frankly, I’m glad she said it because someone needed to.

During a recent airing of “The Ingraham Angle,” Ingraham reported a news item about how Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was overruled by Judge Mustafa Kasubhai. The judge stated that Kennedy went too far in barring gender-affirming care to minors from Medicare and Medicaid.

Kasubbhai claimed Kennedy’s decision was unlawful and harmed children.

“This case illustrates that when a leader acts without authority and in the absence of the rule of law, he acts with cruelty,” the Biden-appointed judge said.

Ingraham reported this with disbelief and dropped a subtle bomb and indicated what the far left was doing is beyond radical. It is demonic.

She’s not wrong.

The fringe left is blatantly going out of its way to fight for the vilest policies and defend the most reprehensible people. It’s bad enough that milquetoast beta Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, traveled to El Salvador to have a lunchtime faux margarita with deported MS-13 gang banger Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It’s also bad enough that New York Times editorial writer Tom Friedman is “torn” between having Iran defeated and his unwillingness to see President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu “strengthened.” Amazingly, this dolt won a Pulitzer Prize, and more amazingly, he is a Jew. But any Jew who has any type of hope for Iran to win this war is undoubtedly the self-hating type.

What’s worst of all is when this group gets so incensed by everything Donald Trump does that they will go against him, no matter how great it is. In the 2025 State of the Union address, they couldn’t bear to stand up and applaud 13-year-old DJ Daniel, a cancer survivor, who always dreamed of being a police officer and was sworn in as a Secret Service member. The moment was both magical and beautiful, and it was because Trump made it happen. DJ’s expression of unfettered joy and surprise was enough to make stone soften and crumble. Unless that stone was made of Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Ohmar. DJ happens to be black. Had the role been reversed and Republicans sat on their hands, they would have been branded as child-hating racists.

Speaking of Tlaib and Ohmar, could Hollywood cast two better villains for the next superhero movie? They are two of the most hateful members of Congress, with enough venom to kill a herd of elephants. Who could forget their vitriolic expressions when the president was delivering his 2026 SOTU address? Tlaib appeared to be snorting fire, while Ohmar sported a snarl and appeared to have animated abhorrent talk spewing through her gritted teeth. They lead the fanatic left fringe in Israel hatred in both the House and Senate.

And speaking of hating Israel, no one can really top the smooth way New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji do it. The mayor openly calls for globalizing the intifada with his fixated condescending smile, while his wife has posted likes for several Instagram posts lauding the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel by Hammas. To her credit, she has denounced several ardently anti-Israel posts, ones that she deemed “harmful,” years ago on social media.

During an interview with the website Hyperallergic, New York City’s first lady described her language as shameful and “being 15 doesn’t excuse it.” She’s right about that, and the fact that she was 26 when she liked the aforementioned posts alludes to her disingenuousness about ever being ashamed.

For those keeping score, the far left has publicly cheered for the destruction of Israel, defended gang members instead of sympathizing with angel families, and favored the disfiguration of children, whom they believe are entitled to gender affirming care, which includes puberty blockers and hormone regimens for masculinizing or feminizing your 11-year-old. This is not liberalism in the classic sense, it is demonization.

When religious and/or political leaders can no longer call evil for what it is, it is demonic. When they shun angel families and go out of the way to rush to the side of illegal alien criminal killers, it is demonic. And when they favor grooming children and convincing God’s innocents that it is okay to disfigure and destroy the temple the Almighty gave them, it is undeniably demonic.

And it undeniably proves how right Laura Ingraham is.