Val Demings attacks Marco Rubio from the right

The Democrats have gone full-on fascist.

Rep. Val Demings is likely to be the Democratic nominee to challenge Marco Rubio for Senate. Rubio was first elected as a Tea Party favorite. So I never thought I'd see a major Democrat attack Rubio from the right. Yet Demings has managed to do exactly that.

Recently, Demings charged that an associate of Rubio has ties to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro – who Demings called a "socialist dictator."

Uh, Maduro was democratically elected.

This is Joe McCarthy-level stuff. In my day, liberal Democratic leaders were strongly opposed to communist dictatorships, but generally did not use red-baiting to attack Republicans from the right. This nonsense about a "socialist dictator" sounds like it's straight out of the pages of the Tea Party or the Reagan regime.

Demings has other extremist positions. She was one of the most avid lockdownists of the COVID pandemic, praising draconian lockdowns in other states and repeatedly urging lockdowns and other extreme measures in Florida. If you told me 30 years ago that in 2022 there would be a major Senate candidate who red-baits an opponent and demands that a whole state be placed on house arrest over a coronavirus, I would have thought, "Man, the Republicans sure have gotten extreme!" Except this time it's not the Republicans.

Florida's Democratic Party is in shambles – just as the party is in the rest of the country. America has a broken party system that is now ready for the trash heap of history.