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The mask slipped again this week, and this time it wasn’t some anonymous Twitter activist or campus radical screaming profanities at the president. It was an elected member of Congress, Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California, who decided that the appropriate response to questions about Iran policy was to look into a camera and declare, “f— his a–!” referring to President Trump. The moment, captured during an interview with Pablo Manríquez of MeidasTouch, wasn’t a spontaneous outburst during a heated debate; it was a calculated response to a straightforward question about whether she was concerned about the war’s impact on the national debt. When Stephen Colbert played the clip on his show Thursday night, his audience erupted in applause. That tells you everything you need to know about where the left’s moral compass points these days.
Kamlager-Dove didn’t stop there. She proceeded to claim that “Stevie Wonder can even see how much this war is costing us,” lamented gas prices approaching $10 per gallon in California, and complained about rising fertilizer costs. Then, in a bizarre pivot, she attacked the president as “this dude, Dr. Jesus, OK,” accusing him of wanting to spend “$2 billion of your money every single day rather than help you get healthcare.” Setting aside the incoherent nature of the rant, the sheer vulgarity on display from a sitting congresswoman speaking about the president of the United States is remarkable. This isn’t some backbencher in a safe district venting at a town hall; this is the public face of the Democratic Party in 2026, and they seem perfectly comfortable with it.
What makes this particularly revealing is how Kamlager-Dove doubled down afterward. When a social media post claimed she had said “f— him,” she corrected it with the precision of someone proud of their work: “Correction: I said ‘f— his a–!'” The congresswoman apparently believes that specificity matters when you’re degrading the office of the presidency and the millions of Americans who voted for the man occupying it. This isn’t principled opposition to foreign policy; it’s the kind of unhinged, personal hatred that has become the defining characteristic of the Democratic Party’s response to Trump’s presidency. They don’t disagree with his policies; they want to annihilate him as a person, and they don’t care who sees it anymore.
The context here matters too. Kamlager-Dove’s outburst comes as some House Democrats have launched an impeachment effort against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and called for invoking the 25th Amendment against Trump over the Iran situation. These are the same people who spent years lecturing the country about norms, decorum, and the importance of respecting democratic institutions. Apparently, those principles have an expiration date that coincides with their side losing elections. When Trump was negotiating peace deals in his first term, they called him reckless. Now that he’s securing agreements that reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt Iranian uranium enrichment, they scream profanities into cameras and file impeachment articles.
This is what the left has become: a movement so consumed by hatred for one man that they’ve lost the ability to engage in basic civil discourse, let alone substantive policy debate. Representative Kamlager-Dove isn’t some outlier; she’s the symptom of a party that has abandoned persuasion for performance, governance for grievance. The applause from Colbert’s audience tells us this plays well in the coastal bubbles where contempt for middle America is considered sophisticated. But for the rest of the country watching their elected officials behave like angry teenagers on a Twitch stream, it’s just more confirmation that the Democratic Party has nothing left to offer but rage.
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