Miranda Devine: It is so easy to mock the sick and rudderless Democrats

It’s not very sportsmanlike to mock your opposition when you’re winning, but sometimes, the temptation is overwhelming.Having resisted the urge to launch cheap shots at Democrats since Donald Trump’s inauguration, my resolve crumbled over two stories that encapsulate the party’s moral bankruptcy and refusal to change direction.Story 1: Wisconsin Gov.Tony Evers, a Dem, backed legislation that redefines mothers as “inseminated persons.”The budget bill, introduced Friday, also replaces “father” with “parent” over 120 times, Republican State Rep.

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“As a proud mother of two, it is absolutely insulting that the Governor, in his 2025-27 budget bill, would reduce me and millions of other mothers across Wisconsin to ‘inseminated persons.’ ”Yes, but don’t expect Dems to complain.“Gender-neutral” language erasing mothers and fathers is their Holy Grail.

Orwellian constructions such as “pregnant people” and “inseminated persons” are the inevitable result, and they don’t seem to care that most Americans are offended.Story 2: Deep blue Connecticut’s Democrat-appointed, social worker-heavy Psychiatry Security Review Board approved the early release from a secure mental hospital of a cannibal axe murderer who ate his victim’s brain and eyeball with chopsticks and washed it down with a glass of sake.Tyree Smith, 48, who killed and ate Angel “Tun Tun” Gonzalez in 2011, was deemed “not guilty by reason of insanity” by three judges and sentenced to 60 years in a maximum-security psychiatric facility.But on Friday, the board, whose six members were appointed by Connecticut’s Democrat Gov.Ned Lamont, and only one of whom is an actual...