Miranda Devine: Disgraceful Dems callously politicized DJ Daniel, Laken Riley and sunk to a new low in the process

So much for Democrat women being more compassionate than the rest of us.Uh uh.

They have hearts of stone.Take cute DJ Daniel, the pint-sized 13-year-old boy with brain cancer who dreams of being a cop.There shouldn’t have been a dry eye in the House when President Donald Trump announced in the middle of his speech to Congress Tuesday night that he was making little DJ an honorary Secret Service agent.But one side of the chamber was bone dry, their desiccated hearts a perfect reflection of Democrats’ barren ideas for revival.As Republicans applauded and DJ’s face lit up, Trump asked his new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, “to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.” The little boy’s spontaneous hug of the usually stone-faced Curran would melt the coldest heart.Except for the heartless Democrats scowling in the House, sitting on their hands, determined to act like sullen adolescents.

Except for the Trump-deranged MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow, whose putrid comments about the touching moment took their network to lows nobody thought possible.“This is disgusting — the president made a spectacle out of [DJ],” snarled Maddow.Wallace then dragged DJ into her obsession over the Capitol riot: “I hope he never has to defend the US Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters and if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide.”Their callousness was remarkable and telling.

They didn’t see DJ as a suffering child thrilled to achieve a dream, but as a partisan prop to bash Trump.Their first instinct is politics.

They couldn’t pause for even a moment to get in touch with their humanity.Yet they will gush all day long about their compassion for the hypothetical downtrodden they supposedly defend against cruel Trump.As Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, put it in a scorched-earth monologue in the White House press room the next day:“It’s sad and frankly pathetic tha...