Voters Demand Dems Resist Trump: ‘Get Shot’ If You Must, ‘There Needs To Be Blood’
Constituents have told them “civility isn’t working” and to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.”
Axios reported on Monday that constituents at town halls and one-on-one meetings are urging Democratic lawmakers to get tough in their resistance to President Donald Trump: “break the rules, fight dirty — and not be afraid to get hurt.”
House Democrats told Axios “they see a growing anger among their base that has, in some cases, morphed into a disregard for American institutions, political traditions and even the rule of law.”
Axios interviewed more than two dozen House Democrats for this story, the majority of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity. Two, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Brad Schneider (D-IL), spoke on the record.
Khanna said, “the most effective pushback to Trump’s unconstitutional actions is to model a reverence for the Constitution and the rule of law.”
Perhaps it’s the congressman’s casual assumption — with no evidence — that Trump is breaking the law that’s causing the problem. When Khanna’s constituents hear him, an intelligent and seemingly reasonable man, a lawyer, an academic, and a member of Congress, telling them that the president is acting unconstitutionally, they believe him. And they demand that he take action.
Schneider, the chair of the center-left New Democrat Coalition, told Axios, “We’ve got people who are desperately wanting us to do something … no matter what we say, they want [more].” He added that efforts to impeach Trump are extremely popular among grassroots voters and that some find the idea simply “irresistible.”
Here’s what some of the anonymous lawmakers had to say:
- “This idea that we’re going to save every norm and that we’re not going to play [the Republicans’] game … I don’t think that’s resonating with voters anymore.”
- A “sense of fear and despair and anger” among voters “puts us in a different position where … we can’t keep following norms of decorum.”
- “Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot” when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies. “Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.”
- Constituents have told them “civility isn’t working” and to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.”
- “People online have sent me crazy s*** … told me to storm the White House and stuff like that,” though they added that “there’s always people on the internet saying crazy stuff.”
- When they try to persuade voters to channel their frustration into a focus on winning back Congress in 2026, “people who are angry don’t accept that. They’re angry beyond things.”
- “It’s like … the Roman coliseum. People just want more and more of this spectacle.”
- “The expectations aren’t just unreal. They’re dangerous. … What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and … a lot of times that’s coming from economically very secure white people. … Not only would that be a gift to Donald Trump, not only would it make the job of Republicans in Congress easier if we were all mired in legal troubles … [we are] a group that is disproportionately people of color, women, LGBTQ people — people who do not fare very well in prison.”
- “I actually said in a meeting, ‘When they light a fire, my thought is to grab an extinguisher.’ And someone at the table said, ‘Have you tried gasoline?'”
General takeaways from the interviews:
Some lawmakers told Axios that constituents have angrily confronted them at town halls, accusing them of “not doing enough to counter President Trump’s agenda.”
According to Axios, nearly all of these lawmakers “cited examples of voters’ panic and fury fueling demands to adopt brute force tactics.”
Many of the voters they described tended to be white, well-educated, and live in affluent suburban or urban neighborhoods.
Other lawmakers also noted that many voters do not fully understand how little power the minority party actually holds in Congress.
Some Democrats have responded to their constituents’ anger by opening defying Trump administration officials — for example, Texas Rep. Al Green introduced articles of impeachment against Trump; California Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed and handcuffed after interrupting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference; and New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver was indicted for allegedly assaulting ICE officials during an oversight visit to an immigration detention center.
Do Democrats really have to ask where this voter anger is coming from? Nearly every day for the past decade, Democratic leaders and the legacy media have relentlessly portrayed Trump as a sociopath bent on destroying democratic norms and shredding the Constitution. Yes, even the semi-reasonable and smart ones like Ro Khanna.
This message has resonated deeply with their liberal base. Why wouldn’t voters demand Trump’s removal by any means necessary if he is truly as dangerous as they’ve been told? Of course they want this madman gone — they’ve been convinced that the very survival of American democracy depends on it.
In the end, Democrats have only themselves to blame for the fury they now face; they cultivated this fear and outrage. And now they’re shocked that their constituents believed them.
It shouldn’t surprise us that calls for political violence often precede political violence.
This is a national death wish. pic.twitter.com/YciGxOcqPa
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 7, 2025
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Do they really want to “go there”?
Apparently many of them do.
Of course, they have no idea what they’ll find when they “get there.”
My sense is that since they’ve been FA, they’ll FO.
The whole point of the story is that the Dem congressmen and leaders don’t want to go there, and know very well that it’s exactly what Trump wants them to do. But the mob they’ve systematically blinded to reality is now turning on them and demanding they go there; the mob they’ve taught to blind itself to reason is now … blind to reason. Congratulations, guys. I think Chuck Schumer had something to say about the wind and the whirlwind.
““Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.”
So Democrat voters demand to go to war, and they demand Democrat congressman be drafted to fight on the front lines.
This calls for more than popcorn. This calls for Beaver Nuggets.
TDS is driving them crazy, while I don’t believe that blood letting wll help them, I think that we should try.
I’m not interested in helping them,
Well if he’s hitler and the Nazis are incharge there is only one thing to do.
Leave it to lazy, unhinged Dems to ask someone else to break the law for them
“civility isn’t working”
I mean, how many times do we need to call you Nazis and deplorables before we have peace?
The meltdowns will continue until Democrat poll numbers improve.
He left out women. These are the AWFLs. They will push other people to do stuff that will hurt them in hopes of getting their own way. Some of the most selfish people in the world who pretend to care about other people.
AWFUL. Usually ugly as well.
Please don’t look in a mirror. It won’t be a pleasant experience.
GFY JR
Shut up, dumbass. When I see the word “ugly” in a dictionary, your picture is the definition.
Your presence here is as useless as you are.
Mirror mirror on the wall, JR has to be the dumbest of them all.
Physics lesson: when other people look into a mirror, they don’t see you.
Ooooohhh… that BURNED.
They have increasingly become what, in their projection, they warned everybody about, as they pretended they were the virtuous.
Confession by accusation. It’s been one of their defining pathologies for decades.
“Constituents have told them “civility isn’t working” and to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.”
I don’t think this is going to work out quite like these “constituents” want.
They always fail to understand the difference between the left and the right.
The left turns up the violence like a rheostat…bit by bit, a little bit higher each time.
The right has an on-off switch. It’s off, and then suddenly there’s full light.
Progs, do you really want to find out what happens when that switch gets flipped?
The left knows. They want their representatives to fight. They don’t want to fight themselves, that’s what they pay the Dem clowns they elected to do.
Said clowns are wising up and the college-degreed pretty well informed lefty voters (many of whom want communism as long as they’re the commissars and apparatchiks) aren’t happy.
“The Men Who Wanted To Be Left Alone”
https://drhurd.com/2021/12/13/the-men-who-wanted-to-be-left-alone/
Yup. My most fervent wish is for dummies like JR and TeeJayVee to just go away and leave me alone. But they won’t. At some point they will need to be forced to leave others alone.
I am not completely surprised. I’m reminded that it was South Carolina that started the civil war. I’m also aware that periods of anarchy are almost always followed by calls for law and order at any price.
I know liberals are being lied to by a Democrat power structure intent on its own agenda. But I have little sympathy for educated, sophisticated voters who fall for every scam the Democrats try. Apparently, the main impetus of their education was to imbue them with acceptance and obedience. I am deeply ashamed that, for Tepublicans at least, women are at the forefront of this capitulation. And I’m guessing much the same is true for Democrats.
Of course, they voted their slaves into office and now they’re ordering the slaves about. But the slaves say they’re not actually slaves. Spicy.
The funny thing is, people who think they are well educated and sophisticated, are so often the easiest to dupe.
And then they behave as if their education and intelligence imbues their opinions with a righteousness not found in the opinions of deplorables.
And now an ICE agent got shot today, fortunately he’s fine and the perp has assumed room temperature.
I believe the perp will soon be chillin’.
Oh, I think he’s gone to a much, much warmer place.
Sounds insurrection-y
I hope nothing happens to galvanize these people further like the head of the FBI and DOJ getting caught lying abo-AW COME ON
Meanwhile, Trump and all of his supporters refuse to let Pam Bondi release the Epstein files, which include ten of thousands of videos according to Bondi and Trump, which show that Trump and many of his supporters were part of the Epstein child sex trafficking criminal activity.
https://www.aol.com/pam-bondi-botched-handling-epstein-171659967.html
So much for the promised Trump transparency. It was always a lie.
You are good at defamation, too. How sleazy!
“It was always a lie.”
Everything you post is a lie, asshole.
Literally EVERYTHING.
You really do need an unfortunate accident.
As the eloquent letter from DOJ said, they will not post child porn.
And I assume that any evidence of value was destroyed by Wray et. al. before Trump resumed office.
They want to water the tree of liberty. With someone else’s blood of course. That’s why they voted for these clowns, are they going to do the job or chicken out from the battle like Tim Walz when he was about to be deployed?
Didn’t these leftists talk a great game? I intend no respect to the jerks who voted for them, but they probably did promise the sort of thing they’re being told to do now.
Frankly, much as I hate to ever agree with JR, I have to wonder about the timing of the agreement to pass the “Big Beautiful Bill” and the totally unrelated announcement that “there’s nothing to see in the Epstein Files, so move along, move along.”
By the way if there were no Epstein files why would Epstein kill himself?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/wait-what-if-there-was-no-epstein-client/
It’s Jim Hoft, a congenital liar. You cannot trust anything he writes, in any way at all. So the facts he alleges in support of his argument are very likely to be false.
You are too kind in your characterization of that worthy gentleman.
The article likely refers to this:
https://time.com/5668489/jeffrey-epstein-sealed-names/
So there’s no client list after all, and no allegation of a client list, but simply documents that mention individuals’ names with no implication whatsoever that they were clients.
“There’s no indication that any of the individuals named in the sealed court documents had any knowledge of or any involvement with Epstein’s alleged crimes.”
As I said, Hoft is a congenital liar, and if he says the sun is shining you’re well advised to look out the window rather than take his word for it.
Daily Wire today has a similar premise, without the messenger problem: what if the feds have a list of who the people are, but don’t have the list of what the people did to get on the first list?
Let me correct myself, I misremembered. I didn’t read this in the Daily Wire after all, I read it in a John Doe comment elsewhere. Still, it was a plausible hypothesis on its own terms.
Here’s Stonetoss’s take on this FAR more than suspicious reversal.
What reversal? No one ever said there was a list. It was always pure speculation. Hoft’s claim that there had been such an admission is a lie, just like everything that ever comes out of his and his brother’s mouths.
Supposedly one of the documents is a telephone book with over 1000 names in it. If you happened to be in it would you want it published?!
I know several former SOCOM War fighters that are enjoying life.
I don’t think the dems want these coming off the bench and into the game…..
The dramacrats and their lapdogs the media (or is it the other way around) have caused this with their constant irresponsible lying. Will they dial it down? Of course not!! Will they take responsibility?? Hell no!! It’s going to be a long hot summer.
This is as if the guys wearing the suicide explosive vests complained to the mullahs they want the mullahs to put themselves at risk. The mullahs would have only themselves to blame for having ginned up the suicide culture in the first place.
The bright side is that this almost certainly reflects a realization that the Left’s street thugs are not having the desired effect. Dem leadership is now at a crossroads – continue to do the ineffective, or turn up the violence and possibly expose themselves to dangers that until now they have asked others to risk.
“…you have to ask yourself one question, ‘Do I feel lucky today?'”
Ro Khanna is a completely detestable lying sack of sh*t. He’s a dirtbag of the highest order.
And, smart he’s not. He’s a functional idiot.
On the contrary, Khanna is very smart. And he’s very dangerous, precisely because he’s a sane and reasonable person who knows how to genuinely listen to our side and respect our position, while thoroughly disagreeing with us. Like the early 0bama, he doesn’t come off as a fanatic. He’s not moderate in his positions, but he’s moderate in his attitude, and that might make him a serious contender for the presidency.
Gee, I dunno…sounds awfully insurrectional and such. If Jan 6 was the darkest day for democracy, we have nothing to fear from they/them.
I pack heat.
That’s precisely the point. The Dems are finding that their constituency is now demanding insurrection, and they know that’s not where they want to go.
But the Dems leaders have been priming their constituency for that demand for years. Telling them that democracy is on the line. Every Republican is Hitler just wait to put you in a concentration camp.
Now they are afraid of their creation and are concerned that their Frankenstein’s Monster will come for them.
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. They must have missed that lesson.
Ask Chuck Schumer.
It was reported yesterday that some Democrats admit the party went too far left on immigration. But I wonder if it’s even possible, having gone so, so, so far to the left, for them to tack back to the center?
What they really mean is, they erred in letting voters realize how far to the Left they’d consciously chosen to go. They ran out of room to spin the issue as being overblown, the result of misinformation, etc., because Mushbrain Joe’s mspite for Trump forced him to turn the immigration lawlessness up to
1122.When Power is your god, it’s difficult to notice when you’re overreaching.
Take this any way you want to:
Two weeks ago, I was in a gun shop purchasing a 9mm carry handgun. In the 40 minutes I was there, no less than five handguns were sold (including mine). I’ve been shopping there for a long time, and I’ve never seen that kind of business.
I armed up, modestly since I live in a densely inhabited area, and stocked up years ago. It’s all there just-in-case. This is a quite conservative area but it’s best to be prepared.
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I wonder if the rate of violence from the left increases, as in more attacks on ICE agents, if people inciting violence can successfully be arrested and prosecuted – perhaps like the J6 folks – and a “free speech” defense no longer work? And especially if some of these individuals can be proven to be part of organized and financed activity?
Nope. Incitement doesn’t depend on what results from it. The definition of incitement is speech that is both (1) subjectively intended and (2) objectively likely to cause its audience to (3) immediately commit a crime.
Essentially what is happening is that you whip up the audience’s emotions to such an extent that they will lose their free will and become your robots, and rather than stop and think about what you said and make their own decision to commit a crime, they simply go out and commit it right away, without ever consciously deciding to do so.
But it’s not necessary that this actually happen; it’s sufficient that you intended it to happen, and it was objectively likely to happen. If that is the case, then the fact that in the end it didn’t happen doesn’t absolve you. But all three elements must be there, or it’s not incitement but “mere advocacy”, which is protected speech.
“There needs to be blood” is merely advocacy?
Usually, yes. It depends on the context and the manner of delivery. As I said above, to be incitement all three elements must be satisfied. It must be intended to cause someone hearing it to go out immediately and act on it without stopping to think for himself. And it must also be likely to do that. If all three elements are satisfied then it doesn’t matter whether it actually happens; the incitement itself is a crime. Likewise if they are not satisfied then once again it doesn’t matter whether it actually happens; the person who acted on it has committed a crime but the speaker has not.
I don’t believe for one minute that “their constituents” are demanding this. Even if a few idiots are they need to tell them to STFU or, “ok, you firstl.
These perpetual toddlers are throwing tantrums again.
Working from first principles, one can confidently assume that because it’s from Axios, it is a fabrication in whole or in part,
Additionally, that it is propaganda intended to make the leftist base (the bat-shit-crazy 20%) appear more angry and dangerous than they really are.. This in turn is meant to frighten individuals and institutions on both sides of the aisle..
The ginned-up mob, although we pretend this is just part of peacefully petitioning our government, is ALWAYS formed to terrorize. Sometimes to terrorize government, some times ordinary people, but it’s there to instill fear.
This Axios article is intended to get the timid to acquiesce prophylactically.
Typical leftist commentary, demanding others take up the gauntlet while the leftists hide in their basement playing video games or playing with themselves.
Good portion of the blame is the rhetoric of the Democrats Propaganda Ministry. When the opponents are Nazis and Fascism ( common names to call by Communists) then blood on the streets are required.
The demonrats are on the verge of revolution. I can’t wait to help put this fire out.
true true and true!!
the left doesnt know or care about debates
violence works
we paid the police to stop it or prevent it
THAT WAS THEN
THIS IS NOW
the pd is gone woke
Weak spineless dem pols are trying to get people to think their constituents are calling for blood so the right had better give them what they want.
That’s ridiculous. They know there’s no way the right would give them anything; on the contrary, Trump would say “bring it on”, and would love being handed on a silver tray an excuse to arrest or shoot the lot of them.
According to the article (from untrustworthy Axios, untrustworthy reps Khanna & Schneider, and untrustworthy anonymous Dem reps) the reps’ constituents are telling them “Let’s you and Trump/Law Enforcement fight.”
Can’t we all just get along??
Bring it, bitches.
The Democrat members of Congress calling for violence – Jeffries, Waters, Green, McIver, et al might just get a response from their violent rhetoric. Conservatives are watching the encounters with paid rioters against ICE and Law Enforcement closely and there are already murmers of both Posse Comitatus and independent Militia preparations. Those aforementioned members of Congress and the persons funding the paid rioters may just pull the trigger to a second Civil War. I would like to see the aforementioned persons arrested and prosecuted for fomenting rebellion, Active Insurrection, and even Treason. Those pressing for violence seem to have forgotten just how many Conservatives were members of the Military, and just how many Conservatives are armed and willing to support ICE and Law Enforcement.