Despite midterm victories, Dems still want to burn Haley Stevens at the stake

Haley Stevens is a dangerous woman.Even after the Democrats’ big midterm win, that message is still echoing across the liberal landscape.Only recently embraced as a top candidate for the Michigan Senate nomination, Stevens is now portrayed as an unstable, menacing traitor by her self-described friends.Stevens now has the misfortune of being an object lesson for anyone who may stand against the far left.They are going to “burn the witch” to deter anyone else from getting in the way of the mob.She will not be alone.As soon as the House flipped, Rep.

Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the expected chair of the House Oversight Committee, posted a two-word message: “Lawyer up.”Rage politics leaves little room for dissent or compromise.Indeed, Stevens seemed to spur the party into becoming a collection of Madame Defarges, knitting names into the list of the walking dead.After she declared that she would split her ticket and vote for Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed, Democrats across the country declared Stevens mentally ill.Some used the attack literally, feigning deep concern over her safety — the way you’d describe a friend found raving on the subway about being probed by aliens.Lawyer George Conway encouraged her to check into a mental facility immediately (he is, after all, a Juris Doctor).Rep.Debbie Dingell (D- Md.) explained to CNN in the tone of an intervention, “I have been worried about her all last week.

She’s a human being.”Former Republican Bill Kristol said Stevens “seems to have had some kind of breakdown or something.”Zeteo editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan called Stevens “a disturbed, deranged, dishonest woman.”From Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump, the left has often falsely portrayed Republicans as being mentally ill, with liberal psychiatrists supplying the patina of medical authority.Indeed, after Goldwater’s presidential run, the American Psychiatric Association adopted the “Goldwater Rule” to bar doctors from making such unethica...