Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, in text messages a few years back, wished “two bullets to the head” of a political opponent and said he hoped the man’s children (“little fascists”) would die in their mother’s arms. What’s even creepier is that he wasn’t even sharing his hatred with a friendly source; he told these things to a Republican delegate.
Given the horrific nature of his comments, I asked Democrats a simple question: Do you have a response to the recent revelation that Jay Jones called for violence against his political opponents and called their children “fascists?”
JAY JONES’S VIOLENT TEXT MESSAGES IN VIRGINIA BLEED INTO THE NATIONAL DEBATE
Crickets. Whatever happened to “silence is violence?”
Republicans from around the country, a major police union in the state of Virginia, and even MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough have demanded that Jones step down. But Democrats are standing with him.
As we’ve seen recently, whether it’s the attempted assassination of the president, the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or the assaults on “TERFs” and Jews on campuses, the Left calling people “fascist” may inspire some crazed lunatic to see to it that the “fascists” cannot succeed.
If people refuse to distance themselves from a man calling for violence, they are OK with it. Plain and simple. Democrats’ desire to win is greater than their desire to dissuade violence. As they rant about Republicans embracing hate, they themselves propel it.
Remember when the Left told us years ago during the Black Lives Matter riots that remaining silent after police brutality killed a man meant that you were OK with it? Well, we’re just using their logic now.
Jones has canceled a couple of fundraisers amid the legacy media narrative of “Republicans pouncing” on the scandal. But mainstream Democrats are still standing by him despite his behavior.
I called and emailed every Democratic leader in the Virginia state Senate and House of Delegates. Oh, and the Virginia Democratic Party headquarters and communication department, on top of every sitting federal politician from the state. The list:
- Virginia Senate Majority Leader Scott Surrovell
- Democratic Senate Caucus chairwoman Mamie Locke
- State Sen. Barbara Favola
- State Sen. Lamont Bagby
- Speaker of the House Don Scott
- Majority Leader Charniele Herring
- Majority Caucus chairwoman Kathy Tran
- Congressman Bobby Scott (his D.C. office told me it was a “campaign issue” and the campaign gave me the runaround)
- Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan
- Congressman Don Beyer
- Congressman Suhas Subramanyam
- Congressman Eugene Vindman (his website had a nifty dropdown that talked about how the “Radical Right shut down the government to rip health care away from 15 million Americans”)
I also reached out to the two sitting Democratic U.S. senators from Virginia, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine. Kaine’s Virginia and D.C. offices refused to connect me with the press office. (He had previously been tweeting about Bad Bunny performing at the next Super Bowl.) On Tuesday, he was finally caught on camera saying the texts from Jones were “indefensible,” but he still supports Jones’s run for attorney general.
Warner’s press office, which I was miraculously able to reach, told me with confidence that the senator stood by his statement on X: “Political disagreements must be resolved through debate and elections, not through threats or violence. The comments attributed to Jay Jones are appalling, unacceptable, and inconsistent with the person I’ve known.”
After many crimes, there are always family and friends who never saw it coming. However, after a little more digging, they find out there were always red flags. Jay Jones is a massive red flag.
VIRGINIA POLICE UNION TELLS JAY JONES TO WITHDRAW FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL RACE IMMEDIATELY
I cannot make peace with the fact that a man who hopes to hold the keys to justice in a state is willing to speak of the murder of those he disagrees with so fondly. How is he supposed to operate in a fair and decent way, giving the benefit of the doubt to anyone accused of a crime, if he feels so justified in dreaming up the worst crime of all?
Democrats don’t care about this, and if they keep ignoring it, applauding it, and blaming Republicans for people losing their livelihoods and healthcare, they should be held responsible when some lunatic, using their language, harms innocent Americans.
Elisha Krauss is a conservative commentator and speaker who resides in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and their four children. She advocates women’s rights, school choice, and smaller government.