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Sermo Confusus – the Disease Sweeping the Democratic Party

Jim Taft
By Jim Taft 19 Min Read
Sermo Confusus – the Disease Sweeping the Democratic Party

Word salads – they’re not just the appetizer or palate cleanser anymore. They’re what Democrats have for dinner. 

It’s not a new phenomenon in American politics, and members of both parties have certainly been caught speaking words and phrases in search of a coherent thought. Joe Biden used to uncork speeches that were heavily seasoned with cul-de-sac sentences and ideas, and that was even before cognitive decline sidelined his run for reelection in 2024. But by the bitter end, when he had to step aside for Kamala Harris to pick up the mantle, it was just embarrassing and sad. 





Every politician, given enough speeches, will suffer a mental slip between second and third gear, and gibberish comes out. Ted Kennedy, the Lion of the Senate from the Bay State, often times, especially at rallies when he appeared especially lubed up, would uncork words that would make foreigners from Eastern Europe look it up in a translation dictionary and still come up shrugging their shoulders. 

Of course, the modern-day record holder, the Simone Biles-Michael Phelps-GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) when it comes to incoherent speaking, is former Vice-President Kamala Harris. Somewhere out there, there’s an entire YouTube server farm housing an archive of Harris fumbling through thoughts she believed to be philosophical while the rest of us recognized them vapid. Here’s just a couple of the highlights. 

And then, after the election and perhaps a couple boxes of Sauv Blanc, this banger.

Word salads have always been a feature, not a bug, with Harris. It’s always been her thing. Those of us from California also saw the maniacal ambition she possesses, and feared that would catapult her one day to the presidency. Fortunately, enough Americans in the swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada chose a different path than Harris’, one that was a literal, figurative, and rhetorical dead-end. 

Now that we’re eight months into the second Trump administration, and much of the talk nationally is on the drive to redraw the Congressional districts in as many as half a dozen states or so, the rhetoric on the left has ratcheted way up. We thought that after the campaign cycle of 2024 we just lived through, it wasn’t humanly possible to get crazier with dire warnings and threats, but Democrats are doing their best. The problem is the high stress of the moment is causing Kamala Harris’ condition, Sermo Confusus, to spread virally. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom, one of the Democrats from the state ranks spearheading the drive to redistrict in blue states, was a babbling mess at a press conference when a reporter dared to ask him the William J. Le Petomaine question – “What’ll it cost, man? What’ll it cost?





And it seems once afflicted with the speech (and thought) disorder, it spreads rapidly to other issues, like gender reassignment surgeries. Here’s Newsom with podcaster Shawn Ryan.

Magicians use their hands and arms all the time as a distraction so you won’t notice what they eventually pull out of a hat or some orifice. Gavin’s problem is he’s got all the gesticulation down, but still can’t find the rabbit to haul out, and flounders. 

Over the weekend, the Sunday shows spent time on the redistricting controversy, and brought on, funnily enough, two big blue state governors. 

On MNSBC Friday night, New York Governor Kathy Hochul tried out her new mantra – Democrats always follow the rules. 

Except, of course, when they don’t, as they have frequently not done with drawing Congressional lines. After multiple court challenges finding New York hadn’t in fact followed the rules of its own commission, the gerrymandered maps were thrown out and they were told to start over. New York just had to draw them again last year to pass legal muster. It would appear that she’s got no room to criticize Texas’ Greg Abbott for doing exactly what she tried to do just a couple years ago. 

Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday brought up that exact line of questioning. You’d think that a governor of a large state, one that has to be adaptive to all sorts of things that might come up, would have shifted her rhetorical argument since it’s weak. Nope. 





It’s almost as if she rehearsed this answer and was going to give on the subject regardless, and the impromptu side of her cranium short-circuited. I love Shannon Bream, and part of the reason this clip went viral is because Bream framed the hypocrisy perfectly, listened to Hochul’s answer, and made her walk the plank with her rote response again. Since I’m a glutton for punishment, my preference would have been for Bream to not let her go and press her on this for five more minutes, and then pointing to the “Rules” hill over there, and offering the Governor climbing gear with which she could scale to the summit and die upon it. 

Meanwhile, over on NBC’s Meet the Press, Kristen Welker brought on Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, proud co-author of this little beauty, the 13th Congressional District.

 
This redistricting issue has dominated national attention for, what, at least a couple weeks now, and Governor Pritzker has to know by now this hypocrisy is problematic for him. He’s going to eventually run for president. He had to know this was coming, even from NBC, one would think. He’s got to have a better answer by now, right? Nah.

That’s the best we have? Hummina hummina, democracy is at stake? He can’t even be honest about it. What he’s trying to say is unless Democrats are running the democracy, democracy is at stake, because we are going to burn it all down if we’re not in power. 

You think I’m kidding? Here’s James Carville, the ‘It’s the economy, stupid,’ guy. 





Never mind that making the District of Columbia a state is unconstitutional, and whether or not Puerto Rico even wants statehood is not settled. Packing the Court, though, seems a pretty radical step just to block Republicans from power again…for muh democracy. For Democrats, it gets unhinged from here.

Robert Francis O’Rourke, founder of the political action committee that has allegedly received money from George Soros all in the name of muh democracy, took the gloves off over the weekend. 

Maybe I’m missing the uptake here, but at first blanch, this doesn’t sound very democratic.

Back to Barack Obama, remember his wingman at the Department of Justice? Here’s former Attorney General Eric Holder, proposing to save democracy by, *checks notes*, engaging in exactly what he’s claiming is destroying democracy. 

You know what these Democrats won’t talk about as part of their democracy saving agenda? This district in Maryland.

Or this blast from the past, Mary Katharine Ham’s former home in North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District when she was growing up. 

Politico tried to spin the issue, as they do with all issues these days, in a way to let Democrats off the hook and place all blame on Republicans. 





Yes, when Democrats carve up districts for their political advantage, it’s tactical. When Republicans do it, it’s the end of the republic, and hysterical rhetorical hyperbole ensues. 

On Hugh Hewitt’s show last week, Rahm Emanuel, former Ambassador to Japan, former Chief of Staff for Barack Obama, and former two-term mayor of Chicago, weighed in on the redistricting issue. 

RE: You know, you say that, and I don’t, Hugh, let me say this. Look, as somebody who’s practiced the dark arts of redistricting, that’s been going on in politics for a long time. That’s why the term gerrymandering has a couple hundred years behind it. 

HH: 1812. 

RE: That’s, oh yeah. Right. What hasn’t happened is the idea that because you’re scared of an election result, you rewrite the rules midway in the game. Not redistricting. Now I happen to think we should be focused on reducing the cost of living. They want to focus on redistricting. If you were confident in the success of the One Big Beautiful Bill, you really think you’d be trying to redistrict and eliminating five seats? Because… 

HH: Yes, because Illinois did it and Massachusetts did it, and Maryland did it, and the Texas Republicans were timid. 

RE: No, no, but…Hugh, I’ve read enough about your history of your experiences with Ronald Reagan and that type of Republican. You would not decide in the middle of a decade to play politics again. We’ve got big challenges. We’ve got a third of our kids are behind reading levels at national level, and we are doing redistricting. That is turning America against America, and no, I get gerrymandering. And I get the reforms of California and New York and Iowa. I’m pro those reforms. But the idea that you’re going to do this right before the midterm election on a presidential, not because you’re confident of the voters and the voters’ decisions to say I agree with what you’re doing. Your not confident, so therefore you’re trying to rig the system mid-cycle. Now don’t talk to me…

Two things here. First, note that Rahm is not objecting to in principle what the Republicans are trying to do here. He’s admitted they do it, too. The only thing he’s objecting to quite strongly is the timing. He doesn’t like this happening in the middle of a decade. Other than that, all’s fair in love and politics. So the fact that Republicans are trying to redraw lines to their advantage isn’t the democracy-destroying event it’s being made out to be. They should just have to wait until 2031 to do it. 

Ambassador Emanuel claims the mid-decade deal here is the unprecedented part. That’s the step that’s changed. Except is it unprecedented? No. 

After the midterm elections of 2002 in the Lone Star State, Republicans took full control of the state legislature, adding to Rick Perry already as governor, for unified government in Texas. The Democratic legislature passed a set of Congressional maps in a hurry before the ’02 election, but it was to no avail. Once they lost power, the Republicans redrew the maps mid-decade, or after the state had officially drawn them after the 2000 Census. It was challenged in court, and that court battle took four years and went all the way to the Supreme Court. In LULAC V. Perry (the League of United Latin-American Citizens),  the Justices in a 5-4 decision upheld Texas’ drive to rewrite the maps, ultimately holding that nowhere in the Constitution does it mandate that only one map can be drawn, and it can only be drawn after a Census. In absence of text in the document preventing states from doing something, in short, they can do it. It’s a 10th Amendment thing. 

So Ambassador Emanuel’s objection of timing, that it’s unprecedented and shouldn’t happen in-between Census cycles, doesn’t hold up in Court jurisprudence. There’s no Constitutional grounds to stop Texas, and Florida, and Nebraska, Indiana, and a few other states from doing it, for that matter. Floundering and incoherent verbal hysterics by Democratic leaders aren’t going to do much to make the case why these states shouldn’t, especially when they’re recommending that blue states do it, too.  

I keep waiting to see one of those two-minute drug commercials run late at night during a Stephen Colbert show. You know the ads – “Ask your doctor about some new drug for the treatment of Sermo Confusus”. The disclaimers alone for what happens if you don’t take it, and then a highlight reel of babbling by Texas Democrats, Texas Congressional Democrats, and Resistance media pundits, could be riotously funny. 

Now that Gavin Newsom can’t sue me for making parody videos anymore, being that we’re not actually in an authoritarian state, let alone country, maybe I’ll figure out how to make this AI stuff work after all.












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