Former House Dem: Why Aren’t My Fellow Dems Calling Out Domestic Terrorism?

Remember Rep. Patrick Murphy? No, not the nutty one from Florida, but the relatively sane House Democrat from Pennsylvania. He served a couple of terms in Congress and later became a weekend host on MSNBC’s show on military issues, Taking the Hill. He dropped that when Barack Obama appointed the combat vet as Under Secretary of the Army in 2016. 

Since then, Murphy has kept a lower profile, although he campaigned for Joe Biden in Pennsylvania last year. (More on that in a moment.) The election is over, Murphy now tells Fox & Friends this morning, and his fellow Democrats need to recognize it. Instead, they’re standing by while angry progressives commit domestic terrorism — and he wants his fellow Democrats to speak out instead to stop it:

“We can’t stand for it as Americans”: Former Pennsylvania congressman slams his fellow Democrats for failing to condemn attacks on Teslas pic.twitter.com/NbY2E1AAE5

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) March 21, 2025

Lest one think that Fox went out looking for the wobbliest Democrat to interview, let’s look back at Murphy’s efforts for Biden last summer. Salena Zito covered it in her syndicated column that came out after Biden’s disastrous CNN debate, but described events just before it took place. Despite what had already become painfully obvious about Biden during his years in office, and especially last year, Murphy pushed hard for his team:

        Murphy, who served in Congress representing Bucks County from 2007 to 2011 and met Biden at the tarmac on Sunday morning, said Biden was in fighting spirits ahead of the daylong trip across half of Pennsylvania. The first Iraq War veteran in Congress said there is a big difference between what the political class in Washington is saying about Biden and what voters are saying in states like this one.

        “Coastal elites always downplay ‘not flashy’ Pennsylvania,” he said, adding, “They continue to underestimate our resolve and one (of) our own in Joe Biden.”

        Murphy, the 32nd undersecretary of the Army, said Biden is not a great orator like Presidents John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama or Ronald Reagan, “but he is a workhorse, not a show horse, delivering bipartisan results for our families.” … 

        Murphy, who is heading to Arizona on Monday for a Veterans for Biden event in that swing state, said the president is resolute in his decision to not leave the race: “Joe Biden doesn’t take crap from anyone and isn’t going to listen to elites telling him what is best for the party. He cares about what is best for the country.”

Those claims didn’t age well. By the time we ran Salena’s column, they had already expired. The point is that Murphy is no Democrat apostate who does the Fox News circuit for kicks. If he’s going on air with Fox to make this argument, it’s because he’s angry and wants his argument to have impact … which explains why he’s not making it on MSNBC. (Or perhaps he did and no one noticed.)

And Murphy is absolutely correct. These attacks are domestic terrorism by a party whose followers refuse to accept the outcome of an election and want to impose their policies by force and duress. A responsible political party would have leadership emphatically denouncing such actions and demanding that they end immediately, even or especially when their own members are committing them. Instead, House Dems like Jasmine Crockett eggs them on while offering the wink-wink caveat, “Of course I don’t mean violence.” It’s utterly despicable. 

My friend Karol Markowicz calls Democrats’ silence “damning,” and not just about Teslas — and not just about Democrats either:

Tesla dealerships are being firebombed and shot at, while Tesla vehicles are vandalized and their owners assaulted.

Trump-supporting influencers are getting “swatted,” set up for dangerous police encounters by opponents who phone in hoax distress calls.

Relatives of Trump-aligned public figures — including the sister of US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Elon Musk’s brother — are receiving bomb threats. …

If progressive influencers and leftist leaders were on the receiving end of such horrid tactics, every Republican in the country would be made to answer for it. “This is not who we are,” right-wing media would proclaim.

And rightly so. But no such calls are coming from the Democrats and their media allies.

That’s exactly right. Mainstream media outlets in both news and entertainment treat this violence as a fun joke on Americans. They aren’t even asking Democrats about it, let alone hounding them to condemn it as they would if the situation were reversed. 

Kudos to Murphy. Let’s hear more from him in the future, and a lot less from the radicals and pusillanimous leaders that currently infest the Democrat Party. And the Protection Racket Media, too.