Inauguration Day has been tough on the few “Squad” Democrats who managed to hold on to their congressional seats for another term.
“Four years of hell” is how Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) put it, telling her followers on X that she’s done responding to any news about the “orange man” for at least 24 hours.
“Ok I’m not clicking on anything else about the orange one… I’m protecting the last little bit of peace that I have before the next 4 years of hell is unleashed,” she told about 400,000 followers on Sunday night, adding a two-fingered peace sign emoji. The sentiment wasn’t shared by most of those who engaged with her: By mid-afternoon on Monday, more than half of respondents had weighed in with mostly critical replies of their own.
“Jasmine is soooo yesterday!!!!!!” one follower reacted while another suggested the Texas Democrat make a “learning opportunity” out of the next four years. She’ll certainly need it after publicly sparring with firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who is certain to have President Trump’s ear in the House.
Another encouraged the progressive lawmaker to give up on X if it upsets her so much and head to BlueSky, the new online safe space for liberals fleeing the Elon Musk-owned site formerly known as Twitter.
Near and dear to Crockett’s heart is the issue of DEI, one targeted in a flurry of executive orders signed into law by President Trump on Monday. Last week, the lawmaker lost her cool on CNN after conservative analyst Scott Jennings skewered the Los Angeles Fire Department for prioritizing an all-lesbian leadership team rather than ensuring the fire hydrants around Palisades were filled with water.
“The fact is, when people decide at a time when people are dying that a country of immigrants is failing or people are dying because the same very people that built this country – and the last time I checked, y’all didn’t say anything was wrong with the White House, and I can promise you it was my ancestors that built the White House,” Crockett snapped back.
Not to be outdone, fellow Squad member Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) posted on Instagram that the U.S. is “on the eve of an authoritarian administration” in a message that was shortly deleted, the Western Journal reported. In the short clip, AOC rants about being asked repeatedly whether she’d be attending Trump’s inauguration.
“Let me make myself clear: I don’t celebrate rapists,” she said coldly.
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Instead, the Bronx Democrat said, the U.S. should continue pressuring social media companies to “de-platform” dangerous voices like that of Trump.
“Deplatforming works and it is important,” she said shortly after Fox News severed ties with Tucker Carlson following its landmark settlement in the Dominion defamation case. “Couldn’t have happened to a better guy,” she quipped.
