DC Water, the public utility responsible for the massive sewage spill in the Potomac River, focused much of its attention on environmentalism and diversity, equity, and inclusion goals in recent years. The spill, considered one of the largest wastewater disasters in U.S. history, has placed DC Water’s DEI priorities in the spotlight. In 2021, DC Water became one of the first public utilities in the country to release a report on its Environmental, Social, and Governance priorities, a framework used by investors to measure a company’s commitments to leftist causes, including fighting “climate change.” Then, in February 2022, DC Water CEO David Gadis touted the utility’s emphasis on forming a leadership team made up mostly of minorities and women. “When I arrived at DC Water, this was an organization that looked very similar to our industry, and it was predominantly, you know, white male at the top,” said Gadis, who was tapped as DC Water’s CEO in 2018. “But this was a utility that more than 70% people of color worked at this utility, and I really believe and I still believe — the outcomes have been fantastic — that the people at the top, the executives, the chiefs in that C-suite, they should look like the employees that they serve and they work with.” Gadis made the comments on DEI during an appearance on a show hosted by the American Water Works Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring safe water. “So my executive team looks exactly like the community, it looks like the employees, the staff, be it people of color, women, men,” Gadis added. “It is just a fantastic team that has come together to do a lot of great things here at DC Water and in the community for the customers.” Asked by American Water Works CEO David LaFrance to describe what his executive team “looks like,” Gadis replied, “We have three women, three women of color, and we have five males total. And of those five males, three of them are of color. And then we have two males that are caucasian. So we are getting that total cross-sectional conversation that’s occurring.” DC Water CEO David Gadis and Board Chair Dr. Unique Morris-Hughes are joined by Mayor Muriel Bowser to celebrate the launch of the machine to help reduce wastewater flow into the Potomac River on November 4, 2025 / Screenshot: Instagram/D.C. Department of Employee Services DC Water’s sewage spill debacle comes just one month after a public utility in Nashville was slammed for its focus on DEI after an ice storm knocked out power for residents for weeks. Between 2023 and the beginning of 2024, the Nashville Electric Service held 102 DEI sessions “to foster a culture of civility and belonging within our organization with the hopes of extending that dynamic beyond our walls.” Last month, the electric service faced increased scrutiny for its delayed response to widespread power outages in Nashville. The sewage spill, which began last month, has unleashed hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater into the Potomac River, forcing authorities to issue alerts to residents in the nation’s capital, Maryland, and Virginia to avoid contact with the river as E.coli levels skyrocketed. DC Water said the disaster was caused by the partial collapse of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line, which resulted in a massive overflow of wastewater that made its way into the Potomac. In just the first five days after the sewer line’s collapse, around 194 million gallons overflowed, DC Water said on February 6. In an update this week, the utility said that a total of 243.5 million gallons have spilled into the Potomac since January 19. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump expressed frustration with state and local leaders over what he viewed as a slow response to the sewage spill. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he was directing federal authorities to take over the management of the sewage spill response, writing, “I cannot allow incompetent Local ‘Leadership’ to turn the River in the Heart of Washington into a Disaster Zone.” Betsy Nicholas, president of the Potomac Riverkeeper Network, told The Hill that DC Water knew the collapsed sewer line needed to be repaired and “had money allocated for it.” “It just seems … the whole pipeline collapsed before they were able to do any work on it,” Nicholas added. Under Gadis, DC Water has also sought to award contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses, The Daily Caller reported on Tuesday. In fiscal year 2024 alone, DC Water awarded women-owned and “disadvantaged” businesses around $520 million of its $1.33 billion in total awards. Gadis also believes it’s important for the utility to have a “diverse workforce” to establish “trust” with homeowners who “like to see people that look like them and walk like them.” The Daily Wire reached out to DC Water for comment. The massive sewage spill also marks a rough spot for a utility that vowed to provide “high quality water services in a safe, environmentally friendly, and efficient manner.” In its 2021 ESG report, DC Water said it was “committed to finding renewable energy solutions for our energy demand to mitigate our contribution to climate change.” The utility also said it was “committed to providing healthy water throughout our operations,” and “dramatically reduce the amount of solids, nitrogen, and phosphorous in the cleaned water we return to the Potomac to protect our local rivers and the Chesapeake Bay.” The Environmental Protection Agency, led by Administrator Lee Zeldin, said that DC Water had not yet reached out for federal help despite the massive scale of the disaster. “The Potomac Interceptor overflow is a sewage crisis of historic proportion. Never should any American family, community, or waterway ever have to experience this level of extensive environmental damage,” Zeldin wrote in a post on X on Tuesday. “This mess must be completely addressed as fast as humanly possible, and the Trump EPA stands ready, motivated, and highly capable to assist in any way possible to fulfill President Trump’s strong desire to END this disaster.” Water testing in the Potomac River earlier this week revealed E.coli levels hundreds of times higher than what the EPA considers safe, DC Water officials said. Local authorities have assured residents, “There is no impact to the drinking water supply,” as the sewer and water systems “are completely separate.”

The Department of War has awarded $45 billion in contracts to “Alaskan Native” companies in the last half-decade, fueled by minority-contracting laws. But Alaska Natives are hard to come by at the companies. Instead, the work most commonly happened in Virginia, with racial preference laws putting white, Democrat Beltway insiders in multi-million-dollar homes, while natives live in poverty. No “Alaskan native” company got more contracts than ASRC Federal, which lists zero native executives. The company is named after, and is owned by, the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, a for-profit umbrella company representing 14,000 Inupiaq natives in a remote region of Alaska known as the North Slope. The company is ranked the 111th-largest private company in America, with $5.7 billion in revenue. It owns five million acres of land, including oil reserves whose sale leads to dividend payments to the natives. Yet the most valuable resource might come from Washington, which in 1971 passed a law saying companies can get contracts without having to go through the competitive bidding process if they are at least 51% owned by Alaskan Natives. Other minorities can get no-bid contracts for nine years while they own a small business, but Alaskan firms retain the disadvantaged status even when they have billions of dollars in revenue. That has led to business executives donning the skins of native people to get high-tech contracts, under the curious pretext that the natives dwelling in huts are learning to do advanced engineering. The scale of the riches that unleashes is mind-boggling. Last month alone, ASRC Federal announced that it was awarded a Defense Logistics Agency contract worth up to $2.3 billion, as well as a “Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling of $151 [billion].” The Department of War has awarded nearly one million separate contracts, totaling $45 billion, to “Alaskan Native” companies since fiscal year 2021, according to USASpending.gov. The most common “place of performance,” however, was Virginia. Less than 12% was spent in Alaska. No company brought in more than ASRC Federal, which is made up of numerous subsidiary companies that exist to get federal contracts. ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics LLC billed taxpayers $2 billion, ASRC Communications Ltd. charged half a billion, ASRC Federal Field Services LLC earned $390 million, and ASRC Federal System Solutions LLC took $319 million. ASRC Federal’s CEO is Jennifer Felix, who lives in a $4.3 million, 14,000-square-foot home in Loudoun County, Virginia. The mansion sits on four acres and includes a guest home and private movie theater. Felix has showered liberal politicians with tens of thousands of dollars in donations since 2022, donating to groups like “Pro-Choice Majority 2024,” “Elect Dems Now,” and the campaigns of Virginia senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner. Meanwhile, there is no sign that residents of the North Slope even have a public movie theater. The only theater in town is a now-closed, rusted hut, research from the American Accountability Foundation, a government watchdog group, found. Home of white “Alaskan Native” contractor CEO, replete with private movie theater Shuttered theater used by actual Alaskan Natives “Felix has a long history of working with government contractors, previously being employed with companies like General Dynamics, Sotera Defense Solutions, and Deloitte. She is, put simply, a typical Beltway bandit defense contractor,” the American Accountability Foundation wrote in a report provided to The Daily Wire. Conservatives say no-bid minority contracting laws, known as 8(a), are wasteful and unfair. But the absence of actual Alaskan Natives at companies bearing their names raises questions about whether the program has even succeeded in its liberal-minded goal of lifting minorities out of poverty by training them in business. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth raised a similar question last month when he said that other minority-owned firms often subcontract the work to white-owned firms, while keeping a large cut for playing middleman. “In the Pentagon, $100 million sole-source contracts go out the door to these 8(a) firms almost every day without any competition or opportunity for anyone else to bid,” he said. Joseph Winthrop, ASRC Federal’s chief financial officer, lives in a $2 million Loudoun County home replete with a wine cellar. Executive Scott Altman lives in a Georgetown townhouse and is paid $1.1 million a year, according to a recent contract disclosure. Clifford Greenblatt lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, the historic domain of the Beltway elite, in a neighborhood that is 0% black or native and has a $200,000 median per capita income. Chief Strategy Officer Ann Stevens lives on the banks of the Potomac River in Great Falls, Virginia. It’s a vastly different life than the company’s Inupiat shareholders. “The supposed beneficiaries of the corporation – the Inupiat – live in conditions that would make most Americans cringe,” the American Accountability Foundation wrote. Alaskan Natives make up nearly all the people on welfare in the North Slope, with more than 17% collecting food stamps. A spokeswoman for ASRC Federal, Aubrel Mellos, did not respond to questions including how many of the company’s employees are Alaskan Native, or what dividends from federal contract dollars have been paid out to native people. But she wrote in an email: “Every ASRC subsidiary operates at the direction of ASRC’s 100% Iñupiaq Board of Directors for the benefit of its 14,000+ Iñupiaq shareholders. ASRC’s Board Members are directly selected by its Indigenous shareholders through annual elections. ASRC Federal’s operations, business priorities, and hiring are done to the benefit of ASRC’s Iñupiaq shareholders, who receive dividends based on the success of the corporation – as was the will of Congress and the federal government when the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) established ASRC and the 11 other regional Alaska Native corporations.” “ASRC Federal directly contributes to the self-determination of the North Slope Iñupiat through dividend payments and economic opportunity, contributing to a remarkable increase in lifespan on Alaska’s North Slope,” she continued. Joseph Winthrop’s wine cellar The largest Inupiat city For decades, politicians in both parties have said that Alaskan contracting was not advancing the goals that justified the program. That’s what then-Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said in 2010. In one case from that time period, a Bethesda, Maryland, man was paid $15 million to run an Alaskan government contractor for three years, while its Alaskan Native owners received a total of $682,000 in dividends in 2009, or $305 each. The company won a contract to make military uniforms, which it manufactured in Puerto Rico instead of Alaska. But efforts at reform have been blocked by Alaska Republican senators such as the now-deceased Ted Stevens, who for years chaired the powerful Appropriations Committee. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is a contender to chair either the Senate Appropriations Committee or its defense subcommittee next Congress. Now, if the Alaskan program meets its end, it’s likely to be through the abolition of the broader minority-contracting program. The Trump administration has made moves to rein in the DEI scheme after a black man, Walter Barnes, pleaded guilty to getting $500 million in USAID contracts by paying a USAID official $1 million in bribes. The scheme worked because 8(a) empowers a government official to steer contracts to specific companies. The increased scrutiny has placed Alaska’s senators, both Republicans, in the curious position of defending the DEI program as a whole. Sen. Joni Ernst, chair of the Small Business Committee, which oversees the 8(a) program, asked agencies to pause sole-source contracts in order to get a handle on fraud. But Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) secretly urged the agencies to ignore that request, according to a letter previously obtained by The Daily Wire. The letter highlighted that Pentagon officials enjoy taking advantage of the Alaskan law because although the competitive bidding process is designed to get the most qualified company and the best price, it is also a bureaucratic slog. “We consistently hear from top Pentagon officials that the 8(a) Program provides flexibility and timeliness in procuring weapons systems that strengthen our country,” they wrote. “The program reduces administrative burden, shortens acquisition timelines, and avoids the delays and litigation risks that often accompany large-scale procurements.” Murkowski and Sullivan did not respond when The Daily Wire asked for statistics about how many Alaskan Natives actually work at firms like Bowhead, another multibillion dollar defense contractor whose leadership consists virtually entirely of white males. In the 1980s, Congress passed laws allowing Native Americans to join Alaskan Natives as so-called “super 8(a)’s,” exempt from having to show that they are actually small, disadvantaged companies. Undercover journalist James O’Keefe caught an executive from one such firm, ATI Government Solutions, boasting that it received a $100 million contract and kept two-thirds while paying a big company, like Accenture, to do the actual work. None of ATI’s executives was native, either. Members of the Susanville Indian Rancheria tribe, which owns part of ATI Government Solutions, were interviewed by O’Keefe’s outlet. “Here you have this millionaire making money off of us, and we’re here begging for help. All of the things that were created for us, we don’t benefit from,” one tribe member said. The American Accountability Foundation called for ending the 8(a) program, saying “it is currently not benefiting minority populations and is enriching D.C. elites.”

The state of Washington gave millions of taxpayer dollars to a controversial “gender-affirming” surgeon who performs surgeries on prison inmates, according to a Daily Wire investigation.  Stiller Aesthetics, a cosmetic surgery practice led by Dr. Geoffrey Stiller, MD, has received more than $4.3 million from the Washington State Health Care Authority since July 2019, the state spending database shows. Dr. Stiller offers an array of “transgender” surgical procedures including facial feminization,  “non-binary” double mastectomy, and “bottom surgery,” according to the Stiller Aesthetic website. “Bottom surgery” is a euphemism for vaginoplasty surgery, a procedure that requires the removal of male genitalia and often uses colon tissue to construct a fake vagina, called a neovagina, which requires lifelong dilation to prevent it from narrowing or closing. Dr. Stiller has performed “over 1,000 vaginoplasties, averaging 5 procedures a week” and is an “extremely sought after for [male-to-female] bottom surgery,” the website says. While the spending database does not provide specifics for what each payment to Dr. Stiller was for, public records reviewed by The Daily Wire show Stiller’s clientele included inmates from the Washington Department of Corrections, whose policies support inmates pursuing tax-funded sex-rejection surgeries. While many sex-rejection interventions are provided to inmates by in-house clinicians, those deemed eligible for sex-change surgery can apply for temporary coverage through Washington state’s Medicaid program, Apple Health, which provides coverage for transgender surgeries. President Donald Trump banned the use of federal funds to pay for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex,” in a January 2025 executive order. In February 2025, however, Washington State led a federal, multi-state lawsuit against the Trump administration, and obtained a preliminary injunction against the order that allowed inmates at federal facilities to continue receiving sex-rejection surgeries. Payments to Dr. Stiller continued since Trump’s election, with the database showing he pulled in more than $800,000 in taxpayer funds in 2025 alone. In 2017, Dr. Stiller gained national attention after being given permission to perform vaginoplasties at a small-town hospital in Idaho, despite strong objections from the community. The Washington Post profiled him as a compassionate surgeon caught in the crosshairs of so-called transphobia in a November 2017 article, in which he refers to performing vaginoplasties on gender-confused patients as “the right thing to do.” However, after experiencing backlash and “multiple controversies” in Idaho related to gender medicine, Dr. Stiller started a new practice six years ago in Spokane, Washington, where it was “much safer to take care of patients,” according to the Stiller Aesthetics website. But controversy has continued to follow Dr. Stiller, who was arrested for drunk driving in 2021 and has faced multiple medical malpractice lawsuits over the past five years, according to a December 2025 report by InvestigateWest. One former staff member alleged Dr. Stiller’s drinking habits impaired his ability to perform surgery and resulted in at least one botched surgery, according to the report. Dr. Stiller did not respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment on the allegations. Court records show Dr. Stiller was performing surgeries for the prison system. He was one of two surgeons the Washington Department of Corrections was ordered to contact to “avoid additional unnecessary delay” within 30 days of a legal settlement with a male inmate who sued when he was denied access to sex-rejection surgery while incarcerated. “Within thirty (30) days of receipt of the Evaluator’s report, the DOC will contact Dr. Geoffrey Stiller at Palouse Surgeons, Pullman, Washington and Dr. Daniel Dugi at Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon to determine which surgeon has the earliest availability for gender affirming surgery,” the court document stated. A description of Dr. Stiller’s Vaginoplasty expertise circulated inside the Washington DOC / The Daily Wire Records show Stiller Aesthetics was a “facility contact” on an internal prison list of gender medicine providers, and post-operative transgender surgery instructions from Stiller Aesthetics were distributed to inmates. The Daily Wire asked Dr. Stiller about the extent of his work with the Washington DOC, and how many incarcerated patients he performs transgender surgery on each year. Dr. Stiller did not respond to inquiries. Public records obtained by The Daily Wire expose the brutal realities that follow sex-rejection surgeries. One inmate struggled with self image and physical complications after undergoing a “non-binary” mastectomy, an email obtained through public records requests revealed. “I saw [redacted] today for their ℅ ongoing chest tightness and concerns regarding the appearance of their chest, post mastectomy. They are also concerned about continued tightness and limited [range of motion] to the upper extremities,” wrote Washington DOC healthcare staff. “Please set the patient up with some visits to help the patient work through their self-image incongruence. [redacted] is identifying themselves as ‘non-binary’ and ‘asexual’ and though they did not want to maintain breasts, they also report to me they did not want ‘a male chest’ either – in particular they are not happy with the nipple placement and would have liked them placed more central,” the email stated. Another staff member requested an inmate be placed in a single cell for a full year after undergoing genital surgery to provide privacy for their postoperative dilation needs, a document reviewed by the Daily Wire shows. “Ms. [redacted] has her gender reassignment surgery scheduled for 11/22/24, after which time she will require a private place to dilate for 30mins 3x daily for six months to 1 year,” states the document. “Recommending up to 1 year single cell,” the document states. It was unclear if either of the described inmates were patients of Dr. Stiller. The Washington DOC declined to provide a comment. In 2020, Dr. Stiller partnered with the nonprofit Genderbands which sponsors sex-rejection surgeries for teens and adolescents who can’t afford surgery costs. Social media with Dr. Stiller’s logo on them offered “FREE Top Surgery.” A photo of a smiling young woman with fresh double mastectomy scars praises Dr. Stiller for providing the “surgery free of charge through a sponsorship with Genderbands,” in an August 2019 Instagram post. “The emotional benefits our patients feel after bottom surgery is truly amazing and inspiring as we see the newfound comfort they have with their bodies,” the website states. Many of the surgery instructions from Stiller Aesthetics tell patients what to expect while hospitalized at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, one of two hospitals Dr. Stiller performs sex-rejection surgeries, according to the Stiller Aesthetics website. MultiCare told The Daily Wire that Dr. Stiller is not an employee of MultiCare. He does, however, have privileges to use MultiCare Deaconess operating rooms.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, head of the National Institutes of Health, will reportedly be the next interim head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The former acting head of the agency, Jim O’Neill, was dismissed from the post last week as part of a larger restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. O’Neill will instead be tapped to head the National Science Foundation, according to Politico. Bhattacharya’s ascension to the top of the CDC would mean the agency would fall under control of one of its longtime critics. Bhattacharya, a professor emeritus of health policy at Stanford, became widely recognized for his criticisms of the CDC during the COVID-19 pandemic. After the start of the pandemic, Bhattacharya and several associates openly broke with the approach of the top government health officials, including those at the CDC and former White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci. In October 2020, Bhattacharya joined with former Oxford University epidemiologist Dr. Sunetra Gupta and then-Harvard University professor Dr. Martin Kulldorff to write “The Great Barrington Declaration.” The declaration broke openly with the much more conservative approach to the pandemic government medical experts espoused. The outside experts warned of “damaging physical and mental health impacts” brought on by following lockdown policies, instead urging an approach based on targeted protection for the vulnerable while healthy populations mingle and develop herd immunity. Bhattacharya’s 2020 warnings have proved prescient in the intervening years. The lockdown policies of the pandemic have been thought to have caused numerous add-on effects, such as spikes in social isolation and alcohol consumption.  Lockdown policies in schools retarded the growth and education of millions of students. Students in huge chunks of the country fell many months behind typical instruction and the efforts to catch them back up proved lacking, according to a 2023 report from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The loss in learning continued despite a surge in spending on education. CDC leadership has undergone a tumultuous time under the second Trump administration. The agency had a Senate-confirmed head last year, but Susan Monarez was removed from the role after less than a month on the job. O’Neill replaced Monarez, and he generated some controversy among health experts last month with the CDC rolled back its recommendations for a slate of vaccines.

The following is an edited transcript excerpt from The Michael Knowles Show. * * * The Democrats have admitted what their strategy is for the midterm elections and Republicans need to pay attention because it’s a pretty scary one. Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s new governor, is the personification of the Democrats’ strategy for the 2026 midterm elections and for the 2028 presidential election. Spanberger ran as a “moderate” for governor of Virginia. Now, five seconds later, she’s coming out decrying President Trump’s immigration policy as “horrifying,” saying: In what we’ve seen recently, the really, I think, horrifying thing is that now, under the new administration or the Trump administration, where every cross into the United States is considered a criminal act.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Michael Markuson (@mmmarkuson) Credit: @mmmarkuson/X.com That is an amazing statement from a governor — of any party. That’s not a specific policy of the Trump administration. That is a matter of federal law passed by Congress. It has been federal law for many decades now. It’s there in the meaning of the word illegal. When an illegal alien does the thing that distinguishes him as an illegal alien, that is, in fact, illegal — not just because President Trump says so, but because federal law says so. So, when she says she is horrified by President Trump actually applying the law, she’s admitting she’s horrified by the law. How did Spanberger get elected? She ran as a moderate. So, are the Democrats going to moderate their policies, or are they just going to lie to get through the elections? Here’s what Andy Beshear, governor of Kentucky, has to say: Media’s current ‘moderate’ darling Andy Beshear points to Spanberger’s campaign as evidence that Democrats can win running to the center. What Andy fails to mention is that since she was elected, Spanberger has been full throttle on every far-left agenda item imaginable. https://t.co/J3k6xKC0pB pic.twitter.com/tBg7LRdqtm — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 15, 2026 Credit: @WesternLensman/X.com Jake Tapper: How do you respond to a Democratic voter who might say, “I like you. I like your track record in a red state or red commonwealth, but you’re too soft-spoken?” Gov. Beshear: “Well, first, yes, that message is working. Look at Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill, who ran great campaigns in races that should have been structurally difficult, and they both won by double digits. They are the DGA, and our candidates are winning everywhere. For me, I believe that the American people want stability, that Donald Trump is exhausting. Many Americans feel like the pendulum swung too far during the Biden administration and has swung way too far during the Trump administration, and what they want is an America where they can wake up every morning and not be worried about its future.” America wants stability. In other words, moderation.  The pendulum swung not only too far under the Trump administration, but he says probably the pendulum swung a little too far under the Biden administration.  The Left went a little too far Left. In other words, we need moderation. Moderation, moderation, moderation. WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show on DailyWire+ Who do we look to? We look at Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. And what did Spanberger do? She ran as a moderate and then, we don’t need to speculate on what she will do — we now know what she did the minute she got into office — she pulled ICE cooperation from her state. The minute she gets into office, she says Virginia will no longer cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. The minute she gets into office, she says we’re going to reduce the mandatory minimums for certain heinous, violent crimes. The minute she gets into office, she backs a constitutional right to late-term abortion — not first-trimester abortion, which is evil in itself, but third-trimester abortion. She then doubles down on the radical LGBT agenda and supports voting rights for felons. Abigail Spanberger, in office, is as Left as any left-wing politician in the country. The only thing that distinguishes her, the only reason Andy Beshear pointed to her, is because she lied and ran as a moderate. And that’s what they’re going to do in the midterms. So it’s up to us — Conservatives, normal people, centrists, Republicans — to expose that lie and really push them. For example, when they say, “Actually, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton deported more people than Donald Trump,” we say, “Oh, so you’re saying deportations are good? You want to deport more people?” They will quickly backtrack and say, “Well, I … I … I never meant …” The contrivance that the Democrats are trying to put forward is that we’re all just kind of moderate. The goal is to sound like Andy Beshear and Abigail Spanberger on the campaign trail. The chief strategy for Democrats heading into ’26 and then into ’28 is to hide all of it by running as moderates.