The Democrats have become the party of theft
Democrats are determined to destroy America by any means necessary.
Mike McDaniel | April 26, 2026
During my law enforcement career, I did a stint as a school resource officer at the rank of detective. Among the things I regularly did was explain to kids why shoplifting wasn’t such a great idea.
I focused on two dimensions: the moral and practical. Stealing is as morally wrong as wrongs get, and practically, stealing—shoplifting amounted to at least $90 billion in 2025--is a significant driver of inflation and business failures.
But now, the Democrat Party has a new narrative: if government won’t give it to you free, steal it. In recent years, Blue states have all but legalized shoplifting, but they've never quite as clearly praised it as a social good, making it a virtual Party platform--until their newest attempt to attract young male voters appeared, one Hasan Piker, who is not only an avowed Marxist but an avowed Islamist who tells us, among other social blasphemies, Hamas is 1000X morally superior to Israel.
Yes, the Democrat Party among its innumerable social pathologies, has now come out as the party of retail—and presumably other—theft:
Graphic: Day By Day Cartoon, Chris Muir. Used with permission.
Certainly, the Democrat Party engages in all manner of criminal enterprises destructive to our representative, constitutional republic, but now they’re encouraging America’s destruction from the ground up, and it’s no surprise their primary propaganda organ, The New York Times, is leading the charge:
Shoplifting, particularly among the wealthy, is now a badge of honor among Democrats:
On a recent New York Times podcast, Piker, who is reportedly worth some $5 million, exposed his anti-American social pathologies:
Yeah. Friedrich Engels wrote about the concept of social murder. And Brian Thompson, as the United Healthcare C.E.O., was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder. The systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit, paywalled system of health care in this country — and the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths. And that was a fascinating story for me, because Americans are very draconian about crime and punishment. They’re very black and white on this issue.
And yet, because of the pervasive pain that the private health care system had created for the average American, I saw so many people immediately understand why this death had taken place. [skip]
That’s a harrowing process for a lot of people. And for them, that is murder; for them, that is torture. And that is the reason why, I think, the reaction to Luigi Mangione, especially by younger generations, was not so negative.
Ah. “Social murder.” A new justification for all manner of evil, like stealing:
Piker: I think it’s cool. We’ve got to get back to cool crimes like that: bank robberies, stealing priceless artifacts, things of that nature. I feel like that’s way cooler than the 7,000th new cryptocurrency scheme that people are engaging in.
Spiegelman: Would you steal from Whole Foods?
Tolentino: Yes. And I have, under very specific circumstances. I will say, I think that stealing from a big box store — I’ll just state my platform — it’s neither very significant as a moral wrong, nor is it significant in any way as protest or direct action. But I did steal from Whole Foods on several occasions.
Such a brave, multimillionaire, revolutionary! What willingness to sacrifice for the people!
Spiegelman: But what about the argument that if everyone just starts stealing wantonly from these self-checkout machines, Whole Foods will eventually raise the prices?
Piker: Yeah, chaos. Full chaos. Let’s go. I mean, look, I’m in favor of fast and free buses and also government-owned storefronts. And two of those policies, the mayor of this beautiful city is currently working on.
So, Piker’s advocacy for theft isn’t mere, self-imagined elite nihilism. It’s a sort of contemporary communist, anti-American, Cloward-Piven strategy to cause chaos as a means of bringing down the Republic.
Unfortunately for the likes of Piker, the policies he favors have inevitably led to grocery stores and pharmacies, among other businesses, pulling out of blue city neighborhoods, badly inconveniencing the poor and politically unconnected about which he and other Democrats pretend so much to care. And in NYC, Mamdani’s free buses have fallen prey to the Thatcher Principle: people like Piker and Mamdani always run out of other people’s money. It’s already happened to Mandani; there will be no free buses, and his flagship people’s grocery store will cost at least $30 million—many times what it costs to build a private sector store—and won’t open until at least 2030.
America has always been a high trust society until Democrats began to think there was advantage in destroying that trust. As a result, we no longer trust our politicians, our government, law enforcement, most if not all, of our necessary institutions, and each other. We certainly trust Democrats less than other politicians, but for them, that’s all to the good. Encouraging theft of all kinds will destroy America even more rapidly, ushering in their utopian communism, which they, for the first time in history, will do right.
