Democrats clearly haven’t learned a thing from their 2024 wipeout. If there’s one politician who perfectly embodies that stubborn refusal to face reality, it’s Ghazala Hashmi. Her campaign for Virginia’s lieutenant governorship has quickly turned into a spectacle, and she’s managing to make herself the punchline in the process.
At a recent campaign stop, Hashmi delivered remarks in front of a tattered, upside-down American flag and a cardboard tombstone scrawled with the words, “RIP Constitution.”
“We have to fight. We are not going to concede this democracy to the efforts of tyranny,” she shouted. “We are not going to concede the rights that we have in this country to protect every single citizen. We are going to fight. This is an act of civil disobedience that we are going to keep up and make sure that your voices continue throughout Virginia, all throughout the country.”
First and foremost, I always do this everytime a Democrat claims America is a “democracy”…IT. IS. NOT. We are a representative republic, and while we have democratic tendencies, our founders specifically avoided that form of government. You’d think anyone running for office in America would know that.
Anyway, here she is:
🚨AFTER The Polls tightened in VIRGINIA, the Democrats panicked and released their “October Surprise” smearing Lt. Governor Candidate John Reid.
Unsurprisingly, it’s a bunch of laughably absurd lies.
Meanwhile…
Radical Democrat Hashmi is desecrating the American flag at… pic.twitter.com/xrYlkXn4iQ
— Walter Curt (@WCdispatch_) October 1, 2025
Hashmi currently serves as a Virginia state senator, first elected in 2019 as the legislature’s first Muslim and South Asian American woman. She secured the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in June, but her record on antisemitism continues to raise serious questions.
While Hashmi has publicly condemned Hamas and spoken against the rise of antisemitism in America, her actions often tell a different story. In 2023, she pointedly abstained from a Senate vote adopting the widely recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism for hate crime evaluations. Every other Virginia senator supported the measure.
Hashmi claimed her refusal was out of concern that the definition could be used to label critics of Israel as antisemites. But that explanation rings hollow to many, who see it as yet another example of Democrats trying to split hairs instead of standing firmly against antisemitism.
In 2024, she abstained yet again—this time on legislation prohibiting employment discrimination based on ethnic origin. For someone running for statewide office, that kind of hesitation speaks volumes.
She’s also made herself a vocal opponent of school choice. In an interview with the Virginia Mercury, Hashmi actually bragged about blocking Governor Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to expand educational options for parents.
The candidate also opposes efforts to remove inappropriate material from government-run schools, referring to Youngkin’s “attacks on teachers and his attempts to ban books and whitewash our history.”
Then, of course, there is the blatent disrespect for the flag and her incorrect terminology for the kind of political system we have in America. Then again, she was born in India, which brings me to another pet peeve: How ’bout Congress pass a law forbidding anyone who wasn’t born here from holding any elected office here?
