The Democrat senator from Virginia referred to narco-terrorists who smuggle illegal drugs into the United States as “struggling survivors.”
Let that language sink in.
Not criminals.
Not traffickers.
Not cartel operatives.
Not people poisoning American communities with fentanyl and meth.
“Struggling survivors.”
This is not compassion. This is moral insanity.
Narco-terrorists are not desperate migrants looking for work. They are organized criminals tied to violent cartels that traffic drugs, weapons, and human beings across the border. Their product kills tens of thousands of Americans every year. Entire towns have been hollowed out by addiction. Families have been destroyed. Children have been buried.
And Tim Kaine’s response is to rebrand the people responsible as victims.
This is how language is weaponized to erase reality. If you change the words, you change the public’s emotional response. If criminals become “survivors,” then enforcement becomes cruelty. Borders become “inhumane.” Law becomes oppression. And chaos becomes policy.
It is no accident that this rhetoric comes from the same political class that refuses to secure the border, blocks deportations, and attacks law enforcement for doing their jobs. They need the public confused and emotionally manipulated, because the facts are indefensible.
You cannot call someone who knowingly traffics poison into another country a survivor. You cannot excuse cartel violence with sociology jargon. And you cannot pretend that the American people are too stupid to see what is happening.
Under President Trump, this double talk was rejected outright. Cartels were labeled what they are. Criminal organizations. Terrorist networks. Enemies of public safety. The border was enforced, not apologized for. The victims were American families, not the people exploiting weak laws to profit off death.
What Tim Kaine is doing is not empathy. It is cover.
Cover for failed border policies.
Cover for skyrocketing overdose deaths.
Cover for a system that refuses to defend its own citizens.
Calling narco-terrorists “struggling survivors” is not a mistake. It is a worldview. One that sees America as perpetually guilty and criminals as perpetually misunderstood. One that always finds sympathy for lawbreakers and contempt for law-abiding citizens who demand order.
The American people are not fooled by this anymore.
They know who is suffering. They know who is dying. And they know exactly who is responsible for pretending that predators are victims while communities pay the price.
Tim Kaine didn’t just misspeak. He exposed the rot.