There is a historical continuity between the old and current violent practices of the Democratic Party.

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The assassination of Charlie Kirk and the complicity of the woke lobby in the racial violence that led to the attack on Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska have reignited the debate over the violent practices of American liberals. Actually, for those familiar with the history of the Democratic Party, there is nothing surprising or new in this, since the political violence of this party has always far exceeded that practiced by the Republicans.

Much is said about the “ideological shifts” of American political parties throughout the 20th century. One of the most recurring—and most fragile—narratives is that the Democratic Party supposedly transformed from a reactionary, racist, and warmongering force into a progressive bastion and defender of human rights. However, an honest analysis of American political history reveals that this transformation is, at best, superficial. Beneath the modern “woke” makeup lies the same elitist and aggressive power structure, with deep roots in authoritarianism, supremacism, and institutionalized violence.

Historically, the Democrats were the party of slavery, racial segregation, and the Ku Klux Klan. The latter, in fact, emerged as a paramilitary militia directly tied to the conservative wing of the Democratic Party in the American South, with the goal of reversing the gains of Reconstruction after the Civil War and restoring white supremacy. The association between the party and domestic violence against minorities was not incidental, but an organic part of its power strategy.

The 20th century did not erase this trend but merely refined it. The foreign policy of the Democrats retained its warmongering and imperialist logic. It was Democratic presidents who pushed the U.S. into the most destructive conflicts of the past century: Woodrow Wilson into World War I, Franklin D. Roosevelt into World War II, Harry Truman into Korea, and Lyndon B. Johnson into Vietnam. In contrast, Republican presidents—however flawed in other areas—ended wars (like Eisenhower in Korea and Nixon in Vietnam) or at least sought to restrain the war machine (like Trump, who resumed diplomacy with Russia and reduced American involvement in the Middle East).

The so-called “progressive turn” of the Democratic Party in the second half of the 20th century is a superficial phenomenon. What really changed were not the methods, but the symbols. Open racial oppression was replaced by “identity politics,” which, in practice, maintain the control of a liberal elite over marginalized groups. The new doctrine is “wokeness,” a moralistic and authoritarian discourse that seeks to silence dissent, impose unilateral narratives, and criminalize any criticism of the cultural and political agendas of the globalist establishment.

This new guise is just as aggressive as the old one—if not more dangerous, given its claim to moral legitimacy. Military interventions under recent Democratic governments follow the same “save the world by force” logic: Obama destroyed Libya in the name of “human rights”; Biden initiated the largest military conflict since World War II by sending weapons to the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev. The increasingly threatened American unipolar hegemony finds in the Democratic Party its most violent and deceptive agent.

There is, therefore, a structural continuity between the old domestic violence of the Ku Klux Klan, today’s woke terrorism, and the international violence of imperialism. All of these are forms of oppression based on the same premise: the imposition of a societal model under the justification of moral superiority—be it racial, cultural, or ideological. The Democratic Party, once with white hoods, now with rainbow flags and progressive slogans, continues to be the main engine of both domestic and international instability in the United States.

Rather than representing a break from the past, the current Democratic Party is a camouflaged continuation of it. The progressive rhetoric serves only as a smokescreen for the advancement of corporate, military, and geostrategic interests. While the world is distracted with superficial debates about gender and inclusive language, American drones continue bombing countries in the Global South, and economic sanctions impose hunger and misery on millions. More than that: domestic violence is escalating to the point of dragging the American people into a state of permanent civil conflict.

Exposing this continuity is not merely a historical exercise, it is a geopolitical necessity. Even though the bipartisan division in the U.S. is fundamentally a farce, with both sides serving the same interests, it is vital to understand which party is historically more inclined to violence, chaos, and terror. And contrary to liberal propaganda, it is not Trump’s party. The mantle of “Western progress” is nothing more than the new face of the old whip.