It's National Police Week in Washington, D.C., and the 38th Annual Candlelight Vigil was held on the steps of the Capitol to honor fallen law enforcement officers — 363 of them added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial this year alone. And not a single Democratic member of Congress bothered to show up.
Not one. Zero. For dead cops. Let that sink in for a second.
Republican members of Congress gathered on those Capitol steps to pay their respects. Vice President J.D. Vance attended police events throughout the week. President Trump's White House issued a "Back the Blue" statement honoring "the heroes who run toward danger." Meanwhile, every single Democrat in Congress apparently had something better to do than light a candle for 363 officers who died in the line of duty.
Fox & Friends host Griffin Jenkins, who was at the vigil, noted the glaring absence. He said that while standing at the vigil that night, it struck him — he couldn't find a single Democratic face in the crowd. Not one member of the party that spent the last several years telling us they "support law enforcement" could be bothered to walk down the hall and stand outside for an hour.
But should we really be surprised? This is the same Democratic caucus where 173 members voted against a resolution supporting law enforcement. One hundred and seventy-three. They didn't just skip the vigil — they went on the record saying they wouldn't even symbolically back the badge.
House Republican Steve Scalise — a man who was literally shot by a politically motivated gunman — was there. He showed up, as did his Republican colleagues. Because when you actually support police, you don't need a focus group to tell you that honoring dead officers is good optics. You just go.
This is who the Democrats are now. They defunded the police. They demonized the police. They bailed out rioters who attacked the police. They let prosecutors release criminals who assault the police. And now, when 363 names are added to a memorial wall — officers who gave everything — they can't even muster the basic human decency to show up to a candlelight vigil.
They didn't skip it because they were busy. They skipped it because showing up would contradict everything their base demands. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party has made "anti-cop" a litmus test. Standing on those steps, holding a candle, would've been a betrayal of the defund crowd, the abolish-ICE crowd, the ACAB-bumper-sticker crowd.
So they stayed home. Every last one of them.
Remember this the next time a Democrat stands at a podium after a cop is murdered and says, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family." Their thoughts and prayers weren't enough to get them to a vigil. As Hot Air's Beege Welborn put it — the absence wasn't accidental, it was total.
Three hundred and sixty-three officers. Zero Democrats. That's not a scheduling conflict. That's a confession.
