Charlotte, N.C. Democrat Mayor Vi Lyles’ first public comment following the savage murder of Ukraine-born Iryana Zaruta was a call for greater “compassion” for the barbaric nutcase who had repeatedly plunged a razory blade into the 23 year-old innocent’s throat.

I’m not making that up.

Lyle’s despicableness was reflective of present-day woke Democrats. (They are to be distinguished from old-school liberals, from whom that party wants only ballot endorsements, never ideals: ‘Shut up and pull the Democrat lever.’)

Scant evenings ago, White House Deputy of Staff and Policy Advisor Stephen Miller appeared on Hannity. Ever the common-sensical straight-talker, he passionately excoriated guileful progressives who cultivate unchecked bloodthirst in American neighborhoods.

The Democrat Party is “terrorizing the American people,” Miller declared. “Just think about what is happening in our major cities: The bloodbaths, every single weekend. One victim after another. One shooting after another. One murder after another.”

He decried Democrats’ philosophical refusal to punish lawbreakers (and Fake News mongers’ purposeful covering-up of the widespread brutishness laying waste to American society). The deputy of staff and policy advisor then turned attention to Iryana’s murderer, vicious maniac Decarlos Brown, Jr.

“And then you look at that video that chills our very souls, out of Charlotte. That beautiful young woman stabbed to death. Murdered, savagely, on a subway. Just trying to get home from work. Fleeing war, only to run into a Democrat war zone here in our country.

“That monster! 14 prior arrests! In and out, in and out! The Democrat policy of catch-and-release for barbarians, for savages, is truly an act of terror, Sean, against the American people. It cannot be explained, unless you deeply, fundamentally hate America.”

During a Sept. 9 press conference, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt voiced appropriate media criticism: “Perhaps most shamefully of all, the majority of the media, many outlets in this room, decided that her murder was not worth reporting on originally because it does not fit a preferred narrative…Many of the journalists in this room spilled plenty of ink, trying to smear [Marine veteran] Daniel Penny for defending a subway car from a deranged lunatic in New York City, but none of those same reporters lift a finger to write stories about an actual murderer.”

If the increasingly communistic party of the antisemitic Squad and New York City subversive Zohran Mamdani didn’t relish rampant rapes, murders, child exploitation, and illegal immigration, they’d give the single-digit salute to pro-crime prejudices and instead champion the law-abiding public.

But Marxists cheer societal collapse. It is easier to promote revolution when order has crumbled.

“Look, this has become their religion,” White House patriot Miller spat derisively. “Celebrating criminals. Celebrating predators. Celebrating illegal aliens who prey on our citizens. It is evil. It is deliberate. It is malign. It is malicious.”

What happened to poor Iryana is outrageous. And hellish are the politicians and mentally disheveled rabble in San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Portland and elsewhere, who urge lawful order be ravaged and who attack law enforcement personnel, including ICE.

“President Trump has said the Republican Party will fight like hell to keep your kids safe,” Miller asserted.

But the woke weep only for the wicked.

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Waterloo’s DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits the Tucker Carlson-founded Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard, and American Thinker. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.