We all remember the moment from “Anchorman” when Ron Burgundy, played by Will Ferrell, read the words, “Go F*** Yourself, San Diego,” to end a live news broadcast. Even though he was just blindly reading the words from the Teleprompter, which had been sabotaged, it didn’t matter. Rioters threatened to kill Ron Burgundy. He was fired. Everything changed after that moment, and everyone in the theater understood why. You see, the anchorman had just said something highly profane about the residents of his own city, on camera. It’s the kind of thing that you simply cannot come back from — unless, like Ron Burgundy, you manage to redeem yourself by saving a woman from being mauled by a bear. Which is the kind of thing that would get anyone out of the doghouse.
Back in 2004, no one would need to have this joke explained to them. The humor was pretty self-evident. But just twenty years later, it’s not remotely clear that this scene would land. For one thing, we don’t really have comedy movies anymore. That’s not just a thing people say. It’s true. Hollywood stopped making comedies right around 2012 to 2013. Now the genre essentially doesn’t exist.
But more importantly, in 2025, recent events have demonstrated that it’s actually very possible for a prominent person to tell an entire city to go f*** itself, in no uncertain terms, and then remain popular in that same city — popular enough to potentially win a congressional race. In fact, it’s now a viable campaign strategy to look the voters in the eye and pull a Ron Burgundy because, as it turns out, insulting the voters can somehow make you more popular than you were before.
If that sounds hyperbolic to you in any way, then you probably haven’t been following the rise of a Democrat congressional candidate named Aftyn Behn, who’s running in today’s special election to fill a seat in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. This is a district that includes downtown Nashville and most of Nashville’s black population — along with several Republican-dominated suburbs like Franklin, plus several rural counties. Back in 2020, as we’ve discussed, Behn openly attacked the city she intends to represent in Congress. She stated that she hates Nashville, and then she went on to name several specific features of the city that she despises.
But the really remarkable part of this story is that, having trashed her own potential voters in this resurfaced clip, Aftyn Behn has made the conscious decision to stand by her remarks. And, in doing so, she appears to have strengthened her political position. She’s running in a district that went for Donald Trump by more than 20 points in the last election. And yet, according to a recent Emerson College poll, Behn is within 2% points — within the margin of error — of winning this race. The Republican, Matt Van Epps, is barely holding onto the lead.
Before we get into the implications of this race for the Republican Party — and there are many implications — there are some recent videos you need to see. Without context, you might assume these clips are coming from some kind of satirical film about U.S. politics, like a modern-day take on “Anchorman.”
They’re darkly hilarious, in many ways. But they’re very real.
Watch:
CNN: “Do you think it was a mistake to say you hated Nashville?”
AFTYN BEHN: “I was a private citizen.”
So yes, she still hates Nashville and people will still vote for her pic.twitter.com/Lrg8jwsNXt
— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) November 30, 2025
Credit: @saras76/X.com
She can’t even muster up a single word of praise for Nashville — not a single positive thing — even when it’s teed up for her. The best she can do is utter a non sequitur about how she made the previous remarks bashing Nashville as a “private citizen,” as if that’s relevant in any way. But if anything, that makes it worse, because it means it’s what she actually believes. It’s something she said before she had an obvious incentive to lie, as a politician.
Of course, this woman knows what just happened in Virginia, where a Democrat sociopath — someone who says he wants conservatives and their children to die — just won the race for attorney general. She understands that Democrat voters are motivated, above all else, by hatred. And she’s made the calculation, at this point, that the only viable path forward is to appeal to Democrats’ profound disdain for the world they live in (or, in this case, the city they live in).
To be clear, if she had just said that she hates the bachelorette parties in Nashville or whatever, that wouldn’t really be an issue. If she had said she just hates the pedal taverns and wants to abolish them and imprison everyone involved, I would wholeheartedly agree. But she explicitly stated that she also hates the entire city as a whole. And now she’s banking on the possibility that most people living in Nashville also hate the entire city — hate themselves, essentially. And frankly, she might be right.
In recent days, across various interviews with friendly outlets, Behn has used the same script when she’s been asked about her many, many other deranged comments.
Here’s another example:
NEW: CNN’s Kasie Hunt gives up and moves on after far-left congressional candidate Aftyn Behn of Tennessee refused to admit that funding the police is a good thing.
Hunt: Would you like more money for more cops on the streets in your district?
Behn: So those um, past comments… pic.twitter.com/DScvVKZQYt
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 2, 2025
Credit: @CollinRugg/X.com
Notice that, in this case, CNN attempts to do her a favor. They don’t show any of the “old posts” that they’re asking about. They think they’re teeing up a softball question — where she can safely say, without any pushback, that yes, she wants police departments to exist. This is one of those issues that, especially now that the George Floyd hysteria has subsided, is something you’d hope 100% of Americans would agree on.
But still, even with this very generous setup, she doesn’t give the answer that a well-adjusted, sane human being would give. Instead, she once again states that she was a “private citizen” when she made those “old posts,” which remain unmentioned. And then, when she’s pressed on her non-answer, she strongly suggests that, indeed, she still wants to defund the police, in the year 2025. She states that she’s going to defer to her “community,” rather than take any position of her own. And then she proceeds to say that her “community” wants “mental health services.” She never says her “community” wants to have a police department.
Again, it’s the kind of answer that will only appeal to you, as a voter, if you’re a deeply disturbed individual. And the more this woman rises in the polls, the more we have to ask ourselves if that’s a fair way to describe the entire Democrat Party — as in, every single voter they have.
Over at MSNBC — a.k.a. “MS NOW” — the damage control went even worse for Aftyn Behn. That’s because, in this interview, the anchor actually put some of her tweets up on the screen, to great comedic effect.
Watch:
Democrat Aftyn Behn refuses THREE TIMES to walk back her previous calls to defund the police:
MSNBC: “Do you still stand by those comments?”
BEHN: “I’m not going to give cable news talking points….
MSNBC: “What is your position today?”
BEHN: “I’m gonna talk about my race.” pic.twitter.com/92YRm2KMOk
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 24, 2025
Credit: @RNCResearch/X.com
Yeah, she’s not going to get into “cable news talking points” — like addressing the question of whether she supports burning down police stations. That’s just a “talking point” — as in, it’s something that she explicitly stated that she supports, just a few years ago. And to this day, she won’t renounce it.
To be clear, Aftyn Behn is indeed a real person. This is a real candidate that the Democrat Party is running for a House seat. And they’re not disavowing her, or even criticizing her, in any way. Why would they? Behn represents the mainstream Democrat Party. That’s the important point here. If someone says he’s a Democrat, this is what he’s supporting.
And just to emphasize that point, the Democrat Party has come out and announced that they strongly support everything this woman is saying.
This is a post from Ken Martin, the chair of the Democrat Party, just a couple of days ago.
Democrats are building momentum. We’re all gas, no brakes. Let’s do everything we can to chip away at the GOP’s House majority. This Tuesday, get out and vote for Aftyn Behn if you live in TN-7!
So there it is. The highest levels of the Democrat Party have endorsed one of the most demented candidates to run for office in the modern history of this country. They’ve also endorsed all of this.
Watch:
The Democrat Party is backing a candidate who wants to abolish police and thinks burning down police stations is justified.pic.twitter.com/rzLjel5I5F https://t.co/KVbtPprrJR
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 1, 2025
Credit: @RNCResearch/X.com
🚨 Democrat nominee for the upcoming TN07 special election Aftyn Behn condemns women who get married and start families– saying it’s the product of “deeply patriarchal structures”:
“My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams and the recurring dream I’ve had is standing… pic.twitter.com/LTsYj0im7Q
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 24, 2025
Credit: @greg_price11/X.com
She says, “My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams, and the recurring dream I’ve had is standing up in a Cafeteria full of women and saying ‘I don’t want children. I want power!'”
Just by itself, 15 years ago, that statement would’ve been disqualifying, regardless of your politics. For one thing, she’s going around admitting that she’s in therapy — which obviously isn’t something you should brag about. There’s no reason to be proud of the fact that you’re paying someone with a master’s degree who has a vested interest in making sure you’re never “cured” of whatever disorder he’s diagnosed you with. That’s a point of shame, not pride. In fact, in a sane country, going to therapy would be disqualifying for any political candidate. If you need therapy, you are not mentally strong enough to hold political office, or any other position of importance.
But that clip gets even worse when she goes on to explain that marriage punishes women, and forces them into “patriarchal structures,” whatever that means. Maybe she’s talking about no-fault divorce laws, where women can cheat on their husbands, and then take half their assets. Who knows — she didn’t really elaborate, as far as I can tell.
What I do know is that there are many, many more clips that illustrate how unhinged this woman is. She also admitted that she follows around ICE vehicles, and harasses ICE officers and state troops, for example. She says she’s uncomfortable with Christian influence in government. And so on. But we’ll end with this clip — which we’ve played before — because it really underscores the extent of the threat that this woman, and the Democrat Party in general, pose to our country. This was how Aftyn Behn responded to the massacre of Christian men, women and children at the Covenant School in Nashville. In the aftermath of the shooting, she didn’t say she was worried about the safety of Christians, who had just been massacred because of their faith by a trans-identifying terrorist. Instead, she said the so-called “trans community” was under attack — and that, as a politician, one of her primary goals would be to go after me, and The Daily Wire.
Watch:
WATCH: This is how Democrat Aftyn Behn responded to the Covenant shooting, when a trans-identifying woman killed six at the Christian school.
It inspired Behn’s first run for office…so she could fight to protect “trans communities” and against Daily Wire and @MattWalshBlog. pic.twitter.com/th13e1v6dW
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 24, 2025
Credit: @realDailyWire/X.com
The fact that a woman this deranged and evil even has the slightest possible chance to win the special election today — in a district that Trump carried by more than 20 points, in a deep-red state, in a race against a candidate who has been endorsed and heavily promoted by Donald Trump — is a very, very bad sign for the future of the Republican Party.
Over the past few months, we’ve talked about some major built-in advantages that Republicans are probably going to have, in future elections. If the Voting Rights Act is gutted by the Supreme Court, which is the expected outcome, Democrats will lose several seats in the House. And as more illegal aliens are deported, and as more people leave failing states like California and New York for states like Florida and Texas, Democrats will lose even more representation in Congress.
But these benefits only exist at the margins. They don’t protect the Republican Party against a complete and total collapse of popular support. And that appears to be where the party is headed, given that Democrats are running complete sociopaths — and winning, or coming very close to winning. If today’s election in Tennessee is indeed even somewhat close — if this woman isn’t completely blown out — then we are headed for the worst-case scenario, one year from now in the midterms. Democrats will sweep both houses of Congress, if this trend continues.
And we shouldn’t be surprised by that outcome, if it should come to pass. Republicans in Congress have been so ineffective that they’ve failed to give voters a single reason to support them. This is the point where, as we talked about yesterday, the Trump administration has to step in, and take decisive action — any kind of decisive action — that actually improves the lives of American citizens in some tangible way. Denaturalize as many Somali fraudsters as you can. Bomb as many drug dealers as possible. Suspend all foreign migration. Do something, or else you’ll be replaced very quickly by lunatics and craven degenerates like Aftyn Behn. Today’s election is a massive warning sign. The polling alone makes that very clear. We can either heed that warning now, while we still have time, or we will lose so badly in 2026 that, as a country and as a movement, we may never recover.
