Politicians really need to watch what they say. They never know who has access to their messages.
And now leaked texts from a Democrat Senator could end his career.
Leaked Texts Prove It: Even a Democrat Senator Is Echoing the GOP Critique
Private messages from Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego—meant to stay private—have surfaced, and instead of landing as a scandal, they read like a Republican focus-group transcript the Left has spent years ignoring.
“We Used to Be the Party of S-x, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll”
Gallego’s core complaint is one conservatives have hammered for a decade: Democrats traded fun, freedom, and rebellion for scolding, androgyny, and joyless rule-making.
Gallego (correctly) alleges that the Democrats are “not allowing no [sic] men to men” and “women to be hot.”
Gallego continues, “We used to be the party of sec [sic] drugs and rock and roll.”
“Now Dem women look like Dem men and Dem men look like women.”
His spelling may be shaky, but the diagnosis is word-for-word what GOP ads, talk-radio hosts, and viral memes have been saying since at least 2016.
The Texts That Sound Like a Trump Rally Chant
The conversation started when a Republican friend texted Gallego that a “cool head and a solid plan” could take over the Democratic Party.
“Oh man have you met my party ?” Gallego shot back. “I have been yelling at them this the whole time.”
Then came the photo of 82-year-old Rep. Rosa DeLauro—purple hair in full glory—captioned “If erectile dysfunction had a face.”
“They aren’t wrong!” Gallego instantly replied.
“We look like the not fun party,” Gallego added. “Always telling and correcting people.”
Translation: Republicans have spent years mocking Democrats as the party of finger-wagging hall monitors. Gallego just handed them the receipt—signed by a sitting Democratic senator.
The Right Has Been Screaming This Into the Void
For years conservatives argued that the Left abandoned the working-class “cool factor” the moment progressive orthodoxy became the new establishment. Tattoos, marijuana, and rock ’n’ roll used to signal rebellion. Now they’re corporate HR policy. The real counterculture, the GOP kept insisting, is showing up to work on time, raising a family, and telling the pronoun police to pound sand.
Gallego’s leaked texts confirm the message finally penetrated—at least one Democrat was listening.
When confronted, Gallego refused to grovel:
“It’s very heartbreaking that someone that I served with and have known and been really good friends [with] for 20 years decided to … leak some of these messages. But I’ve been very clear about where I think the party needs to be, I think we have to be an open and bigger tent party, and so this is just a reflection of everything I’ve said.”
No apology, no disavowal—just a shrug that the jokes were obvious and true. Republicans couldn’t have scripted it better themselves.
