Dave Rubin didn’t let this obvious example of Democrat double-speak slide — he shared a Direct Message clip of his conversation with Dinesh D’Souza after Fox & Friends’ Lawrence B. Jones put Senator Jeanne Shaheen on the spot over whether Democrats want to give illegal immigrants access to U.S. healthcare. The short, sharp exchange has been circulating on conservative feeds because it captures exactly the kind of media-savvy fact-check that average Americans have been begging for.
On Thursday, Jones pressed Shaheen about the trillions Democrats are demanding and directly challenged her contention that “no one in my party” supports illegal immigrants getting access to the health insurance marketplace. To back up his point, Jones rolled footage from a June 2019 Democratic primary debate in which every candidate raised their hand when asked if their government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants — footage that left Shaheen visibly boxed in.
When the tape played, the theatrics vanished; the senator went quiet and tried to reframe the conversation amid obvious discomfort. That silence is telling — Democrats cheer on big government experiments on stage, then deny it when held accountable on television by someone who refuses to play along with the gaslight. Conservative viewers saw in real time what many of us have known: when confronted with inconvenient facts, Democrats would rather change the subject than defend their policy choices.
This isn’t a one-off gaffe; it’s the pattern of the modern Democratic playbook — promise radical expansions to sympathetic audiences, then pretend those promises never existed when taxpayers get nervous. Ordinary Americans who pay premiums and wait months for care should be outraged that partisan politicians debate offering Obamacare-style subsidies and marketplace access to people here illegally while dodging responsibility for skyrocketing costs. That hypocrisy deserves to be exposed, relentlessly and in prime time.
Dave Rubin’s DM clip with D’Souza is part of the broader conservative response: call out the contradictions, push for straight answers, and refuse to let the media bury inconvenient truths. Conservatives don’t win by whispering; we win when we spotlight the hypocrisies, mobilize voters, and demand lawmakers protect citizens first.
If Republican leaders want to turn outrage into policy, they should stop moderating their messaging and start legislating for secure borders, honest budgets, and priority care for Americans. The voters who show up to the polls are tired of being lied to about who benefits from taxpayer-funded programs — and after moments like this, they won’t forget who tried to gaslight them.
