“You will not stop us from advancing the Protecting Our Kids Act today. You will not stop us from passing it in the House next week. And you will not stop us there. If the filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish it. If the Supreme Court objects, we will expand it. And we will not rest until we have taken weapons of war out of circulation out of our communities.”

– Congressman Mondaire Jones, an African-American neocommunist Democrat from New York, laying bare his party’s utter disrespect for constitutional norms and governmental limits.