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Connecticut Senate Democrats have finally found their natural literary form: hysterical anti-Trump fan fiction written for people who announce they are leaving a Facebook group, then spend the next six hours replying to comments under their own exit post.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff has outdone himself this time. His latest proposal is so perfectly unhinged you wonder if anyone in Hartford actually read it before hitting send. He wants to impose a 100% tax on any payments Connecticut residents receive from Trump's alleged "slush fund"—a fund that might compensate January 6 defendants. Or might not. Because in Hartford, apparently "might" is enough to trigger a press release, a moral panic, and the declaration that democracy is on life support.
But here’s where it gets interesting: The article says the fund may compensate people convicted of crimes stemming from “the Jan. 6, 2001, riot at the U.S. Capitol.”
January 6, 2001.
These people are so desperate to relitigate January 6 that they accidentally sent it back to the Bush administration. The actual Capitol riot happened in 2021. You know, the one everyone is talking about. The one that occurred 20 years after the date in the article.
So Connecticut Democrats are threatening to tax checks no one has received, from a fund they admit may not pay them, for a riot their own article accidentally sends back to 2001.
That is not legislation. That is what happens when urgency outruns proofreading.
Duff’s answer is quintessential Hartford genius: create a law taxing money residents might receive from a fund that might give it to them.
It is like threatening to sue someone for the car they might steal next Tuesday.
“If you filed a claim with Trump’s slush fund and collected a check, we are going to explore every legal option available to take every penny of it back,” Duff announced, presumably while gazing heroically into the middle distance.
“Explore every legal option available” is doing a lot of work there. Translation: We have no idea if this works, but we are feeling ourselves right now, so let the courts sort it out after everyone forgets why we were mad.
Here is where it gets embarrassing. The same article mentions that Republican Brian Fitzpatrick and Democrat Tom Suozzi introduced a bipartisan bill to block taxpayer funds from being used for these claims.
In other words, there is already a real federal vehicle to address the concern.
But that would be too normal. Connecticut Democrats could not simply point to the bipartisan effort and move on like adults. They had to go full Hartford and propose taxing hypothetical payments to hypothetical recipients from a hypothetical fund.
Not to be outdone, Gov. Ned Lamont floated using any revenue for families of fallen police officers.
That is actually the closest thing to a serious idea in the entire exercise, which is impressive considering the whole premise appears to have been assembled by people who had time to hyperventilate but not enough time to Google the year.
Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding called the proposal “political theater,” but the quote lands harder in context.
His point was not merely that the idea is dramatic. It is that Connecticut Democrats somehow always have limitless emotional bandwidth for Trump while acting mysteriously unavailable whenever the conversation turns to electric bills, property taxes, health insurance costs, or the jobs leaving the state.
And honestly? You can see why he said it. Connecticut residents are getting crushed by electric bills, property taxes, and health insurance costs, while Hartford keeps sprinting toward whatever Trump story lets them avoid the subject.
Connecticut Democrats have essentially legislated a fantasy. They want to punish income no one has received, from a fund that may not distribute it, based on a political panic their own article could not even date correctly.
It is so spectacularly stupid it makes you wonder what conversation happened—or didn't happen—before this got sent out. This has the energy of a meeting where everyone knows the idea is ridiculous, but nobody wants to be the first one to ruin the vibe.
They should rename Hartford the Kingdom of Make-Believe and install a theme-park entrance where the Capitol used to be.
So yes, Harding was right. This is political theater. But it is worse than bad theater. It is bad theater performed during a house fire, while the actors insist the real emergency is somewhere offstage with Trump’s name on it.
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