Tuesday’s performance proves Democrats in Congress are out of touch, blinded by hate, have lost their minds and moral compass – and haven’t hit bottom yet.

That’s according to Missouri’s two U.S. senators, Eric Schmitt and Josh Hawley, who spoke with The Heartlander in separate interviews Thursday.

“You know, these guys have not only lost their minds, they’ve really lost their moral compass,” Hawley says. 

“I mean, to stand there in that chamber and to boo and hiss at the president of the United States, and then to boo and hiss a 13-year-old boy who’s struggling with cancer, to boo and hiss at the survivors of the Afghanistan Abbey Gate bombing – I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“I think it was really embarrassing,” Schmitt says. “It’s actually pretty sad, as an American, that you would either not go [to the Joint Session] or refuse to stand for a 13-year-old little boy that overcame cancer, wanted to be a police officer, was given the honor of being a Secret Service agent that night. 

“I mean, that’s the stuff that, as a country, we should cheer for together. 

“Laken Riley’s family was there, and the hostage that was released. These are the things that I know I stood up and cheered for when Joe Biden was president, when he had guests who are Americans who overcame substantial hardships. 

‘It’s killing the party’

“I think they’re just blinded by their hate for Donald Trump, and it’s really sad and it’s killing the party. They’re totally out of touch. I think people saw that, saw how childish it was, how immature it was. But they can’t help themselves. I guess I understand now why they brought in psychiatrists to help counsel them after President Trump was ushered back into office.”

Hawley, independent of Schmitt, also noted his own deference to a president of the other party during addresses to Congress.

“I will just say, I went to Joe Biden’s presidential addresses. I didn’t agree with him on hardly anything. But I went, I stood for him, I clapped for him, and every Republican did the same out of respect for the office. And Democrats won’t give that basic respect to Trump.

“And it’s not about Trump, at the end of the day, but it’s about the American people and our Constitution. And what they’re showing is, they don’t respect it. They don’t respect the will of the people. They don’t respect our constitutional system. They would burn it all down if they don’t get their way. 

“Boy, that’s dangerous. And I really think it’s a moral issue. They don’t respect the moral sanctity of our Constitution, of our system of government, and they’re willing to destroy it in order to get their way. We cannot allow that to happen.”

It’s not just Republicans blasting Democrats for their antics at Trump’s address to a Joint Session of Congress. Social media and even liberal media savaged their heckling, booing, handheld signs and refusal to applaud for even crime victims or heroic figures.

Democrats have “allowed their hatred for one person to erase their empathy for anyone else,” one poster on X argued.

‘Alienated so many people’

“I’m done with the Democratic party. … God forgive me … But my anger is beyond containable today,” another said.

“AMAZING DAY!” posted Brandon Straka of the #WalkAway from the Democrat Party movement. “We have had over ONE THOUSAND new people join the #WalkAway group today and more than 70% have identified as a #WalkAway. 

“Last night’s joint session has alienated so many people.”

“We never learn,” one Democratic strategist told The Hill. “We can’t just be the party that barks at Trump, and I’m sorry, but that’s what we are. And until we learn that lesson, we’re going to lose.”

“He owned us,” another Democrat strategist told The Hill. “He made us look like what we are: f‑‑‑ing buffoons.”

The Heartlander asked Schmitt and Hawley if they see any signs at all among their Democrat colleagues that they realize how bad they looked in their petulance toward the president and his honorees Tuesday.

“No, I don’t think they’ve hit rock bottom yet,” Schmitt replied. “I think they’re somewhere in the middle of their stages of grief. So, I think they’ve got a little ways to go. They’re probably going to have to lose a few more elections, I think, before they have a come-to-Jesus moment.”

Hawley allowed that “some” of his Democrat colleagues see the damage Tuesday did to the Democrat brand, citing Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.

‘Unhinged petulance’

“A sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance,” Fetterman wrote on X of his fellow Democrats’ performance. “We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to—and it may not be the winning message.”

Hawley obviously agrees.

“How can any sane person looking at that think that it’s OK to try to disrupt a joint address to Congress? Because that’s what they did,” Hawley told The Heartlander. “They were not only disrespectful, they were not only rude, they were not only behaving in, frankly, a morally reprehensible way, they tried to disrupt it. They tried to stop the president from speaking – in Congress! 

“This is a constitutional tradition, a constitutional event. And they were trying to disrupt and stop it. So, I’ve never seen anything like it, and I have to say it’s incredibly, incredibly dangerous to have people who are willing to behave in this way. It just shows you there’s almost nothing that they will not do to try to get power.”

The heckling and booing and hissing was much more audible inside the House chamber than it was on television, Hawley adds.

“Oh, it was very bad. The good news, I think on TV is, because only the president was mic’d you couldn’t hear most of the heckling and the disruption. But believe me, it was very loud, and it was constant throughout the president’s speech. There were multiple times the president had to raise his voice and talk more loudly into the microphone to talk over them in the chamber.”

‘A terrible thing for the country’

Both Schmitt and Hawley say the Democrats’ self-immolation, while good for Republicans, isn’t good for the nation.

“No,” Schmitt warns. “As an American, I don’t think that we should have, in a two-party system, one party that has really been radicalized by the left. They’ve adopted the words and the struggle sessions of cultural Marxism. They’re so blinded by their hate of one man that they can’t cheer for a kid who’s battled cancer.”

“It’s a terrible thing for the country,” Hawley says. “It’s terrible to have a party that is so dead-set against the will of the American public that they’re willing to disrupt constitutional assemblies, they are willing to mock people who come to these assemblies as guests, and they’re willing to try and disrupt the function of the government. 

“As I say, they haven’t just lost their minds. They’ve lost their moral compass. And that’s bad for everybody.”

Tuesday’s debacle wasn’t the start of the Democrats’ death spiral – not by a longshot, Schmitt says.

“They campaigned on half the country being a threat to democracy and extremists. They wanted to cast people out who didn’t get a vaccine. They wanted to force the masking of 5-year-olds. They wanted to politicize every institution, including our military, into this woke ideology. 

“This is no longer the party of Harry Truman. These folks are totally out of control, and the voters, I think, rejected that. I think there are a lot of disaffected Democrats, quite frankly, that voted for President Trump, and people who are not aligned even with one party or another that listen to, like Joe Rogan, or podcasts like that, that are pretty independent that are voting Republican because the Democrats are so batshit crazy.”