Dem House hopeful endorsed by activist who said 'evil Jews run

Adina Flores has a theory about the world. She says "evil Jews run the world," warns about Freemason conspiracies, and rails against what she calls "LGBTQ ideology." That would be bad enough on its own. But here's the part that should embarrass every Democrat who pretends to care about decency: her endorsed candidate for Congress, Eric Jones, hasn't exactly run for the hills. He got the endorsement, and he's keeping it.

The Democratic Party has spent years telling voters they are the only ones standing between America and the forces of hate. You would think a House candidate might apply that same standard to himself. Instead, we get a shrug. The response from party leadership isn't to demand Jones disavow this woman immediately, but to hope the story disappears before the next podcast interview. This isn't a fringe problem anymore, it's a tolerance test — and the left keeps failing it.

We're used to hearing about the extremes in our own party, and rightly so. But when a candidate accepts the support of someone who traffics in classic antisemitic tropes, it tells you everything about the moral arithmetic of the modern left. They will overlook "evil Jews" rhetoric if it plugs them into the right grassroots network. They will ignore Freemason fever dreams if it means one more seat in the House. The ideology is excused when the politics are convenient.

So here's our honest take: if the Democratic Party is serious about being the party of unity and tolerance, they have a funny way of showing it. Congressman Eric Jones owes the people of his district a direct answer to a simple question: What, exactly, did Adina Flores say that you found so disqualifying? If the answer is nothing, then voters deserve to know that too. Republicans will keep pointing this out, because someone has to value basic standards. The Democrats are too busy counting the votes they think no one is watching to notice that we all are.