By Erick Erickson

Virginia Democrats have been running ads depicting a Trump voter/Ed Gillespie voter in a Ford truck with a rebel flag, Gillespie bumper sticker, and “Don’t Tread on Me” vanity plate trying to run over Muslim children and others.

Then, yesterday in New York, a Muslim terrorist plowed into a crowd exactly as the Virginia Democrats claim Trump voters would do. Naturally, they have taken down the ad.

But it really tells you about the mental state of the Democrats that they can more easily presume a Trump voter would run over children of various ethnicities and run that ad as multiple Muslim terrorists around the world have been driving vehicles into crowds.

It says nothing good about Democrats that they could so easily run an ad like about Trump and Gillespie voters. It says even worse about the media that much of the press saw nothing wrong with the ad.

And now we have an Islamic terrorist in New York kill multiple Americans by driving a truck through a crowd, just as Democrats think a Trump voter would behave.