Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Oh sure, the Democrats should totally let the Epstein files fade into the abyss, right? Just sit back politely while the GOP keeps screaming about Hunter Biden’s laptop like it’s the Dead Sea Scrolls. Because apparently, a grown man’s text messages are the greatest national scandal of our time — but the flight logs of billionaires, politicians, and their buddies taking vacations on Pedophile Island? Nah, nothing to see there.

Let’s be real: if there were even a whiff that Hunter once Googled “Epstein’s island,” Fox News would run a 24/7 countdown clock until Judgment Day. But when Trump himself was buddy-buddy with Epstein? Silence. When prominent Republican donors, power brokers, and “family values” preachers start popping up in those files? Oh look, suddenly the party of moral panic gets lockjaw.

And that’s exactly why Democrats should never — ever — let this drop. Every time some GOP grandstander shrieks about “protecting the children,” the response should be: Wonderful! Release the Epstein files in full. Let’s protect the children by exposing every single name on that list. Watch how quickly their pious sermonizing turns into throat-clearing and subject-changing.

Here’s the dirty truth: the Epstein files are political nitroglycerin. Democrats don’t need spin — just sunlight. Drag the hypocrisy into the open. Demand transparency. Because until every single page is released, this isn’t just a scandal, it’s a bipartisan cover-up. And if the Democrats roll over on this, they’re not just being weak — they’re handing Republicans yet another gift-wrapped double standard.

So no, don’t drop it. Don’t whisper about it. Shout it from every podium: Who’s hiding in the Epstein files, and why are Republicans so desperate for us never to find out?

And if Democrats are in the files, let them go down with the rest of them. We have no problem putting ours on trial too. We forced Al Franken out over a joking picture that was taken well before he was the senator.