When Hatred Goes Too Far: The Firing of Dr. Christina Propst and the Celebration of Tragedy
By Brandon Tatum
Dr. Christina Propst, a Houston pediatrician, was terminated after mocking Texas flood victims online.
What kind of person sees children suffering and celebrates?
That’s not a rhetorical question — it’s a real one. Because this past weekend, in the aftermath of devastating Texas floods that took the lives of more than 80 people, including children, a Houston pediatrician named Dr. Christina Propst thought it would be clever — even righteous — to mock the victims.
Yes, a pediatrician — someone whose entire profession is built on caring for children — publicly celebrated death and suffering. Why? Because she believed those victims were Trump supporters.
Propst's now-deleted Facebook post read: “May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”
That wasn’t just insensitive — it was vile. This is what Trump Derangement Syndrome looks like. It’s a spiritual sickness that twists the hearts of some on the Left so deeply that even dead children become fair game if they come from the “wrong” zip code or hold the “wrong” political view.
Let that sink in.
You’d never see a conservative pediatrician post something like this. Ever. We don’t celebrate the deaths of liberals during natural disasters. We don’t root for blue states to suffer. We don’t mock children based on how their parents vote. That kind of behavior is beneath the values we stand for — decency, compassion, truth.
But this is where we are.
Over the last several years, the Left has shown an increasing inability to tolerate opposing views. Study after study has shown that political tolerance is significantly lower among liberals than conservatives. That’s not my opinion — it’s research-backed. Whether it’s shutting down speakers on college campuses, disinviting conservative family members to dinner, or ending lifelong friendships over a Trump bumper sticker — it’s almost always coming from the Left.
As a pediatrician, Propst’s role was to protect and care for children — not mock them for political gain.
I’ve personally never experienced a conservative telling a liberal they weren’t welcome at their table. But I’ve heard countless stories from conservatives who were iced out of weddings, family reunions, even job opportunities — all because of who they voted for. The so-called “party of inclusion” only includes you if you think like them.
And now, apparently, they’re willing to include death wishes, too.
Thankfully, Dr. Propst was fired. Blue Fish Pediatrics did the right thing. They put their values above politics and protected their patients from someone whose moral compass clearly failed her in a moment when empathy should’ve led the way.
But this moment should be a wake-up call. Not just for liberals, not just for conservatives — for everyone. When your hatred of a political figure makes you rejoice in the death of innocent people, you’ve lost your soul. Period.
I don’t care how much you hate Trump. I don’t care how angry you are about elections, climate policy, or FEMA funding. If you look at the lifeless body of a child and think, “They got what they voted for,” you are no longer operating from a place of morality — you are consumed by something much darker.
We should be able to disagree politically without sacrificing our humanity. That used to be a basic principle in America. It needs to be again.
Brandon Tatum
Founder | The Officer Tatum
This level of evil and darkness is incomprehensible. Who thinks this way, let alone one who took the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm? This awful woman needs Jesus so desperately. I pray for God to reach her. Thank you, Officer Tatum, for as always, speaking truth.
Dr. Christina B. Propst is a sadistic monster who has no business being anywhere near children. She sounds more like Ted Bundy or Jeffery Dahmer in this post than the kind, tolerant person she thinks she is. A stupendous article, Officer Tatum! Humanity before politics period! Blue Fish Pediatrics did the right thing and handed Dr. Frankenstein oops! Typo there! Dr. Propst 😉 her walking papers. So just because someone voted for Trump or is a Republican, she thinks their children deserved to die or they deserve to die? That’s psychopathic, there’s no other word for it. Now she’s out of a job and has destroyed her own life and I feel no pity for her at all. She got what she deserved.
RIP to all the poor little girls who died in the flood in Texas! May their memory always be a blessing! My heart goes out to the victims and their families! This has nothing to do with politics. As to her accusations against Trump supporters, I think most believe in Climate Change and care just as much about caring for Mother Earth and all the creatures in it as she does. President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act and Save Our Seas Act after all. As to FEMA, I don’t recall President Trump ever gutting FEMA. I think the agency had been underfunded since Biden was in office. This wasn’t President Trump’s doing. She also seems to be unaware a Republican Richard Nixon passed landmark environmental legislation. George H.W. Bush also renewed the Clean Air Act. Ronald Reagan signed the Montreal Protocol. Theodore Roosevelt started the National Park System. I guess she doesn’t know much about American history. That’s not surprising to me at all.
That a doctor would say this of all people is what is so disappointing but who hasn’t been radicalized by the current political climate in whatever field? It’s gotten to absolutely everybody. Partisan politics is rotting out society’s collective brain. This is a shocking incident we can ALL learn from. It’s time for decency, civility, compassion, love, bipartisanship, and pluralism to return to American society! Here are some books 📚 I think we all would do well to read in this political climate:
• Dead Center: How Political Polarization Divided America and What We Can Do About It by Jason Altmire
• Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks
• See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
• I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Monica Guzman
• The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Help Us Heal Our Society by Alexandra Hudson
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
• Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement by Buster Benson
• Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America by Dr. Ben Carson
• What Black and White America Must Do Now: A Prescription to Move Beyond Race by Armstrong Williams