The Daily Signal - VDH: Democrats Betray Democracy to Stop Trump

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Democrats have pushed some of the most brazen political scandals in modern history—from the Russia collusion hoax, to burying the Hunter Biden laptop, to hiding President Biden’s cognitive decline—all in the name of stopping Trump. Victor Davis Hanson exposes how the Left has undermined democracy in the very process of claiming to defend it on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “  The problem, James Carville and Democrats, is that you have sabotaged democracy. And you’ve done things that no one has ever done before to an oppositional candidate, presidential transition, and president. And now you’re furious because you’re on the 40% side of every issue that’s dear to you—from the trans issue to the border issue, to the crime issue, to the Green New Deal issue, to foreign policy. And you have no political power. You don’t have the White House, you don’t have the Congress, you don’t have the Supreme Court. And your institutional power—the media, academia, the foundation—they are under assault.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com (0:00) The New Narrative (0:22) The ‘Tougher’ Mantra (1:25) Gerrymandering and Redistricting (3:01) The Three Great Scandals (4:54) Unprecedented Actions Against Trump (6:15) Democratic Frustration and False Narratives (8:09) Conclusion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk. Business. The Democrats have a new narrative the left in general does. They are saving democracy from Donald Trump. That justifies almost any means necessary to achieve the end of destroying or preventing Donald Trump from governing effectively. The problem with all of this is they are destroying democracy to destroy Donald Trump. James Carville said that they have to get tougher. That's the new man. We've got to get tougher, got to get meaner.

Hikim Jeffries picks up his baseball bat. Corey Booker screams and yells and throws of it about every three weeks in the Senate. But you can see the anger. And now the new idea is that they haven't been tough enough. In fact, the opposite is true, everybody. You have been the most vicious and the most abject subverters of democracy, all for the short-term gain of destroying Donald Trump. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. The Democrats have a new narrative, the left-in-general does, that they are saving democracy.

from Donald Trump. And that justifies almost any means necessary to achieve the end of destroying or preventing Donald Trump from governing effectively. The problem with all of this is they are destroying democracy to destroy Donald Trump. What do I mean? One of the issues that they are agitating is the redistricting of congressional districts. And Texas, in California now. And the general problem the left has,

is if you look at gerrymandering to make these jigsaw puzzle piece-like districts, the left is way ahead of the right. In other words, states that have proportions of 30 to 40 to 50 percent for Donald Trump do not have that level of representation in the Congress. And there's been sophisticated studies of gerrymandering, and it boils down to the Republicans are short some six to ten seats in the House based on. on the proportion of the national vote they have received. The Democrats know that, but they're angry about the Texas reapportionment and gerrymandering, and their attitude is we've already gerrymandered our states to the maximum. Don't dare try to emulate us. James Carver said that they have to get tougher.

That's the new mantra. Got to get tougher. Got to get meaner. Cory Booker screams and yells and throws a fit about every three weeks in the Senate. Hickham Jeffries picks up his baseball bat. There's usually a video with the squad or representatives using the word S-H-I-T or the F-word, kind of pornographic. Jasmine Crockert periodically calls Donald Trump names that can't be repeated on air. But you can see the anger.

And now the new idea is that they haven't been tough enough. They have been too tough. There's been three great scandals in the 21st century. The first was the Russian collusion hoax that was prompted by Hillary Clinton and facilitated by the Obama administration on its way out that almost destroyed the Trump campaign, sabotaged his transition, and ate up 22 months of his first two years. The second was the Biden, FBI, and CIA, but especially the CIA and the intelligence agencies, got. 51 people, former intelligence authorities, to lie to the American people on the eve of the second debate to affect the 2020 election and claim falsely that Donald Trump was lying about the laptop of Hunter Biden, that it was fake, that it was a Russian production. And Donald

Trump then was colluding again with the Russians. That was a complete lie. It was Hunter's laptop, we know because the FBI had it in his possessions and authenticated. And finally, the great scandal that the Democratic Party and the obsequious media knew that Joe Biden was non-composed, Mentes. He was not cognitively able to fulfill the Office of Presidents, the presidency, and they kept that from the American people until they could no longer keep it when he finally challenged Donald Trump to a debate and melted before our very eyes, sort of like the wicked witch and the Wizard of Oz. He melted into a non-entity.

So my point is that if you look at the Democrats, they have staged three great scandals to try to destroy the Trump administration, and by extension, democracy. They impeached Donald Trump twice. No one's ever done that. They tried him as a private citizen. Nobody's ever done that. They raided his home in Marlago. That is a terrible precedent for an ex-president.

No one has ever done that. They tried to get him off the ballot in 25 states. No one had ever done that. There were two assassination attempts during the campaign. That had never happened before. They tried to debank him and make it impossible for Donald Trump to write a check, whether from Morgan Stanley or Bank of America or any bank. So my point is this.

when James Carville says, we're going to get tough, we're going to get really tough, and we're going to let in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. to get four senators. Or we might have to pack the court to 13. Justice, I'm thinking, well, you always were going to do that. You were going to pack to 15. In fact, if you had not lost the House and Senate during the Biden administration, had you had a normal president that was in control of his mental and physical ability, then you would have not only packed the court and not only, as you promised, led in two states, but in addition, you would have gotten rid of the electoral college by the hook and cook of the National Voter Compact, and more importantly, you would have abolished the Senate.

So the problem, James Carverill and Democrats, is that you have sabotaged democracy, and you've done things that no one has ever done before to an oppositional candidate, presidential transition and president. And now you're furious because you're on the 40% side of every issue that's dear to you, from the trans issue to the border issue to the crime issue, to the Green New Deal issue, to foreign policy. And you have no political power. You don't have the White House. You don't have the Congress.

You don't have the Supreme Court. And your institutional power, the media, academia, the foundation. are under assault. And so you're frustrated and you've created this completely false narrative that you have to get tough and you've been very Marcus of Queensberry rules like. The fact, the opposite is true, everybody. You have been the most vicious and the most abject subverters of democracy, all for the short-term gain of destroying Donald Trump. And now that's booming, boomeranging upon you. And you don't like to see it happened to you what you. What you tried to do to Donald Trump. And there's a whole vocabulary cross-culturally for what is

happening to you now. It's called payback is a blank, karma, boomerang, do unto others you should do unto you, only eye for an eye, tooth for tooth. But this is called retribution, and it's fully earned for what you've done to democracy, as long as it's legal. And it's necessary, but you're angry because you're impotent and you've created false narratives that Donald Trump is doing what you have actually done. What is that? Destroying democracy. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis-Hansson for The Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansen.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.