The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Biden’s Enablers Never Told Us Why They Did It

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

Why did the DNC, White House staffers and even seasoned journalists lie to the American people when they decided to run cover for Joe Biden?   It's not enough just to say, “Politics. We want power.” What was the strategy to make you do something so egregious, asks Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:”   “The same existential is why do all these reporters say now, ‘We were in on the deal, we covered up for Biden’? ‘The Biden staff did it.’ ‘No, the media did it.’ But they all agreed that he was non compos mentis. He was cognitively challenged when he was nominated, when they cleared the nomination field out. They got rid of Buttigeig. They got rid of Elizabeth Warren. They got rid of Sanders. They all disappeared quickly.   “And then they used this waxen effigy as a veneer. But why? That was very risky to do that. They all tell us they did it but they don't tell us why… They saw this as a wonderful opportunity. Use Joe Biden and just have him come in three days a week, stumble through stuff, and then push through the most left-wing, nihilistic, destructive, socialist agenda in history.”  👉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://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://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    The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk. Business. I'd like to ask an existential question why. Joe Biden was non-composmentous. He was cognitively challenged when he was nominated, when they cleared the nomination field out. They got rid of Buttigigig. They got rid of Elizabeth Warren.

They got rid of Sanders. They all disappeared quickly. That was very risky to do that. They all tell us they did it, but they don't tell us why. Was the idea that they could use him and they could tell Jill, Joe, you get to be president, but we're going to run it. Even worse than that, they thought, this is what we've always been waiting for.

This is what Barack Obama said when he wanted to the third term and he could phone in a left-wing agenda of his basement. In other words, they thought this is a wonderful opportunity. Use Joe Biden and just have him come in three days a week, stumble through stuff, and then push through the most left-wing, nihilistic, destructive socialist agenda in history. But why? Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.

I'd like to do something a little different in this video. And that is ask an existential question, why? Let's look at the border. Joe Biden over four years destroyed it. He defang border patrol and ICE. He stopped the congressionally approved wall. The result was 12 million people came in. They entered illegal, they resided illegally, and we have 500,000 of them suspected of criminal backgrounds,

and almost every day there is a murder rape. But here's the question. Everybody knows he did it, but nobody asked why did he do it? Why did you do the most nihilistic thing in the history of the modern presidency? I think we're going to live with this problem for 50 years. But why did he do it? Why did he say you can come in without a COVID vaccination, but we're going to get rid of 8,500 of our U.S. citizens in the military who don't want to be vaccinated?

Why did he say that you need a real ID, but you don't if you're in Italy? Why? Was it that he wanted new constituents because the agenda didn't appeal to 51% of the population? Did he think that under early and mail-in voting protocols inaugurated in 2020 that he was going to be able to have these people vote very quickly? Did he want to

grow government and then have a bigger entitlement, higher taxes? Did he not believe in borders? Was he a globalist? It was so neelistic, it was so destructive that we need to know why. Just tell us why you did it. Was it just because you hated half the country and you wanted to destroy it?

You hated maga, garbage, semi-fascist? Is that it? The same existential is why why do all these reporters say now we were in on the deal we covered up for Biden? The Biden staff did it. No, the media did it but they all agree that he was non-composmentous. He was cognitively challenged when he was nominated when they cleared the nomination field out. They got rid of Buttigig. They got with of Elizabeth Warren. They got rid of Sanders. They all disappeared quickly and then they used this wax and effigy as a veneer. But why?

That was very risky to do that. They all tell us they did it, but they don't tell us why. Was the idea that good old Joe Biden from Scranton had some conservative remnant vestigial aura about him, and then they could use him, and they could tell Jill, Joe, you get to be president, but we're going to run it, or was it even worse than that? They thought this is what we've always been waiting for. This is what Barack Obama said when he wanted a third term, and he could phone, in a left-wing agenda from his basement without appearing in public.

In other words, it wasn't that they were stuck. They thought this is a wonderful opportunity. Use Joe Biden and just have him come in three days a week, stumble through stuff, and then push through the most left-wing, nihilistic, destructive socialist agenda in history. It really was. If you look at the border and crime and Afghanistan and two theater wars and the hyperinflation and the $7 trillion that he borrowed?

Was that the reason why? Or were they just incompetent? They just didn't know. They were just, I don't know, who were we going to nominate? Oh, Joe's. They didn't think he was that bad. But please, don't tell us that you covered it up and think that's a confession sufficient for the American.

Tell us why you did it. They never tell us why. So we had all these polls. They were wrong in 2016. They were wrong in 2020. They lost credibility. And then in 2024, they did it again. As I said earlier, the NPR PBS poll of Kamala Harris had her winning four points.

On the night of the election, she lost by a point and a half. They were five and a half points off. David Foof, one of the insiders of the Harris campaign said he was kind of amazed that all the polls had her head when they're internal polls. to be accurate because you work from them in your campaign strategy and you pay for. They not one had her ahead. So why would they risk their reputation and lie again in 2024 and be discredited again and give Rasmussen and insider advantage and Traal Faggar more and more credibility as the

accurate pull? I don't have that answer. Was it because they wanted to gin up momentum? They knew she was going to lose. They thought if they lied, if the Des Moines Register said she was really winning when she lost by 12 points, they'd get more funding. People would say, gee whiz, Trump's going to lose. I don't want to vote. Was that the idea?

What was it? Why do they continue to lie? They have to tell us why. It's not enough just to say politics, we want power. What was the strategy that make you do something so egregious, so egregious to destroy the border and cause so much misery, so egregious to, foist somebody who was not in control of his own cognitive powers as president with nuclear codes, so destructive to try to influence a campaign by repeatedly lying that the losing candidate who was losing the whole time was going to win. We just want to know why.

Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. Thank you. Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like you. share and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansson.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.