The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats’ Radical Changing of the Guard

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk, business. We're watching a metamorphosis of the Democratic Party that is out of power. And we see that with Joe Biden and the Biden generation is over with. The old guard, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, that old guard did not deliver the 2004 election. And they lost the House. They lost the Senate. They don't have a majority in the Supreme Court.

Starting point is 00:00:53 They lost the popular vote. They lost the electoral college. So in the eyes of the Democratic youth, they're discredited. The Republicans are not afraid. They're not afraid of the squad and the Jackpins and this new court or the David Hogs of the world. But you know who's terrified of them? Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer because they don't know how to handle them. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson.

Starting point is 00:01:25 I'd like to talk today, if I could, about the changing of the Democratic Guard. There was some news lately that Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois, he was the author, of the Dream Act. He was a hardcore liberal. You could even say he was left of center. He's stepping down. He's in his 70s and there's a changing of the guard. Chuck Schumer in some polls is running, I cannot believe it, behind AOC for his upcoming senatorial bid by 20 points and more in a primary. And then as sort of a force multiplier of this, I just saw Nancy Pelosi. She was at a public event. I think she's 85, turning 86. She was as incoherent as Joe Biden. So what's Victor trying to say? We're watching a changing of the guard, both due to aging, and we see that with

Starting point is 00:02:17 Joe Biden and the Biden generation is over with, and Nancy Pelosi. And then the next cohort in their 70s, the septuagenarians, they're terrified. Dick Durbin's terrified of being primary, and so is Chuck Schumer. He took the dignified way out. Chuck Schumer will probably fight to the very end and be humiliated by AOC. And who are these people? Well, the squad, we remember traditionally was Ilya Omar, the Somalian who allegedly had married her brother to gain citizenship access to the United States. There was Ianna Presley. She was the radical African American Congresswoman. We had, of Of course, AOC was a prominent member. And we have also, in addition to Rashid Talib, she was a member of the squad.

Starting point is 00:03:06 She was the Michigan kind of pro-Hamas congresswoman. Then we had the DNC, and we had Ken Martin won the DNC chairmanship. He's very much to the left, and really to the left, is his subordinate David Hogg, the vice chairman. He was the, he went through, he was a survivor of the Parkland shooting, remember, in 2018, and he transmogrified into a gun's anti-second amendment, but then he got even more and more and more radical. I don't think he's ever really done anything except to raise money. But here's my point. We're watching a metamorphosis of the Democratic Party that is out of power. The old guard, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, that old guard did not deliver the

Starting point is 00:03:55 2024 election. And they lost the House. They lost the Senate. They don't have a majority in the Supreme Court. They lost the popular vote. They lost the electoral college. So in the eyes of the Democratic youth, they're discredited. But here's the key. They didn't lose the 2024 election because they were too far. They didn't go far left enough. They lost it because Kamala Harris and her reporters tried to move her from her hard left. And can I make a parentheses here? She had the most left-wing voting record in the U.S. Senate to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. And she couldn't even move a little bit to the center, although she tried. She said, remember, that she was for fracking, and she wanted the border wall, and she was for deportation.

Starting point is 00:04:50 That was all untrue. But the point I'm making is the party tried, in a very anemic fashion to move to the center where they knew the votes were. But this new cohort is saying you lost the election because you didn't go far left enough. And maybe we represent 20% of the Democratic registered cohort, but we're young and we're charismatic and we're dynamic. And we're going to take this party in the 2026 midterms and the 2008 to victory. and we're going to do it by a socialist agenda and a radical, radical, new, new, new, green deal and an open border and a trans banner on every campaign event. That's who we are and a disarmament.

Starting point is 00:05:38 And we're going to raise taxes on the billionaires and that's their message. It has no public support. So even though they think they're charismatic and they're youthful, we get back to the old proverb of the 80-20 paradigm. The Republican Party has been on the 70 to 80% on the border of where the people are, on the border, on foreign policy, on the economy, on social and cultural issues. These people, these Jacobin, French revolutionaries, they're pulling 20% to 30% on this issue. I'll leave you with a final thought. The Republicans are not afraid. They're not afraid of the squad and the Jacobins and this new cohort, the David Hogs of the world.

Starting point is 00:06:20 But you know who's terrified of them? Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, because they don't know how to handle them. They're part of themselves. It's an incestuous relationship, and they're saying to them, but we're the old guard. And they're saying, you may be the old guard, but we're going to guillotine you and get rid of you, and we're coming in with a revolutionary fervor. They're terrified of them. This is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.

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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats’ Radical Changing of the Guard

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