The Daily Signal - VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: No Congress, No Coherence—The Left’s Post-Trump Identity Crisis

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. I've mentioned in other videos that there's been a poverty among the Democratic Party of constructive criticism, alternate agendas to Donald Trump. Without power in the Congress or the White House or the Supreme Court, they've turned to theatrics or performance art, street violence, potty-mouthed senators, profanity trying to disrupt Congress. My point is, why don't they offer a constructive, I don't know, alternative? There's just Donald Trump's proposal on everybody who's blasting, blasting, blasting them, and no constructive.

Starting point is 00:00:59 constructive alternative. Just give us some concrete counter-proposal. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. I've mentioned in other videos that there's been a poverty among the Democratic Party of constructive criticism, alternate agendas to Donald Trump. In other words, without power in the Congress or the White House or the Supreme Court, They've turned to theatrics or performance art, street violence, the Tesla's, cutting videos with potty-mouthed senators, profanity trying to disrupt Congress, keen Tesla's, threatening people, this huge 1,400 protest. I shouldn't say they're huge.

Starting point is 00:01:52 They were actually quite small, you know, hands off. It was funny and funny. I see these people in their late 60s and early 70s, mostly white people, and they seem to have the same signs, the same agenda. and they leave kind of at the same time. They kind of look like my baby boomer group, and I always think back when I was at UC Santa Cruz in 1971, and I see these people.

Starting point is 00:02:16 I said, I would think you were the people that I went to school with, and you were doing that when you were 18, 19, and 20, and you haven't changed. You've learned nothing and forgotten nothing. In any case, my point is, why don't they offer a constructive, I don't know, alternative. Nancy Pelosi is seen in all these videos of 30 years, ago where she gives a very coherent argument why China is taking us to the cleaners and they're

Starting point is 00:02:43 destroying American jobs and they're sucking out investment dollars out of the United States. Why isn't she just say, I kind of agree with Donald Trump. Go back or better yet, he stole my ideas. I was there first. Or maybe Trump can say, I want to hire you, Nancy, and can I rent that video? It's impressive. How about Paul Krugman, the New York Times former economist writer, Nobel Prize winner? He says, I don't think that mercantileism is that bad at all. He wrote about protectionism all the time. Why doesn't he come out of the woodwork and say, you know what?

Starting point is 00:03:19 President Trump, I have about 10 columns about why we need tariffs and mercantilism. Here it is. Copy it. Warren Buffett kind of got on his hind legs when people suggested that he hadn't come out clearly enough of it gets Donald Trump's so-called trade war. But in 2003, in one of his letters, you remember what he wrote, that this was unsustainable? 2003, not with one trillion dollars, trade's deficit, 50 consecutive years we've run deficits. No, no, he said in 2003 it was a dangerous idea.

Starting point is 00:03:56 So why don't people aggregate that left-wing or liberal feeling and then say, Mr. Trump, you stole our ideas about protecting American industry. And now you haven't implemented them well. So we've got some, you know, we're not going to do kickbox videos anymore. We're not going to say murder in the cathedral type. Will somebody not relieve me of this guy? You know, that's what they're doing with Elon Musk when they call him an illegal alien. We have constructive agendas, one of them.

Starting point is 00:04:31 and then tell us what it is. Maybe the debt doesn't matter. We'll have zero interest rates like we've had, and you don't have to pay $3 billion a year in interest because you'll just print money, and there's no interest. Or that's insane. Or maybe they'll look at the trade deficit and say, well, we're very wealthy, and trade deficits are good.

Starting point is 00:04:54 We offer another alternative. Maybe we'll get more of them, because apparently all these countries with high GDP are wrong. India, China, EU, they're making big mistakes by having surplus. We love deficits, and that's your problem, Mr. Trump. You need bigger deficits. Just give us some concrete counter proposal. Corey Booker talked, Senator Booker, talked for 25 hours.

Starting point is 00:05:23 Could not he have said 30 seconds? we have a $1.7 trillion annual deficit that is contributing to a $37 trillion national debt, which is reaching 130% of GDP. And I, Senator Cory Brooker, potential presidential nominee and candidate in 2008, have this proposal how to end that trade deficit, but especially this budget deficit. And here it is. Just give us 20 minutes of your $25.

Starting point is 00:05:56 No, they haven't gone any of it. And so when they wonder why the Harvard-Harris poll or other polls don't show Trump dropping, besides the fact that his constituency, it parallels the 50% who only own 1% of the market capitalization of Wall Street, they look for alternatives and they see nothing but street theater. Maybe they think that's going to win them in the midterms. Traditionally, historically, they may be right. But for now, there's just Donald Trump's proposal on everybody who's blasting, blasting, blasting them, and no constructive alternative. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal.

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The Daily Signal - VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: No Congress, No Coherence—The Left’s Post-Trump Identity Crisis

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