The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Sedition, Insurrection, and the Democrats’ Desperate Strategy

Starting point is 00:00:00 We're getting to the point now. The left is entering the era of sedition insurrection. But in the last week, it's become surreal. We had this Democratic official, Sadie Perkins, and she posted that she was almost happy that we lost over 100 people, the majority of children, this flash flood in Texas. She said they were all white, and therefore they were discriminatory. I've never seen anything like it. It's very, very disturbing. We've had now two organized assassination attempts of ICE agent who were just far. following the law. Why is it happening? We've said in the past that part of it is that the Democratic agenda nobody wanted. They were 80, 2730 issues. And as a result of that, they lost the Congress,

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Starting point is 00:01:17 who already count on us, and contact Desjardin today. We'd love to talk, business. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal. We've talked in the past a lot about the unfortunate turn to the hard left that Democrats have made, but in the last week, it's become surreal. We had this minor official, a Democratic official, Sadie Perkins, and she posted that she was almost happy that we lost over 100 people, the majority of them children, this flash flood in Texas. She said

Starting point is 00:01:55 they were all white, and therefore they were discriminatory. I've never seen anything like it. And then people weighed in, and they had some atrocious comments. A pediatrician was almost gloating. And they had a variety of mechanisms to show how grotesque and ghoulish they were. One of them said, one group of people said, was global warming? You people in Texas were, by the way, there's more, I think there's more wind turbines and solar than almost anywhere. You people denied global warming. This was caused by global warming, and therefore you got your justice. It was not clause by global warming. It was a once in a century flash flood of a magnitude no one had seen in a hundred years.

Starting point is 00:02:34 And then there was other people who said that you supported the doge cut so you got what you deserved. And in her case, she said, you're white people. So it's very, very disturbing. At the same time, we've had now two organized assassination attempts of ICE agent who were just following the law. Remember what they're doing. Apparently, in the mind of the left, it was a moral thing to break the law and let 12 million people without vaccinations, without audits, without criminal background checks come into the United States. But it is an amoral thing to enforce the law and restore their rule of law and ask people who came in illegally to please return.

Starting point is 00:03:18 But in that conundrum, we've had now 10 people arrested, and they were kind of Antifa types. I'm not saying they were Antifa, but they were dressed in black. They had radios. They had semi-almotic weapons. They had body armor. They were young, mostly white kids. It looked like they were children of the middle class. And they shot an ice agent in the neck, and they had a gun battle.

Starting point is 00:03:42 And then this was following an earlier assassination attempt. Now, you think that the Democratic Party would be worried, but we've got even more disturbing reports that Democratic Congress people said, well, what are we supposed to do? We meet with our constituents, and they're telling us that one of us should be shot. I don't mean shot by punishment that they, and they're urging us to use violence and being willing to be shot by others to promote a radical agenda. And I don't know if that's true because they won't report any circumstances that would

Starting point is 00:04:18 substantiate that. But basically the congressional Democrats are saying, I don't know what I can do. These people are pushing us to the radical edge. And then you saw Hickham Jeffries, didn't you? He was posing with a bat like he was going to club people in opposition to the big, beautiful bill. I could go on with all of these examples. But, I mean, this is an age in which people tried to kill Donald Trump twice. And we know what happened to Steve Scalise and other congressional personnel.

Starting point is 00:04:48 And so we're getting Luigi Mangione, et cetera, the attacks on Jewish people in Washington, D.C. We're getting to the point now. The left is entering the era of sedition, insurrection. We had Karen Bass go to a park and confront ICE agents who were federal law enforcement people obeying and enforcing and trying to restore the legitimacy of federal law, which surpasses municipal and state law, remember? And she said, you've got to get out of my city. This is insurrection. Why is it happening? We've said in the past that part of it is that the Democratic.

Starting point is 00:05:26 agenda, nobody wanted. They were 80, 27, 30 issues. And as a result of that, they lost the Congress, they lost the White House, they lost, of course, in most cases, the Supreme Court. So they don't have any power, so they're frustrated. But I think even more importantly, in the first administration, Donald Trump addressed symptoms of the progressive project. Let's restore deterrence. Let's try to deal with the border. Let's try to stop crime. Let's cut taxes, but he didn't have time or the knowledge or the constituencies and he was working with a hostile Congress to address the root causes of those symptoms. This time he's saying this lunacy, it's caused by certain institutions, foundations, universities, universities, the Democratic Party, public broadcasting, the media. And so what he's doing is he's going after blue-stocking left-wing law firms.

Starting point is 00:06:26 He's going after the endowment and taxing university endowments. He's looking at grants on federal grant surcharges, gouging the federal government on university grants. He's dealing with countries that are openly promoting open borders. So he's dealing with the symptoms. And the left is saying, oh, my gosh, we have no institutional. power and now the way that we exercise power without having legislative or executive influence is institutions, foundations, media, K through 12 universe, and Donald Trump is starting to address our left-wing monopoly and dominance of those institutions. And if he would be successful,

Starting point is 00:07:11 we would collapse, dissipate, disintegrate, so we're going to go take to the streets and we're going to use violence and we're going to do anything possible to stop this Donald Trump counter-revolution. It's going to be very dangerous times. We've got to be very careful about what everybody says and not escalate the situation, but it's mostly now coming from a frustrated and impotent left. Thank you very much.

Starting point is 00:07:34 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 victorhansan.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.

The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Sedition, Insurrection, and the Democrats’ Desperate Strategy

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