The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Rage is a Symptom of a Movement in Decline

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

Their volatile, inconsistent messaging isn’t new. Victor Davis Hanson unpacks the deeper story behind the chaos of how the Democrat Party has surrendered to its most radical base on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “The Left knows that they are not polling well. They know that the party's base is controlling their narrative, and they know that that narrative supports issues from transgenderism, to an open border, to lax enforcement of criminal statutes, to something like Kabul, abroad, that has no public support. And they're angry.  “ Whatever Donald Trump has done to them—and maybe that will be his lasting legacy—he had the ability to expose what used to be Democrats, as absolutely unhinged and nihilistic. And I don't think anybody wants any part of them.” 👉 This episode is sponsored by the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Learn more: https://go.pepperdine.edu/dailysignal 👉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  (0:00) The Left's Polling Problem and Internal Anger (1:48) The Left's Reaction to the Iran Bombing (3:14) Unhinged Statements from the Left (6:39) Gavin Newsom's Political Maneuvering (8:29) Final Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Get the yes you've been waiting for at Capital One.ca.ca. slash yes. Terms and conditions apply. The left knows that they are not polling well. They know that the party's base is controlling their narrative and they know that that narrative supports issues that has no public support. From transgenderism to an open border to lax enforcement of criminal statutes and they're angry. And this anger is coming from the base of the party. The Green New Deal people, that diversity, equity, inclusion people. They're the trans people. They're the Antifa people.

And it's manifesting itself in a way we've never really seen before. So whatever Donald Trump has done to them, and maybe that will be his lasting legacy, he had the ability to expose what used to be Democrats as absolutely unhinged and neolithic. Just give you a few examples. we speak business. We speak startup funding and comprehensive game plans. We've mastered made to measure growth and expansion advice, and we can talk your ear off about transferring your

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resolution. But it opens a larger issue up, and that is the left knows that they are not polling well. They know that the party's base is controlling their narrative, and they know that that narrative supports issues from transgenderism to an open border to lax enforcement of criminal statutes to something like Kabul abroad that has no public support. And they're angry. And this anger is coming from the base of the party. And the base of the party are the green radicals, the Green New Deal people. They're the diversity, equity, inclusion, black caucus people. They're the trans people. They're the Antifa people. And it's manifesting itself in a way we've never really

seen before. I just give you a few examples. Ily and Omar, the controversial representative from Minnesota, sounded off the other day, and she said that the United States is basically worse than Somalia, where she came from, I guess, as a preteen or 12 or 13 years old, and it's worse than the dictatorship in Somalia. If she really believes that, of course, the question, it's begged to be asked, why did you come here? Why don't you go back? Why are a million people a year under the Biden administration committing illegality breaking the law to get in here. Why don't they just, why doesn't a million people go back to Mexico or why don't we all go back to our countries of Iraq?

It made no sense. Then we had the view with Whoopi Goldberg. And she weighed in and said that black people today, remember, this is a multi-millionaire person who's making millions of dollars for sitting there and sounding off like this. Black people have it worse than people have it in Iran today. And if you look at the average black income of women, it is approaching normality and superiority with their white counterparts. In some cases of the white working class, it's higher. I don't know what she's talking about.

It's completely absurd. Why would anybody say that? Why would you say that when black people are doing better than ever and have more of a combined gross national, product than probably black people in the entire world put together. She would say something like that. Then we had Jasmine Crockett, the controversial Texas representative. She went off on the last election and said that half of the people that voted for Trump were mentally ill.

Excuse me, half the country that voted for Trump. She was basically going down a racist rant. Then she said that people only voted against Kamala Harris. not because of her word salads, not because of her incompetence, not because she couldn't give interviews, not because she had to completely flip from her former left-wing positions at least for 90 days, but because they voted for an old white man. Can you imagine somebody on the right saying the only reason people voted for Kamala Harris, they just wanted to vote for a middle-aged black woman?

That would end their career. And then, of course, we had Mr. Padilla, Alex Padilla. He's our senator, and as I mentioned earlier, he crashed a press conference by Christy Nome, the Homeland Secretary. And he barged in, and he was screaming and yelling, and he had no identification. He wanted to do something like, I guess he wanted to top Cory Booker, Spartacus, 25-hour, filibester to nowhere. But he was arrested because people didn't know who he was. I think he was angrier that he's a senator. and nobody, even in a state knows that he's a senator from California. But then he started sounding off and said, well, I can, I'm not against deporting criminals. And I just said, full stop, you are, because you were one of the sponsors of sanctuary cities in your prior manifestation as a California official.

And the whole purpose of a sanctuary city is not to turn over criminals to ICE. So you have no credibility. And finally we end with Gavin Newsom. He had a little flirtation with moderation. He had a podcast. I guess it's defunct now, but he tried to bring on people like Charlie Kirk, sound reasonable, say that he agreed with Donald Trump that biological men shouldn't compete in women's sports. And then somebody tapped him on the shoulder and said, Gavin, your party is crazy.

They're left-wing lunatics. You would never be nominated. polling 4%. How are you going to be, get the nomination? So the correct position, Gavin, is to sound crazy like they are and crazier even than Bernie or Elizabeth Sanders, the squad, or Crockett. And then you can move back and do the podcast once you're nominated. So as a result, Gavin Newsom is doing his little body movement. He's challenging Trump to come out here, mono to mono. He said that J.D. Vance is a liar. He wants to debate him. And during the riots, he did a French Laundry 2.0.

He was up in Napa where he seems to feel most comfortable doing a wine tasting, why people were, I don't know, destroying federal property, attacking the police, setting cars on fire, looting. And after he said that this didn't exist and that Donald Trump had overreacted and prompted this by nationalizing the California Guard. So he's completely melded down. This is beside the point that he doesn't address at all. Our high taxes, the lack of available water, our electricity rates, the most expensive gas in the United States, the disaster in Pacific Palisades and the inability to reburn what caused it, et cetera, et cetera. So you add it all up. And every once in a while you see James Carville, and he's trying to remark on.

and how crazy they are. But in the mode of his criticism, he's crazy because he says things that are even crazier. So whatever Donald Trump has done to them, and maybe that will be his lasting legacy, he had the ability to expose what used to be Democrats as absolutely unhinged and nealistic. And I don't think anybody wants any part of them.

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