Video: Victor Davis Hanson shares why Trump is setting Democrats 'on fire'

Valletta · Sunday at 9:51 AM

Victor Davis Hanson shares what's setting Democrats 'on fire' | Fox News Video

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson tells 'Life, Liberty & Levin' his take on Democrats 'melting down' over President Donald Trump targeting the roots of 'woke'-ness, NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and more.

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This video is a superb analysis of why leaders of the Democratic Party are so exasperated. Hanson says it it because Trump is not going after the symptoms of Democrat rule, Trump is going after the sources of their indoctrination of their base.

DaisyDay · Sunday at 11:38 AM

So much for president for all Americans (but we all knew already)...

Great, right-wing polemicist bloviates about the opposition party. :yawn:

BCP1928 · Sunday at 12:10 PM

DaisyDay said:
So much for president for all Americans (but we all knew already)...

Great, right-wing polemicist bloviates about the opposition party.

Hanson is a smug American Exceptionalist who thinks Trump won the working class swing vote that put him in office over the culture war issues and that the culture war issues will keep him there. He is doing us a favor by discrediting the elitist Democrats who have been pushing real labor Democrats like Bernie and AOC off the stage.

Valletta · Sunday at 12:38 PM

DaisyDay said:
So much for president for all Americans (but we all knew already)...

Trump is on the majority side of most of the issues concerning people. There should not be government funding of political entities. Most people want police to respond to 911 calls rather than social workers. Most think that private companies should run grocery stores. Most want to decide for themselves whether they have a gas or electric car or stove. Most approve of following the law when it comes to immigration. Most do not want violent criminals roaming their streets. Most do not want people given preference because of the color of their skin. Most are against Marxism. But what Trump has done is make himself available for dialogue, spending hours with the press answering questions.

BCP1928 · Sunday at 12:44 PM

Valletta said:
Trump is on the majority side of most of the issues concerning people. There should not be government funding of political entities. Most people want police to respond to 911 calls rather than social workers. Most think that private companies should run grocery stores. Most want to decide for themselves whether they have a gas or electric car or stove. Most approve of following the law when it comes to immigration. Most do not want violent criminals roaming their streets. Most do not want people given preference because of the color of their skin. Most are against Marxism. But what Trump has done is make himself available for dialogue, spending hours with the press answering questions.

Good for him. Let him do the work of cleansing the Democratic party of "woke." Saves us the trouble.

BPPLEE · Sunday at 2:07 PM

BCP1928 said:
Good for him. Let him do the work of cleansing the Democratic party of "woke." Saves us the trouble.

You don’t want woke but you want AOC?

childeye 2 · Sunday at 2:08 PM

Valletta said:
Victor Davis Hanson shares what's setting Democrats 'on fire' | Fox News Video

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson tells 'Life, Liberty & Levin' his take on Democrats 'melting down' over President Donald Trump targeting the roots of 'woke'-ness, NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and more.

www.foxnews.com

This video is a superb analysis of why leaders of the Democratic Party are so exasperated. Hanson says it it because Trump is not going after the symptoms of Democrat rule, Trump is going after the sources of their indoctrination of their base.

For what it's worth, I didn't find it to be a good analysis. Please note that this is the base political dichotomy ---> Democracy/Autocracy. The further left one goes denotes a decentralizing of power for setting policy and the further right one goes denotes the more centralized the power to set policy becomes. Islam and antisemitism are therefore not far left as the video asserts. That's typical propaganda used by autocrats to get people to vote against their own best interests and cede power to them.

Communism however is an ideology that is far left in the dichotomy, even as unchecked capitalism is on the far right. Currently there are three or four corporations that control approximately 90% of the economy. We are already far right and it's disingenuous to suggest we need to flee from communism/Marxism.

Finally, if you're saying that Trump is going after the sources of "their" indoctrination, you may not realize it infers silencing free speech, the same free speech I'm practicing here. If you think unlimited dollars from billionaire donors to fund campaigns infers free speech, then you may not realize our government has been up for sale to a handful of people who can afford to create and disseminate the massive floods of propaganda that wins elections by deceiving people, including the video above.

BCP1928 · Sunday at 2:52 PM

BPPLEE said:
You don’t want woke but you want AOC?

Not everything that you call "woke" is actually "woke." I understand that AOC took her "preferred pronouns" off her websites the morning after Trump was elected. She also knows that the policies she really favors poll well when not branded as "woke." By killing the Woke Monster you are actually making it easier for the Berniecrats to shed that label and get down to business.

Valletta · Sunday at 2:58 PM

childeye 2 said:
For what it's worth, I didn't find it to be a good analysis. Please note that this is the base political dichotomy ---> Democracy/autocracy. The further left one goes denotes a decentralizing of power for setting policy and the further right one goes denotes the more centralized the power to set policy becomes. Islam and antisemitism are therefore not far left as the video asserts. That's typical propaganda used by autocrats to get people to vote against their own best interests and cede power to them.

Communism however is an ideology that is far left in the dichotomy, even as unchecked capitalism is on the far right. Currently there are three or four corporations that control approximately 90% of the economy. We are already far right and it's disingenuous to suggest we need to run away from communism/Marxism.

Finally, if you're saying that Trump is going after the sources of "their" indoctrination, you may not realize it infers silencing free speech, the same free speech I'm practicing here. If you think unlimited dollars from billionaire donors to campaigns infers free speech, then you may not realize our government has been up for sale to a handful of people who can afford to create and disseminate the massive floods of propaganda that wins elections by deceiving people, including the video above.

It is the far left, particularly the current radical leaders of the Democratic Party, who embrace radical Islam and anti-semitism. The AOCs and the Mamdamis. Our Republic was assaulted with neo-Marxist ideology during the Biden administration, even English teachers who resisted the "new pronouns" were punished for breaking with the system. As were parents who spoke up at school board meetings. Fortunately this clamp down by government began to be seriously rejected, the Mary Poppins woman for the Biden version of the "ministry of truth" was dismissed by the American public. Taxpayer money was being used for political purposes, interfering in our presidential election and promoting all kinds of neo-Marxist ideology. Now Trump is cutting off government funding to those organizations that push one political party and blatantly go after conservatives and suppress conservative voices. From now on people are going to get help no matter what their ideology, having a Trump sign in the yard will no longer stop someone from getting disaster relief. So too funding was cut for the armed IRS agents, cutting back the power of the government to harass citizens.

childeye 2 · Sunday at 4:15 PM

Valletta said:
It is the far left, particularly the current radical leaders of the Democratic Party, who embrace radical Islam and anti-semitism. The AOCs and the Mamdamis.

The above is a blank assertion. For all I know these people could be denouncing Netanyahu because they blame him for those suffering in Gaza, and you're labeling them antisemites. I recall you doing that before, only then you were saying they supported HAMAS. I don't even know what you mean by AOC or Mamdani embracing radical Islam.

Am I to assume that you're unable to understand the basic dichotomy of Democracy/Autocracy?

At any rate Islam politically would support a theocracy which would fall on the autocratic side, the far right with religious leaders telling everyone what God wants. And as far as I know AOC is a Catholic.

Valletta said:
Our Republic was assaulted with neo-Marxist ideology during the Biden administration, even English teachers who resisted the "new pronouns" were punished for breaking with the system.

Requiring new pronouns for trans people has nothing to do with Marxism. Marxism was about eliminating an entrenched aristocracy by eliminating social classes.

Valletta said:
As were parents who spoke up at school board meetings. Fortunately this clamp down by government began to be seriously rejected, the Mary Poppins woman for the Biden version of the "ministry of truth" was dismissed by the American public.

My wife had to deal with that in her school. Apparently, there were children who didn't want to identify as either male or female for various reasons, some of which I understand and some I don't. That is, some were born with both genitals and hadn't yet decided what they wanted to identify as before their surgery. Others were more complex. I've seen parents speak up at board meetings against these pronouns and I've also seen them change their minds after learning about the circumstances. I think it was overblown. By the way I liked Mary Poppins.

ozso · Sunday at 4:27 PM

BCP1928 said:
Not everything that you call "woke" is actually "woke." I understand that AOC took her "preferred pronouns" off her websites the morning after Trump was elected. She also knows that the policies she really favors poll well when not branded as "woke." By killing the Woke Monster you are actually making it easier for the Berniecrats to shed that label and get down to business.

The social justice warrior socialist neo-marxist green new deal progressive DEI hard left stance of Berniecrats is a major part of Woke Culture.

childeye 2 · Sunday at 4:32 PM

ozso said:
The social justice warrior socialist neo-marxist green new deal progressive hard left stance of Berniecrats is a major part of Woke Culture.

So, what's wrong with social justice and sustainable clean energy being awake? It's better than being asleep to social injustice and poisoning the planet.

Fantine · Sunday at 4:53 PM

The Chicken Soup for the Soul author is out hawking Arsenic for the Electorate?
Ugh. Trading inspiration for indoctrination? Ugh.

ozso · Sunday at 5:07 PM

childeye 2 said:
So, what's wrong with social justice and sustainable clean energy being awake? It's better than being asleep to social injustice and poisoning the planet.

Social justice warriorism is seen as disingenuous, overly zealous, counterproductive, and politically divisive. The green new deal is seen as economically inefficient, having a negative impact on industries, having infeasible goals, and politically divisive.

Pommer · Sunday at 6:37 PM

Valletta said:
Trump is on the majority side of most of the issues concerning people. There should not be government funding of political entities. Most people want police to respond to 911 calls rather than social workers. Most think that private companies should run grocery stores. Most want to decide for themselves whether they have a gas or electric car or stove. Most approve of following the law when it comes to immigration. Most do not want violent criminals roaming their streets. Most do not want people given preference because of the color of their skin. Most are against Marxism. But what Trump has done is make himself available for dialogue, spending hours with the press answering questions.

49.8%≠majority

Hans Blaster · Sunday at 7:01 PM

Fantine said:
The Chicken Soup for the Soul author is out hawking Arsenic for the Electorate?
Ugh. Trading inspiration for indoctrination? Ugh.

While that wouldn't be out of type for a self-help author, the thread is is about RW commentator Victor Davis Hanson, not self-help entrepreneur Mark Victor Hanson.

VD Hanson's opinions are only authoritative as far as the reach of a phalax's spears from his expertise.

ozso · Sunday at 7:36 PM

Pommer said:
49.8%≠majority

That's votes, not issues.

perplexed · Sunday at 7:49 PM

I think would be great if Trump coherently attacked left wing lunacy instead of putting on a clown show and letting the left attack themselves.

NxNW · Sunday at 8:00 PM

ozso said:
The social justice warrior socialist neo-marxist green new deal progressive DEI hard left stance of Berniecrats is a major part of Woke Culture.

In other words, the part that doesn't exist.

NxNW · Sunday at 8:01 PM

I've yet to see an example of Marxism in the Democratic Party.

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