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Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Rage is a Symptom of a Movement in Decline
The Daily Signal YT Channel ^ | June 25 2025 | victor davis hanson

Posted on 06/26/2025 4:59:10 AM PDT by texas booster

The Democrat reaction to the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites exemplified all that’s wrong with the Left today.

Suddenly, the same Democrats who cheered Obama’s endless airstrikes were invoking the War Powers Act and demanding congressional approval. Why? Because this time it was Trump’s America that hit back.

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.”


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“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.”

1 posted on 06/26/2025 4:59:10 AM PDT by texas booster
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To: texas booster

Parties wax and wane, but the whole leftist movement is based on rage. That is their fuel.


2 posted on 06/26/2025 5:00:39 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

(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

Nine very good minutes of Prof Hanson. An excellent way to start the day!

FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR

Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall

American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness

His website: Victor Davis Hanson

Please let me know if you want on or off this new VDH ping list.

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3 posted on 06/26/2025 5:01:20 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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It’s a symptom of a movement about to get flushed.


4 posted on 06/26/2025 5:03:31 AM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: texas booster

” ... 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. ... “

I wouldn’t say no public support. Look at NYC, CA and Chicago for starters.


5 posted on 06/26/2025 5:15:09 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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“It’s a symptom of a movement about to get flushed.”

Or lash out.

L


6 posted on 06/26/2025 5:15:45 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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> Look at NYC, CA and Chicago for starters.<

NYC is always overblown. Little Che got 400k votes in a city of 8 Million.
CA hasn’t had an honest election in decades.
Chicago’s mayor is floundering at 6% approval.

If not for the legacy media’s love affair with those places, nobody would care.

EC


7 posted on 06/26/2025 5:31:20 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: texas booster

The Democrats ONLY approve of THEIR WARS and ‘Their Wars’ are defined as wars which result in the weakening of the United States. Wars which advance US interests will ALWAYS be opposed by the Democrats. This has been true since at least Vietnam.

So simply apply this test to our wars and you’ll know which wars are good for America and which ones are not.

As to Republicans (the vast majority, at least), they seem to approve of EVERY WAR, at least at the start, and might only start to move away from a war when they finally figure out that they were IDIOTS in supporting the Democrat-started wars.


8 posted on 06/26/2025 5:32:27 AM PDT by BobL
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To: texas booster
You should learn to use the command 'space'target=_blank"> in your hyperlinks, to wit: Victor Davis Hanson
9 posted on 06/26/2025 5:37:41 AM PDT by batazoid (Natural born citizen)
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“If not for the legacy media’s love affair with those places, nobody would care.”

The legacy media desires and loves communism. That is the problem. The public has been intentionally indoctrinated and dumbed down to a horrifying level. The public has no problem with their cognitive dissonance because their attention span is that of a gnat.

NYC is important, it is a harbinger of what is to come.
Chicago went from Lightfoot, (bad), to Johnson, (worse). Even if they don’t re-elect Johnson, they’ll just pick someone worse.
CA is lost. They are as communist as they can be within the framework of the USA.
All 3 places, and many more in the US have dedicated voters who will vote for whatever the media/communists tell them to vote for, without having the beginnings of a clue as to what they actually voted for.


10 posted on 06/26/2025 5:41:21 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: texas booster
The Left has nothing to offer but hate, anger, and iconoclasm.

Its power base is the Democrat Party, the party of slavery, the ku klux klan, infanticide, anti-semitism, election fraud, sexual perversion, open borders, drug addiction, crime, racism, the destruction of the USA, and every other evil ever devised by man or the devil.

Some of them claim that the Democrat Party has changed since it championed slavery and The Trail of Tears. It has not. It's the same old party of hate and evil.

11 posted on 06/26/2025 5:44:49 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing inflames unrest in the delusional, and nothing inflames unrest in the evil, like TRUTH.)
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12 posted on 06/26/2025 6:11:32 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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However, they are willing to burn it all to the ground and rule the ashes.

It is not enough that they are not "polling well". We need a purge.

13 posted on 06/26/2025 6:18:17 AM PDT by Salman (The main deception of media is not political bias. It's the pretense they know what is going on.)
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In decline? Perhaps, but don’t be too surprised if they retake the House and Senate next year.

I have some lunch friends who:
- Oppose males in female sports.
- Oppose homosexual marriage.
- Support removing Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

But, but, BUT, they vote Democrat EVERY time.


14 posted on 06/26/2025 6:34:53 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: texas booster

Thank you for that ping...excellent, excellent commentary, what I have come to expect from Victor David Hanson.


15 posted on 06/26/2025 6:35:33 AM PDT by rlmorel (To Leftists, Conservative Speech is Violence, while they view their Violence as Speech.)
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To: texas booster

I love vdh.

However his pronastications are usually 180 degrees from reality.

The violence of the left is a sign of their gathering strength..


16 posted on 06/26/2025 6:59:09 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: libertylover

Agree


17 posted on 06/26/2025 7:00:04 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: texas booster

Note TO VDH: America just lost its largest city. Sorry, F on your paper. Try again. Better yet stick to the Classics, you were better then.


18 posted on 06/26/2025 7:35:25 AM PDT by Badboo (A fascist is the one who wants to take your guns. That's how it always starts.)
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To: lightman

I believe they call it an extinction burst. Where they give everything they got until they’re gone.


19 posted on 06/26/2025 8:11:52 AM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: Badboo

The cities are not where America thrives. Blue sectors are where the Left dominates. Like a spreading tumor, they kill off their host. And when the host dies, the tumor dies along with it.


20 posted on 06/26/2025 8:29:48 AM PDT by The_Harlequin (…the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, wi)
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