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.”
“ 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.”
Parties wax and wane, but the whole leftist movement is based on rage. That is their fuel.
(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!
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It’s a symptom of a movement about to get flushed.
” ... 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.
“It’s a symptom of a movement about to get flushed.”
Or lash out.
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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.
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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.
“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.
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.
It is not enough that they are not "polling well". We need a purge.
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.
Thank you for that ping...excellent, excellent commentary, what I have come to expect from Victor David Hanson.
I love vdh.
However his pronastications are usually 180 degrees from reality.
The violence of the left is a sign of their gathering strength..
Agree
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.
I believe they call it an extinction burst. Where they give everything they got until they’re gone.
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.
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