Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats’ 10-Part Strategy to Stopping Trump (At Any Cost)

The Daily Signal ^ | 3/21/2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

[MacNaughton]

00:08:15 video

1. Donald Trump and Elon Musk must be demonized as Mussolini-like figures.

2. ICE is wrong. Must stop all deportations of illegal aliens.

3. Radical Palestinians are to be favored over Israelis.

4. Oppose all budget/personnel cuts in the federal government.

5. Must increase financial aid to Ukraine to defeat Russia.

6. Work-around EOs whick eliminate DEI policies.

7. Be more radical in opposing DJT.

8. Create chaos in opposition to all DJT/EM actions/ proposals.

Sorry, couldn't discern VDH's other 2 points.

[MacNaughton]

[packagingguy]

“4. Oppose all budget/personnel cuts in the federal government.“

This is going to happen Trump or no Trump.

We can address the problem now or it will be addressed for us.

Soon we will pay over a trillion dollars in interest if we aren’t already there.

Market will not loan us money forever.

It’s been a third of a a century since Ross Perot warned us.

[HIDEK6]

It’s not like it’s their money.

[Flag_This]

”Sorry, couldn't discern VDH's other 2 points.”

9. ?
10. Profit

[bwest]

Ah, the underpants VDH!

[Bob Wills is still the king]

“4. Oppose all budget/personnel cuts in the federal government.“

This is going to happen Trump or no Trump.

We can address the problem now or it will be addressed for us.

Soon we will pay over a trillion dollars in interest if we aren’t already there.

Market will not loan us money forever.

It’s been a third of a a century since Ross Perot warned us.

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Everybody loves the idea of cutting the federal budget, but people like it a lot less when those cuts more directly affect them. The 3 largest expenditures in this year’s budget are Social Security, Medicare, and tied in 3rd - Defense, Health, and Interest. The big numbers are in the first three, which make up well over 50% of all expenditures. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/

[catnipman]

ever since VDH quit writing and started yammering instead, he’s dead to me ... the problem is that every moron can (and does) yammer, which means that VDH is now just another yammerer in a vast pool of yammering morons ...

[Red Badger]

Yep, that looks like a winning strategery.................We’re DOOMED!.............

[CondoleezzaProtege]

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[MacNaughton]

[SoConPubbie]

Everybody loves the idea of cutting the federal budget, but people like it a lot less when those cuts more directly affect them. The 3 largest expenditures in this year’s budget are Social Security, Medicare, and tied in 3rd - Defense, Health, and Interest.

Those pushing decreasing, dismantling Social Security and Medicare are trolls and Trojan Horses.

Social Security was especially a contract between American Citizens and their goverment.

If the GOP does something stupid and decreases benefits for Social Security, they will be committing suicide. You know that and so does every politician alive today.

We're lucky because President Trump isn't stupid enough to listen to your crap, in fact, he has made it clear he will not be touching that benifit many times.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

I appreciate your meme in Comment #1

ALWAYS BEWARE!

[Lurker]

“Social Security was especially a contract between American Citizens and their goverment.”

No it wasn’t. SCOTUS has ruled on that repeatedly.

L

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

The Trojan Horse Congressional Democrats

[lewislynn]

SCOTUS has ruled on that repeatedly.

If it's that matter of fact why would they have to rule on it "repeatedly"?

[Blennos]

VDH is now just another yammerer in a vast pool of yammering morons ...

VDH is a moron? Surely you don't mean this. He expresses his ideas verbally because reading is going out of fashion. To reach the largest audience, you produce a video stream, not write a book or a long article. Sad, but that is the case.

[SaveFerris]

DEMOCRATS To Do more TRANSGENDER!!

It's their most brilliant plan ever!!

😀😃😄🤣🤣🤣🤣😜😜

Hopefully lurkers will text 📱 📱 📱
and email 📨 📨 📨 these to others,
post elsewhere too, and wake people up

[Tell It Right]

Agreed. VDH speaking it verbally reaches some audience that writing doesn't. Plus, it gets his name out to people who like to both listen and read. Every now and then VDH will say, "...as I wrote in...".

And don't lose sight of the age diversification he brings to the Daily Signal. Ben Shapiro reaches the young, while having the elder VDH on hand to validate the ideas (respect for the wisdom of our elders) that are being pushed by younger people like Shapiro.

[Blennos]

Good points.

[jmaroneps37]

Tell us something we don’t know Vic. They are doing these things and digging a deeper and deeper hole for themselves.
Maher finally said the words Wig Party.
They almost won White House in 1852 did poorly in 1856 and could not field a candidate in 1860.
Distant memory in 1864.