Victor Davis Hanson: ‘I Don’t Even Think There Is a Democratic Party Right Now’

Davis Hanson: “I do think it’s collapsed, because by any classical definition, Mark, they lost the 2024 popular vote, the Electoral College vote. They don’t have the Congress, they don’t have the White House, they don’t have the Supreme Court. They’re 30-70, on the 30 side, of all these issues from crime, the environment, energy, the border, illegal immigration. And they’re frustrated, they’re, they’re angry, because now Donald Trump is doing something they never imagine anybody would do. He is not treating the symptoms of the progressive pathologies. He’s talking about the sources. So he’s going after the institutions that indoctrinate people, in the university, NPR, PBS, the elite law firms, and that’s what — that’s setting them — that’s setting them on fire, because they understand that they could exer — they always exercise power irrelevant of whether they actually have political power. They had cultural, social influence through these institutions, foundations, the university, K-12, corporate boardrooms. And now, when he went after woke and ESG and PBS, it’s a whole new counter-revolution and they’re melting down. I don’t even think there is a Democratic Party right now. It’s just an amalgamation of a bunch of different groups, but they’re all way to the left. And we shouldn’t fool ourselves about New York, Mark. I I think it’s not going to be — they may win, Mamdani may win, but he couldn’t win anywhere else, I don’t think, other than these blue cities, and that’s a minority of the population. So they’re going over the cliff and, like any addict, they would rather go over the cliff than quit.”