Hoover Institute senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Thursday that though the Democratic Party appears to be “hemorrhaging,” he doesn’t believe they understand how much the “new left” of their coalition is “despised” by voters.
Throughout Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign against President-elect Donald Trump, Democrats and corporate media ramped up their rhetoric against the former president, even labeling him an alleged “fascist” at one point. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” the senior fellow pointed out how “bulletproof” Trump seems to be against Democrats’ name-calling attacks, noting that he believes voters’ anger toward “the establishment” drives them to align with the former president.
“That’s why Donald Trump is bulletproof. That’s not a good metaphor after the two [assassination attempts], but my point is that they can’t, they thought that, they don’t understand, it’s even weirder than that,” Hanson said. “When they go after him and call him a fascist and a dictator, and they melt down, it’s not that that has no influence upon him. That makes Donald Trump more sympathetic, and people like to hear that about him, that he gets such a rush out of these awful people. That helps him.”
“The antithesis is true too,” he continued. “I didn’t think it was, but I’m beginning to think it is, that when Donald Trump says things that you’re not supposed to say, you know, like, ‘Kamala Harris was a low knowledge voter, low IQ’ or something, or ‘dumb as a post,’ … When Trump gets out of hand, people are so angry at the establishment.”
“If they hear Trump say something out there, and they think that’s going to make the establishment angry, then that’s fine with them,” Hanson added.
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Hanson additionally noted that he doesn’t believe Democrats understand that not only is the Republican Party “happy” with its current direction, but it’s the “new left” that has transformed the Democratic Party into something more “anarchist.”
“I don’t think the left have any idea — this new left — how despised they are by the majority of people. They don’t understand the more they talk about ‘the Republican Party has been hijacked,’ the party, 94% of the Republican Party are happy where it is now,” Hanson said.
“It’s the party that’s changed, the Democratic Party. It’s the one that’s hemorrhaging, because it doesn’t even look like anything close to the old Democratic Party. It’s a full-blown, neo-socialist, anarchist party,” Hanson concluded.
Last month, Biden had called for Trump to be “locked up” while speaking to a group of supporters at New Hampshire’s Democratic National Committee (DNC) office, though he quickly attempted to clarify that he meant “politically” lock him up.
Despite past allegations that a second Trump administration would threaten democracy, Democrats appear to have backed away from such talking points in recent days. During his show on Thursday, popular radio host Charlamagne Tha God questioned President Joe Biden’s recent meeting with Trump, asking how Biden could be cordial to the former president after such intense rhetoric against him.