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The New Socialist Guillotine Is Coming for the Democratic Party

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  

We’re watching a modern-day French Revolutionary-like takeover of the Democratic Party. We could call it the Reign of Terror or the Democratic guillotine.  

What I mean by that, in 1793 and ’94, when the French Revolution was well on its way to fruition, a group of radicals called Jacobins, led by the Robespierre brothers, hijacked that revolution and decided that they were going to go far, far to the left of the effort to abolish the monarchy and rename the days of the week, the months, start with a year zero concept, go out and attack private property, and execute people.  

Now, I don’t think the Democratic socialists are going to do that, but their takeover is similar to the Jacobin takeover. And what is their agenda? Their agenda is a radical Green New Deal, war on fossil fuels, open borders, no deportations, no deportations even for criminally convicted. 

In addition to that, cut the defense budget, defund the police, institutionalize diversity, equity, inclusion, chauvinism.  

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We’re all going to go by our incidental affiliations.  

If you’re trans or gay or female or Black or Asian, that’s going to be what you identify in as, a large group of the victimized with complaints against the white male, etc., victimizer class.  

If you look closely at how that agenda manifests itself in the real world, it is anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, anti— I’ll be candid, it’s anti-white if you look at the word white privilege, white chauvinism, white hate, all of this stuff.  

So how is it manifesting itself in real terms? Well, we recently had midterm elections, as you know, and most of the Left-wing Democrats—and remember, this isn’t the Democratic Party of Hubert Humphrey or JFK or even Bill Clinton. It’s far to the left. But that wasn’t enough for the new Jacobins and their........

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