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The Ungrateful Urban Class Turning Into the New Democratic Socialist 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.  

Who are these Democratic Socialists of America that are so frequently mentioned in the news? Are they traditional European socialists? Are they anarchists? Are they communists? I think they don’t mind if you label them any of those three rubrics. 

But let’s go through a diagnosis, a methodology, a therapy, prognosis, as if we’re doctors looking at a malady or a disease. 

So, first of all, what are their symptoms? 

Well, their symptoms are they have an agenda that’s way out of the norm. And what is that agenda? 

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Well, one, they want open borders, amnesty for illegal immigration, and the conflation of citizenship and mere residency. 

They want vastly higher taxes, including on unrealized profits and net worth, which is new. They want much more entitlements. They want a resurrection of DEI, and they believe in the Marxist binary that the country has no middle. It’s basically 30% who are not white who are oppressed, and they have legitimate claims for reparatory treatment from the 70 percent who are oppressors-victimizers. 

They want the Green New Deal. They want an end to fossil fuels. They want to have a socialist economy. They want to appropriate, in some cases, private property, utilities, airlines they’ve mentioned, private wealth. 

They have a foreign policy that would disconnect us from probably Europe, unless Europe is completely communist or socialist. 

But they especially are angry at Israel. They want no relationship whatsoever with Israel, and that is a thinly cloaked symptom of a deep antisemitism that they share. They can’t seem to erase their social media accounts quickly enough to disguise their past antisemitic remarks. 

They have an anti-white theme that you see as well. 

So, they want to align us with what I would call nations from the former Third World. That’s their symptomatology, and that tells us who these patients are. 

Who are they? Who........

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