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The ‘Socialist’ Luxury Trap: Why the Left Wants High-Rises for You and Mansions for Them–Victor Davis Hanson

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson.  Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Sami Winc: So Victor, let’s turn to California.  And recently—the, we know as, well a lot of our viewers know—California has a jungle primary, where the primary is all the parties are in. And the last—the two that are on top are on the ballot for November. Well, no surprise, but our chair of the Democratic Party in California, Rusty Hicks, has decided that this does not work as a primary process. 

Victor Davis Hanson: I thought it worked great. It always got the results the law is—they drafted the law. 

They said they had 60% Democrats, so they could ensure that in most all—and it worked. We haven’t had a Republican statewide officeholder since Arnold Schwarzenegger left, what, 20 years ago? We have supermajorities in both legislatures, of Democrats. All the old Schwarzenegger judges are all retiring. They’re wonderful judges, but they’re all termed out. That’s not the right word. They’re retiring. And so they got the judiciary, they’ve got executives, they got the legislative branch, all because of these jungle primaries. And the real cause, four million people have left the state the last 15 years. 

And these were Reaganite, Deukmejianite, Pete Wilson-type, Schwarzenegger-types. They’re gone. Vanished. That’s it. 

Sami Winc: And we know why that is. Another thing about this governor’s race is some of the candidates for governor who are on the Left are already talking about new taxes that they would impose. The most recent one is—I forget the candidate’s name—but he wants to have a tax on EVs, since they avoid the high gas prices, that they would tax EVs. 

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Victor Davis Hanson: Their message to us, the voters, is, well, you know, we lost $240 billion on high-speed........

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