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Victor Davis Hanson: The Democratic Party’s Socialist Divide

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest 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: All right, Victor. So we had primaries. Speaking of lots of money spent, and I think in Michigan they had the largest amount spent on a primary ever, and that was about $80 million. And that primary was between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed. Apparently Haley Stevens spent up to $70 million, and she lost.

It seems to–well, I was wondering your thoughts on that primary in particular. It seems to me it’s a bellwether for the problems in the Democratic Party, because they really split, the Democratic Party split over those two candidates.

Victor Davis Hanson: If you look at the number of Michigan voters—Republican, Independent, Democratic—those who voted for Sayed, it’s a very small number, relatively.

But they got organized for the midterms. 

And it’s very funny because if you are a socialist-communist–and I’m not using that as a pejorative term, as when Mamdani says that he wants to seize the means of production or take property from people if he finds they’re poor landlords, etc., etc.. And the agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America is take over utilities, break up corporate agriculture, seize people’s property. So, it’s not a slur.

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But the thing about all these people is, if you’re an activist like Hasan Piker or these other democratic socialists, then they come across as communist. However, if you’re running for office, you come off not even as a socialist. So he was renouncing a lot of the things he was going to do. Oh, they’re just, I’m just gonna do this. And then when they take office, they are not even socialist—they’re communist.

And so, he will be, if he’s the elected senator, he will have a communist agenda.

The other thing is, we think these people are so charismatic and young. I listened today to AOC, and they had clips of her on YouTube. When she went over to the........

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