Are Democrats really ready for a comeback—or are we about to revisit the graveyard of their own failed experiments?
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson breaks down why The so-called “new paradigms” of the Obama-Biden years—open borders, DEI mandates, deficit socialism, disarmament, and radical gender ideology—didn’t just falter… they collapsed under their own weight, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words:”
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00:00 Midterms Preview: Trump Counterrevolution vs. a Democratic Comeback
02:15 ‘Graveyard of Bad Ideas’ #1: The Trans Politics Pushback
04:17 Bad Idea #2: Open Borders and the Immigration Backlash
05:37 Bad Ideas #3–4: Disarmament Illusions & Deficit Socialism Debt Bomb
08:00 Bad Idea #5 + Wrap-Up: DEI Fatigue and the Final Verdict
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Rottenest group of losers on the face of this earth
How many people will hear this?
Im watching this 3-1-26. It was posted 8 days ago and talks about getting ready for November 2026. We are ready. Thank God for getting rid of the evil dictator in Iran! We are off to a great start.
The democrat socialist party not the democratic socialist party. I think it is an important distinction that needs to be made
I hope Victor isn't losing his sense of humor.
He's saying the truth 😊
Mr. Hanson. This country should return to the values and priorities of the 1950s. Church attendance was high. A family of four could live on one paycheck. Mothers and fathers could take care of their own children. Crime was low.
And that's what people want today – Low crime and good paying jobs.
Midterms aren't looking great. I hope you're right about Trump's party's midterm prospects
Mr. Hanson. Democrats have lost their minds. They have distorted ideas. But they are crashing and burning faster recently. Mamdani offered fast and free buses and a rent freeze, but now that the bills have to be paid, it's a 9.5% property tax increase or tax the rich. The rich who can leave at a moment's notice. His political career, if you can call it that, is over.
Or Abigail Spanberger, another Democrat, wants to raise taxes on people in Virginia. She denounced the State of the Union as lies. She has taken away affordability. Her political career is now over.
But Democrats will do this over and over again. They think they can get other people to pay for their bad ideas.
And now, a sacred to Democrats day is coming – The Midterms. They worship that day because they think nobody has seen their bad ideas crash and burn. They can only offer people more bad ideas. They will lose The Midterms because their bad ideas will turn voters away from them.
Democratic socialism proved itself to be a parasiticism. Taxing the populace into enslavement is its evidence.
The left will definitely be showing up in November to put a stop to the last two years of this administration. Republicans need to vote.
Agree 💯
VDS is such a breath of fresh air.
If you are a career criminal politician trying to rob the general public, then it's a graveyard of great ideas. From their perspective.
Business as usual for them.
You can always skip the first 60 seconds because it’s just a repeat of what he says immediately afterwards. It’s just a stupid cheap way of doing an intro for the video.
Over $1 trillion in Welfare in 2025. They haven't stopped.
Thanks
America, we need to get rid of the c.I.A the n g o's. D.A.A.R.P. N.O.A. AND MANY MORE. BLOOD SUCKER, STEALING OUR WEALTH.
Wef needs yo go too.
Illegals, green cards, and visa holders is more like 80-90million
Send them home
Yes the left wing ideology sounded beautiful from the start but it has become absolutely decadent and destructive of values economics and therefore bad for safety and quality of life !! 😍🎸🎼
Democrats don't agree with your point.
These people are the embodiment of evil. The WEF CULT is valuing their precious jet fuel over human life.
Open borders is not dead. It's all the DNC has at this point and they have no intention of rejecting that policy. Has anyone heard a DNC candidate change course since Nov 2024? Same with the trans issue, DEI and all the rest of their intersectional proscriptions.
Fabulous Point's😮
Lookin good; We love you please, work mayB p/t.
Victor is correct in the Trump needs to stop wasting ammo on these issues. They will not benefit him immediately. Victor is correct and that Trump committed a forced error by playing into the street theater of the communists in Minneapolis so he can just send the eyes to the red states they can clean up the red states and then after November, THEN we can send the Army into Portland.
Democrats don't care and didn't learn anything. They want stupid voters to stay in power, they don't care who it hurts.
I JUST CANNOT BEGING TO COMPTEHEND SUCH A MASSIVE BETRAYAL OF AMERICA BY OPENNING OUR BORDERS. HOW?
Great commentary as usual, annoying opening & closing music as usual 😂
D E I IS AN I E D
Thank you, sir, for your sane voice!
Keep up the good work! We count on hearing your opinion each week.
The Left is all about socialism/ communism. Their major officials, e.g. Rice, are still harping and complaining about the destruction of the "mess" they created, but most Americans did not "buy" into the Leftie ideas, fortunately.
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My employer is still pushing DEI, Islamification, Anti-American and Anti-White ism. They elected two black males to run the company and they've been systematically erasing whites from everything they can. It's located in Madison WI, which is dark blue Dane County. It's been very very apparent to me since they were installed that there is an agenda to displace whites in their entirety and replace them with non-whites as a whole. We have a new footbath and prayer room. And, every single all employee meeting we are reminded that DEI is very important and the core of our entire being and it's more important than finances. I'm so depressed, as it wasn't like this when I first started. They aren't letting up because, you know, Orange Man Bad.
Whole hog … like that.
Something that the left won't touch is talk about law suits no they don't want anyone knowing how destructive to children and teens these surgeries and chemicals really are prayers for these that were lied to
I can't fathom the left getting back in after all the destruction but for some reason people are stupid
Your description of DEI Fitz union employees 100% you fail you get promoted now we have all these fucking idiots at the top running everything in this country because they’re in a union
He's right about the democrats. They are a mess. Lost in the wilderness.
But even they are a better choice than King Donald.
The lefts economic theory was part and parcel the biggest tool to destroy the US economy for their masters in the City of London. Entire democrat party should be on trial for treason for Bidens term, 4 years of unrelenting assaults on rights to privacy, speech, freedom of movement, freedom of employment, self defense… not to mention, leaving troops , equipment and allies behind enemy lines in Afghan withdrawal, billions in ngo graft, Ukraine money laundering operations, open border, runaway illegal immigration, IRS/DOJ/social media/media weaponization, lawfare against political opponents (based on fabricated evidence) and of course the fedsurrection and election theft on Jan 6th.
Every member of the party involved in that 4 years, traitors!
Thank you, VDH. I think an obsession with climate change is another major item that belongs on the list.