Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
California Senator Alex Padilla recently crashed a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He deliberately wore no identification. He gave no advance warning that he would disrupt her briefing.
Instead, Padilla barged forward to the podium, shouting about the deportation of illegal aliens.
Immediately, Padilla got his media moment wish—once Secret Service agents, who had no idea who Padilla was, forcibly removed him.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) recently attempted a pseudo-filibuster, speaking nonstop for 25 hours straight—not to delay legislation, but to fixate on Donald Trump.
South Carolina Democratic state Representative Julie von Haefen just posted on social media an image of a bloody guillotine. It bore the title “In these difficult times, some cuts may be necessary” and was juxtaposed with an image of a hanging, beheaded Trump, who, a year ago, was the target of two failed assassination attempts.
The more Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom scream at Trump for nationalizing the California Guard to stop LA’s nightly violent anti-ICE protests, the more the two appear on the side of those who riot, destroy property, and attack police.
Yet who really wants to side with illegal aliens who spit on and burn American flags while waving Mexican flags?
Recently, some Democrats and leftists have romanticized Kilmar Abrego Garcia—an illegal alien, accused domestic abuser, gang member, and alleged human trafficker.
They also canonized illegal alien Mahmoud Khalil. But that pro-Hamas “student” helped organize and defend sometimes violent and antisemitic demonstrations at Columbia.
For some on the left, the assassin of a United Health Care CEO, the rich kid Luigi Mangione, has become a folk hero.
Others champion the undocumented family of illegal alien Mohamad Soliman and demand that they not be deported home to the Middle East—despite Soliman’s recent attempt to murder Jews using a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails.
Former Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, along with other prominent Democrats, mocked the recent Washington, D.C., military parade commemorating the 250th anniversary of the army, comparing it unfavorably with their own concurrent “No Kings” anti-Trump protests.
Those demonstrations—subsidized by left-wing billionaire donors—were utterly incoherent.
No other president has faced more lower federal court injunctions blocking executive orders than Trump.
Indeed, dozens of cherry-picked, left-wing district judges—the real unchecked “kings”—now routinely block almost every one of Trump’s executive orders.
Why are opposition Democrats not offering alternative agendas and compromises?
Could they partner with Trump to allow green cards to illegal aliens who have no criminal records, have not been on public assistance, are now employed, and have resided in the U.S. for over five years?
Could Democrats meet with the president to express bipartisan support for democratic Israel in its existential war with theocratic Iran?
Instead, why do Democrats throw two-year-old temper tantrums to howl nihilistically at everything Trump says and does?
One, exasperated Democrats lack all levers of political power—the Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court.
So, they take to the media and the streets.
Two, Democrats are permanently frustrated that the more they scream and stomp, the more polls show radical declines in public support for their party.
Three, their nemesis, 79-year-old Donald Trump, seems impervious to Democratic lawfare, threats, and smears.
Despite the hysterical attacks, he is still polling now about where prior presidents like George Bush and Barack Obama were at similar junctures in their second terms.
The more Trump is smeared as a fascist or dictator, the more polls—like the latest liberal Economist/YouGov survey—show him gaining public support for securing the border and deportation.
And the more the left damns Trump as a racist, the more he wins unprecedented Black and Hispanic support. In recent Rasmussen tracking polls, Trump garnered 54 percent approval from Black voters and 53 percent from Hispanics.
Four, Trump proves a hard-to-hit, moving target for the frustrated left. He cannot quite be pigeonholed as a predictable right-wing bogeyman.
Unlike the left, when Trump weighs in on the Ukraine war, he first begins by deploring the tragic waste of over a million lives.
No one is more pro-Israel. Yet no one has offered a losing Iran a chance to negotiate its way out of total and humiliating defeat.
Trump talks nonstop about protecting the middle class. Unions like him; Wall Street mostly despises him.
Trump wants to deport as many illegal alien criminals as possible. But he is willing to consider green cards for unlawful aliens who are working, crime-free, and with long residence in the U.S.
The Trump counterrevolution barrels ahead. The people cheer. And Democrats keep barking at the moon.
Not onboard with potentially giving green cards to illegals that flew under the radar for five, ten or twenty years. They came here illegally, period. They can self-deport and try coming back legally, maybe even expedited applications, or ICE can remove them. Including any US born children to two illegal aliens. And how many of these under the radar illegals have voted in local, state or Federal elections?
My wife and son came here legally, from the UK, back in the 80’s. They have never been on any public assistance. They also have to pay and go through the arcane and not inexpensive, green card renewal every so many years. They also cannot, will not, vote in any US elections.
We have to win the midterms. It’s difficult to push ahead the way it is, but we can’t lose the house or the Senate or it will be a mess. The crazy democrats are going to really start getting crazy just before the midterms. Sure hope the voters will push them aside again. Oregon is hoping to straighten out our election mess and maybe rid our state of the super majority of democrats.
“…why do Democrats throw two-year-old temper tantrums…”
Because they are overgrown adolescents, Vic. Their party is the party of tantrums. Their worldview is immaturity expressed as a political philosophy.
Isn’t what van Haefen did a crime? It could be construed as a call to action, couldn’t it?
5 it worked in 2020. Trump was not re-elected.
In your list of the current generation of “Dem heroes” you seem to have neglected the leader of the pack, St George of Floyd. The ease with which a career criminal became a 21st century martyr was all the example anyone needed to adopt him as the symbol of a new age of intersectional justice. Others might say it began when OJ walked. When and whoever provided the template it is clear that America does not a have racial problem, America has a culture issue.
Trump is a centrist. He is not even far right or radical. He is not particularly effective as POTUS but then it can be argued that no President can be since their powers are limited to Commander In Chief, Foreign Policy, Veto over legislation and Executive Orders affecting the government bureaucracy. Trump Derangement Syndrome must be regarded as mass hysteria or mass psychosis similar to the Inquisition, Witch trials or Millennialism. This is distinct from the riots and anarchy which is clearly staged and funded by domestic and foreign powers.
“Why are opposition Democrats not offering alternative agendas and compromises? Instead, why do Democrats throw two-year-old temper tantrums to howl nihilistically at everything Trump says and does?”
– to quote VDH himself
In the movie “Horse Feathers”, Groucho Marx’s song “I’m Against It” was meant as Satire… so I fail to understand why Democrats have adopted this song as their Mode of Operation.
Great article! I hope you are recovering well from your surgery and will be back podcasting soon. With the D party, the unmasking gains speed and with transparency beginning there is no telling what we are yet to find.