Unhinged Rhetoric Reveals Left’s Desperation

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. After the June 21st, Saturday night bombing of the nuclear facilities in Iran, the Left has kind of gone crazy.

I’ve mentioned in earlier videos their inconsistency, where they now want to invoke the War Powers Act and resolution that Congress must approve these interventions. Of course, they never did that during either the Clinton or Obama administrations who bombed regularly and frequently, and much more frequently than President Donald Trump, without any worry about getting a resolution.

But it opens a larger issue up and that is, the Left knows that they are not polling well. They know that the party’s base is controlling their narrative, and they know that that narrative supports issues from transgenderism to an open border, to lax enforcement of criminal statutes, to something like Kabul abroad that has no public support.

And they’re angry. And this anger is coming from the base of the party. And the base of the party are the green radicals, the Green New Deal people. They’re the diversity, equity, inclusion, black caucus people. They’re the trans people. They’re the Antifa people. And it’s manifesting itself in a way we’ve never really seen before.

Just to give you a few examples:

Ilhan Omar, the controversial representative from Minnesota, sounded off the other day. And she said that the United States is basically worse than Somalia—where she came from, I guess as a preteen or 12 or 13 years old—and it’s worse than the dictatorship in Somalia.

If she really believes that, of course, the question is begged to be asked, why did you come here? Why don’t you go back? Why are a million people a year, under the Biden administration, committing illegality—breaking the law—to get in here? Why don’t a million people go back to Mexico? Or why don’t we all go back to our countries of origin? It made no sense.

Then we had “The View” with Whoopi Goldberg. And she weighed in and said that black people today—remember, this is a multimillionaire person who’s making millions of dollars for sitting there and sounding off like this—black people have it worse than people who have it in Iran today.

And if you look at the average black income of women, it is approaching normality and it’s parity with their white counterparts. In some cases, of the white working class, it’s higher.

I don’t know what she’s talking about. It’s completely absurd. Why would anybody say that? Why would you say that when black people are doing better than ever and have more of a combined gross national product than, probably, black people in the entire world put together? Why would she say something like that?

Then we had Jasmine Crockett, the controversial Texas representative. She went off on the last election and said that half of the people that voted for Trump were mentally ill—half the country that voted for Trump. She was basically going down a racist rant.

Then she said that people only voted against former Vice President Kamala Harris not because of her word salads, not because of her incompetence, not because she couldn’t give interviews, not because she had to completely flip from her former left-wing positions, at least for 90 days, but because they voted for an old white man.

Can you imagine somebody on the Right saying the only reason people voted for Kamala Harris is they just wanted to vote for a middle-aged black woman? That would end their career.

And then, of course, we had Mr. Padilla, Alex Padilla, he’s our senator. And as I mentioned earlier, he crashed a press conference by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary. He barged in and he was screaming and yelling and he had no identification. He wanted to do something like, I guess, he wanted to top Sen. Cory Booker’s Spartacus, 25-hour filibuster to nowhere.

But he was arrested because people didn’t know who he was. I think he was angrier that he’s a senator and nobody, even in a state, knows that he’s a senator from California.

But then, he started sounding off and said, “Well, I’m not against deporting criminals.” And I just said, “Full stop, you are. Because you were one of the sponsors of sanctuary cities in your prior manifestation as a California official. And the whole purpose of a sanctuary city is not to turn over criminals to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. So, you have no credibility.”

And finally, we end with California Gov. Gavin Newsom. He had a little flirtation with moderation. He had a podcast—I guess it’s defunct now, but he tried to bring on people like Charlie Kirk, sound reasonable, say that he agreed with Donald Trump that biological men shouldn’t compete in women’s sports.

And then somebody tapped him on the shoulder and said, “Gavin, your party is crazy. They’re left-wing lunatics. You would never be nominated. You’re polling 4%. How are you going to get the nomination? So, the correct position, Gavin, is to sound crazy like they are. And crazier, even, than Sens. Bernie [Sanders] or Elizabeth Warren, ‘the squad,’ or Crockett. And then you can move back and do the podcast, once you’re nominated.”

So, as a result, Gavin Newsom is doing his little body movement. He’s challenging Trump to come out here, mano a mano. He said that Vice President JD Vance is a liar, he wants to debate him.

And during the riots, he did a French Laundry 2.0. He was up in Napa, where he seems to feel most comfortable, doing a wine tasting while people were, I don’t know, destroying federal property, attacking the police, setting cars on fire, looting. And after, he said that this didn’t exist and that Donald Trump had overreacted and prompted this by nationalizing the California Guard.

So, he’s completely melded down. This is beside the point that he doesn’t address, at all, our high taxes, the lack of available water, our electricity rates, the most expensive gas in the United States, the disaster in Pacific Palisades and the inability to re-burn, what caused it, etc., etc., etc.

So, you add it all up and every once in a while you see James Carville and he’s trying to remark on how crazy they are but in the mode of his criticism, he’s crazy because he says things that are even crazier.

So, whatever Donald Trump has done to them—and maybe that will be his lasting legacy—he had the ability to expose what used to be Democrats as absolutely unhinged and nihilistic. And I don’t think anybody wants any part of them.

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