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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I want to apologize to you.
I have been writing columns and have suggested to you in these videos that the Democrats didn't have an agenda. In other words, they were just nihilists. But I went back and looked at everything they've said, everything they've written, what their surrogates and the media have done, and I discovered they do have a counter-agenda. They really do. And it's organized.
And I want to give it a fair hearing right now. So, I wrote down 10 things that I think are thematic of the Democratic agenda that offers an alternative to President Donald Trump.
The first is that Donald Trump must be considered, as Chris Matthews just said, a Mussolini-like figure. He must be opposed in every aspect. He must be demonized. Everything he does is evil.
And by extension, the same is true of Elon Musk. You must consider him an alien who should go back home to South Africa. That he's not a true American. He's only been here 23 years.
You cannot talk about his Tesla revolution that pretty much saved the idea of an electric vehicle. You cannot talk about the successes of SpaceX. You cannot talk about saving social media by opening it up and getting the government out, i.e., the FBI colluding with the old Twitter. You cannot talk about giving free internet service to Ukraine.
He's evil. And everything he does must be opposed. And we must continue that to the point where he is depersonalized.
The second thing I've noticed, very quickly, is Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wrong. You have to stop ICE from deporting anybody, even if they're a criminal.
Open borders are completely normal. We let in 12 million people under President Joe Biden. We have no apologies whatsoever. No major Democrat has come forward and said, "We made a mistake. We've overloaded communities, like the San Joaquin Valley or the Rio Grande Valley and the inner city. It's cost us perhaps a trillion dollars in social costs. We apologize."
No. Everything about open borders was wonderful. And we will try, as Democrats, as much as we can to stop ICE from deporting even criminals. Sanctuary cities are immune—600 of them.
Radical Palestinians are to be favored over Israel. We see that with the controversy over Mahmoud Khalil. We in the Democratic Party feel that Israel is a settler country.
Now, this is the only issue that the majority of Democrats are clearly for. About 70%, and 65% of Democrats favor the Palestinian cause. So, there's no ambiguity about it now.
Democrats feel that Israel is the culprit. And if there's antisemitism on campus, it's sporadic or it's done by people other than the pro-Hamas green card holder or student visa holder.
There should be no cuts. No cuts in the federal government. We have a $1.7 trillion deficit. Joe Biden probably racked up $7 to $8 trillion in additional debt, but $36 trillion is no problem. We're not going to discuss it.
All we know is there should be no layoffs. Everything that USAID was funding was fine. And the federal government was running perfectly until Donald Trump came. There was no abuse, fraud, or anything. We have never talked about fraud and abuse in recent years. And there was a reason why we're perfectly happy with these massive deficits.
