The ‘Cosmic Forces’ Behind the Modern Democrat Party’s Rise | Victor Davis Hanson

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

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For all practical purposes, there is no longer a Democratic Party, at least as we’ve known it for 50 to 100 years. It is a full‑blown socialist revolutionary party. The players of that party who are running things are not even Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries. They’re people like Rep. Jasmine Crockett, James Talarico in Texas, Zohran Mamdani and Elizabeth Warren. What happened to Clinton‑era Democrats? Globalization and open borders would be a good place to start looking, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” 👉 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: http://dailysignal.com/donate 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Also on Spotify: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	For all practical purposes, there is no longer a Democratic Party,
0:34.6	at least as we've known it for 50 to 100 years.
0:37.3	It is a full-blown socialist
0:40.0	revolutionary party. They're radical leftists, and they believe in a mandated equality of resolve,
0:46.2	perpetuated or completed by radically high taxes from people who have been successful, and to transfer
0:52.4	that money to people who have been unsuccessful.
0:55.0	Not because of any fault of their own or any gift or success of the wealthy, but because of oppression.
1:01.7	And the victimized class feels that they have legitimate grievances against the other 70% for not
1:07.8	having what they do, and therefore the Democratic Party steps in and says that we will
1:12.9	mandate an equality of results. So that's what the party is. That is the agenda, and you can see it on all fronts.
1:33.3	Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal.
1:41.1	For all practical purposes, there is no longer a Democratic Party, at least as we've known it for 50 to 100 years.
1:45.7	What we're witnessing in Washington as the opposition under Chuck Schumer and Heikham Jeffries is something that we haven't really seen before, is a full-blown socialist
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