Victor Davis Hanson: Democrat Socialists Think America Is Somehow Worse Than Mass-Murderer Mao Zedong

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🗓️ 22 July 2026

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We’re hearing more and more from the Democrat Socialists about America's troubled past. But what exactly are America’s sins? Of course, they have no answer except to criticize capitalism, the very system that brought them a $9 million home and a $120,000 Porsche. And if you ask most Americans, they’d tell you the Democrat Socialists have gone too far. Mao Zedong’s communist China doesn’t really sound like a paradise. Visit http://www.JoinADF.com/HANSON or text HANSON to 83848 and for a limited time your first gift to ADF will be DOUBLED by a special matching grant—while funds last. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Signal podcast, where we provide intelligence for the intelligent.
0:05.1	Now, without further ado, here's today's take.
0:08.2	We're hearing more and more from the Democratic Socialists of America about all of the sins of America.
0:15.2	My question is compared to what?
0:17.4	Mao Zedong, concentration camps in China.
0:20.4	Most of this criticism of America is not coming from the so-called poor. It's coming from elites. And they feel that by mounting these socialist and communist platitudes, it's a way to get power. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal.
0:47.5	We're hearing more and more from the Democratic Socialists of America about all of the sins of America and very little of the good things we've
0:56.5	done to ourselves and to the world at large on our 250th birthday.
1:03.0	What is it the nature of this DSA Democratic Socialists of America and the diversity,
1:10.3	equity, inclusion, criticism that we were racist,
1:13.2	sexist, nativists, cruel, ruthless, et cetera, et cetera.
1:18.8	But my question is, compared to what?
1:21.8	Mao Zedong?
1:23.6	He killed 70 million people.
1:25.9	He was the greatest mass murderer in history.
1:28.5	And that government is still communist in an unbroken chain from Qi all the way back to Mao.
1:35.2	Do we ever talk about that?
1:36.7	Or the million people who were in concentration camps in China compared to historically, to the Aztecs.
1:45.6	We're told the Aztecs were great people.
1:48.5	They had an empire, but they crushed over a million people to create their empire.
1:56.5	Some years they sacrificed up to 10,000, maybe 15,000 a year of conquered tribes of fellow indigenous people.
2:05.9	Do we remember Shaka Zulu, the 19th century creator of the Zulu nation?
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