Victor Davis Hanson: The Democrats Are Addicted to Losing

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

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On this week’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson breaks down the party’s post-2024 election autopsy and explains why they’re doomed to fail if they continue on their trajectory. “ After the defeat of Kamala Harris in November 2024, the Democrats decided recently to run an autopsy, a discovery, so to speak, of why they lost that election. These autopsies are not uncommon for the losing political party, but they only tend to work if you're honest and you try to analyze every considerable factor or criterion without censorship or without fear. “ They didn't have issues and policies that reflected their core values, but would also appeal to the middle class. … They don't want to talk about the middle class because their policies—open borders, The Green New Deal, Critical Race Theory, Critical Legal Theory, defund the police—all that have to be rejected because they're anathema to the middle class. They won't do it.” 👉Brought to you by Freespoke.com, the search engine built to be unbiased. Join the over 10,000 patriots who’ve upgraded to Freespoke Premium. Use promo code “ds25” for a limited-time special discount. Freespoke Premium includes: Unlimited, Unbiased AI — Search without the censorship Ad-Free, Fully Private Browsing Deep Dive Podcast Access Filter Out Media Bias Block Sites You Don’t Trust 📅This offer is only valid during the month of July. [Join the Campaign Now →] https://freespoke.com/premium/subscribe?coupon=ds25 (0:00) The Nomination of Joe Biden (0:20) Democratic Policies and the Middle Class (0:50) Autopsy of the 2024 Election Defeat (1:29) The 2020 Primaries (2:13) Kamala Harris: Anointed but Unsuccessful (2:52) Bill Clinton's Middle-Class Appeal (3:19) Democratic Policies: A Middle-Class Disconnect (3:36) Lessons from the 2008 Republican Autopsy (5:46) The Need for Change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	Why was Joe Biden nominated in the first place? When he was president, they hid his dementia.
0:35.8	And then when he was no longer useful and could not serve as a waxen
0:39.5	effigy for a radical agenda, they dumped him. At that point, they should have had an open
0:44.1	convention. But they didn't. They annoyed at Kamala Harris, who had been a candidate. Her campaign
0:49.3	was an invisible failure. The Democrats don't want to talk about the middle class because their policies. All that
0:55.5	have to be rejected because they're an affluent to the middle class. Until the Democrats look in
1:00.5	the mirror and say, we have a message that nobody wants in the middle class. They'll never
1:05.8	change. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
1:21.1	After the defeat of Kamala Harris in November 2024, the Democrats decided recently to run an autopsy, a discovery, so to speak,
1:29.9	of why they lost that election. These autopsies are not uncommon for the losing political party,
1:35.6	but they only tend to work if you're honest and you try to analyze every considerable factor or
1:42.9	criterion without censorship or without fear. In the case of
1:46.9	the Democrats, though, there are certain elements of that campaign that were obviously wrong and
1:53.1	contributed to their defeat. So we would expect the following. Why was Joe Biden nominated in
1:58.7	the first place? He seemed to, after the South Carolina primary of
2:03.7	2020, kind of me coronated. He had lost New Hampshire. He had lost Iowa. And then the party bosses
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