Victor Davis Hanson: The New Democratic Socialist Party Is a ‘Graveyard of Bad Ideas’

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🗓️ 21 February 2026

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Are Democrats really ready for a comeback—or are we about to revisit the graveyard of their own failed experiments? The so-called “new paradigms” of the Obama-Biden years—open borders, DEI mandates, deficit socialism, disarmament, and radical gender ideology—didn’t just falter… they collapsed under their own weight, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own 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 00:00 Midterms Preview: Trump Counterrevolution vs. a Democratic Comeback 02:15 ‘Graveyard of Bad Ideas’ #1: The Trans Politics Pushback 04:17 Bad Idea #2: Open Borders and the Immigration Backlash 05:37 Bad Ideas #3–4: Disarmament Illusions & Deficit Socialism Debt Bomb 08:00 Bad Idea #5 + Wrap-Up: DEI Fatigue and the Final Verdict Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.6	We're heading in this year in November to the midterms.
0:33.6	There's a lot of opposition to the Trump counter-revolution.
0:36.6	There's talk of a democratic resurgence.
0:39.3	Do we really want the alternative?
0:41.3	Because especially in the Obama administration and in the post-George Floyd period,
0:46.3	we were told that there were new paradigms, new protocols, agendas that were going to be lasting and permanent and change America for the better.
0:56.4	And there's four or five things that went full blast under the Obama and Biden administrations.
1:01.3	And I think Trump in this counter-revolution was able to show the American people that the trans fixation,
1:07.4	the open borders, the idea of being pretty much disarmed.
1:10.7	I call it deficit socialism
1:12.3	and DEI didn't work out. I don't think anybody is going to make the argument that we need more
1:17.2	socialist entitlement programs funded by borrowed money. I think the way to characterize the new
1:23.6	Democratic Socialist Party is it's sort of a graveyard of bad idea.
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