Victor Davis Hanson: The Ungrateful Urban Class Turning Into the New Democrat Socialist Party

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🗓️ 9 July 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The disease of Democrat Socialism is slowly spreading throughout three groups of people: urban consumers, immigrants, and DEI advocates. Their symptoms and agenda include everything abnormal to traditional American policy: open borders, amnesty for illegal immigration, and the conflation of citizenship with mere residency. Their methodology is to run in select blue cities in local elections, giving them a chance to out-fund and out-perform the Democrats. And if they do that well, socialism could spread throughout the entire Democrat Party. Socialists can’t afford to create a third party, so they’re simply taking over another. 👉Pepperdine School of Public Policy - visit https://go.pepperdine.edu/dailysignal to learn 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. Now, without
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0:38.0	That's all. Hello.
0:38.0	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
0:51.7	Who are these Democratic Socialists of America that are so frequently
0:56.1	mentioned in the news? Are they traditional European socialist? Are they anarchist? Are they
1:02.5	communists? I think they don't mind if you label them any of those three rubrics. But let's go
1:08.7	through a diagnosis, a methodology, therapy prognosis, as if we're
1:15.3	doctors looking at a malady or a disease. So first of all, what are their symptoms? Well,
1:24.1	their symptoms are they have an agenda that's way out of the norm.
1:28.7	And what is that agenda?
1:30.6	Well, one, they want open borders, amnesty for illegal immigration, and the conflation of citizenship and mere residency.
1:38.8	They want vastly higher taxes, including on unrealized profits and net worth, which is new. They want much more
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