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opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left-Wing Unicorn Hunt for the White Male Working-Class Voter
The last Democrat candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was former President Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50% of the popular vote because of Ross Perot’s third-party candidacy. Since then, the Democrat brand has lost the white working-class vote in… -
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Why Mamdani’s Netanyahu Arrest Plan Has No Legal Basis
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Friday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: So, let’s turn to the International Criminal Court. And [Mayor Zohran] Mamdani wants to enforce its… -
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The House Bans Insider Trading and Passes Voter ID
Congress just passed two major Republican efforts in one bill. The Stop Insider Trading Act, meant to stop members of Congress from profiting from the stock market based on insider knowledge, included the SAVE America Act. The legislation passed Wednesday evening, 232-198, with 13 Democrats joining Republicans to pass it. The Stop Insider Trading Act… -
opinion
Democratic Socialists Think America Is Somehow Worse Than Mass Murderer Mao Zedong
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. We’re hearing more and more from the Democratic Socialists of America about all of the sins of America and very… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: The ‘Performance Art Joke’ at the Heart of the Democratic Socialist Movement
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Thursday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Everyone should notice, if you’re watching this on YouTube or Rumble, that over Victor’s right shoulder are the galleys… -
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Tim Walz’s Pedophile Pardon Gets Skipped on TV
Sexual abuse of minors is a serious crime. But when it comes to the national media, the crime is only serious if it can make Republicans look bad. Recently, Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center found that ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted 1,627 minutes of airtime on their morning, evening, and Sunday shows over… -
analysis
Will Amy Acton Lose This Democrat Candidate’s Support Over Protecting Women’s Sports?
Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton called the Supreme Court’s decision on protecting women’s sports “settled law,” but many on her left disagree—and now they’re making demands. Some candidates and caucuses are taking issue with Acton’s words and are seeking to meet with the Democrat nominee. Arienne Childrey, who is transgender, is meeting with Acton on… -
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‘Nutty. Moronic. Dangerous. Bigoted’: Major Democrat Figures Slam the Democratic Socialists Taking Over Their Party
Van Jones, the proudly progressive CNN pundit, has a message for the Democratic Socialists of America candidates who have crashed his party: “Stop pooping in the punch bowl and telling us the turds are ice cubes,” he declared on X. After sharing his progressive bona fides, Jones took on some of the “terrible” ideas pushed… -
opinion
The Democratic Party Is Turning Into a Bunch of Middle-Class Phonies
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. Have you noticed this phenomenon of the Democrat-socialist party trying to create fake or false or pseudo middle-class candidates? We… -
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Islamic Terrorism and Socialism Ramp Up Democrat Infighting, Dem Reps Say
A longtime Democrat congressman sounded the alarm on the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party, adding that his party’s leadership is only making room for the extreme wing of Democrats. “I just found it to be not the same caucus I joined in 2007,” Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., told CNN regarding the House Progressive Caucus…. -
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El-Sayed Points to Dead American Soldiers When Pressed by CNN on Ayatollah Comment
Democrat Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed dodged a question about his past comment on the death of the former Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after being pressed on the issue by CNN host Jake Tapper. According to a video obtained by The Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed told campaign staff the day after Khamenei’s death that he… -
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DSA’s Dark Triumph: Socialism Surges as America Turns 250
On the very day America marked its 250th birthday—a celebration of liberty, enterprise, and individual rights—the Democratic Socialists of America notched a grim milestone. With more than 120,000 members and chapters in all 50 states, DSA is now the largest socialist organization in U.S. history. While fireworks lit the skies, radical progressive Democrats were busy burying the republic’s founding principles… -
opinion
Gavin Newsom’s Hollywood Bailout
Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the past year celebrating a massive expansion of California’s Hollywood tax credit program, boosting it to a record $750 million a year. Then his own budget managed to kneecap it. Now Sacramento is scrambling to fix one of the governor’s biggest political headaches. More than three dozen California lawmakers—including senior Democrat… -
opinion
Erasing Little Italy Is About More Than a Map
New York City has long been celebrated as a city of immigrant neighborhoods. Little Italy, Chinatown, Harlem, Washington Heights, Brighton Beach—these communities tell the story of generations of newcomers who helped build America’s largest city while gradually becoming part of it. That history makes one omission from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recently released map of immigrant… -
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Colonial America Already Ran the Socialist Experiment. It Failed.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told ABC’s Jonathan Karl last month that a democratic socialist can win any office in the country. He may be right about the contemporary politics, but he is dead wrong about the underlying economics, and Colonial America proved it four centuries before he took the oath of office. The… -
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Mamdani Proposes Sweeping Changes to Housing Policy in NYC
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, speaking at a news conference Thursday, called for huge changes in the city’s rental market including elimination of proof of income for tenants. Mamdani hosted the news conference to promote his “Rental Ripoff Report,” created to “strengthen tenant protections, improve housing quality and hold negligent landlords accountable,” according to… -
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Muslim Dem Claims She’s Being Silenced by Party Over LGBTQ Issues
Melissa Chaudhry, a Washington State Democrat running for the state’s 9th Congressional District, told the Daily Signal that the Democratic Party has silenced the candidate for not embracing the LGBTQ+ community. The controversy comes after Chaudhry, who has already been endorsed by local advocacy groups in her race to unseat longtime incumbent Rep. Adam Smith,… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Search for a Working-Class Candidate
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: So, Victor, the Left. Let’s talk about them. I know that you’re currently working on an article about the Left as middle… -
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Michigan Senate Candidates Engage in Party Infighting Over Tax Returns Ahead of Democrat Primary
After immense pressure from primary opponent Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., Abdul El-Sayed has released tax return information in advance of the Aug. 4 primary in Michigan. Both Stevens and El-Sayed are running as Democrats for the open U.S. Senate seat to replace retiring Democrat Sen. Gary Peters. El-Sayed’s tax return information was shared on Wednesday… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Why Mamdani Wants to Erase Europeans From New York’s Immigration History
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Bill Jacobson, my pal—I love Bill. He’s the founder of Legal Insurrection. He’s just a great guy. He posted this on X…