𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗡: 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢 𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗔 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗬

Victor Davis Hanson just delivered one of the sharpest analytical pieces he’s ever done — and it starts with a declaration: the Democratic Party as America knew it for 50 to 100 years is gone.

What replaced it is not a center-left coalition. It is, in his words, a full-blown socialist revolutionary party. And the people actually running it are not Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries. They are Jasmine Crockett, James Talarico, Zohran Mamdani, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders.

The ideology is Marxist at its core — a binary world divided into oppressors and oppressed, with the Democratic Party positioned as the enforcer of mandatory equality of result through radical taxation, open borders, and the dismantling of legal standards. You can see it in no cash bail. You can see it in sanctuary cities. You can see it in the Mamdani administration’s day-one revocation of antisemitism enforcement in New York.

How did the party of Harry Truman and JFK become this? VDH lays it out in two words: open borders and globalization.

Open borders delivered 53 million foreign-born residents — the largest in American history. Globalization created two Americas: the coastal elite whose audience expanded to seven billion global customers, and the manufacturing and mining class that was outsourced offshore. The Democratic Party chose the coastal elite and the recent immigrant, and abandoned the white working class entirely — not just abandoned them, but created a vocabulary of contempt for them. Clingers. Deplorables. Irredeemables. Chumps. Garbage. Peter Strzok texting about them smelling up Walmart.

VDH makes a point that deserves to be amplified: the wealthiest ethnic minority in America today is Indian Americans. Mamdani — who talks constantly about racial equity — is himself a multimillionaire whose parents are multimillionaires. The Marxist oppressor/oppressed binary doesn’t survive contact with actual demographic data.

And the old Democratic Party? The 1992 Clinton agenda — closed borders, legal-only immigration, strong unions, juvenile criminals tried as adults, balanced budgets, strong national defense — is essentially the Republican platform today. Any Democrat who espoused those views now would be called a heretic.

The result is a party shaped like a dumbbell: vast globalized wealth at the top, a mass base of poor recent arrivals at the bottom, and nothing in the middle. The American working class — the Hubert Humphrey, JFK, Truman constituency — has been written off and replaced.

𝗩𝗗𝗛’𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻, 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗗.

11:07 PM · Mar 24, 2026

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𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗡: 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢 𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗔 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗬

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