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Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson warned on Fox News Tuesday that the Democratic Party’s embrace of figures like Zohran Mamdani signals a deeper ideological shift.
Mamdani is a self-avowed socialist who built his campaign around wealth redistribution, expansive government programs, and class-based politics. Appearing on “The Ingraham Angle,” Hanson said modern Democrats led by progressives such as Mamdani and Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez push policies that contradict human nature and repress people.
“Historically, socialists always come in after capitalists have made prosperity, and then they offer and improve prosperity,” Hanson told Laura Ingraham. “And it’s contrary to human nature. People like initiative. They like pride in their property. Some people like to work a lot and get compensated.”
Hanson said that when the state controls innovation and productivity, it inevitably crushes dissent and freedom.
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“It gives you that freedom of opportunity. And then the society at large benefits, Laura, from all these millions of agendas and ideas that improve, that people are free to innovate and to take experiments and risk. But when the state monopolizes all of that, it’s contrary to human nature, and then it has to be repressive,” Hanson said. “So all of these social experiments, even if they’re democratic, they end up repressive. At the worst form, it’s no accident that the greatest mass murderers in history were Mao [Zedong] and [Joseph] Stalin, 30 million, 60 million, and they were radical communists, and even people like Hitler, National Socialist Party.”
Hanson added that every socialist system creates a privileged elite exempt from its own policies.
“Talented people who can help the economy, who are successful or demonized, they flee. People who want things for nothing come in. There’s open borders,” Hanson added. “They destroy personal liberty, and they stamp out any dissent or criticism. And there’s always an elite, the billionaire Castro brothers, Chavez and Maduro. They always are never subject to their consequences, their ideology. Here in California, we are becoming socialist.”
As Mamdani’s campaign gained traction after clinching the Democratic mayoral nomination in June, prominent party figures gradually lined up behind him. Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul voiced her support in a September New York Times op-ed. By October, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries publicly endorsed Mamdani after months of sidestepping questions about his candidacy.
Mamdani, who was elected mayor of New York City Tuesday, said he will push for sweeping economic reforms — including a $30 minimum wage, city-operated grocery stores, and higher taxes on what he described as “richer and whiter” neighborhoods.
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First, a Muslim mayor. Then a Muslim Governor, then a Muslim president, then a Muslim Supreme Court, then Sharia Law … then goodbye America. Yeah … there will be blood in the streets. Not good. Muslims are not good. They belong in the ME … nowhere else.
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“Here in California, we’re becoming socialist.”
True VDH … here in the SF Bay Area, my wealthy high tech neighbors all espouse socialist beliefs. I guess they feel they work for what will become the totalitarian tech watchdogs. THEY will surveille you, and cut your social credits if you step out of the Party line. My own street is full of potential ‘Block Captains’. Cringe.
All as bad as each other, two cheeks of the same arse. Thats an interesting book collection behind him, clearly likes reading. All those books linked to samaels works which were all failures. He should definitely read Eziekel 28 where his soul will be thrown in the lake of fire after the birds and the beast will finish eating his remains for what he has done to the real Israel along with the rest of the contents of the cheeks of the arse.