Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said on Newsmax Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s counter-revolutionary tactics might disrupt the Democratic Party for generations.
Trump’s current counter-revolutionary tactics include a comprehensive policy overhaul targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs across federal institutions, dismantling the Department of Education, and reversing policies established under earlier administrations. During an appearance on “Finnerty,” Hanson said President Trump is a fundamentally different kind of leader, one who is reshaping the Republican strategy.
“I don’t think they understand Donald Trump. He is not George W. Bush. He’s not a Mitt Romney. He’s not a John McCain. He’s not satisfied to just slow down the growth of the administrative state and neo-socialism,” Hanson said. “He’s a counter-revolutionary. Yeah. And he’s saying economically, politically, socially, militarily, this country has gone way to the left, and I’m going to bring it back to the center. And that’s so disruptive.”
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Hanson went on to say that the Democrats’ current lack of significant political power — being without the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House, and the presidency — leaves them with limited tools.
“They didn’t think any Republican had the courage or the gumption to do that. And he does. He’s serious. And now they’re thinking, ‘My God, the guy is really serious. He could really disrupt us for a generation,’” Hanson said. “And we’ve got to stop him at any means necessary. We don’t have the Supreme Court. We don’t have the House. We don’t have the Senate. We don’t have the White House. We didn’t win the popular vote. We didn’t win the Electoral [College], but we don’t have political power other than the street and our mouth.”
Hanson did not mince words in describing the ongoing struggles of the Democrats, who, despite recognizing the factors diminishing their public appeal, continue to escalate their rhetoric and actions.
“Normally, any party would self-correct. They did that after George McGovern. They did it after Jimmy Carter, and they went full centrist with Bill Clinton, or at least they feigned centrism. But this is unusual that they know what’s killing them, and yet they double down on it,” Hanson added. “It’s almost like a mixture of, I guess I’d call it smut chic all the way down to terrorist porn, because they’re cutting videos where senators are saying S-H-I-T, or they’re calling Elon Musk a D-I-C-K, or A-S, this horrible, this smut language.”
Hanson said Democrats’ increasingly provocative media tactics surprise everyone.
“So I don’t think there’s a bottom to it. There should be, but each day surprises all of us if they get more and more pornographic, more and more smutty, and more and more participating, wink and nod, with terrorism.”
Hanson’s remarks come as tensions flare on both sides of the aisle. In a recent House Oversight Subcommittee hearing on the funding of NPR and PBS, Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett lashed out at Republicans with a string of expletives, expressing her discontent under the chairmanship of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In an attempt to further oppose Trump’s agenda, a coalition of national Democratic organizations, including the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Association of State Democratic Committees, launched the “People’s Town Halls” tour. They are focusing on Republican-held districts across the U.S., following significant Democratic Party losses in the 2024 elections, where Republicans took control of the White House and both congressional chambers.
Democrats have formed a resistance to oppose Trump’s policies, specifically targeting the Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk, which has cut the number of federal agency employees.
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