Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats’ Desperate Course Correction to Win Back the Working Middle Class in the Midterms

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He sees the good in everyone, and I see the truth. We haven't been formally introduced.

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**Victor Davis Hanson** (0:48)
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. The Democratic Party has a lot of problems that have been widely discussed.
One of the most notorious is, since the 2009 to 2017 presidencies of Barack Obama, and especially under Joe Biden, they have completely lost the so-called white working class. People have estimated that in 2024, Kamala Harris only gained about 30% of that demographic. They put so much emphasis on each particular community. Every time a Democratic politician would address a crowd, he'd say, and I'm for the LGBTQ plus something community, or I'm plus for the Hispanic community, I'm for the Asian community. And with the onset of DEI and the post George Floyd, the white working class felt that they were unwanted or not liked or actually despised. And we heard again and again, white privilege, white supremacy.
And there was a whole vocabulary of disparagement. It started with Barack Obama when he wrote off his loss to Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania because people, he basically called clingers, mindless automatons who cling to their Bibles and guns, didn't understand the sophistication of Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton went to West Virginia and said she wanted to shut down the coal industry as if all of those white middle class and working class coal miners didn't matter. Joe Biden said they should learn coding, get rid of them, ban mining. Hillary, remember, called them deplorables and irredeemables. Joe Biden expanded that vocabulary with chumps, dregs, and most infamously garbage. And of course, when anytime a Democrat or liberals communications were leaked or found their way to the public, they were always anti-white working class. The CNN reporter said he went to a Trump rally and had more teeth than everybody in the crowd. Or Peter Strzok, the infamously FBI rogue agent who said to his paramour, Lisa Page, said, texted her that he went to Walmart and he could smell them.
So they had a problem with them and they can't win without that rubric. It might be as, if you count women and men, it could be as much as the voting age, 30 to 50% of the electorate. So now, they think they've gotten smart and they have a new approach. And the new approach is the old approach. They're going to back off publicly from DEI and all of these primaries, publicly a little bit from open borders. But you know what will happen? Kamala Harris was for banning deportation. She was going to ban fracking, but she didn't say that when she was running. Many of the candidates in the last election cycle, the governor of Virginia, the governor of New Jersey had run as moderates, and then they showed their real selves once they were elected.
But now the emphasis is on, we've got to find white working class who are authentically genuine people. And it's very hard for them because they are not genuine people themselves, the Democratic Socialist Islamists' new party. So now all of a sudden Pete Buttigieg is wearing a caterpillar hat, grown a beard, Levi's as if he is going to represent the white working class. He's the most sanctimonious, self-righteous, off-putting Democratic candidate who has zero chance to appeal to the white working class. They thought that maybe they could have the evangelical angle. And so they dug up James Talarico, and he is a Christian evangelical minister of sorts. And they thought, well, this will get red steak. He's out of red steak Texas, will run in for Senate. He might be the next presidential, vice presidential candidate. Who knows? And of course, they didn't check his background because the Democratic Party of today, as I said earlier, has a long record of despising traditional values and middle class America. And lo and behold, James Talarico has disparaged in social media and in speeches the white working class. He's called Texans illiberal, gun-toting. He said that Jesus was non-binary. He said there was six or seven genders. He said all of these things. And he comes across as a Pete Buttigieg at a pulpit.