Victor Davis Hanson: The Socialist Masquerade: Why the Left Keeps Faking Middle-Class Credentials

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**Victor Davis Hanson** (0:18)
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Have you noticed this phenomenon of the Democrat-Socialist Party trying to create fake or or pseudo middle class candidates? We saw it in the 2024 campaign when they put Tim Walz in that position. I mean, we were told that he changes his own oil, that he was the National Guard. Of course, they didn't really do a background check because they thought, why would we have to? He's a middle class duck hunting man of the people in Minnesota. And then, of course, all of that fell apart when he was an elitist, he was a radical leftist, he lied about his military service, his time in Red China, etc. We're watching a little bit of that with Talarico. They were so desperate to take a Senate seat in Texas that the left thought, you know, Beto came off a little too elitist from a wealthy family. We got now Talarico and he's a Christian evangelical, man of the people. So, they leaped at him and they thought, this guy, not Jasmine Crockett, she's too extreme, we understand that. But he can get through a socialist agenda because he's a Texan and he's Christian and he's an evangelical. No sooner did they get this pseudo middle class hero, then we started to learn that he was obsessed with trans issues, gay issues, he really didn't tell as much about his past. He said he had a girlfriend, he said he didn't. We didn't really know what he was talking about. Then his social media accounts were opened up and he had disparaged white people, he had disparaged meat eating in Texas, etc. Again, another effort to have a middle-class candidate who is not middle-class or is not a conservative populist. The Locus Classicus was Graham Platner.
Two very wealthy NEPO babies, Trust Fund Kids and the Democratic Party said, we're going to find a working-class hero. When he's Platner, he's an oyster man. He's a veteran. He's talks like a regular person. He's not a nasal tone person like ourselves. He doesn't sound like he's on NPR. He will win. He will win the middle-class.
We don't even have to vet him. And what do we find out that he had a Nazi tattoo? He's a misogynist. He had a history of violence and perhaps rape against women. He was anti-Semitic. He was a disaster and his whole Kennedy's collapse.
Remember, Kamala Harris? She told us in 2024 that she wasn't going to talk about her prior opposition to deportation or her support of open borders or banning fracking. No, no, no. We had to hear that she worked at McDonald's.
Where she worked and when she couldn't tell us. She said she had a Glock. Where she bought it, when she bought it, when she couldn't tell us. What is all this about? Well, it's all about that the Democratic now Socialist Party has a left wing agenda that is not appealed to 51 percent of the people. They don't want it. They don't want open borders. They do not want biological males and female sports or dressing with teenage girls in locker rooms. They don't want critical legal theory. They don't want critical race theory. They don't want the Green New Deal. They don't want any of it. And so they have to disguise that agenda because they won't change. And so they either have to resurrect Joe Biden, the good old Joe Biden from Scranton, Delaware, and use them as a wax and effigy as a veneer for their leftist agenda, or they have to create a middle class persona when there is no middle class persona because they have lost the white working class. Another problem they have is they talk about billionaires and oligarchs for the middle class, but they are the billionaire and oligarchic class.
Usually, when you look at where the vast amounts of money are coming, they're coming from billionaires. Often, they're divorcees of billionaires, Melinda Gates or widows like Lisa Jobs or Jeff Bezos' first wife, who pour hundreds of millions of dollars for leftist causes. Sometimes, they're in China like Neville Singman. Sometimes, they're in jail like Sam Bankman Freed. Sometimes, they should be in jail. I mean, George Soros was kicked out of France for violating some financial laws.
He did break the Bank of England. So they are manipulative capitalist billionaires, and they don't want to talk about that. They want to disguise it with middle-class candidacies. Their new socialist veneer is not helping. Mondami is a settler, colonialist family in Uganda with an estate on Lake Victoria. He grew up in privilege. Platner grew up in privilege, went to a prep school. His mom is his only client for his $5,000 a year oyster business. All of these socialists who've come recently from different countries are PhDs, law degrees, upper urban, and metrosexual elites. Here's the point though.