Victor Davis Hanson;
The Democratic Party is polling about 27 percent approval—and sinking.
On every issue, Democrats sided with strident leftist movements rather than the majority of Americans.
Democrats faced choices after their catastrophic defeat last year.
One, they could have stopped the hemorrhaging of their base of 18-30-year-olds, black men, Hispanics, and Independents by moving toward the center.
They even could have worked with Trump and perhaps sought to take credit for joint successes.
Instead, they doubled down on “resistance” through street-theater terror-chic.
Democrat senators cut a group attack video, each echoing the potty word “sh*t.”
In a House ad, Democratic female members mimicked ninjas, kicking and punching at the camera, as if hitting their Republican opponents.
Former vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz boasts about kicking the “ass” of Republicans.
“Assh*ole” is now the standard Democrat epithet for Musk, as voiced by Sen. Mark Kelly. “D*ck” is the preferred Musk slur from Sen. Tina Smith.
Xenophobia is also now Democratic chic.
Walz smears Musk, an American citizen, as a “South African nepo baby.”
Other Democrat representatives question Musk’s loyalty, asking, “Which country is he [Musk] loyal to?”
Or they further boast, “We’re [Democrats] going to send Elon back to South Africa.”
An unhinged Rep. Maxine Waters shouts that she wants First Lady Melania Trump deported, given she too is a naturalized citizen.
But those theatrics have now escalated into near overt support for violence.
Democrats are blocking the deportation of dangerous illegal aliens affiliated with the terrorist-designated Tren de Aragua.
They try to stop the deportation of resident alien Mahmoud Khalil—arch Hamas supporter, apologist for the murderers of October 7, and a spokesman for the most violent student group at Columbia.
To stop Elon Musk’s advisory Department of Government Efficiency and its identification of government waste, fraud, and abuse, leftist cabals are now terrorizing Musk’s Tesla brand nationwide.
They seek to destroy cars, dealerships, and charging stations. Individual Tesla owners are sometimes tailed, confronted, and threatened.
Democrats claim no formal role in such terror—but more or less seem to approve of its ends and means.
Left-wing comic Jimmy Kimmel winks and nods on national television about the current violent Tesla terrorist campaign.
Tim Walz celebrates the resulting drop in the Tesla stock price. As Minnesota’s governor overseeing his state’s sizable investment in Tesla, Walz could care less about trash-talking his own taxpayers’ investments.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett boasts that Musk “must be taken down.”
She brags she wants to physically assault Sen. Ted Cruz, who “has to be knocked over the head, like hard”—adding “I think you punch, I think you [sic] OK with punching.”
Former Democratic House member and once-censured Rep. Jamaal Bowman claimed Musk was a “Nazi” and an “incompetent thief.”
Democrat Rep. Al Green was censured by the House for disrupting the Trump joint address to Congress—and led away screaming and shaking his cane at the President in failed efforts to shut down the speech.
Furious at their own increasing impotence, these contemporary Democrat Jacobins are dabbling with their own version of a reign of smut terror.
They are probably too impotent to derail the country, but they are certainly destroying themselves.