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Can the Left Ever Stop Its Craziness?

California Senator Alex Padilla recently crashed a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He deliberately wore no identification. He gave no advance warning that he would disrupt her briefing.

Instead, Padilla barged forward to the podium, shouting about the deportation of illegal aliens.

Immediately, Padilla got his media moment wish—once Secret Service agents, who had no idea who Padilla was, forcibly removed him.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) recently attempted a pseudo-filibuster, speaking nonstop for 25 hours straight—not to delay legislation, but to fixate on Donald Trump.

South Carolina Democratic state Representative Julie von Haefen just posted on social media an image of a bloody guillotine. It bore the title “In these difficult times, some cuts may be necessary” and was juxtaposed with an image of a hanging, beheaded Trump, who, a year ago, was the target of two failed assassination attempts.

The more Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom scream at Trump for nationalizing the California Guard to stop LA’s nightly violent anti-ICE protests, the more the two appear on the side of those who riot, destroy property, and attack police.

Yet who really wants to side with illegal aliens who spit on and burn American flags while waving Mexican flags?

Recently, some Democrats and leftists have romanticized Kilmar Abrego Garcia—an illegal alien, accused domestic abuser, gang member, and alleged human trafficker.

They also canonized illegal alien Mahmoud Khalil. But that pro-Hamas “student” helped organize and defend sometimes violent and antisemitic demonstrations at Columbia.

For some on the left, the assassin of a United Health Care CEO, the rich kid Luigi Mangione, has become a folk hero.

Others champion the undocumented family of illegal alien Mohamad Soliman and demand that they not be deported home to the Middle East—despite Soliman’s recent attempt to murder Jews using a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails.

Former Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, along with other prominent Democrats, mocked the recent Washington, D.C., military parade commemorating the 250th anniversary of the army, comparing it unfavorably with their own concurrent “No Kings” anti-Trump protests.

Those demonstrations—subsidized by left-wing billionaire donors—were utterly incoherent.

No other president has faced more lower federal court injunctions blocking executive orders than Trump.

Indeed, dozens of cherry-picked, left-wing district judges—the real unchecked “kings”—now routinely block almost every one of Trump’s executive orders.

Why are opposition Democrats not offering alternative agendas and compromises?

Could they partner with Trump to allow green cards to illegal aliens who have no criminal records, have not been on public assistance, are now employed, and have resided in the U.S. for over five years?

Could Democrats meet with the president to express bipartisan support for democratic Israel in its existential war with theocratic Iran?

Instead, why do Democrats throw two-year-old temper tantrums to howl nihilistically at everything Trump says and does?

One, exasperated Democrats lack all levers of political power—the Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court.

So, they take to the media and the streets.

Two, Democrats are permanently frustrated that the more they scream and stomp, the more polls show radical declines in public support for their party.

Three, their nemesis, 79-year-old Donald Trump, seems impervious to Democratic lawfare, threats, and smears.

Despite the hysterical attacks, he is still polling now about where prior presidents like George Bush and Barack Obama were at similar junctures in their second terms.

The more Trump is smeared as a fascist or dictator, the more polls—like the latest liberal Economist/YouGov survey—show him gaining public support for securing the border and deportation.

And the more the left damns Trump as a racist, the more he wins unprecedented Black and Hispanic support. In recent Rasmussen tracking polls, Trump garnered 54 percent approval from Black voters and 53 percent from Hispanics.

Four, Trump proves a hard-to-hit, moving target for the frustrated left. He cannot quite be pigeonholed as a predictable right-wing bogeyman.

Unlike the left, when Trump weighs in on the Ukraine war, he first begins by deploring the tragic waste of over a million lives.

No one is more pro-Israel. Yet no one has offered a losing Iran a chance to negotiate its way out of total and humiliating defeat.

Trump talks nonstop about protecting the middle class. Unions like him; Wall Street mostly despises him.

Trump wants to deport as many illegal alien criminals as possible. But he is willing to consider green cards for unlawful aliens who are working, crime-free, and with long residence in the U.S.

The Trump counterrevolution barrels ahead. The people cheer. And Democrats keep barking at the moon.

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About Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004, and is the 2023 Giles O'Malley Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and the Bradley Prize in 2008. Hanson is also a farmer (growing almonds on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author of the just released New York Times best seller, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation, published by Basic Books on May 7, 2024, as well as the recent  The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, The Case for Trump, and The Dying Citizen.

Photo: US Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat from California, is removed from the room after interrupting a news conference with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles on June 12, 2025. US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Los Angeles was "safe and sound" for the past two nights, crediting his deployment of thousands of troops to quell anti-deportation protests, as California prepared for a legal showdown over his unprecedented move. With protests spreading across the United States, a night-time curfew has been in place in its second-largest city with authorities tackling vandalism and looting that scarred a few city blocks. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) / ALTERNATE CROP

Notable Replies

  1. It sounds to me like Democrats are doing just fine in their efforts to lose the 2026 mid-terms. I wouldn’t change a thing.

    Illegal immigration is still the number one issue with voters, and Donald Trump continues to get high marks from voters on his efforts in the deportation of the approximately 11 million illegal aliens that crossed the border between 2020 and 2024. Voters continue to be dismayed by Federal judges’ efforts to stymie his actions.

    At the border, itself, his actions have been near perfect. Some 62,000 crossed the border in May of last year. Zero crossed over this year. The bleeding has stopped, but the patient is still at risk from prior blood loss.

    All the grandstanding by Democrat politicians, and all the paid for by elite’s public demonstrations and Days of Rage, have not moved the needle in favor of Democrat protection of illegal aliens one bit.

    Besides polling staying stable, another indicator the Democrat messaging is failing is the continued drop in viewership numbers at CNN and MSNBC. Each of the troubled networks are up for sale and no one seems interested in buying. And worse for them, but better for us, the on-air talent still hasn’t got the message that Americans are no longer interested in their lies and patent framing of news stories that seek to depict Trump as an existential threat to democracy. Continued smearing of MAGA as an evil cult has lost traction as well.

    So, let the demonstrations continue. Let the cars burn and the Mexican and Gazan flags continue to wave. Let the politicians continue to cry for the cameras. It’s all good for me.

  2. Pundits like Professor Hansen are correct that the Democrats have no agenda, but not in the way they think. The Democrats have no political agenda. They no longer practice politics. Instead, they practice psy-ops and “resistance” because they are no longer a political party. They are a paramilitary organization, more like the Bolsheviks and the Nazis, with a military agenda: to destroy and plunder America. They should be officially designated a domestic terrorist organization and dealt with accordingly. If they take power again, the last 4-year’s flood at the southern border will seem like nothing. Just that will be enough to sack the country.

  3. For over a century our Democratic friends have ruled with a political formula that, experts agree, they are the wise and educated ones that should administer and regulate us, and also that they are the allies of the victims.

    But with populist nationalism both of these bases of their power are melting into air. And they cain’t stand it, in the words of American philosopher Lina Lamont.

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