Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson argued during a Friday podcast that Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green announcing he will bring articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump is emblematic of the Democratic Party’s failure to course-correct after the 2024 election.
Trump made significant gains with both Hispanic and black men during the November election. Hanson, on “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” pointed to Green’s impeachment effort as part of a larger pattern of Democrats being out of touch with their constituents, particularly men.
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“The thing is that there has been an effort of the elites of the Democratic Party. They’re very worried about the 2024 election,” Hanson said. “And you can see it in that hysteria that we saw at the Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) elections, where an African American outgoing chief gave us all the rules about the voting that there have to be this many women and this many transgender … it was a joke.”
Hanson was referencing outgoing DNC chair Jaime Harrison’s apparent confusion with his own party’s gender inclusivity policies at the DNC’s Saturday meeting, where he struggled to explain that “in order to be gender-balanced” the party must elect “one male, one female, and one person of any gender,” for the party’s vice chair position. The DNC ultimately elected two women and two men for its open vice chair positions, including David Hogg, a left-wing media darling known for his gun control advocacy after attending Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during its infamous school shooting.
Hanson called Hogg “unhinged.”
“And so, Al Green and, you know, I think what they’re really — the subtext is 25 to 26% of African American males voted for Donald Trump. And that pushed up the number of black votes to that magical number of about 13 to 15%. And when it gets there, the Democrats can’t win because they have lost 60% of the white vote,” he added. “And when you add into the equation 55% of Hispanic males voted for Donald Trump, and that pushed the Hispanic vote almost 50/50 — 48 something — and Asians went from 70% to Biden, to about 45, 43% for Trump. So there’s been a shift, and you would think that minority leaders like Al Green in the House, they would [shift], but there’s not one of them.”
Green introduced articles of impeachment against Trump at least three times during his first term, but none of his attempts were successful.
“So almost every day, Representative Green or [Democratic Rep. Jasmine] Crockett, she gets in there and screams about white racists and horrible white racists and horrible, horrible white racists and horrible, horrible, horrible slave owners … My point is, I don’t think they represent anymore the rank and file, especially men and I think they don’t get it,” Hanson said. “That when you have a Democratic National Convention and you start squabbling over your sexual orientation and you say eight or nine people have to be voted, ‘How many were black? How many were Hispanic?’ Oh, we made a mistake, we don’t have a nonbinary, we got to throw this elected candidate.”
Hanson asserted black and Hispanic men are the same as whites in terms of looking at what happened at the DNC and saying, “‘These people are blank, blank crazy.’” He also called out Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy for saying on Saturday that he is housing a female illegal immigrant above his garage and accused Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of allowing a massive Sunday protest where demonstrators waved Mexican flags on her city’s Highway 101 to protest Trump’s immigration reforms.
“So I’ve given all these examples about this Talleyrand aphorism — ‘they’ve forgotten nothing and learned nothing.’ They’ve forgotten the whole reason why they lost the ’24 election,” Hanson said. “So they haven’t learned how to do anything.”
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