Former Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes said that House Democrats have shifted from “extreme liberals” to “neo-Marxists” during a Wednesday episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

Nunes served in Congress from 2003-2022, before Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett entered in 2023. Hanson asked Nunes on his Daily Signal podcast whether he “ever imagine” there would be representatives like Crockett during his time in office and if the Democrat Party is “even more far gone” than he experienced during his tenure. (RELATED: Dem Rep Really Upset That ICE Agents Wore Masks When Making Arrests)

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“When I first arrived to Washington, Bernie Sanders was in the House, who was a socialist, and he then ran for the Senate shortly after I arrived. But he was a loner. He was in the back. He didn’t have any friends. Everybody thought he was nuts, even the Democrats,” Nunes said. “You had the kind of the extreme left fringe was led by somebody, one of the leaders who I actually knew, Barney Frank, longtime congressman from Massachusetts.”

“But Barney Frank was someone that you could disagree with him, but he believed in what he was talking about. Like, he could explain his positions, as it led to the famous Dodd-Frank banking act that was passed,” he continued. “The Barney Franks have been replaced by people that are extreme left but with no ability to explain their