Victor Davis Hanson: Left Allows Violence To Spread, We Need To Indict And Convict These People To Stop It
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson talks to FOX News host Laura Ingraham and said the only way to prevent leftist activists from continuing to spread is to indict and convict them now.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Where are the Democrats condemning what is happening here, given the language that has been used by them, and then repeated by these suspects? Well, they’re not at all. With a wink and a nod, these young people who are committing these atrocious crimes are the useful idiots, or I should say the useful thugs, of the progressive democratic project. And so they have deniability of culpability, but by their silence, they think they benefit from that. And what I mean explicitly is, Karen Bass goes in a park and tells ICE to get out of her city, and then she and Gavin Newsom blame other people like Donald Trump for the violence that they let spread. And there’s no consequences. These people in the university are indoctrinated about all of this liberation roguery and philosophy. But if you go back to 2020, Laura, there were 14,000 people arrested in the George Floyd riots that went on. Almost all of them were let go, and that sent a message that if you were on the left and you could pose as a liberation, Jacobin, I don’t know, revolutionary, then you were going to be exempt and there would be no consequences for your behavior. And so it spread and spread. We saw this in the 1970s with middle-class kids, Weatherman Underground, SDS, Symbolese Liberation. And you know what the result was? Finally, they said, we don’t care if you’re middle-class kids. We’re going to indict you. We’re going to convict you. And we’re going to put you in prison for 20, 30 years. And they did. And then we had 12 years of backlash and Republican president, eight years of Reagan and four years of George H. Bush. And that’s the script that they’re following. People are going to get sick of this. And I think they already are. And you’re going to see a conservative reaction and a lot of Democratic hemorrhaging. And you’re going to see DAs, federal DAs, really to stop it. The only way they’re going to be able to do it is to indict and convict these people. They think it’s romantic. Yeah. They think it’s romantic. It’s neat. It’s deadly. And it’s vicious. And it’s horrible.
