Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson has released a new video in which he talks about the situation in Los Angeles.
Right out of the gate, Hanson suggests that California Governor Gavin Newsom has ‘ruined’ whatever chance he had to be taken seriously as a national candidate. If that wasn’t true after the way he handled the wildfires, it certainly is now.
Speaking more broadly, Hanson notes the optics of the situation and says it’s going to end badly for Democrats.
Partial transcript from The Daily Signal:
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. This weekend we saw rioting in Los Angeles against Immigration and Customs Enforcement for its efforts to apprehend illegal aliens and employers who were hiring illegal aliens.
And the riots started out initially without very many numbers but then they turned violent. And by violence, I would define that as throwing rocks at cars, torching cars, defacing government buildings, and attacking law enforcement.
But here’s what’s interesting. The mayor, Karen Bass, came down, in her public comments, on the side of the protesters who were protesting the idea of deportation at all. Kind of like former Vice President Kamala Harris used to march against deportation.
And California Gov. Gavin Newsom then gave a series of editorializations that I think have ruined his chances ever to be a serious national candidate. He said this was “chaotic,” this was “reckless.” And he said that they were just trying to have “an arbitrary” deportation “quota.”…
So, what I’m getting at is, on one side of these violent acts, you have these protesters. And I’ll just give a word of advice. You’re going to lose the optics—Democrats, the Left, and immigration protesters—if you have a lot of people here illegally and they’re waving, not the American flag, but the Mexican flag, as they’re committing acts of violence.
Think of the logic: “I am waving the flag of the country under no circumstances I want to return, but I am attacking the officers and the infrastructure of the country that under every circumstance I want to stay in.”
Watch the video below:
Victor Davis Hanson: Gavin Newsom’s ‘Reckless’ Surrender of LA to Foreign National Riots
Los Angeles erupted in riots over ICE deportations this weekend—and Gov. Gavin Newsom called enforcing law and order “reckless.”@VDHanson breaks down the staggering hypocrisy from… pic.twitter.com/pk01Hc9isu
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The Democrats are in utter denial. They have once again, picked the 20% side of an 80-20 issue.
