Victor Davis Hanson: There Is No Longer A Democratic Party

What replaced it is not a center-left coalition. It is, in his words, a full-blown socialist revolutionary party. And the people actually running it are not Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries. They are Jasmine Crockett, James Talarico, Zohran Mamdani, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders.

The ideology is Marxist at its core — a binary world divided into oppressors and oppressed, with the Democratic Party positioned as the enforcer of mandatory equality of result through radical taxation, open borders, and the dismantling of legal standards. You can see it in no cash bail. You can see it in sanctuary cities. You can see it in the Mamdani administration's day-one revocation of antisemitism enforcement in New York.

How did the party of Harry Truman and JFK become this? VDH lays it out in two words: open borders and globalization.

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Victor Davis Hanson just delivered one of the sharpest analytical pieces he's ever done — and it starts with a declaration: the Democratic Party as America knew it for 50… pic.twitter.com/rtVdgqHZ3a

— M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman)March 25, 2026