Leftists Embrace Sedition and Insurrection as Democrats Lose
Power.
Victor Davis Hanson | July 09, 2025
**Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.
We’ve talked in the past a lot about the unfortunate turn to the
hard Left that Democrats have made. But in the last week, it’s
become surreal.
We had this minor official—a Democratic official—Sade Perkins,
and she posted that she was almost happy that we lost over a hundred
people, the majority of them children, in this flash flood in Texas.
She said they were “all white,” and therefore, they were discrimi-
natory. I’ve never seen anything like it.
And then, people weighed in. And they had some atrocious
comments. A pediatrician was almost gloating. And they had a
variety of mechanisms to show how grotesque and ghoulish they were.
One group of people said, “It was global warming. You people
in Texas”—where, by the way, there’s more, I think, there’s more
wind turbines and solar than almost anywhere—“you people denied
global warming. This was caused by global warming. And therefore,
you got your just desserts.”
It was not caused by global warming. It was a once-in-a-cen-
tury flash flood of a magnitude no one had seen in a hundred years.
And then there were other people who said, “You supported the
Department of Government Efficiency cuts, so you got what you
deserved.” And in her case, she said, “You’re white people.”
So, it’s very, very, very disturbing.
At the same time, we’ve had now two organized assassination
attempts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who are
just following the law. Remember what they’re doing. Apparently,
in the mind of the Left, it was a moral thing to break the law and
let 12 million people—without vaccinations, without audits, without
criminal background checks—come into the United States. But it is
an amoral thing to enforce the law and restore the rule of law,
and ask people, who came in illegally, to please return.
But in that conundrum, we’ve had now 10 people arrested. And
they were kind of Antifa types. I’m not saying they were Antifa.
But they were dressed in black. They had radios. They had semi-
automatic weapons. They had body armor. They were young, mostly
white kids that looked like they were children of the middle class.
And they shot an ICE agent in the neck. And they had a gun battle.
And then, this was following an earlier assassination attempt.
Now, you think that the Democratic Party would be worried. But
we’ve got even more disturbing reports that Democratic Congress
people said, “Well, what are we supposed to do? We meet with our
constituents and they’re telling us that one of us should be shot.
I don’t mean shot by punishment. They’re urging us to use violence
and be willing to be shot by others to promote a radical agenda.”
And I don’t know if that’s true because they won’t report any
circumstances that would substantiate that. But basically, the con-
gressional Democrats are saying, “I don’t know what I can do. These
people are pushing us to the radical edge.”
And then you saw House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, didn’t
you? He was posing with a bat like he was going to club people, in
opposition to the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
I could go on with all of these examples. But I mean, this is
an age in which people tried to kill President Donald Trump twice.
And we know what happened to House Majority Leader Steve Scalise
and other congressional personnel. And so, we’re getting a Luigi
Mangione, etc. The attacks on Jewish people in Washington, D.C.
We’re getting to the point now, the Left is entering the era of
sedition, insurrection.
We had Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass go to a park and confront
ICE agents who were federal law enforcement people, obeying and
enforcing, and trying to restore the legitimacy of federal law,
which surpasses municipal and state law, remember? And she said,
“You’ve got to get out of my city.”
This is insurrection. Why is it happening? We’ve said in the
past that part of it is that the Democratic agenda nobody wanted,
there were 80/20, 70/30 issues, and as a result of that, they lost
the Congress, they lost the White House, they lost, of course, in
most cases, the Supreme Court.
So, they don’t have any power. So, they’re frustrated. But I
think, even more importantly, in the first administration, Donald
Trump addressed symptoms of the progressive project: Let’s restore
deterrence. Let’s try to deal with the border. Let’s try to stop
crime. Let’s cut taxes. But he didn’t have time or the knowledge
or the constituencies. And he was working with a hostile Congress
to address the root causes of those symptoms.
This time he’s saying, “This lunacy, it’s caused by certain
institutions: foundations, universities, the Democratic Party,
public broadcasting, the media.” And so, what he’s doing is he’s
going after blue-stocking, left-wing law firms. He’s going after
the endowment and taxing university endowments. He’s looking at
grants on federal—grant surcharges gouging the federal government
on university grants. He’s dealing with countries that are openly
promoting open borders.
So, he’s dealing with the symptoms. And the Left is saying,
“Oh my gosh, we have no institutional power. And now the way that
we exercise power without having legislative or executive influence
is institutions, foundations, media, K-12, universities. And Donald
Trump is starting to address our left-wing monopoly and dominance
of those institutions. And if he were to be successful, we would
collapse, dissipate, disintegrate. So, we’re going to go take to
the streets and we’re going to use violence and we’re going to do
anything possible to stop this Donald Trump counterrevolution.”
It’s going to be very dangerous times. We’ve got to be very
careful about what everybody says and not escalate the situation.
But it’s mostly, now, coming from a frustrated and impotent Left.**
WE continue to pray that God will judge and make the evil on
the left pay for the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the
American people. He will teach them that they will always reap what
sew against His people.
Conservatively,
John
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