Victor Davis Hanson Says DSA Communism is Not a Real Grassroots Movement: ‘Mostly White, Affluent, but Angry They Can’t Buy a NYC Condo’ (VIDEO)

Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson appeared on FOX News tonight with Laura Ingraham and talked about the rise of the communists in the DSA, saying that it is not a genuine grassroots movement.

Hanson suggests that most of the people voting for these candidates are white, affluent and highly educated, but are bitter because they can’t afford to buy a condo in New York City, which they think they are entitled to because of their education.

He also mentions how bizarre it is that most of these people are atheists, yet are seemingly willing to embrace Islamic candidates.

He also torches the hypocrisy of wealthy Democrat politicians embracing them saying, “A lot of urban people think this message is cool because it promises them free stuff. But when you have Ro Khanna attacking capitalism while his wife drives a $200,000 Range Rover, Gavin Newsom living in a $9 million house, and socialist influencers driving Porsches, the hypocrisy becomes impossible to ignore.”

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🚨 Dems Built The SOCIALIST Monster@VDHanson: “A lot of urban people think this message is cool because it promises them free stuff. But when you have Ro Khanna attacking capitalism while his wife drives a $200,000 Range Rover, Gavin Newsom living in a $9 million house, and… pic.twitter.com/AQsUbWEiuN

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) July 21, 2026

Hanson has been writing about this at the Daily Signal:

The Democratic Party Is Turning Into a Bunch of Middle-Class Phonies

Have you noticed this phenomenon of the Democrat-socialist party trying to create fake or false or pseudo middle-class candidates?

We saw it in the 2024 campaign when they put Tim Walz in that position. I mean, we were told that he changes his own oil, that he was in the National Guard.

Of course, they didn’t really do a background check because they thought, “Why would we have to? He’s a middle-class, duck-hunting man of the people in Minnesota.”

And then, of course, all of that fell apart when he was an elitist, he was a radical leftist, he lied about his military service, his time in Red China, etc., etc.

We’re watching a little bit of that with [James] Talarico. They were so desperate to take a Senate seat in Texas that the Left thought, you know, Beto [O’Rourke] came off a little too elitist from a wealthy family. We got now Talarico, and he’s a Christian evangelical man of the people.

So, they leaped at him, and they thought, this guy, not Jasmine Crockett. She’s too extreme, we understand that. But he can get through a socialist agenda because he’s a Texan, and he’s Christian, and he’s an evangelical.

The DSA could cost the Democrats the midterms. It certainly should.