{"id":148836,"date":"2025-08-18T14:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148836"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:10:51","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-sums-it-up-optimistically-the-democrat-party-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/victor-davis-hanson-sums-it-up-optimistically-the-democrat-party-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson sums it up: \u2018Optimistically . . . the Democrat Party is dead\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, August 18, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Historian and columnist Victor Davis Hanson delivered a powerful state of the Democrat Party in August 2025. Not a perspective likely to be aired on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc.<\/p>\n<p>He agreed with host Mark Levin that President Donald Trump is a force of nature: &#8220;I have never seen anything like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About the hard-core Marxists who he said have taken over the Democrat Party,\u00a0Hanson concluded: &#8220;I think the American people are really sick of these people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"truthsocial-embed truthsocial-video\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/115041715493538714\/embed\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/embed.js\" async=\"async\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, August 18, 2025 Real World News Historian and columnist Victor Davis Hanson delivered a powerful state of the Democrat Party in August 2025. Not a perspective likely to be aired on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc. He agreed with host Mark Levin that President Donald Trump is a force of nature: &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":148837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,16,12,5],"tags":[427,6],"class_list":["post-148836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-stories","category-u-s-politics","category-world-links","category-world-tribune","tag-victor-davis-hanson-sums-it-up-optimistically-the-democrat-party-is-dead","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}