Conservative Scholar Victor Davis Hanson Analyzes Hard Left Turn of Democrats – Lays Most of Blame on Higher Education (VIDEO)

Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson appeared on FOX News last night and was asked to comment on the radical left turn of the Democrats during this cycle.

Host Laura Ingraham began by asking Hanson about the Somali flag being raised in various Democrat-run cities and he used that as a springboard to look at the larger picture.

For Hanson, an academic himself, much of the blame goes to higher education. He suggests that the massive student loan debt, combined with worthless degrees was a recipe for failure.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

LAURA INGRAHAM: Our next guest is a patriot himself, Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Victor, I want you to weigh in on this Somali flag raising this happening across the country, I’ve never seen anything like this. Perhaps it’s been going on for years, and I just didn’t notice, especially on our 250th. What would John Adams think?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, SENIOR FELLOW, HOOVER INSTITUTION: I don’t think he’d be too happy. I think it’s a reaction against the Trump administration when they uncovered this massive Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota, and I think the Left seems to want to champion that community and absolve them of any culpability, even though many of Americans were involved, second, third generation, excusing them, but I think the whole process is kind of a perfect storm, Laura.

We’ve had 50 years in the university where all we hear is a melodrama of how bad we were at our creation, our founding. We got worse during our maturity, and now we’re really bad, and that goes all the way down to K through 12. And then the university really, you know, they racked up 1.7 trillion in student loans, they triple the rate of inflation. They have these kind of non — they’re not really degrees, sociology dash studies, and so they, they get all these kids in debt, and then they have these worthless degrees, and they have delusions of grandeur, and so they’re very susceptible to socialism.

We never had 53 million immigrants, and we never had 16 percent of the population, and this came at a time when we do not believe in the melting pot, acculturation, assimilation, integration, and we have people coming mostly from the third world now, and they’re poor, and they come here, and the Democratic Party welcomes them, and saying, you’re the other, or you qualify for DEI, and as long as you agree with our negative appraisal of our own country, there’s a lot of repertory advantages, affirmative action scholarships for you, and they buy into that very easily, and we don’t make any effort with civic education anymore.

Watch the video:

He says America abandoned one of the principles that helped generations of immigrants become Americans. pic.twitter.com/yEjoCSKJzT

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) July 2, 2026

Hanson is correct about all of this.

The good news is that our system of higher education is not going to be able to continue in the way it has operated for decades. It’s simply not sustainable.

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