Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson has released a new video in which he talks about the situation in Los Angeles.
Hanson suggests that California Governor Gavin “Brylcreme” Newsom has ‘ruined’ whatever chance he had to be taken seriously as a national candidate. If Newsom is was refusing to act to keep Americans safe from violence in Los Angeles, why would he ever be able to face difficult decisions in the White House.
Speaking more broadly, Hanson notes the optics of the situation and says it’s going to end badly for Democrats.
Victor Davis Hanson: Gavin Newsom’s ‘Reckless’ Surrender of LA to Foreign National Riots
Los Angeles erupted in riots over ICE deportations this weekend—and Gov. Gavin Newsom called enforcing law and order “reckless.”@VDHanson breaks down the staggering hypocrisy from… pic.twitter.com/pk01Hc9isu
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Trump has authorized the Department of Defense to use whatever resources are needed to get the situation under control. The Democrats are in utter denial having once agin picked the wrong side of an 80-20 issue.
One question for the country. How many cities have piles of pallets showing up with cement bricks on them for the upcoming “Summer of Love?”

