Victor Davis Hanson: Vance vs. Rubio
Who benefits from this decision?
Victor Davis Hanson returns to weigh the balancing act Vice President JD Vance faces in a potential 2028 run in weeding out antisemitism from within the Republican Party without alienating disenfranchised white males who have been misled.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: On the other side in 2028, if you looked at the polls, Marco Rubio was like 8%, 10%, and JD Vance was overwhelmingly [ahead]. They both speak well. And you saw what Vance did in the debate with [Democrat VP nominee] Tim Walz. You saw what he did 30 or 40 times on weekend news shows.
He just demolished all of these left-wing newscasters. And Rubio did the same thing when he went before the Senate or the House. They’re both good. But Rubio is getting a little bit more traction now, and that, I think, is because there is a perception that JD Vance has ties to not the MAGA base, the ultra MAGA base.
I think he’s going to have articulate this. There’s a large number of white males. We’ve talked about that: a demographic, that they were on the wrong end of affirmative action. They tried to go to universities or college. They were always blamed as toxic masculinity people, or racist or sexist or homophobic. And globalization robbed people in the middle, especially the white demographics.
These were the demo that died at twice their numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet were pillared.
SAMI WINC: Demonizing them, yeah.
HANSON: You can see why they’re angry. Candace [Owens] takes advantage of that. Nick Fuentes does. Tucker [Carlson] does, and the problem with it is it has a strong component. Anytime you have an angry group, then you have people who say, the Jews did it. The Jews did it. The Jews did it. Israel did it, Israel. And that’s not compatible with most of the Republican party.
And so, at some key point. Vance has already come out and attacked Nick Fuentes and said, you can eat S … very vulgar. By the way, I don’t understand this on both parties. I don’t understand why you say SHI word or FU if you’re the mayor. I don’t like it. The mainstreaming of vulgarity.
I know we live in a vulgar age, but when Vance said that Fuentes could eat SHI. He was attacking him because he attacked his wife. But he’s going have to do more of that. He didn’t attack the Groypers because nobody knows how large that constituency is. Nobody knows if they really like Fuentes.
They do like people who say you’re on the short end of the stick. You don’t get affirmative action. There’s no programs for you from the federal government. You’re the guys that they always ask to go and got awful places like Helmand Province or Fallujah. You’re the guys that do the dirty work, clean stuff. You build, and you never get any credit. Your crime rate’s below other groups.
So that is a disaffected demographic, and he’s going to have to find a way to excise the antisemitic portion of the leadership that appeals to that group while keeping that group in the fold. …
Who benefits from this decision?
Victor Davis Hanson returns to weigh the balancing act Vice President JD Vance faces in a potential 2028 run in weeding out antisemitism from within the Republican Party without alienating disenfranchised white males who have been misled.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: On the other side in 2028, if you looked at the polls, Marco Rubio was like 8%, 10%, and JD Vance was overwhelmingly [ahead]. They both speak well. And you saw what Vance did in the debate with [Democrat VP nominee] Tim Walz. You saw what he did 30 or 40 times on weekend news shows.
He just demolished all of these left-wing newscasters. And Rubio did the same thing when he went before the Senate or the House. They’re both good. But Rubio is getting a little bit more traction now, and that, I think, is because there is a perception that JD Vance has ties to not the MAGA base, the ultra MAGA base.
I think he’s going to have articulate this. There’s a large number of white males. We’ve talked about that: a demographic, that they were on the wrong end of affirmative action. They tried to go to universities or college. They were always blamed as toxic masculinity people, or racist or sexist or homophobic. And globalization robbed people in the middle, especially the white demographics.
These were the demo that died at twice their numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet were pillared.
SAMI WINC: Demonizing them, yeah.
HANSON: You can see why they’re angry. Candace [Owens] takes advantage of that. Nick Fuentes does. Tucker [Carlson] does, and the problem with it is it has a strong component. Anytime you have an angry group, then you have people who say, the Jews did it. The Jews did it. The Jews did it. Israel did it, Israel. And that’s not compatible with most of the Republican party.
And so, at some key point. Vance has already come out and attacked Nick Fuentes and said, you can eat S … very vulgar. By the way, I don’t understand this on both parties. I don’t understand why you say SHI word or FU if you’re the mayor. I don’t like it. The mainstreaming of vulgarity.
I know we live in a vulgar age, but when Vance said that Fuentes could eat SHI. He was attacking him because he attacked his wife. But he’s going have to do more of that. He didn’t attack the Groypers because nobody knows how large that constituency is. Nobody knows if they really like Fuentes.
They do like people who say you’re on the short end of the stick. You don’t get affirmative action. There’s no programs for you from the federal government. You’re the guys that they always ask to go and got awful places like Helmand Province or Fallujah. You’re the guys that do the dirty work, clean stuff. You build, and you never get any credit. Your crime rate’s below other groups.
So that is a disaffected demographic, and he’s going to have to find a way to excise the antisemitic portion of the leadership that appeals to that group while keeping that group in the fold. …
Victor Davis Hanson: Vance vs. Rubio
Who benefits from this decision?
Victor Davis Hanson returns to weigh the balancing act Vice President JD Vance faces in a potential 2028 run in weeding out antisemitism from within the Republican Party without alienating disenfranchised white males who have been misled.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: On the other side in 2028, if you looked at the polls, Marco Rubio was like 8%, 10%, and JD Vance was overwhelmingly [ahead]. They both speak well. And you saw what Vance did in the debate with [Democrat VP nominee] Tim Walz. You saw what he did 30 or 40 times on weekend news shows.
He just demolished all of these left-wing newscasters. And Rubio did the same thing when he went before the Senate or the House. They’re both good. But Rubio is getting a little bit more traction now, and that, I think, is because there is a perception that JD Vance has ties to not the MAGA base, the ultra MAGA base.
I think he’s going to have articulate this. There’s a large number of white males. We’ve talked about that: a demographic, that they were on the wrong end of affirmative action. They tried to go to universities or college. They were always blamed as toxic masculinity people, or racist or sexist or homophobic. And globalization robbed people in the middle, especially the white demographics.
These were the demo that died at twice their numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet were pillared.
SAMI WINC: Demonizing them, yeah.
HANSON: You can see why they’re angry. Candace [Owens] takes advantage of that. Nick Fuentes does. Tucker [Carlson] does, and the problem with it is it has a strong component. Anytime you have an angry group, then you have people who say, the Jews did it. The Jews did it. The Jews did it. Israel did it, Israel. And that’s not compatible with most of the Republican party.
And so, at some key point. Vance has already come out and attacked Nick Fuentes and said, you can eat S … very vulgar. By the way, I don’t understand this on both parties. I don’t understand why you say SHI word or FU if you’re the mayor. I don’t like it. The mainstreaming of vulgarity.
I know we live in a vulgar age, but when Vance said that Fuentes could eat SHI. He was attacking him because he attacked his wife. But he’s going have to do more of that. He didn’t attack the Groypers because nobody knows how large that constituency is. Nobody knows if they really like Fuentes.
They do like people who say you’re on the short end of the stick. You don’t get affirmative action. There’s no programs for you from the federal government. You’re the guys that they always ask to go and got awful places like Helmand Province or Fallujah. You’re the guys that do the dirty work, clean stuff. You build, and you never get any credit. Your crime rate’s below other groups.
So that is a disaffected demographic, and he’s going to have to find a way to excise the antisemitic portion of the leadership that appeals to that group while keeping that group in the fold. …
