Victor Davis Hanson, the favorite academic of conservatives across the country, recently pointed out that the Democrats absolutely despise the working class and notes that this is going to be a huge problem for them going forward.
Hanson used the recent example of Gavin Newsom’s wife claiming that she brought her children to the American south so that they could see what ‘real bigotry’ looks like, and the fact that Jimmy Kimmel mocked Markwayne Mullin for being a plumber before he got into politics.
Hanson points out that they do this while claiming to be the champions of the working class. It’s so ridiculous.
Watch the clip below:
NEW: Victor Davis Hanson *ROASTS* Gavin Newsom’s wife
“Get out, Gavin — you and your wife. Gosh, his wife — she claimed she took her children on a zoo tour, but the zoo animals were Alabamans and Georgia.”
“Can you imagine getting in their BMW SUV and driving through Mobile… pic.twitter.com/gmPj64XZZF
— Jason Cohen
(@JasonJournoDC) April 4, 2026
Hanson expanded on this thesis in a new column at American Greatness:
The Left Is Baffled—but Still Repulsed—by the White Working Class
After failing to win Congress and the presidency in 2024, the Democrats conducted an internal postmortem of what went wrong. While they predictably did not divulge the full results, everyone knew what they had found.
Their obsessions with the low side of 30/70 issues had especially alienated Democrats from white middle- and working-class voters. Yet middle-class whites still comprise about 40–50 percent of the population and are perhaps overrepresented in voter turnout.
Democrats realize that their fixations on biological males competing in women’s sports, open borders and millions of illegal entries, radical green agendas, DEI-driven racial essentialism, and massive government entitlements rife with fraud have alienated the middle classes in general and white middle- and working-class voters in particular.
But since Democrat ideologues cannot shed their ideological straitjackets, they have instead tried to finesse the very problem that cost them the 2024 election.
Hanson scoffs at Pete Buttigieg’s new beard and the Maine lobsterman the Democrats are rallying around for Senate.
They try to look the part of working class and wear it like a costume but none of it is genuine.
It’s one of the reasons they hate Trump. He may be a billionaire but he understands the working class better than all of them put together.
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