Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Brace Yourselves’ for Dem Reactions To Trump Deportations
Charlie Kirk Staff
11/15/2024

President-elect Donald Trump has not made a secret about his plans to fix the immigration issues, including using mass deportations and Democrats are not going to be quiet about their discontent.
Hoover Institute senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson predicted on his podcast on Tuesday that when the deportations start there will be Democrats on television “weeping and crying,” The Daily Caller reported.
“But I will issue a warning to everybody, you haven’t seen the left. When you start deporting people, even with a criminal record, they’re going to be on CNN weeping and crying. They’re going to be on the internet [saying], ‘This is like Hitler.’ So brace yourself,” he said.
He said that sanctuary cities may complain about the deportations, particularly if the president-elect cuts off federal funding from them, but he said that complaint will not be valid.
“If you say that a sanctuary city is not going to get [money] — if it insists and it will not get certain types of federal funds [then] people say, ‘Oh, my daughter was killed on the freeway because it wasn’t fixed,’” the host said. “The same left-wing mind that looks over here at High-Speed Rail, this Stonehenge six miles from my house — $15 billion — nothing. There’s the most dangerous freeway in the world parallel to it, the 99.”
“Just two lanes in each direction … It hasn’t changed since 1960 and because why? Because money has been siphoned off from the highway funds and put into this boondoggle and no one said a word. That is criminal. That really is because thousands of people have been maimed and injured on this freeway in the last 15 to 20 years,” Hanson continued.
One person, new Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell vowed at a council meeting, before being sworn in, that he would not cooperate with the president-elect’s administration on mass deportations.
“Since my appearance before the committee on public safety, the national election has caused many Angelenos to feel a deep, deep fear, especially in the immigrant community,” he said, Fox News reported.
“I have met with members of the community and heard that fear. We also heard some of that just now at public comment. I know we’ll speak more about immigration later in this hearing, but I want to be unequivocally clear here in my opening comments,” he said. “LAPD will protect our immigrant community, LAPD officers will not take action to determine a person’s immigration status, and will not arrest someone for their status, and LAPD will not assist with mass deportations.”