LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS: You’ve been following what’s going on with the Democrat party and the rise of socialism. The president calls it communism and says this is this is really the biggest threat to the country now, an internal threat, and you’ve seen what happens when the base of the party, a party, turns on its establishment beginning with the Tea Party in 2009, ultimately resulting in President Trump’s election twice. So my question to you is are these DSA types really in your estimation going to dominate the entire party?
VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: I unfortunately fear that’s the direction the Democrats are headed, and it is communism, Laura. This is not, you know, this is not raising taxes a little bit, however much we might disagree with that. This is abolishing the police.
This is let criminals run amok in your cities. This is flood your country with low-wage third-world immigrants, and importantly it’s confiscating wealth, not because we want to make anybody’s life better, but purely out of resentment, out of an attack on the people who have that wealth to begin with. It really is something we haven’t seen in the United States of America in the history of our politics, and Laura, I think that it actually is a consequence of the fact that the Democrat party has become run by the universities and by the professors.
This is not working-class Union Democrats. This is not socially conservative people who just want a fair shake at life. This is fundamentally a view that the United States is an evil country that must be dismantled from the ground and then built back up.
That’s communism at its core, and you see more and more momentum in that direction from the Democrat Party. Frankly, Laura, I would love it if Democrats were willing, you know, not that they are going to agree with Republicans all the time, but if they were willing to work with us on lowering housing prices, on lowering gas prices, on actually making the lives of American citizens better, you know, we could have some real bipartisan compromise. That’s not what they’re talking about.
They’re talking about abolishing the police and letting criminals rule our cities. That is a fundamental transformation of the Democrat Party. It’s very bad for our country.
It’s bad for Democrats, and it just drives home why we have to keep these people from getting close to power.
