{"id":641302,"date":"2026-07-25T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=641302"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:10:00","slug":"do-dsa-elites-rank-america-worse-than-maos-70-million-body-count-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=641302","title":{"rendered":"Do DSA Elites Rank America Worse Than Mao’s 70-Million Body Count?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do DSA Elites Rank America Worse Than Mao’s 70-Million Body Count?<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a lightly edited transcript of today\u2019s video from Daily Signal senior contributor\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

We\u2019re hearing more and more from the Democratic Socialists of America about all of the sins of America and very little of the good things we\u2019ve done to ourselves and to the world at large on our 250th birthday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is it, the\u00a0nature of this DSA<\/a>, Democratic Socialists of\u00a0America, and the diversity, equity, inclusion criticism that we were racist, sexist, nativist, cruel, ruthless, etc., etc.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But my question is, compared to what?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mao Zedong<\/a>? He killed\u00a070\u00a0million people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He was the greatest mass murderer in history, and that government is still communist in an unbroken chain from [Chinese leader] Xi [Jinping] all the way back to Mao. Do we ever talk about that or the million people who are in concentration camps in China?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Compared to historically to the Aztecs?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019re\u00a0told the Aztecs were great people.\u00a0They had an empire, but they crushed over a million people to create their empire.\u00a0Some years, they sacrificed up to 10,000,\u00a0maybe 15,000 a year of conquered tribes of fellow Indigenous people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Do we remember Shaka Zulu,<\/strong> the\u00a019th-century creator of the Zulu nation?<\/p>\n

He\u00a0was responsible for\u00a0a genocide in crushing his enemies that\u00a0probably cost\u00a0over a million lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Do we really think that the Native Americans were living in paradise until Europeans came?<\/strong> The story of Native Americans was conquest, enslavement, butchery of rival tribes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So,\u00a0what is going on?\u00a0<\/p>\n

We have a tradition in the West of self-criticism.<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0what makes us different. Rationalism, self-criticism, improvement. But when that goes to an extreme, it ventures from self-criticism and self-reflection to nihilism, and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0quite destructive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So,\u00a0let\u2019s\u00a0just\u00a0take a look\u00a0at where the United States is compared to the rest.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Look at immigration. Why do a million people, or 2 million people, 10,000 a day under Joe Biden, from very poor countries, most of them from\u00a0what we would call the former Third World that were victims of socialism, why do they risk their lives coming here every year?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why do all these critics of the United States \u2026 [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], why did her parents want to come here?<\/strong> Why did [Rep.] Ilhan\u00a0Omar\u2019s\u00a0father want to come here? Why did [Rep.] Rashida Tlaib\u2019s father want to come here? Why did [New York City Mayor] Zohran Mamdani\u2019s parents want to come? Was it so bad?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t they ever acknowledge that they came here because they had greater security, they had greater freedom, they had greater economic opportunity? And if they had criticisms, it was never enough that they wanted to go back to the places that they praised, but only from a distance and in the abstract.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The truth is that the poor in the United States are better off than most of the middle classes in every other country.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

We saw that<\/a>\u00a0in the World Cup when middle- and upper-middle-class Europeans came over, and unlike \u2026 to watch the games, and unlike most tourists, they\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0just stick on the\u00a0coasts. They went to places in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, the South, and the Midwest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And they found two things. <\/strong><\/p>\n

One, Americans were\u00a0amazingly friendly and open<\/a>, upbeat, not downers and drab, and\u00a0everything\u2019s\u00a0terrible, which they expected from their experiences in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And more importantly, they were affluent. They had big homes. They had air conditioning. the poor had appurtenances. Everybody has a cell phone. Nobody worries about the\u00a0cost, apparently.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s\u00a0also then the hypocrisy of a lot of our critics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And let me just give you an example of a few of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hasan Piker is a child of very, very wealthy Turkish immigrants that became U.S. citizens.<\/strong> He grew up for much of his life in\u00a0Turkey. He gave a talk the other day in a Mao suit\u00a0to Democratic Socialists of America. Think about that. He put on the uniform, so to speak, of\u00a0the greatest mass murderer in history, and then he denounced capitalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0denounce capitalism in his own life because his parents are multimillionaires. He is a multimillionaire, and he drives a, what? $120,000 Porsche. Isn\u2019t that a luxury of\u00a0the bourgeoisie?\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s\u00a0Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, of course.<\/strong> His family, as I pointed out\u00a0numerous\u00a0times, was the elite of the elite of the elite in Uganda, a community of expatriates, Indians, from India that control 60% of the wealth, and\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0only 1% of the population.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And he grew up in privilege here. He had\u00a0a very nice\u00a0home. He has a family estate on Lake Victoria, of all places.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ro Khanna, the\u00a0congressman\u00a0from California, he always is pointing out the evils of Republicans<\/strong>, and as he looks at the drift of the Democratic Party, he puts his finger in the\u00a0wind,\u00a0and he says socialism is the answer. Ro Khanna does.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0a multimillionaire.<\/strong> His father-in-law is one of the wealthiest members of the\u00a0Indian American\u00a0community,\u00a0probably worth\u00a0$500 or $600 million. His own children have been\u00a0deeded\u00a0golf courses. His wife drives a $190,000 Range Rover, and\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0lecturing us about our shortfalls?\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then, of course, we\u00a0come\u00a0to [California Gov.]\u00a0Gavin Newsom<\/a>.<\/strong> He wants to get in on the\u00a0socialist\u00a0craze, so he said the other day, as is his wont, moving his arms around and being very slick and glib, that capitalism fails. It\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It worked for you, Gavin. You have a $9 million home.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

You are the, basically, the quote-unquote, \u201cprot\u00e9g\u00e9\u201d of the Gordon Getty oil for- fortune, who\u00a0backed\u00a0all of your business opportunities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Graham Platner, the now-disgraced madman who thought he was going to be senator with a Nazi tattoo.<\/strong> He criticized capitalism. He said that, you know, he was drifting towards socialism,\u00a0very critical\u00a0of America.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he really\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0a small-business person. He was a construct. His mother and father, who were very wealthy, one owned\u00a0an\u00a0upscale\u00a0restaurant,\u00a0the other was a well-known, often corporate real estate lawyer.\u00a0They set him up in business, and they were his only client, and they allowed him to have land to use.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So,\u00a0what\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0getting at\u00a0is\u00a0most of this criticism of America is not coming from the so-called poor.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0not coming from the lower middle classes.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0coming from elites in urban enclaves who have done very well with capitalism<\/strong>, and they feel that by mouthing these socialist and communist platitudes,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a\u00a0way to get power within the Democratic Party first, and then within the United States second.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And remember one thing, this is not new. Most of the violent socialist communist movements in history, whether we look at the anarchist of the late 19th century, or whether we look at the Bolsheviks of 1905 all the way up to the Russian Revolution of 1917, or we look at the revolutions of 1848 in Europe, especially the Reign of Terror, 1792 and 1793, when a bunch of very wealthy, this should sound familiar, socialists hijacked the French Revolution and turned it into a Stalinist-like murder spree.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They all had one thing in common. They were very, very wealthy, and they hated the very system that had enriched them, and they wanted to try out a whole\u00a0series of nihilist projects on whom? On the middle class and the poor, with the\u00a0proviso\u00a0that none of their ideology would ever apply to themselves.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 07\/25\/2026 – 15:10<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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