Victor Davis Hanson: Biden ‘pandering to Hamas’ could turn off voters ahead of 2024

Victor Davis Hanson detailed why President Joe Biden’s “hopeless” bid to engender positive sentiment among pro-Hamas sympathizers has proven to be a “losing proposition.”

(Video: Fox News)

Anti-Americanism and anti-Western society were on full display over the Thanksgiving holiday as traditions like the Macy’s parade and Black Friday shopping were the latest victims of anti-Israel ceasefire demonstrators.

While the president appeared to blindly go through the motions of a hostage release that saw American citizens continuing to be used as pawns for terrorists, the Hoover Institution senior fellow joined “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News to analyze the administration’s response.

“Why are we bringing in people who hate us and why are we allowing our campuses to fuel this hatred of us?” he asked fill-in host Lisa Boothe Friday while calling out the latest protests that featured chants of “Bombs are dropping, why are you shopping?”

When asked about the specific “political impact” for Biden seemingly acquiescing to the “pro-Hamas caucus,” Hanson laid out, “He has a choice between something bad and something worse.”

“The more he panders to Hamas to get a measly 250,000 votes and maybe Michigan, the more that he’s turning off people on an issue that they’re already overwhelmingly angry about and that’s open border and the ingratitude of people who come in here whether — sometimes legally, but illegally — and then they use our magnanimity and they reciprocate with disgust for the very institutions that help them,” he said. “And that’s a losing proposition.”

The scholar added, “So when he gets on the side of all of these protesters, in fear of them, that resonates weakness, but it also resonates disgust by the average voter. And I know what he’s trying to do, but it’s hopeless.”

Friday, the president, who has fed into anti-Israel rhetoric by pushing for federal action to confront Islamophobia, spoke proudly of a readily ignored four-day ceasefire in Gaza as part of hostage release while admitting he didn’t know when captive Americans would be released, or if they were even still alive.

“We don’t know all their conditions,” he told a reporter after saying, “We don’t know when [their release] will occur, but we’re going to be — expect it to occur. And we don’t know what the list of all the hostages are and when they’ll be released, but we know the numbers that are going to be released. So, it is my hope and expectation it will be soon.”

As with kowtowing to any leftist demand whether it be radical Islamism, transgenderism or critical race theory, there was no upside in ceding ground and, in the case of terrorist sympathizers, Hanson made clear how currying favor for the sake of a set demographic was ultimately a lose-lose for that side of the political spectrum.

“And the irony is, if they think they’re gonna defeat Joe Biden and then they’re going to get a Republican — the next Republican president, believe me,” the Hoover Institution fellow presented, “will issue a travel ban from countries that support terrorism and they will probably deport anyone who’s convicted of a crime on a student or a green card visa, and they should know that.”

Hanson also described how widespread anti-Israel demonstrations and the like were impacting a growing movement against globalism as seen in recent elections such as Argentina. “Yes, they’re affecting elections, but they’re creating the greatest animus to the Middle Eastern immigrant in my lifetime.”

Kevin Haggerty

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