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Victor Davis Hanson told Rob Finnerty this week what any clear-eyed American can already see: the Democratic Party has embraced chaos as a winning playbook and is using spectacle to distract from policy failures. Hanson warned that the left’s theatrics — from staged protests to nonstop media hysteria — are designed to create the impression of crisis so voters will beg for someone to “make it stop.”
Hanson’s point is simple and devastating: when your answer to political trouble is to manufacture more turmoil, you’ve admitted you have no appealing agenda. He described a party that prefers street theater and moral panic over persuading the electorate on bread-and-butter issues, and cautioned Republicans not to be lured into fighting on the left’s terms.
Conservatives should take that warning to heart and weaponize it: run on prosperity, not outrage. The GOP’s path back to power runs through kitchens and factory floors, not cable-TV shouting matches; Hanson urged Republicans to prioritize the economy, jobs, and common-sense policies that actually improve lives rather than trading blows in a media circus.
Democrats are already playing defense, trying to frame every GOP move as existential calamity while hiding their own record of failing policies. From election fights to regulatory overreach, the left’s default move is to scream chaos and hope Americans forget the rising costs, shuttered businesses, and porous borders they’ve enabled. The smart Republican response is to expose that hypocrisy and offer concrete solutions.
America’s workers are not impressed by virtue-signaling or performative outrage; they want steady paychecks, affordable energy, safe streets, and secure borders. Hanson’s message — that the GOP should focus relentlessly on the economy and competent governance — is exactly the medicine our nation needs if we are to reclaim the narrative and deliver results.
Now is the hour for disciplined conservatives to stop indulging in reactive theatrics and to start selling a positive, practical agenda that restores American prosperity and common sense. If Republicans stick to policies that improve everyday life and refuse to be baited into the left’s chaos strategy, hardworking Americans will reward competence over chaos at the ballot box.
