Stephen Miller, currently serves...

Editor's note: ...as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and U.S. Homeland Security Advisor under President Donald Trump's second term. Miller correctly identifies the Democrats as "Communists." He says, "US schools will teach students to love the US or funding will be cut. No country can survive if children are taught to hate it." Miller further stated, "the federal government would push schools to teach children to love America, promote patriotism, and teach civic values, and that funds should not be used to promote communist ideology." Unfortunately, despite President Trump's repeated vows to abolish the Department of Education, it remains not only intact but growing, demonstrating how this entrenched bureaucracy resists calls for fundamental reform and weakening local control of education. It's not "education". It is the Department of Communist Indoctrination.

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'You Owe Us' Is the Mantra of the Left [Video]

By Victor Davis Hanson | February 23, 2026

Editor's note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words" from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson's own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Sami Winc: Two things that came together for me. One was [New York City Mayor Zohran] Mamdani's 9.5% increase in the property tax for New Yorkers, but not that alone. I'm sure our audience has read about that. But I was looking at Power Line. I always like to give a shout-out to them because they have some great articles, and they were comparing New York State’s budget versus Florida's budget.

And they came up with, well, it's only half at the state level. So, I thought, well, let's look at the city level, New York City versus Miami. And while the billions that each of them has to spend is not meaningful in and of themselves. So, for example, New York City's budget is $127 billion while Miami’s is only $3.4.

But that being said, per citizen, what has to be paid into these cities? And so, for Mamdani, each of his citizens has to pay $14,431 in for his budget. And in Miami, it's just half of that, at just under $7,000 per citizen.

Victor Davis Hanson: And it's more disproportionate because in New York, the number of people who are actually paying taxes is a much smaller percentage than in Miami.

He inherited the city that was this blue-chip financial market, this cultural, financial capital of the world, and the first thing he did was raise spending by $11 billion.

Second thing he did was prove that he couldn't get the trash or the snow off the street during the storm.

Third thing he did, it was very hard to find an appointee who somewhere in their dark history had not issued or written something antisemitic.

All he does is smile and try to be … basically, his message is: I'm not Lenin, and Trotsky or Stalin.

I'm the nice, happy-faced communist, and you're going to like me, and you're going to like my communism. We're all going to get along.

I mean, if you're in New York, if you’re in California, you got a choice.

If you're in California and this billionaire tax passes, and you've got to come up with $50 million, you're going flee. If you're in New York, and they're going to raise your property tax on these multimillion-dollar buildings, you're talking what could be $20 or $30, $40, $50 million more a year, then you’re going to flee, get out.

If you don't, they’re just going to keep doing it. They're going keep targeting you because they have an idea. I don’t think people realize that.

The socialist mind … I knew a lot of socialists in the universities and some friends of mine, and they always think … The whole core of socialism is, I work hard, and no one knows how I suffer at my job as a nurse, as a farmer, whatever. And I believe in the labor theory of value.

Why is it that when Victor had a Ph.D. but he was pruning vines, he was only making $4 an hour—I was for three years—and then all of a sudden, five years later, he is an academic, and he is sitting in between classes and having coffee and he’s making $50 an hour. That's not fair.

And so, they don't think about supply and demand, expertise, education, nothing.

And somebody would say, "Well, when Victor was pruning vines, a lot of people could not only prune them, they could probably prune them better."

When he was teaching a particular Greek literature class, and they thought that was an important class to offer. Questionable, but that’s what they said. Very few people could do it. They don't accept that.

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