Fox Business guest: “An ethnic cleansing” of conservatives is happening in California
Victor Davis Hanson: “They're saying to some the population, we're going to make this so ideologically intolerant that we want more of you to leave”
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From the October 1, 2020, edition of Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight
LOU DOBBS (HOST): This virtue signaling has become a projection of manifest ignorance. It's not just simply California that is a state that is historically ignorant. It's, unfortunately, the truth in too many of our states. And it's also a result of the 1619 Project. Thank goodness that there are groups like the Woodson organization that, the Woodson Center, that is pushing the 1776 united, a patriotic curriculum. The president doing so as well. Let me ask you--
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (GUEST): I think there is also--
DOBBS: Is there a way for this president can bring--
HANSON: I think there is one other angle. You've got to remember that about 8 million people have left the state, and it's considering a 16% income tax rate because the old 13.3, the highest in the country, was not enough.
So I think this is aimed at sort of an ethnic cleansing of the state. They're saying to some the population, we're going to make this so ideologically intolerant that we want more of you to leave.