Hanson: Democrats' quest to grant automatic citizenship to illegals defies what it means to be a civilization

Historian Victor Davis Hanson told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that as the nation braces for an influx of illegal immigrants, Democrats realize they have an opportunity to change the demographics of an electorate.

"It's important that you stress the urgency -- just as we are seeing the efforts to destroy the electoral college or pack the [Supreme] Court or have a national voter law, they feel the constituency of the present demography is not on their side," he said. "[Since] they can't wait to have residents come with green cards and go through a lengthy process of citizenship because they don't think they will be in power or they won't have this moment, they want to have residents immediately become equal to citizens -- and they know that citizenship is the foundation of western civilization." That, he explained, goes against centuries of Western civilization and its foundational principles.