Transcript of Victor Davis Hanson: This Election Season, We’re Reminded Who’s Actually Runs the Democrat Party

Everybody should ask themselves, why is it that these candidates, whether it's in the New Jersey governor race or the Virginia governor, they all have these things that come out? Oh, I was not allowed to walk with my graduating class. I don't want to discuss it. Oh, I made seven million in incidents. Why is all this? And why is Don Lemon now saying that he wants black and Brown people to get guns to resist ICE because they come to their door? And the answer is that the Democratic Democratic Party is not the Democratic Party. It's something that has a name only, but it's something completely different. It's got a geriatric old veneer with Schumer and Pelosi, but they are run. They're puppets. They're like a Joe Biden wax an effigy, and they are being run by the squad and Bernie Sanders, crazy Elizabeth Warren, Rachida Taleb, Jasmine Crockett, Antifa, the pro-Palestinian, pro-terrorist group. That's what Katherine Levet said, and she got in big trouble, but she was absolutely right. She didn't say that they were a party of those people. She said that people that were pro-Hamas and pro-crime or didn't want crime to be punished gravitated to the Democratic Party, and it's true.

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I wear my Daily Signal hat, but I misplaced it. I think it's in my apartment in Palo Alto.

Back in Palo Alto?

Okay. I was wearing it around.

All right. Well, you're a man in many hats because right behind you, there's a helmet, even. Yes.

There's a helmet.

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We are back with the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor, let's come out of the box here by talking about these two important debates that happened this past week. One was in New York City. That was Mondami, the Democrat, shouldn't even call him Democrat, the Communist Socialist, versus Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent in that race, and Curtis Leeuwa, who's the Republican candidate. That's one debate. And the second important debate was in Virginia for the attorney general's race between the incumbent Jason Mey Harris, the Republican who may still be behind in the polls against the controversial, Want to kill you and want to kill your kids, Democrat nominee Jay Jones. Two important debates. Victor, what's your take on these?

I was on Megan Kelly. We talked about it. And what I pointed out, and I went back and looked at it, that is not the Andrew Cuomo of, say, 10 or 15 years ago. I remember he was brash. He was I wasn't a supporter, obviously, of him, but he could cut to the quick. And he looked like a shell of him, of his former self. He took it, and when he went, we... Mondami set him up so he would say, Well, you don't have any experience. I have experience, and I'm ready if there's a natural disaster. And then he said what Mondami was waiting for, another COVID. And he said, Yeah, and what are you going to do with all your experience? Kill 12,000 people or something. So he walked into it. He didn't press Mondami. Mondami was a pale imitation in the sense that he was trying to copy Obama smiling. And he's your smiling socialist, dash communist, since he's already said he'd like to seize the means of production. He's a very dangerous person, and more and more comes out about him. More and more comes out about him. He's from a multimillionaire family.

He had privileged status in Uganda's family. His father has written an apology for Edi Amin. He's an endowed professor at Columbia. His mother is a multimillion dollar filmmaker with subsidies from every leftist entity imaginable. It was very funny because Cuomo had one good line when he said, You never had a job except working for your mother. That was pretty good. But he didn't look... Curtis Silva looked very impressive. I The first time I'd seen him without his beret. And he's not going to win. And then the question is, if you're a conservative or a centrist, would you vote for Andrew Cuomo to stop socialism? That's a hard call. I would. But there's something so creepy about Andrew Cuomo, and he seems like he's a broken man after the sexual harassment charges and the COVID and everything.

Yeah, Victor, when he was governor, he said something to the effect that Conservatives, pro-lifers, pro-family people, they have no right to be New York residents, something to that effect.

Remember Kathy Hochul, double down on, Just go. We don't want you. They're going to get their wish. But there's going to be another debate. He's going to win. He's a carnivore in sheep's clothing, Mondani, and he's going to do what he says he does. One of the things that's very clear in everything he said, I've read pages of what he said, and that is he doesn't like wishy-washy people. He said, you have to be unafraid to be an unapologetic socialist. In that context, he said, Seize the means of production. And it's going to be... What you're going to also see, Jack, you've probably already seen it because you know more about New York. You're going to see a lot of capitalist Wall Street people who are going to do what aristocrats always do with the Bolsheviks in Russia, the white Russian aristocracy or the Cuban people who didn't flee or the Maduro, Chávez people. There's going to be a cadre of very wealthy people that are going to go to Mondani and they're going to say, I'm going to stay. But I want in on government contracts and business, and I will defend you, but you've got to give me an exemption.

I think you're going to see a lot of center left Wall Street brokers and big CEOs with a wink and nod, meet with him and say that it's inevitable, so we might as well get along and then seek to carve out areas where he'll give them room or latitude or exemption.

Yeah, Victor, you're so right on the history of this. Back in the Soviet Union, Alexander Solzhenitsyn had written about it at great length in the Red Wheel, the complicity of the elites in the takeover of the nation was-Absolutely.

Same thing in Cuba. The elites of the Cuban aristocracy, the young elites thought they could deal with Castro, and he would give them, and he did for a couple of years. Same thing with Khomenei. The first round people, the Jewish community knew better. So they fled in '78, '79 when it looked like the Shah was in iffy condition. But when Khomenei came in, a lot of the young socialist students, but especially a lot of the wealthy, progressive Westerners went to Khomenei, and they told people, We can deal with him. And then he liquidated God's Body, and he drove out Bonisader. And then the second wave came, as I've said before, to the United States. And they were leftists that tried to co-opt or contextualize or join Khomene and he liquidated them.

Well, Victor, when New York was a truly bad scene, when I was growing up in the Bronx in the '60s and '70s and '80s, the fact is people had to... You had to live there. If you were in finance, you You can move to the suburbs, maybe, but you were still within the solar system. There was still some manufacturing base there, media base. And now we have bandwidth, and people can go, go far away. They can do their finance business from Tennessee, Florida, Texas, wherever. And you've brought up many times, it's easy to destroy. It's so hard to build, but it's so easy to destroy. And the fate of New I mean, it could be Detroit in short order.

No, I think it will be. It will be, especially if he follows through. Everything he says is not just ridiculous, it's surreal when he says he's going to give free bus ride. The problem in New York is that you have people that jump turnstiles in the subway and they just jump on the bus, so they're not collecting fares, and that's why they're in the red. So now he's saying, If you jump turnstiles and you don't pay on the bus, It was okay. It was okay all the time. Then we didn't enforce it. But now you just get on the bus. Does he remember De Carlos-Williams, who just got on the bus without pain and then killed Iraina, the immigrant? So everything is going to be free, and then he's going to tax. He can't tax unless the legislature and the governor allow him to have an income tax, as I understand it, but he can put surcharges on, and they may allow him to tax. But he's going to spike a crime wave. He really is.

It's funny that the renaissance of New York came about by stopping people from jumping turnstiles and entering busses.

It was the- Remember, he's got a force multiplier with Alvin Bragg. He lets everybody out who, depending on their race, if they're a person of color and he feels that they're victimized by insidious white rate, they don't pay any price. Then you've got Latita James as the New York State Attorney General, if she's still in office because- I'm very jealous. Like all these people, and we'll get to Bolton, but like all these people who attacked Trump and said, Now that he's conducting law fair, they all have one thing in common. They never say, I didn't do it. She never says, That's not my signature on that affidavit. I I never said that. And Bolton has never... I went through everything he said. He said that he was a victim of lawful. He said that Trump had a vendetta. He said he didn't do anything wrong. He said everything, but I swear, under oath, I never transmitted information that was branded confidential or classified to person one and person two and asked them to not disclose the fact that I was transmitting it. And that ended up in Iranian hacker's hands that were blackmailing me. I never did that.

He's never said that.

Look, I'm not name dropping here. I served on a couple of boards with John Bolton. I like John, so what? Who cares what I like? But watching some video yesterday, something popped up on YouTube, and we'll get back to the Virginia debate, the attorney general debate, soon enough, folks. But he did say something. He This had to do with the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Yeah, I watched that. And he was talking about, Well, we couldn't trust... Trump really knew the use of... While he was in office, while Trump was President.

Yeah, it was horrible what he said. You remember? He said he takes anything on his desk, French fries or anything. Anything that came across his desk, he just grabbed it. He didn't care. And somebody said, Well, why did he do it? He said, Because he can. Well, he went in. People are forgetting that there's an article, by the way, in The Atlantic, Left Wing, Lisa Jobs, subsidized. Very bad magazine, I think. But the guy just says, Wait a minute, everybody on the left. Got to remember that this is not in their view. I think Komi is pretty guilty, but that's another question. But he said, This isn't a Komi thing. This is career prosecutors looking at what he did, and he transmitted confidential information. Remember a federal judge who couldn't stop the... It was too late for the book to come out. He warned him and he said, You have done a disservice to the security of your country, and you have put yourself in future civil and criminal liability exposure, vulnerability. He said that. And if anybody that says, Well, Victor, yeah, you're talking for your two, Paul Trump. It was lawful. No, the lawful was Joe Biden.

He went on every night Wait for four years after he left, and every time there was a Marlago raid or debaliding, they went to him as a go-to person. And his whole frame of reference was two expectations. Number one, Donald Trump is through. He's done for. He said that he's done for. He has no political. He'll be in prison the rest of his life. Number two, that Joe Biden or Kamala Harris would win the election. And therefore, he was going to be a useful tool, useful idiot for them. He was going to go on TV every night and blast. He was going to be the ultimate archetype of a never-trumper on the expectation that Trump would never come back to power, and the Democrats would always shield him from his legal exposure, and therefore, he could do anything. And the real welfare is the Biden DOJ looked at this, and I think it's pretty clear that he was transmitting classified information to his wife and daughter, and they were even saying things like, Don't tell anybody. And he was assured that as long as he was a critic, nothing would happen to him. He fulfilled the bargain they did, and then the unthinkable happened.

Well, everything's projection in this political world. So transferring data illegally, maybe even criminally, in order to write a book to be vindictive, and now claiming the prosecution charges against him an act of vindictiveness. I mean, who was being vindictive here?

He was. His whole point was the moment he went in the White House, he had the expectation that he was going to write the big Kiss and tell bombshell book. So he started to record every single thing and to give that narrative authority and authenticity and exceptional information that he was transmitting stuff allegedly to his wife and daughter with the professed, expressed purpose that it not be disclosed and that they not talk about it. Then as soon as he was going to be fired, he was going to be provocative. Right around the 2020 campaign cycle, he said, and I was reading some of them that had been released. Now, the diary ends and the book begins. That's after he got fired. Then he just took all of those notes and he used the documents as footnotes, et cetera, to the extent that he said that he thought they weren't classified, not the classified stuff. But if it's true that he put in, he transmitted to his wife information about US strategy, how to deal with the Iranian nuclear project or the embargo or how to deal with Netanyahu versus or whoever the Israeli government was, then it is espionage.

It reifies what the judge said, You put this Security of the United States in Danger. That's a lesson we should all remember. These people who hate Trump so much because in their excess, they said and did things that were so extraordinary to show everybody how much they hated Trump. They had lost all reason. When you look at these people on the scene, they've all destroyed their careers, both in self-employed. He didn't have to do that. He could have said, Donald Trump and I disagree. I'm a more traditional activist, interventionist, and he has a different notion of deterrence. But I'm very honored because I have never received an appointment because the Democratic Senate refused to confirm me in any nomination. And the only chance I've had to serve in high appointed government office was during the George W Bush administration because of a recess appointment for a year that did not require Senate confirmation. Donald Trump put as national security advisor for the express reason that you did not have to be confirmed for that appointment. I owe him everything. But we disagree, and I'm going to bow out. That's all he had to do, but he couldn't.

And he became... Same thing with Bill Kristol, Max Boot, all of them. All they had to say was, I had a lifelong life of conservative value, like Brett Stevens, whom I don't agree with, but that's what he pretty much did. Then at some point, he said, This is going nowhere. He's better than the alternative. But they can't do that. Then they had all these people, these clips of tacking Trump this week. I said to myself, There's Colbert. He's destroyed his career. He's going to go off the air. There's Kimmel. He's saying stuff about Trump. He's going to go off the air. He's destroyed his career. He says he's going to last, but his views have gone down below the little blimp he got. There's that, what was her name, Griffith or something that held the She's back. I said, He destroyed your career. They had Laurie Rosie O'Donnell. You're in Ireland. You're destroyed. Almost every one of these people, celebrities, politicians, that went after Trump and said that he was Satan incarnate. And look at all the Senate. Remember, Ben Sass and the guy from Tennessee, Bob Corker, all of them. Paul Ryan, all of them.

Mitt Romney. They just couldn't express a disagreement in a polite way and say, We differ, but we'll try to work with… Instead, they imploded all of them.

Well, I think hubris was the guiding motivation.

Hubris brings, what they say is hubris brings ate or self destruction, which leads to nemesis or divine retribution. Yeah, the karma. Here we go. What comes around goes around. Yeah.

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And we thank the good people at the Hoover Institution for sponsoring Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Victor, before we take a break, we got plenty of other topics to talk to. You wanted to discuss the Virginia Attorney General's debate between Jason Meyaris, the incumbent Republican, and Jay Jones, the be nice, controversial Democrat nominee. Your thoughts?

Well, that was an utter bloodbath. It really was. If you were objective, and I'm objective, and I'm trying to tell you, I thought Mondami, whom I just think is unimaginable as a mayor, the damage he do. He did beat Andrew Cuomo. I don't know. Silwa might have, but he was so swarmy. But in this one, I hate this now when somebody says, I take full responsibility. I've been accountable. How was he ever accountable? He says, Well, these are things that I regret. I I've been held accountable. I take full... No, you haven't. You haven't done anything. Nothing. The only reason you're saying this is when our former colleagues at National Review broke the story. At first, you said it was a right-wing Trumpian news organization. National Review? Has he read National Review? It was the most... Sorry, Jack. But at that time, it was never pro-Trump. And so he tried to wiggle out of it, and then he couldn't. And then, as the present attorney, Myriam said, Wait a minute. These children were not unknown to you. They were on the floor of the legislature visiting their father. You saw them, you talked to them, you knew them, you knew their faces.

And yet you could tweet out and double down when asked to withdraw, Do you really mean that? Yes, I want to see them dead. I want to see them dead in their mother's arms. And you're the attorney general No. Then he had a really devastating second account. We talked about that with Samy. He didn't drive 80, 90, 100. I think some of us listening might have driven in their life one or two times 80 miles an hour. Come on, you guys are listening. Maybe one or two of you, just 85. I will guarantee that none of our law-abiding patriotic listeners have ever driven 100 miles an hour. I will guarantee they haven't even imagined what 110 is like. I don't think they've ever have a car. I don't. Maybe there's Tesla. 116 miles an hour. You imagine them people who would have been killed. And then when he was caught, he was 500 or a thousand hours of community service. And he served for his own PAC-related political organization nonprofit to further his own political ambitions. And there were three, as the attorney general said, there were three or four people who were up the same period as you, and they all got stiffer stintons of fines, and you got nothing because you were a politician.

So he demolished them. I think everybody should remember that When you look at the real clear politics who are wonderful people, and they're very objective, so they put every poll there, 10 or 12 polls, and then they have an average. If you look at, say, today, Trump will be down by five points, or the Republicans will be down by two. But there are polls, half of them, whose sole purpose is to, as we saw with the Des Moines Register, who was off by 15 points, or the NPR poll the night of the 2024 election that said Kamala Harris was going to win by four beyond the margin of... Their sole purpose is to warp averages of polls and to create momentum in fundraising for the left. So what I always suggest is there were three or four polls, the Rasmussen poll, the Trafalgar poll, and Insider Advantage. I know they're conservative, but they had the best record in 2020 and 2024. If you look at those polls, Donald Trump is doing pretty well, and the Republicans are doing pretty well. I don't know what it is about the Republicans, but there's a guy in Maine who's completely crazy and brags running for Senate against The incumbent.

Yeah, his name is Graham Platner.

Yes. Oyster Man. Marine veteran, decorated Marine veteran. Nice guy, but he's on record that he's a Communist and Whites, rural Whites are racist people. Susan Collins, I think, is going to win. I hope she does. And she's a good senator. She's not as conservative as I am, but in Maine, she's conservative enough to win. And that's the vote in the senate. And that's what everybody should keep in mind.

You know what this group Platner wrote? If people quote, expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history. And then in another, that was a deleted, I assume it was an old Twitter post. In another one, he wrote, an armed working class is a requirement for economic justice. The go-to knee jerk of the ascendant Democrat Party of violence, death, maiming is It just keeps marching on, Victor.

Yeah, and everybody should ask themselves, why is it that these candidates, whether it's in the New Jersey governor race or the Virginia governor, they all have these things that come out. Oh, I was not allowed to walk with my graduating class. I don't want to discuss it. Oh, I made seven million dollars. Why is all this? And why is Don Lemon now saying that he wants Black and Brown people to get guns to resist ICE because they come to their door. Ice does not go into people's citizens and break down the door. They do it on warrants that they have defied deportation orders or they have a criminal history. He's basically calling for a gunfight. The answer is that the Democratic Party is not the Democratic Party. It's something that has a name only, but it's something completely different. It's got a geriatric old veneer with Schumer and Pelosi, but they are run. They're puppets. They're like a Joe Biden wax and effigy, and they are being run by the squad and Bernie Sanders, crazy Elizabeth Warren, Rachida Taleb, Jasmine Crockett, Antifa, the pro-Palestinian, pro-terrorist group. That's what Katherine Levet said, and she got in big trouble, but she was absolutely right.

She didn't say that they were a party of those people. She said that people that were pro-Hamas and and pro-crime or didn't want crime to be punished gravitated to the Democratic Party, and it's true. So they're going to have problems getting candidates because the candidates from this new generation have all had long records. That's why you can find Latina James saying crazy things. That's why you can find... That's why you find Jasmine Crockett. They have a record, and they can't hide it, and most Americans don't want it. So why is this What's happening? Why are all these people hijacking the Democratic Party? I think the answer is they took it left with Obama. Obama is, as in many things, he's the font or the origin of a lot of bad things in this country. He hijacked the Democratic Party, and he racialized it and was obsessed with race. Until he started all of this about, Michelle, never been proud of my country until Barack. They raised a bar on me, downright mean country. Apology Tour, Trayvon looks like the son I never had, the police always do this. Until all of that stuff, and then all of the executive orders and Eric Colder unleashed.

Race was becoming incidental. It really was. We had a lot of progress. And he revived it under diversity, and he said 30% of the population, not 12, that were black, but 30% that were not white, Amandami, the Millionaire, or Oprah, the Millionaire, or Jasmine Crock at the Prep School dilatant, they're all victims because of the race. And people didn't want that. And so when they voted for Trump twice, especially the second time, the Democratic Party said, Well, we went left, and now we don't have the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the White House. Now we're on the 30% end of all of these issues, whether it's transgendered males in sports, or it's defund the police, or it's $950. Crimes are not Theft is not a crime or the Afghan pull out. We're just on the wrong side. And then they said, But this can't be true. We control NPR, we control CBS, ABC, we control Harvard, Yale, Stanford, we control K-12 teachers unions, we control professional sports. We even control the halftime shows at the Super Bowl. We have all the cultural levers, and we still don't do it. Then they said, Well, we open the borders.

We got 50 million people that were not born in the United States. It's the highest in history. And that hasn't worked. And so they're very frustrated. And then Donald Trump comes along and he basically says to the country, I'm sorry, you people. I am not George H. W. Bush. I'm not George W. Bush. I'm not Bob Dole. I'm not John McCain. I'm not Mitt Romney. I'm not going to slow down the progressive march to the institutions. I am a genuine counter-revolutionary. I'm going to undo in four years the damage they did in '50. And you won't believe what I'm going to do. And so he got that cabinet of loyalists, and nothing is too small. Not the Smithsonian, not the Kennedy Center, not architecture, not statue Topley, not K through 12 curriculum. He wants to undo it all in four years. And we've never seen anything like it. It's a true counter revolution. And it's-It's going to need more than three years left, but we'll see what happens. We'll see, but it's on the razor's edge. It's very hard to do when you have all of these institutions and you've had the left. This is a long, windy explanation of why these people are so crazy.

They're basically saying, Well, we can lose an election now with Obama. We get Obama, but I know we lost with Kerry, and we lost with Gore, and we lost with Hillary. But it didn't really matter because we were always moving the country leftward, and the Republicans were pathetic. Mccain, Romney, they didn't know what we were doing. This guy, he closed the border. This guy, he's taking on Harvard and Yale and Stanford, where we're in doctorate. This guy, he's going to eliminate the Department of Education. This guy, he's not going to let us gouge the government 50 %. This guy, he's Getting rid of DEI. This guy's got 50,000 new recruits in the middle. That's why they're so insane.

Victor, let's throw Santos out there first. Yesterday, Donald Trump, he thought he was being unfeed He's been treated unfairly in prison, where he's been for several months, the former New York, I'm sorry, weirdo congressman. But your thoughts about Donald Trump's commuting his sentence.

Yeah, he's not an empathetic character. Even Blago had a little bit more... Blago, you could make the argument, was railroad by the Jesse Jackson-Obama Chicago connection. But Santos has lied and he's broken the law. I don't know. If you're going to pardon him, why not wait till you go out of office and let him fill out part of a sentence, or maybe commute it and do something? But it's not a good look to let him off like that, I think. I don't know what you feel about, Jack. We haven't discussed it.

Yeah, well, it's unappealing. I agree with you. Let him roast a little while longer. He was convicted rightly.

And he was convicted, and I wouldn't have commuted that sentence or let him out.

Well, Also troubling on the right here, Victor, and I'm going to read this a little bit from this New York Post column, sick, sick, sick, young Republican group chat is part of the rights, new vice signaling, end quote, bonding ritual. So here's how this story begins. I'll get through it quickly. Vice signaling is the new virtue signaling. It was revealed this week that in a private group chat, leaders of young Republican groups, including the then Chair and Vice Chair of the New York organization, as well as the Vice Chair from Kansas, called Black People Monkeys, praised Hitler, discussed raping their enemies and driving them to suicide. It's all apparently supposed to be funny. You guys are in on the joke, right? And meant to prove loyalty. If you're one of us, they're implying you'd never rat. But it's abhorrent and fits right into a concerning mounting trend on the right. Vice signaling is a backlash response to the left smug virtue signaling the performative and exclusionary trend of going to fashionable protests using overly genuflecting lingo person of color, systematic oppression, birthing person, blah, blah, blah, blah, and shaming everyone to the right of the far left.

Victor, I find this troubling. I think these guys should be called out, and this should not be tolerated.

They should be ostracized. Absolutely. They don't understand. Maybe they're not old enough, but if you're upset When you talk about affirmative action after 60 years or DEI, that doesn't mean that, A, all Black people disagree with you, and B, it doesn't mean that there wasn't institutionalized racism and segregation. In the South and insidious bias, probably in places in the North. It doesn't mean that there wasn't great people in the civil rights movement. And the tragedy of DEI and affirmative action, as Shelby Steele, or Tom Sole or Walter Williams or Clarence Thomas has pointed out, was that there were so many talented black people who did not want white liberal's guilt and did not want these great society programs because they had seen what they had done to other people and created dependencies. As Black people were treated terribly, they had developed a sense of survival, and they were independent and entrepreneurial in terms of abortion and illegitimacy and divorce. They weren't that much different, statistically, from the general population. And so that argument is against affirmative action and against DEI is pro-Black. It really is. I think I've said before, where I work, I work with 50 or 60 fellows, and I think they're all very bright, but the two brightest I've ever met, of all of them are Shelby Steele and Tom Soul.

I admire Kyren Skinner. She's up there, too. Our director is very bright, of course, Condoleezza Rice. But when you meet somebody like Tom Skoll, who grew up in Jim Crow, Condoleezza Rice did, too, as a young girl. Then they do so well. You can see they do so well because their attitude was, I'm very suspicious of dependency and white liberal co-opting. And you can see it also when Obama says to black males, You don't know what's good for you. You might vote against, or he said the other day about Hispanic men. Remember, he said, I understand that some of these men will do They're going to vote for an inflate. Why wouldn't they, Barack, worry about gas and inflation? They're not your ponds. They're independent, smart, autonomous people, and they want to be treated that way. So what the Black movement was at some time. As I said, I heard Martin Luther King speak, and it was all about being independent and being very careful. And he blasted white moderates. He said they're not enough. I don't know if he was correct in his criticism, but there was a sense that you had to be very careful about guilty white liberals lavishing entitlements on you.

Now it's been $25 trillion. And the result is reparations and all these crazy things. But these people that said all this stuff seem oblivious to that. When they call somebody a monkey or something, they don't understand that if you have an equal playing field and in the Black community, if it culturally takes the same approach as Asians and other immigrant groups, they don't have an adversarial relationship. They just say to themselves, We're in a competitive society, and we're newcomers, or We came in, and we're not the majority. We're going to be better than the majority. And a lot of people, Black people, have argued and have done that. So just to blast everybody like that is crazy. And it brings up the other... The anti-Semitism is connected. It used to be when I was growing up, I think I mentioned that, if I went follow my grandfather, and I went to, I used to tag along with him and irrigate, and all these farmers would congregate at a big stamp pipe to talk about the communal water. And some guy, I sent my plums back to New York, and some Jew, he Jewed me. That was the term he used.

I'd always say to my grandfather, What does that mean? He said, Well, some people... He was a very liberal guy in this thinking. He said, Some people blame things on particular scapegoats. And then I would go over and talk to a packer I knew, and I worked for him for a year. I won't mention his name. I'd say, what's the... My job was to palletize 28 pound boxes and put straps on a strapping machine and then put the label. And he would say, I want you to label these peaches a different variety than they are. I'd say, why? I'm not going to do that. And he said, you want to get fired? I said, well, I can't do that. And he said, well, the Jews in New York don't like this now. I heard that all the time, but it was always from right wing people. Then the left, because I don't know. I can get into, I know, but I don't have time to do it, but partly out of the Israeli, Palestinian, and all that stuff, immigration, and the idea that Jews were white oppressor, colonial settler. Anyway, that was the monopoly on the left.

But now you start to see on the fringes, it's not nearly as much as the left, but you start to see it come back on the right, anti-Semitism. You've got to call it out. You really do. When Mondami says, a good example on the left, he said the other day, Would you disarm Hamas? Martha Mikhael announced that. He said, I can't answer because I don't want to get into Middle East affairs. You do want to get in. You do all the time, Mondami. You said that you wanted to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he came to New York. Don't lie to us. If we're going to say all that or we're going to say that these World War II revisionists who call Churchill a terrorist or say the Holocaust was problematic, it may not have happened, or it was accidental, or it was prisoners were starved, then you've got to call it out call them out because it's ahistorical. And that's what's very important to the MAGA movement, that it does that. And Candice Owens, I said before that Tucker has done me so many favors, but I think it was one of the most unwise things I can imagine that he has had on that show.

And by the way, I don't believe in counseling that Jack, you don't either. I don't believe that you should say, Candice Owens can't broadcast or you can boycott, you can do it. I don't like counseling left or right. Just let them go out and then oppose them. And so my argument is not people on the right should cancel people. If they want to have a little Republican anti-Semite That's their business. But just say, You people don't represent us. You're disgusting. Get out of here. We don't want you in our organization. But if you want to go have some stupid, crazy anti-Semitic neo-naught, go ahead and do it. But just keep out of it. Don't use our name, and you're not going... That ostracism, boycott, that's fine if you want. And let in the marketplace of ideas, defeat that idea. And that's why everybody has to stand up and say something. Yeah.

If you don't- The truth will set you free. Our enemies, ideological enemies, they're the ones who would not call out J Jones back on him, right? No.

Who has said- No, it was very funny. They said they didn't call them out, and then they thought they were going to run an ad against Winsom Sears and say, Winsum, are you going to call him out? And like, one now, two, she said, Of course I am. Everybody called him out. The only one I had a little problem with, I like him a lot, was JD Vance. And he was saying they were taking this too much and exaggerated rating. He said it was a thousand. What J Jones said was a thousand times. I think he said something like that. And he's right. It was. But you don't want to make comparisons with that. You just say, The left can do whatever they want. We expect this of them. But people on our side do not do that. So yes, J Jones is probably a lot worse. But these people, we've got to call them out because that's our responsibility, and that's all you have to do.

Well, we're going to stick a little with that, Disemitism. But first, I want to remind our listeners, we have an informed because we have a lot of new listeners, a lot of new viewers, that Victor has a website, The Blade of Perseus. The address is victorhanson. Com. You should go there regularly because everything Victor writes, you'll find there. He writes a weekly essay for American Greatness, weekly syndicated column. You'll find the archives of these podcasts, links to Victor's many books. I don't know how many, Victor has written 20 something books. He's got another one coming out in a few months. And then there are ultra articles. Twice a week, Victor writes an exclusive piece for the Blade of Perseus, and once a week, he does an exclusive video. And it's 6: 50 a month to subscribe, or cheaper discounted, full year, $65. The blade of Percy is victorhanson. Com. Victor, The Daily Signals, Virginia Allen wrote a piece, Israeli Fans Banned from sports game in UK. And here's how the story begins. Authorities in the UK have banned Israeli fans from attending a forthcoming soccer match in England over security risks. Following a thorough assessment, we have classified the upcoming Aston Villa versus Macabre Tel Aviv fixture as high-risk West Midland's police said in a statement Thursday as the Department expressed support for a decision to, prohibit away supporters from attending the game.

A UK body responsible for issuing safety certificates for games, known as the Safety Advisory Group, made the decision, but is now being asked to reconsider, I am shocked to my core that this outrageous decision to ban me, my family, and my friends from attending an Aston Villa game in the UK, says former hostage Emily DeMari. That's in a post on X. Victor, the flagrant anti-Semitism of the British governments.

This is incredible. We should... Trump should talk to Stormer about that and say, if you're going to... You have gone well beyond the EU, you've gone well beyond continental Europe and your anti-Semitism, what are you going to do to identify them? Trump should call Sturmer up and said, So you don't want these people to come, these so-called Jews, to loot for Israel. I got a good idea. Why don't you have a little yellow star you put on their jacket, and then you would know who they are. Is that what you're going to do? Because you're in a good tradition that goes back to about 1935 in Germany. And it's insidious. And it's so bad because although there's only about 8% or 9% Muslims in the UK. In these big cities, it's up to 15 or 16 like it is in Germany, and soon to be in France and places, and they're scared stiff. Do they really, really, really think that if you look at all the violence that's gone on, that Jewish, British subjects commit violence to the same degree as Muslims do? Or are they trying to say, We are terrified of our Muslim populations, and we can't handle them, and we're afraid that we'll be called racist or something.

We know that Jews are law-abiding, they're quiet, they don't object. We're going to go out, we're going to follow the path of least resistance, and we're going to go after Jews and just don't come. If you don't come, there will be no violence. Then some person that's a first grader might say to them, Well, don't you think that was the point? That the Islamic population that's unassimilated, unacculturated, non-integrated is basically threatening to have a big brawl and that you are afraid of them, and therefore, they can affect their segregated agenda without doing anything because you will cave. Margaret Thatcher would have said, If I have to bring out the British Army, I will to protect everybody to have the right to go to a sporting event. This is not 1935. 38 in Alabama. You know what I mean?

The utter fear of the British governing class and the bureaucracy, and it seems to be, I don't know, our police departments, how are they that politicized? But not only for beyond this banning Jews attending the soccer game, but we've talked about this last couple of shows, but the arrests of people for simple critical posts or for standing somewhere in public with a flag or arresting, back on Jews, arresting a Jew near a pro-Palestinian protest somewhere in London because he was wearing a yamaka. This is insane. I feel, Victor, they must fear deeply when the truth all comes out about their complicity and weakness for these grooming gangs that stretch back over, well, 10, 15, 20 years. This is a last dance to cover up.

I don't understand it. I don't understand. When I was on Megan Kelly's yesterday, she made a good point. In the debate between Cuomo and Mondami, the back and forth, he said, You can't name the name of any mosque. And you haven't been to them. And then instead of saying, Don't tell me where I've been, whether you like it or not, this was a Christian, Judeo-Christian-founded country, and they have a dominant history. It doesn't mean we censor, oppressed other religious beliefs. But in the great realm of things, Islam has not been a part of the American experience in the way that Judeo-Christian Have you been to? And then he should have said, How many cathedrals have you been to? Can you name a Church of Christ or a Presbyterian Church that you've been to? But he didn't. Instead, he said, Well, I did all this stuff for Muslims, and it was just apologetics and appeasement. I don't get it. I guess it's deep down, there's two reasons. Maybe it's anti-Semitism and maybe it's fear of terrorism after 9/11. I don't know. But this country in Europe, in Britain in particular, just can't say this country is founded on particular principles of tolerance and your countries in the Middle East are not.

Your countries are one-religion states. We don't do that here. But that doesn't mean that we sell out our Christian traditions. We don't. We don't enforce worship. We allow all religions, but that does not mean we're going to apologize for Christianity. When Mondami said, to get back at one point, they asked him, Well, why are you opposed to Israel, you're not Jews. He said, No, I'm not opposed to Jews. I'm just opposed to Israel because it's a Jewish state, a national religion, I'm thinking. Are you insane? Do you really believe that 2 million Arab Muslims inside Israel are treated worse than Christians would be in Lebanon or Syria or on the West bank or Gaza? Can you imagine if a bunch of evangelical Israelis went over to the West bank or Gaza and say, We want to have a Church of Christ here. They wouldn't be alive. You have no problem, Mondami, with all of these Arab Muslim states where there is a state religion. Go to Constantina Istanbul. Sorry, Victor, you're in the wrong century, but I did that intentionally. You're alive. Go there and then see all the closed, Romanian, unorthodox Greek churches and what they're doing to Santa Sophia, Hagia Sophia, the oldest cathedral in Christendom's history.

And so there are one-state religions, and they're in the Islamic world. Yes, Israel's dominant thematic religion is Judaism, but they treat minority worship developers much better than the Islamic world, and Mondami knows that.

I have to plug myself, Victor. By the way, Jack Fowler, the Senior Fellow at the Center for Civil Society. Go to that website, click on events. Coming up, November fifth and sixth in Philadelphia, we're having a conference on America 250 and how our founding impacted the civil society and the importance of civil society. I think you want to attend if you live in the Philly Metro, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware area. Check it out. So that's centerfourcivilsociety. Org. And I write Civil Thoughts every week for the center. And Civil Thoughts comes out on a Friday. It's an email. It's got 14 recommended readings. You're going to like it. We don't charge. We don't sell your name. Civilthoughts. Com. Go there, sign up. Thank you, kindly. Okay, Victor. Hey, no kings. Our enemies And I do believe we have enemies. I see you and I have enemies, and so do many of our listeners, the left. They're not going to be leaders. I don't know what they... This no King's Madness. What are they left to do? Performative art. Anyway, your thoughts on it.

What does it mean? I mean, does it mean that Donald Trump was an elected? Are they saying that the 2024 was not an election? Are they election denialists? Stacey Abrams or something? He was elected. He was elected. Where did he get the idea of executive orders predominating? I think there was somebody called Barack Obama who said, I have a phone and I have a pen, and he started issuing them like crazy, and as did Bill Clinton and George W Bush. So what is What is it? What is Kingly? Is it his gold veneers he's putting in the oval office or what? I mean, you could have a demonstration that said, No dictators. We don't raid people's houses and go through their underwear drawer. We don't debank people that we disagree with. We don't try to remove candidates off the ballot in 25 states. We don't find somebody $500 million because the attorney general promises to take Trump Tower. We don't go after sick federal prosecutors on somebody. We don't take a two-bit Georgia prosecutor and try to destroy a candidate who's going to run for President. We don't do these things. We don't weaponize the FBI.

We don't have James Comey trying to peddle a Russian collusion hoax. We don't take 51 former intelligence authorities and try to lie to the American people on the eva debate and say that a laptop that is genuinely Hunter Biden's product of Russian intelligence services. We don't do anything. We don't take the FBI and work with Twitter and the old Twitter and FBI to censor news. We don't do that. We don't have the head of the FBI, James Comey, and the head of the CIA, John Brennan, the head of the NESA, James Clapper, lie under oath to Congress. We don't do that. That would be part of a king. So what does he do that says he's a king? When he gets an executive of order, and he's in the lower court, which are basically Biden appointees, and they stay it. Does he say, I'm not going to obey that? He might say it, but does he ever do it? No, he follows it until it goes to a circuit court. And then if it's ruled against, he waits the Supreme Court. So what they're basically saying is, We have no political power. We don't have messages that the majority of Americans agree with.

Our stealthy effort to change the political dynamics so people would embrace a message they don't want to embrace, failed because although we did get 55 million people to immigrate to the United States, he stopped our latest project of 10 million illegals. He stopped it. And he also stopped our defund the police and the Joe Soros new critical legal theory stuff. And it looks like he stopped the politicalization of the Pentagon, and it looks like he's thrown out DEI, and it looks like our bastion of power in the university he's questioning. So he's a king. He's a king. He did all that. He's a king. And so they can't define their terms. The only thing about the left is every time they make a charge, he's a fascist. Mark Millie, he's a fascist. John Kelly, he's a mother of the most dangerous. Just tell me. Tell me why he's a fascist. Go through and list. Mark Millie, General Millie, he's a fascist. Okay, what did he do? Did he call secretly his Chinese counterpart and say, They disobey what Mark Milley says? Did he do that? What did he do? And they never defined their terms.

John Bolton didn't define his terms when he called Trump all these names. So I don't know. I guess there's people going to go out in the street and they're angry because they lost the election. They don't have political power. They don't have the issues. And their stealthy means of taking over the institutions and changing the demography hasn't worked. Or worse yet, I went out last night to dinner with my wife, Jack, and to a group that was some Hispanic, highway patrol law enforcement. Not all of them were, but we had a group dinner, and half the people there were Mexican-American, I've known. We were talking about the Hispanic boat and how it's radically changed, especially for males over the age of 40. I was just saying, I was kidding that they had to be very careful because the left will stop all immigration, legal or anything from anything south of the border, if they find out they're to be Republican. It's true, as they did with European, that was Ted Kennedy's whole point in '65. He thought, you know what? We got too many of these Hungarian freedom fighters that are fleeing communism. And we got too many of these Germans who are fleeing East Germany.

There are too many of these Poles that are coming over here, and they're right wing immigrants, too many people from Greece, the Greek Civil Wars, and we don't like these leftists. So therefore, no more Europeans. We want poor people who grew up in Marxist environments. But if that changes, then I don't know what the left will do. Go to Africa or go to some place in the world where they have a genuine supply of leftists. But I think it's going to be very interesting to see what the Hispanic vote will be. And if it is 49, 49, like it may have been in the last election with 55 % of the Hispanic males voting Republican, they will be the most starch opponents of immigration there is.

Well, talking about close things, Victor, and let's end this with the census story I mentioned earlier. The Washington Times has an editorial out yesterday that the census, the 2020 census, ended up giving Democrats six undeserved seats. So it turns out that the six states were under counted and eight were over counted. And I'll just read this one paragraph. So the Heritage Foundation evaluated the impact of these errors and found the biggest winners in order were New York, Minnesota, Ohio, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Utah, Delaware, and Rhode Island. The biggest losers were Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Illinois, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Had the tally been performed honestly, the Sunshine State would have picked up two additional representatives, and the Lone Star State would have added another likely Republican to its delegation. On the Democrats side, Colorado retained a district it should have lost, while Minnesota and Rhode Island each profited by one seat. Overall, Democrats gained six House seats and six votes in the Electoral College.

That's really troubling. We know they count people as residents, not citizens. We know that. I should modify that. We know they count residents as people here legally or illegally who are not US citizens as residents for purposes of the census in blue states, that qualifier. If it's a red state like Texas, they don't make any effort to go to areas where there might be conservative Hispanic groups. And this opens a larger issue because people are always saying, oh, Donald Trump fired the guy in charge of the unemployment statistics, or Donald Trump is firing people in the... No, he's trying to tell people that the institutions have been weaponized, the census takers, the IRS, the lowest learners there, and it's time to clean it out and get new people. And that's what he's doing. They thought they were cuved, the left, by weaponizing the census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Department of Labor, the bureaucrats, the IRS. That's what they did, only they didn't really talk about it. And it's always easier to destroy an institution like the border or a cabinet than it is to restore. That's the dirty work that gets the bad publicity.

Giving stuff away or having no judgment or tolerating anything makes you very popular. But saying we're going to have standards or merit or we're going to follow the law is very unpopular. All those ICE protesters, and by the way, Jack, I have made a promise to a couple who said they were never listening, so they're probably not listening, that I won't use the... We don't have profanity on this podcast.

Are you going to mention a woman's name right now?

Yeah. The K-A-R-N, I won't use. But when I looked at all of these protests in Chicago lately and Portland and stuff, the K-A-R-N group, it was very funny because they were the one protesting, and I didn't see any of them down at the border, is what I'm trying to say. In other words, when 10,000 people came across with known criminals, known criminals, and people were, We're going to come up here and sworn the ER so American citizens wouldn't have access, they didn't say a word. So it's very easy to do that, but it's very hard to find all those people and say, please go back to where you came from and try it again legally if you meet the criteria, if you want to. But they had these signs, no borders, no borders. In other words, they were saying to us, We don't want any border. That's the left's attitude. We just want an open continent for anybody to come in. Because We're always going to live in Presidio Heights, or we're going to live in Atherton, or we're going to live in Malibu, and we have means to protect ourselves.

That's the point. Why should your front door be a border? No border there either. Let them.

Like I said, I have to go to Pepperdine next week for a little bit. But one of the weirdest things in my life, when I've gone down there for five or six years, I wanted to walk on the beach and you park. And by law, you have to have access to the beach. And these homes are $20 million up, and they're all left-wing celebrities. But what they do is when they have that little, I don't know if they still do it, but they plant bougainvias and things with these huge thorns. It's hard to find out where they are. And if you go through you're going to get scratched or they have dogs that bark. These are left wing people. A lot of them have walls. I thought, Wow, why do you want a wall? It's the same old thing when the two columns that I've ever written on my life that I got the most hatred was one saying that their 280 from Atherton to South San Francisco, along the Crystal Springs Reservoir, it was empty for 50 miles to the Coast. Why there were people living in Winnebago's in Redwood City and five families to a house at the cost of million dollars for, I don't know, 1,200 square feet.

So why don't you make what the left wants, high density apartments along 280, extend the light rail up there and allow underprivileged and underrepresented communities to live along that strip where you have water, you have mass transit, you have an existing six-lane highway. A guy showed up in San Francisco and was physically had to be ejected. He wanted to fight me about that. He had a woodside estate. The second one, Was when I said during the Obama administration, we have a million dorm rooms in the United States, and it's summer, and the kids are not there, and we have no place, and Obama's making cages. So why don't we have Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and Vanderbilt? Just let the illegals stay in the dorms, have a few students stay over, pay them well, tutor them, have the law schools offer legal representation for all their cases. You have the University Med Center to offer complete health checkups and cancer, everything you need for that. And then tutoring, everything would be there. All the people who wanted open borders would have a wonderful chance. And I got so much hatred. Yeah. I tried that. Or they hate that.

They hate to be told-Put your money where your mouth is, right?

It's like the Martha didn't... We always go back to those. I saw that box where some K-A-R-Aster in. I'm I'm sorry. I'm just teasing. I'm never going to use the word again, I promise. But she had a cardboard box with a puff jacket, and she had all this stuff, and she went in and put it in this illegal alien depot they created. Second-hand. Yes, second-hand. And she was smiling, just Trump thing, and DeSantis, and all this. And then this bus pulled up, I think a few hours later, this big bus headed your area in New York. And they were so delighted to see that they had called the bus in, that they'd given a puff jacket to some poor guy from Southern Mexico.

When Karina happened, this doesn't have to do with the legals, but with New Orleans depopulating, I got in touch with, and he actually communicated with the then Bishop who was head of the United States Catholic Conference, saying, We got all these empty seminaries because no one's going to seminary anymore. You got all this real estate, rooms. I think this would be a great Christian opportunity to take care of these poor people who have been flooded out of their homes. We can't do that. Anyway, I didn't think I was going to get a yes.

No, we can't do that. But I can tell you that within a mile of where I live, there is an area, I won't be too specific with the avenue, where it was a model of what you would call agrarianism of the 1960s. Tidy small little farmhouses, ethnically diverse, Romanian-American, Greek-American, Japanese-American, Punj-American, Mexican-American, all stable Houses, 1,200 square feet, clean little garages with one car pickup, 40 to 60 acre checkerboard of farms, really stable, nobody. And now they're all gone, and each one of those little houses is wrecked, basically. And there are probably 40 to 50 people living there. And all illegally, everything about sewage, water, plumbing is legally. Winnebago is on blocks, Trader's on blocks, shacks, and I don't see anybody in the left upset about it. Why would they not say this is against California zoning, California health codes, California building codes, and we can help We can bring these people to Stanford University in the summer and allow them to get a reboot. We can give them health checks, we can give them legal advice, we can give them a tutor. Instead of having all these students If the citizens go out in yellow, pro-hamas, it would be much better to channel that energy positively.

They can adopt each an illegal alien and help them, monitor them. We're going to have a website. Why don't they do that?

Because hell has it frozen over yet. That's why. All right, Victor, we're at the end here. I'm going to read four comments. Three are similar and one's different. A couple of times in recent podcasts, I've mentioned Colossus, and Ralph V. Ruban Jr. 7021 wrote, he gave us the actual quote from William Shakespeare.

Is it Act 2?

Oh, I don't know. It's just the quote. It could be, but it says, Why, man, And he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus, and we, petty men, walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves.

I didn't want to say the part about graves. Yeah. Well, it's- I think he says he walks on wider ways to the sentence before it. I didn't know that because I had to read it in high school about three times.

I'll do some homework after the show. And then there are three people with similar comments, and I had to reflect them on many, many comments about... Where's Victor? So one is from Phil Repert, 1993, who wrote, Victor, you need to stop apologizing for the short term absence from public viewing platform. You are a pure treasure in what you offer each time I get to see you. Then Marjorie Hogland, M6z, wrote, Thank you, Sammie, for being a big help with our national treasure. We love and treasure VDH. Blessings from Michigan. Vdh is a superstar. And then Fred Raymer, writes, To you guys, it may have seemed to be a short absence, but to your fans, it was an eternity. So very glad to have you back. Thanks for such a great show. There are many people who wrote similar stuff. Hundreds. Hundreds.

I didn't miss a day. I had the flu in March, and then I got sinus infections, and then I had a major operation, and then I had drainage. To be candid, I don't know my lower right lobe collapsed for months, and I didn't know what was going on, but I'm feeling better. They just don't know why it hasn't reinflated. I think I should put a little needle with a hand pump and do something. But I'm feeling better, and I'm going to have another procedure, I think. I haven't missed anything. It just my wife said to me, You're not going to be able to do all these appointments that you have scans. God, I learned about an MRI versus a cat versus a pet scan and all these blood tests. So they don't know why it happened or what will happen. It's still there, that spot, a triangle, consolidation, a teletasis or whatever they call it. But I still work. I just don't fly for a while. But I guess what I'm saying, Jack, and we tried to combine two things. Let me go up and do all these tests that they wanted me to do for two weeks.

And then we were leaving one platform. We're not going to talk about why we left, but then we went to a new one. And all of us have been so energized by the youth at the Daily Signal. When you go there, there's these young kids in their 20s, 30s, early 40s. I guess that's not you. And they're all so competent and energetic and full of ideas, and they've energized us. So they're really trying to push the podcast. They renamed it. I think it's going to really take off, and that's what we're so excited about.

Yeah. Rob Bluey and Katrina Trinco, who are two of the editorial leaders there. You couldn't find more decent people, more happy. Rob reminds me of another friend of ours, Gabe Conger, from the Bradley Impact Fund.

Yeah, another same kind guy.

They are So there's never not a smile on their face, and it's all quite authentic.

That's what I'm really confident. I wanted to connect with this younger generation. And that's one thing I got excited when I went out to Phoenix with Charlie Kirk. I spent two days there a year and a half ago. Yeah. And then I talked. He had that energy around him, young people. And I used to feel that way because I was teaching with young people all the time. But when you're a fellow at the Hoover Institute, you're mostly doing research. I do go at the hills there, but I couldn't fly. And so I missed that opportunity. And I'm going to go down to Pepperdine and see some students next week. But it's very important to be around young people. And when I go to the heritage to speak, it's just imbued with that youthful energy. It's just different. I like the director a lot. Kevin Roberts? Kevin Roberts, yeah. I've never found all of the criticisms of him that I have never found them to be true. He's affidable, he's reasonable. If he has a position that people disagree with, he's willing to explain it. And all of those people at the heritage I have a great admiration for.

Kevin was President of where I mentioned, I visited Wyoming Catholic College. He was a college President of a very unique college. He's a smart cook And I know a lot of people on the Heritage Board, they're wonderful people.

Larry Arndt, President of Hillsdale, Rebecca Mercer, Oversea at the Hoover Institution. So it's just a good fit for us. And I think, I may be wrong, but I think we're going to get energized and they're going to push the podcast, and we are, and we're going to try to live up to their standards, and they live up to ours. I think it had to come. So it was Sammie's idea. She said, You've got to get this taken care of. You need all these scans. Why don't you just take off two weeks and stay up in the Bay Area and get it all, see what's wrong with you? I had no idea how to collapse long. I'd been in there for months, apparently, and I did. And then she said, And why don't we just take this time for this difficult transition? I didn't know how difficult it is to leave the keys from one platform to go to another.

But it is. It's not seamless.

No, it isn't. And we made the transition, and we're back on the upward spiral.

Yeah. We should end with Victor saying what he just said, I could be wrong. Because Victor has never been wrong as far as I could tell. I just want to note that Victor admitted that. He could possibly be wrong. Victor, you weren't wrong on anything you said today. You were terrific. All the wisdom you shared. I greatly appreciate it. Greatly appreciate the folks who take the time to write to us. There's just over a thousand comments come in a week from Victor's website, from YouTube, Rumble, Apple, Spotify, et cetera. So thanks. We try to read them all. You've been great. We'll be back soon with another episode of the Victor Davis Hansen Show, In His Own Words.

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