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Trump came out today and said he supports JD as his successor as a Republican nominee in 2028. The reason he did that was JD was starting to be associated with these negotiations and then negotiations hadn't worked and he had said we were dealing with the moderates. There are no moderates in Iran. He said that Israel couldn't kill its way out. That sounds like Israel wanted to kill people. Already you see not just among Jews but among other people are worried that JD seems to be singly now. Israel for criticism that's not applicable to other more deserving targets and we'll see what happens. Hello and welcome to Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. This is our Saturday edition where we do something different in the A middle segment and this week we're looking and we've been looking at presidents and we've arrived at Van Buren. What's Van Buren's first name? Martin Van Buren. Martin Van Buren. Maybe you're confused. He had a grandson, a grandson that was very famous in Congress or he was a lawyer during the Civil War. He died in the first two. He had a grandson who was a general excuse me in the Mexican War. The key died Van Buren's son died before the Civil War, I think. I'm not sure. I think so. So Martin Van Buren who followed on Jackson's, Andrew Jackson's administration and then Jimmy Carter. So stay with us for those stories but we'll look at a few news stories first and we're going to start off with just a few things about Iran. I know that Jack and Victor talked a lot about Iran this week but we got news changing every day on that. So stay with us and we'll be back. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. I have a new book out on September 8th of this year and I think you're going to enjoy it. It's called Counter Revolution. The fall and rise of Donald Trump and the mega movement. It starts right after January 6th and it details the lack of popularity of Donald Trump, the invective that he endured, the five civil and criminal trials, the effort to get him off the ballot, the raid on Marlago, the two impeachments earlier, one in which he was tried as a private citizen and yet he came back. How did he come back and why did he come back? I explain in the book how he defeated his primary opponents, how he was outspent. He had a hostile media and he defeated the Democratic machine and Camilla Harris. It starts on January 6th. It ends pretty much now in May of 2026. What's the title about? Donald Trump is not a revolutionary. He's not a revisionist. He's a counter revolutionary. This time around is not addressing just the symptoms of the progressive project of the last 50 years. He's talking about the causes. Not just an open border but how to stop illegal immigration entirely. Not just crime but sending the National Garden to make sure cities are safe. Not just an Iranian nuclear threat but ending that threat that seven other presidents had identified but had not acted on. Not just addressing the transgender issue or the Green New Deal and all of those issues that are so dear to the Democratic Party but ending them, defunding NPR and PBS. So it is a counter revolution to unwind and to roll back the entire progressive project of the last 50 years. I think you're going to like it. It's pretty interesting. It chronicles the greatest political comeback in our recent political history. Thank you very much. I'm Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily's signal. Welcome back. This is Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Victor is the Martin and Elyanderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. You can find him at his website, victorhansen.com where he has links to his articles, podcasts and books and you can find everything Victor there. So please come join us and I hope you subscribe as well because Victor writes VDH Ultra Material which you get two articles a week and a video podcast or a short video, short relative to these podcasts. All right Victor. So in news on Iran this week there is I just wanted one thing and it might not take you long to address but there were leaks from the government that there was a depletion of our weaponry to fight Iran with and then if you have anything the or Trump is talking about there's a new deal with Iran in the works. I know your audience is thinking yeah that's not going to pan out but if you have anything on that and then also tales of JD and BB Netanyahu who not getting along. Well to go first very quickly people have been leaking that there are not enough patriot missiles for example or harpoon missiles, older ones, tomahawk missiles. Not enough sensitive, the most sophisticated, we've heard there are not enough bunker busters. I don't know if any of this is true but it's been leaking and the problem why Trump is so angry are is we have enough, we have about 40 or 50% likely of our arsenal which is too low. This has been going on for a long time. Obama cut the defense budget Biden did and we don't have enough stuff but the problem that makes people angry or we have enough to handle around. We don't have enough to handle around give the Ukraine enough to protect Kiev and then detour China from attacking Taiwan. So the more you say that and leak it the more likely China might believe it and want to try why we're engaged with Ukraine and Iran they might want to try to see if they could go into Taiwan and we wouldn't have enough missiles. That's the worry. The second thing about Trump and the Iran war, we've had five or six of these where he says the negotiations are going great and then they break down and then he hits them once or twice and then they beg him, beg him, beg him to get back and then everything's close to an agreement but the Iranians don't tell the truth and then he gets frustrated and the problem with this is that on February 28th the you know we had 250 days before the midterms. So this after 38 days of kinetic operations we stopped. We stopped because about 80% of 90% of everything they had was destroyed but we didn't know that they had these little mosquito boats hidden everywhere and we didn't know to what degree they had drones and missiles hidden and they had a lot. So when we kept saying we're destroying 90% of their air capacity as far as missiles and drones we didn't know what the denominator was we didn't know 90% of what 10,000, 20,000 could be a lot 10% and so they started threatening the Gulf at that point the Gulf freaked out and they had wanted us to go in there and eliminate Iran but now that they got hit they didn't want to commit with their 600 aircraft and join us because they thought we wouldn't take them out completely. So then people came to Trump I guess this week and said you're out of time we're only 90 days if you're going to get a solve this and you can't keep saying this because so last week they dreamed up we're just going to unload greatest military campaign in the air since World War Two. We're going to bomb the dual and they were and then that panicked Iran and they say now they're going to open the straightover moves I don't think you can trust them but the point is they got the message that now this was the last chance so if they break this and I think they will Trump will have no choice to have any credibility unless he continues with that with that program and your third part of the question. JD was at odds with BB that was the tail he was on Laura and he denied it well that that's a complicated question because Trump came out today and said he supports JD as his successor as a Republican nominee in 2028 the reason he did that was JD was starting to be associated with these negotiations and not the kinetic part on their headset and then negotiations hadn't worked and he had said we were dealing with the moderates there are no moderates in Iran there's people who pose as moderates but even if they wanted to be moderate they'd be murdered it's a one by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, everybody knows that, and that theocracy. And then he said that Israel couldn't kill its way out. They didn't want to kill people. If Husbalah had stopped the missiles tomorrow, they wouldn't have ever gone into Lebanon. So there was an impression that on the international stage, he wasn't as experienced, let's say, his rubio, and rubio stock was starting to come up. And if that continued, there might be a destructive race in 2028. So what Trump did was, he said to JD, "Pretty much, I will back you, but you got to stop the stuff about Netanyahu." So he had, and he made Netanyahu, and they were supposedly an anime on Laura Ingram's interview he denied there wasn't about. But the problem is this, that Tucker's son worked for a JD, and he, whether it's fair or not, is associated with that wing of the Maga movement, the Tucker Carlson, the Candace Owens, the Steve Bannon, the Joe Kid, is that his name? Yeah, all of those guys. And maybe Megan Kelly, I don't know. But and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey, and the problem with that, if he is to be associated with them, they save some pretty crazy things about Israel and the Jews. And when Thomas Massey's that loss because of the decision was made in Israel, you know? And so there's a lot of, we're in, there's two problems with that. Trump's grandchildren are Jewish, and his daughter has converted to Judaism. And more importantly, there's a lot of powerful Jews and donors who are sick of the democratic anti-Semitism. So the Republican Party is trying to attract them, but already you see, not just among Jews, but among other people are worried that JD seems to be singling out Israel for criticism that's not applicable to other more deserving targets, like, anyway. So this week, he's been rehabilitated sort of, he got in with, he had a talk with Netna, who he got on Fox and said it went well, Trump endorsed him, and you didn't hear him taking, he's more now looking at corruption than trying to solve the negotiations. And we'll see what happens. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Well, let's turn to some of the things going on at the federal level of our government. Rand Paul has gotten the votes to refer Fauci for contempt, given that he took the fifth 111 times. And my question is not so much on that as this precedent set, and I don't know if it's worse now than it has been in the past, of having a government official do terrible, execute the laws terribly against the people or to the people, and then just being able to get away with it because at the end of a president's turn, they pardon them. And that's a very bothersome pattern or precedent, I'm not sure which one. Well, there's two things that presidents do. They give pardons, so they're exempt from prosecution, and they give clemencies so that if they've been sentenced, their sentence can be stopped. They can get out of prison, for example. And they do both. And it's controversial who does more of one or the other, but if you put them both together, which you should, out of the last of our 47 presidents, the top 10 were Democrats. And the most was Joe Biden at about 4,500 total. That's pardons and clemencies and other things related to that. And then there's FDR, then there's Woodrow Wilson. I think Trump now is three or four in six years. But Eisenhower gave a lot too, by the way. But out of that 10, I think eight were Democrats. And that's important to remember because they keep saying that Trump is the all-time partner. And I think it's been widely abused. And the problem with Biden's pardons or he lied about it. He said he was not going to pardon his family or Hunter. And then he did just that. And he waited to the last day was in office last week. So the problem with Fauci is there's about six or seven things that he lied about. Some are more minor, some of them were major, but there was one big thing. And you know, you can mask or have no utility so people didn't wear them. Then he said one, and then they were finally wearing two. And then they were so paranoid that you saw people driving down the freeway by themselves in their car with an air conditioning on. And they all had masks on. And you think what? And then you saw people policing people. As I said before, my daughter's mentally challenged. She has a genetic problem. And she's very exposed to stimuli, exposed in the sense that she has no defenses against it. And so when she was walking in Santa Cruz on a sidewalk, but nobody around her, a professor came out of her home and started screaming at Lila and she went into a complete meltdown because she didn't have a mask. And you put a mask on her and she would rip it off. And so he did that. He said you wouldn't be in fact just you or you wouldn't be infected. As I said, five months later, four and a half months later, I got infected. Everybody did. They gave you good, it saved lives for about three months if you're an elderly person or you are immune compromised. So he's wrong about the vaccination. Then that zealotry, the two big felonies that he did is he didn't take credit for it publicly, but he behind the scenes, he was the one that got the whole economy shut down. And in a complete quarantine and the school shutdown, we know that. He called everybody. And he was working at that point, he was not on Fox or Newsmax or anything. He was on left wing media. And that was a 2020 election year. And he was trying part of that left wing effort to destroy the economy. Even though there was evidence from Europe that that was not the way to go to destroy a modern sophisticated economy and deny people access to doctors and surgeries and kids that were not susceptible. But the big thing and the thing that people are concentrating on, if you think about it analytically and disinterestedly, he gave 600 thousand dollars plus to a lab that he knew was not secure in Wuhan to conduct gain of function research with the Sard family of viruses. And he did that because it was illegal in the United States. And he couldn't do that. So he and his wisdom thought that was wonderful. And more importantly, he allowed or he suggested that scientists, biologists in our major research universities and laboratories were communicating with the Chinese. And some cases giving them advice and sometimes allowing them to purchase instrumentation from the Americans and the Europeans that were critical of that research. And that research led to the creation of COVID that killed a million Americans and sickened 20 million with long COVID and did more damage even in Europe. And then when he was asked about it under oath, he denied it. And he just didn't deny it to round Paul. We have correspondence in which he and Francis Collins and a series of exchanges with other scientists were worried that they would get out and that he would be he would be faulted as one of the godfathers of this nefarious virus. So he lied about it. And then when he asked people a scientific team of 12 people, he contacted 10 said it was created in the lab. And the ones that didn't had conflict of interest with him. And then he did another thing that was really egregious. He used a 50 billion dollar budget. He let the word got out. If you crossed him on these issues, I just talked about you were not going to get a grant. And so he was not a good person. And he hurt a lot of people. And in in Rand Paul's view, if you trace it down and reduce it down to the the first step, then he has culpability for this virus. As do the Chinese, which I'm always hard. I would say that 90% of white COVID got out was the Chinese and Fauci and his team are responsible for 10% by 18 and embedding it and lying to the world about its origins. Yes. So Victor, let's go ahead and And welcome back, Pure Health Research, as one of our sponsors, if you want to drop extra pounds, boost energy levels, or reduce swelling in your legs and feet, then this message is for you. You. Pure Health Research is on a mission to make America healthy again. 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It's purehealthresearch.com with coupon code "victor" to save 35% on your order today. Again that's purehealthresearch.com and we'd like to thank Pure Health Research for sponsoring Victor Davis Hanson in his own words and our Saturday show, which they usually do. If you are interested in supplements, we encourage you to go over to Pure Health Research. So Victor, let's turn into a couple of other stories on the federal level, which Susan Collins has said that she will not vote to confirm Todd Blanchard for the DOJ. And these are her reasons and I was wondering if you could address her reasons. Number one, he approved an order to shield the president's sons and family from an IRS audit. He approved the creation of 1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund. And he attempted to indict Mark Kelly, Elise Slotkin, over the video encouraging resistance of soldiers to unlawful orders. So I was wondering your thoughts on any or all of those? Well, I mean, he wasn't the attorney general, Pam Bondy, was, but he came in with ongoing IRS investigations of the Trump family when we know that those had led to the leaking of Trump's private IRS returns. So that was weaponized under Biden. They went after him. The New York legislature passed a rule that said since the IRS is investigating, we're going to have a one time law that says any New York resident who's under tax examination by the federal government, we're going to surrender his state records that were confidential and they did. The other thing about the fund, that was a bad idea because the point was there were so many people that the DA Joe, DA DOJ went after illegally and they, what do you do about Carter Page, they ruined his life. He was completely innocent. He wasn't even completely innocent. It was more than he was completely innocent. He was under complete DOJ FBI investigation for years. And we know that Anthony, excuse me, Andrew McCabe and James Coleman's FBI under their top leader, Kevin, they're one of their top lawyers, Kevin Klein Smith lied under oath and submitted a false email from Carter Page to get a surveillance on him. He doctored that and then I think it was Judge Broad's back, of course, let him off basically with just a slap on the wrist. So there was a backstory, I could go on to all that. So what, but just to get to the point, what, what is Susan Collins going after? She's a very qualified person for the DOJ and why is she doing this because she's running three to four points behind Jackson, the grand platinum replacement in Maine, okay. Now she should take comfort that these polls, no matter what people say, and this sounds kind of loony, but it's true that 80% of the polls are run by left wing people. And they believe that polls at critical points in a campaign can affect the outcome. Because if they show momentum, then donors feel I want to back that winner and will give more money and people who might not want to vote for the candidate or stay home and they'll say, wow, he does have a chance. And so when there were polls showing that El Saeed was 10 points ahead in Michigan, he never was. But that ginned up money for him and support in momentum. And Susan Collins, being a Republican in a blue state, usually has polls that show her way down. And then she wins by three or four points. They've showered down right now. I can't believe it, but they do. So she's thinking, she obviously called up the White House and said, look, how many votes does he have in this Senate? And they either said one of two things, okay, we'll let you vote against him. If you think that's going to help you with independent voters or because he's going to lose anyway or to vote against him because he's going to win anyway. If it's going to lose anyway, they're not going to, you know, her vote won't make any difference. They won't get mad. But if he was going to win in that vote, the third alternative, then she's in trouble. And the reason I'm a little upset about I like Susan Collins, but she voted for Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland was a dissatisfied potential nominee to the Supreme Court. He was a left wing guy who was very embittered because Mitch McConnell evoked the Biden rule and said in the last year of a presidential term, they were not going to allow Barack Obama to go out and make a party in shot and get Garland on the Supreme Court. And from what we found out, he was awful. And so she voted for him as did a lot of Republicans and what he did. He coordinated the Jack Smith investigations. He was the one that dreamed up the Robert Herr and the Jack Smith simultaneous. And of course, Biden had more culpability on taking papers out. He wasn't a president. He didn't have the right to declassify them. He did it for 30 years. It's the locations. The more we learn even today that he was talking to much more than we thought to the speech writer and ghost writer, I should say, about classified materials, that Robert Herr, that he, Garland wouldn't release the tape. And now we know why because Biden looked like a stumbling idiot. So he was a bad guy and she voted for him. And that was, that's kind of gets people angry on the conservative side because it's always one way when they get a Republican, when the Democrats are voting on Republican, they have locked-step solidarity like the cabinet hearings. And then the other side, there's always eight to ten Republicans that will vote with the Democrats. They say based on a disinterested examination of the candidate. And so what I'm getting here, Blanche is going to have 100% of every single Democrat vote against him. He still couldn't, he still would win if there were people who voted for him. And there's probably, Mitch McConnell's not there. There'll probably be three or four of the vote against him for political reasons. I'm not in rage as Trump and it should. So if she had voted no on Garland, but it's very bad for a senator to vote, yes, on a controversial, very liberal nomination and then vote no on a conservative of her own party. So she can win the seat and I'm not even sure that's going to work because there are Republicans that are going to vote for her, her support not just crossover Democrats and Independents. There's going to be a lot of Republicans that are angry about that and they might stay home. Yeah, well, I hadn't thought about it in those terms. It's fun listening to you. I feel like I'm on a chess board with you, Victor. All right. So let's turn then to, oh, you know, I want to ask you something about since you mentioned the Democrats in lockstep. Did you see that L site in Ann Ar in the Ann Arbor precinct, 100% of the votes is that at all possible? Yes. That reminded me in 2008 when the Philadelphia precincts 30,000 to one 30, so I don't believe that's statistically possible, and especially coming out of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. precincts, I think it did, but it just shows you who voted for him. It was degreeed, middle and upper middle class, largely white liberals who are downwardly mobile, because their degrees are worthless and their debt is high. And he promises a communist socialist. First thing that guy will do if he's, if he ever had the power to do, it would be forgive all student debt. But he doesn't. He'll introduce legislation to that effect. Yeah. And just to finish off that thought, Haley Stevens won significantly, I guess, was the article I said among the working class and black population as well, the black caucus. I think my broaders can beat him. My broaders, I think, worked in a car factory at one point and he's not a wealthy elite. If they say that this guy is a wealthy elite, he also lies. He says he's a doctor. He never got a medical license, just because you get an MD. That's like saying, oh, if you get a PhD, I'm a professor. No, you're not a professor to you get a job and you get hired by a university and just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you're a professor. He has a medical degree. It doesn't mean he's a doctor. And he keeps telling everybody he was a doctor and he made over $600,000 and then he has all these stuff on his record. He doesn't want to talk about it. Yes. But he said, oh, you know what he did, anti-Semitism. Yeah. Is that he scrubbed a whole bunch of posts and tweets from his social media so we don't have anything concrete on that? Well, I don't understand his Hassan adjacent association. Hassan Pek Piker, his friend he won't disobey and the night of the election, Hassan Piker said all of you independents and people who voted against LSAE, your Islamophobic pieces of SHI, that's going to really help him, isn't it, with 51% of the electorate on the Democratic side that did not vote for him in the primary? All right, Victor. So once maybe a smaller thing, Ted Cruz had a committee and the judiciary committee. He had a committee for confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America. The Dems didn't show up, Democrats did not show up for this in protest, but also a lot of Republicans did not show up. So I was wondering if you have any thoughts on that and then we'll go to an ad. Well, the care that committee for American Islamic relations has is infiltrated by people who gave money to the Muslim Brotherhood, or they had contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a terrorist organization. And if you're a politician in Michigan because that community votes religiously and lock step, quarter million, 300,000 voters. So no one crosses them in Michigan and they're growing nationwide. The Jewish American population, if you calibrate it by people who identify as Jewish or observant Jews is declining. It's down to about four or five percent of the population, I think. And the Arab population and or Muslim, either one, is growing. It's going to be about five or six percent. And you can see that how politicians treat Jews versus Muslims and they feel the Muslims are the new constituency and they look to Europe and that's what's happening in Europe. Because Jews are assimilating and are marrying and each generation, and they're like the Greek lobby, Greek Americans, the fewer and fewer people, is that their identity is Greek or Jewish. But that's not true with Islam because it's considered a mortal sin or it's a actionable law, a violation of law to be an apostate, either by being an atheist, agnostic or join another religion. All right, Victor, let's go ahead and stop for some messages and then we'll come right on back and talk a little bit about Martin Van Buren and Jimmy Carter, say with this and we'll be back. Every state is home to significant historic sites that tell the American story, but not every site is telling that story honestly and fairly. That's why the Heritage Foundation created the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites. 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So Victor I'm excited to hear about Van Buren, following on the Jackson administration and then also the woes of Jimmy Carter so he was the first president that English was not his native language. He grew up in a Dutch family so he spoke Dutch and he worked for Jackson. He was a Jacksonian and the two of them really created, there was no longer any democratic Republican Party or Federalist Party. This was the beginning of the two party system and there was the Democratic Party of Jackson and Van Buren, people like John Calhoun and now there was the Wig Party and the Wig Party would become the Republican Party in Lincoln's time. So he was responsible for the creation of the Democratic Party and that was important because it was not initially just a southern party that supported slavery. They had supporters in the Mid-Atlantic States, not so much in New England. And he was Secretary of State under Jackson, Jackson supported him. He was called the Sly Fox, he was sort of a legal wizard and he was president at a very critical time, 1837 to 41, only one term he was defeated. I think by William Henry Harrison, I'll have to have to check that. But this was the beginning of the the differences between North and South were not, they couldn't be solved anymore because the north was not going to allow slavery and the South was not going to give it up. And he sort of strode the fence, Jackson kind of avoided it even though he was a southerner. And Van Buren was a northerner and he, when he campaigned after Jackson, he campaigned on basically, let's not talk about slavery and he went back and forth. It was kind of like Jimmy Carter. People forget that when Jimmy Carter ran, I'll mention for governor in 1972, he had George Wallace campaigned with him. And he was a pro-segregationist and he had run in the primary to the right, earlier to the right of a Georgia Democrat. Someone he was elected, he gave that famous speech, the segregation was over. That was kind of like Van Buren and he tried to continue populism with Jackson, but he got all bogged down. There were a lot of problems that were not resolved. The whole idea of removing the seminal Indians and the Cherokee that Jackson had started was not finished. The trail of tears, first and second seminal war and he got the blame for a lot of that. And then he couldn't quite figure out whether he was against slavery or for it. So he ended up being, he ended up being trusted by neither side. He wanted to run for reelection again. And of course, the Jacksonians said no. And James Polk, who was a manifest destined, he was a good president, but he was a pro-slavery pretty much from Texas, you know, and then you'd have James Buchanan after him. So he was the last person before the Civil War that had doubts about slavery. tried in kind of feeble manner. manner to slow it down when he knew that if you admitted Texas in as a slave state, two things would happen. You'd be a war with Mexico and you're going to have the golf between the abolitionist and the New England and the middle-annick people in the Southwood Whiten. He was kind of sort of for it, kind of sort of against it, and then Polk was more dynamic and said, "We're going to take Texas, we're going to go to the West Coast and everything." So he was kind of a tragic figure. He had a lot of children that were involved in politics. I think he lived. He lived too. He was 79, I think he was. He died in the first or second year of the World War II. Very funny, his big adversary who hated him was John C. Calhoun, who had been a vice president under Jackson. I think people weighed him as a social president. One term social. You said he died in the first or second year of World War II. Did you mean World War II? I mean, civil war. Civil war. I was going to say why. You said World War II. Yeah, you said World War II. Oh my gosh, I'm losing my mind. No, he died in 1862. He was 79. Let me think. He would have been in the first president. He was the first president to be born in the United States. All the prior presidents had been born during the colonial period. He was the first president, I think, to be born in an actual hospital. No, excuse me. That's not true. In the first president to be born in a hospital, most of them, well, I'll think about later in the 20th century. Anyway, Jimmy Carter, who was president from 1977, he was inaugurated in 1977 and he left in '80. He came out of nowhere. If anybody remembers the campaign of '76, I remember very well. It was, hi, I'm Jimmy Carter and I'm from Georgia. Nobody knew who he was. There was the idea that on the democratic side, it might be Muskie or it might be Ted Kennedy. They were trying to get him to run Mondale and this guy came out of nowhere and he traveled all over the country. He had gone to the U.S. Naval Academy. People were suspicious of him in the North because he was a southerner and in 1972, he had run for governor with George Wallace. He welcomed George Wallace on it and he gave speeches that were racist or that they appealed to racists. That's how he won and then when he was elected, Blacks forgave him and he turned out to be the most liberal of all governors up to that point. When he ran for president, he had a little problem because the liberal wing didn't trust him at all, not at all. The problem is, if you look at who they had, '68, Humphrey was gone, '72, McGovernard wrecked the party, so all those people were under suspicion. They had Gary Hart, but they didn't have a bench that fueled very many people against him. He was a vicious campaigner, people forget that. He played really, and when he was president, wasn't all his fault, but there was this inflationary spiral. We hadn't recovered from the '73, '73 dashed for oil embargo after the Humkipper War, so fuel prices soared and he, under his first couple of years, got up to eight, nine percent inflation and then as he headed for re-enlection, it got up to 12 percent, 13 percent. The interest rate was 18, 19. I think I said that on a podcast, my cousin was very happy. We were farming and he came home and said, "I got alone for the car, only 19 percent." I remember going to get sulfur bags at the local ag store because we ran out and I just bought them in the warehouse and they had things like $1.50 crossed out, $1.75 crossed out, $2.15. I remember buying roundup, $91, and that was expensive then, $95, $101, everything was crazy. The hyperinflation and gas prices. Then we had the second oil embargo of '79 over the 52 hostages that the Iranians took. That started the 47-year cycle that we're still in. We remember when he did some really dumb thing, he said, "The use of force cannot be a solution to this." It could have been a solution. He could have said, "The moment they took the hostages, you got 48 hours to release them or you're not going to have blank, blank, blank." The more that he reached out for them, the more contempt they had. They really hated the Iranians, hated him. Then he had the failed rescue mission where we lost eight soldiers and two helicopters. It was just a disaster. The Russians went into Afghanistan under him. Then he got paranoid. He had the Carter doctrine that said the Russians couldn't flip any country in the Middle East. They were trying to do that. The only thing he had going for him with a camp David Accords where he sat down in '77-78 with Sadat and Began. They got a partial piece that said that they wouldn't attack each other if Israel gave back the entire Sinai Peninsula, which they did because they didn't have enough soldiers to patrol it to tell you the truth. It was a dismal presidency. He was very self-righteous, the biggest problem he had is his own party hated him. In other words, Tip O'Neill was good old Tip O'Neill, right? Kind of like those guys on the Watergate Committee, Peter Radino. They were all the old-time big, big Democratic machine political and they were folksy, right? They would call him up and say, "Hey, Jimmy, on this next bill, I need a pork barrel. I need a bridge for this town or you want me to vote for this controversial guy. If I put my neck out, I want a couple more." He just wouldn't talk to them. In fact, he made fun of them. He said, "They're corrupt. They're beneath me and that just enraged people." That being said, when he ran against Reagan, everybody thinks that blow out election of 84 was also true of 80. It was very close and 80, very, very close. He was ahead the last week and people forget that what really wanted for Reagan was out one debate. Reagan just had that famous line. Carter had his little notebooks, he prepped and he said, "Now you said yes and you said that and you said this and you think, "There you go again, there you go again. Governor Carter, there you go, President Carter, there you go again." People should remember that. When he ran in 84 and he had that, I think that was the third largest blow out election. I think Nixon and LBJ elections were bigger, beating Carter and beating Goldwater were more, but they were very close. Mondale in a poll was ahead and what killed Mondale was Paul Volkler had clamped down the last year of Carter on inflation by raising the interest rates and letting the money supply. Reagan had a terrible recession, as I said earlier, in '82 and '83 and then the third and fourth quarter of the economy took off. I think in the fourth quarter, it grew 7%, that was the end of Mondale. Carter, the Carter doctrine he's known for, he's known for the Camp David Accords and the Carter Center, he lived to be a hundred years old. I think he was the oldest ex-president. He was a jogger, he'd been the naval academy and kind of magnified padded his resume and said he was a nuclear engineer because he went to nuclear sub-training program for three or four months. They got him on that, but after he was president, he drifted in a different direction. Every president, whether it was Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. couldn't stand him because when they were dealing with North Korea, or they were dealing with Iran And again, are they were dealing, he would go. free lands. I'm just going, Jimmy Carter, I'm going to go over there and solve the problem. I just don't believe in war. We need another voice and he would undermine deliberately and subvert kind of like the Logan Act. He was subverting the administration, both Democrats. They Clinton people hated him and he was so self-righteous and then in his 70s he just became a fanatic anti-Israel, Israel person. A lot of really prominent liberal Jews resigned from the Carter Library because he just said things about Israel were really tough and I don't know how that happened but it wasn't like the Arabs welcomed him in for that. So he really had no constituency as a peacemaker. The only, I think, admirable thing about him, he did wear his work clothes and he worked for these self-help projects where he would go build houses for the poor and that was nice. You'd always see him with a red handkerchief on and baseball cap and he had a hammer and he was working. He was like 50s and 60s when he was doing that. I think that was the humane association or something. He didn't cash in either. During his administration, he and his family didn't get rich. They didn't get rich afterwards, which was unusual. Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't he sign the Salt Treaties? He did. He did. He did. Salt too, I think. He did. But he also refused to put perched missiles in Europe when the SS series by the Russians they put in. These were short-range nuclear tactical missiles and it really changed the equation and he was advised the only thing you can do to stop that as to put our version in and he wouldn't do it. He didn't want, he was a utopian. You know, I have a question from a viewer. Very much like Woodrow Wilson. I have a question from a viewer about the trail of tears and he, since you mentioned it with Van Buren, he was saying, well, why is there such a problem? The United States paid 65 cents an acre for the Cherokee lands. That was even better than what they paid for the Louisiana purchase at four cents an acre, of course, inflation, etc. But he was saying, so the Cherokee got off pretty well and he was wondering your commentary on that. The problem was that they had to transport, I think it was 20 to 25,000 of them and they were going to, mostly in the Oklahoma territory and it was mid-summer and there was drought. I think four or five thousand died, 20 to 25 percent. So it was a forced march, a forced evacuation. So if you were a Cherokee branch tribe and you said, you know, my 500 people don't want to go, I didn't sign a treaty and they said, sorry, you've got to go. And then God works in mysterious ways. And so when they get to Oklahoma, they became, they were a very exceptional tribe, very, they were the most adept, maybe the Navajo and them about what so-called white people were like in Western, and they did very well when they got to Oklahoma and then they found out when they put them on the Cherokee reservation, a reservation was full of oil. So they ended up with, you know, today when you go through Oklahoma, they've got, and then they made, the legislature passed a law that said, you couldn't even go in and people in Oklahoma will correct me because I'm doing this, all of this by memory, but they passed legislation that said that you had to marry into the Cherokee family in order to have rights to form an oil company or to tap the Cherokee National oil reserve and that was, that's funny because Elizabeth Warren and everybody, that became kind of a, you know, you'd say, well, I'm Native American, so I want special preferences, but the one the one group you always said was Cherokee. Well, I had a grandfather, great grandmother was Cherokee, and that was because they intermarried much more than other Native Americans because of the desire of white people to get their hands on their oil. I know, when I was in this area and my senior year graduating, the Oklahoma diaspora that grapes a raft, the Joed family that Steinbeck wrote about, that phenomenon was from Fresno to Baker's Field. Baker's Field was the nexus, so I had in laws at the time that were from Oklahoma, and everybody said this is, I think there's only about 10 of us or maybe fewer that went to a four-year college outside of Fresno County, but people would say, "Are you Cherokee?" You can say, hey, if you, you can say you're one six Cherokee, you're a minority, you can, or you can get into the tribe or something like, and so it was, that was a legacy of it, but it wasn't something that they wanted to do, and they were choirs to do it, and a lot of them died, and they went to a place that was less hospitable, naturally hospitable than they had lived in Florida, in Georgia. Yeah, that's what I thought. It was the fact that they were forced to do it, whether they wanted to or not. You know, you just spurred a memory in me. Did Cher of Sonny and Cher, I know she had that song Cherokee people, but did she make claims to being a-- She was Armenian. Yeah, yeah. She had a tie to Fresno. She came, I don't, I think she might have said she had some Cherokee ancestry, but I knew a lot of people who claimed they were Cherokee put it that way. Yeah, I have a vague memory of that. All right, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about California politics, Proposition 45, which would reduce regulations of the California Environmental Quality Act. So stay with us for that and a little bit more. We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. They knew that this would be regarded by the king and parliament as an act of treason. So the people who signed that were basically saying we're evolving against the most powerful country in the world. The Declaration of Independence reminds Americans who they are. 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This is the story behind America's Declaration of Independence. The story of how a Declaration became a nation. Sacred honor, the Declaration that defines a nation, available now on the Daily Signals YouTube channel. Welcome back, Victor Davis Hanson, in his own words. So Victor, our very strange California population has very strange people, and many of them are extraordinarily rich like Jane Fonda, and Wendy Schmidt, who is the wife of the ex-Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. They have huge houses beyond the imagination. and beyond what you see, even if you go into it. - They have a big carbon footprint too. - And now they're out trying to stop proposition 45, which would relax regulations of the California Environmental Quality Act and make it not so rigorous on house builders who could build lots more houses for-- - They're opposed to it. - They are opposed to it, of course. - They got theirs, didn't they? - I have a good friend who's a house builder and he was telling me it was almost impossible. You have to film your houses, it's being built. So they have a camera crew out and now it's automatic, but just have a tripod and they film every, because they wanna make sure that there's so many regulations that if a building inspector comes out and says, "Well, you didn't do this and this, they have it on tape." Or if a guy wants to sue them, owner. It's very hard to be a builder in California and that's why we don't have enough housing. But that's how coastal live, well, California's run by people who live from LaHoria to Santa Rosa within 50 miles of the coast. That's where the money is, that's where the universities are, that's what's left of the CEOs. That's Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco. That's what the population is. And it's about 15 million people, 20 million people actually. And that's where most, this is what's so ironic about it is, these are very white, affluent, liable people, but this is where the white, entrenched money enclaves are. The rest of the state, with exception of the very foreign north, which is very underpopulated, north of, say, Chico. That is mostly white working class and the inland empire, there's something. But most of the other places, from about 30 or 40 or 50 miles to, or Hispanic are increasingly Asian as well. But that, when I'm trying to get as the FL, so that group, I went to school with them as an undergraduate in Santa Cruz. And I went to school with them at Stanford as a graduate student. And I lived in that part. I lived in Santa Cruz a year after, while was a graduate student and in Palo Alto. And I can tell you, they had this compartmentalization about morality and ethics. They were affluent, they won the game. They played by the rules. They made a lot of money, they had great jobs, they had prestige, they had title, they had tasteful home, they vacation, and they had help. They had Mexican gardeners, Mexican house cleaners, Mexican nannies, but they felt that, because they were better educated and smarter than everybody else, they were also more moral. So they would have these abstract morality, and they would stop that electrical plant down there until area or do this, protect that little salamander in Fresno. But they were never subject to the consequences of their own ideology. So most of them, that whole ethos is hypocritical. We want high speed rail, but you know, we'll try it down in Fresno first. We don't want to disrupt and be noisy and smokey and dirty under construction in Palo Alto. Santa would say, "So, it just makes perfect sense that these wealthy, white actresses would not want mostly working class people." Thing that just one last related observation is, their world is over with. The wealthy, white, affluent, coastal, that came from a different generation, Jane Fonda and the rest of them. California has 28% of the population was not born in the United States. Another 7 million people are second generation. Their parents were not. That is about 46% of the state. What I'm basically getting at is 46% of the state, almost one out of every two people knew nothing about California just to a few years ago and they come from primarily Asian countries of Korea and China, Mexico into a lesser central America and India. And that's the new California. And if you wanna talk about what our problems are, it's basically trying that group of people did not believe that white ethos on the coast did not believe in the melting pot. They were left to wing. So this new diaspora that came, the largest in American history as far, this is the, has the largest foreign born in any state in the country and in history. It's a big experiment, nobody talks about that. But they did not believe in assimilation, acculturation, integration and the melting pot. So they were the big affirmative action, tribalism, DEI and all that. And it proved to be a disaster. So we've got 45,000 drivers on the road. Many of them from India who can't read English and didn't really earn their license and they're unqualified to drive. Or we have Nortonos, Serenios and 13 gang problems. Or we've got just chaos because there's no effort to unite and integrate the population so that they think my primary identity is America. And I'm only incidentally Chinese American or Indian American or Mexican American. Not that a lot of people follow that. A lot of them are great people and they feel that I'm American first. But the state doesn't teach that and you don't get ahead by emphasis in that. So what I'm getting out is that was it. When I say in the last 25 years, the population went up to 45% foreign born or second generation from a different country. That didn't mean the population prior to that was all white. It was ethnically diverse and it represented almost exactly the demography of the United States. It was about 10% black, which has gone down. I think the 3% and it was about 12% Hispanic. You add that up. The world of gender fond of is I think the white populations about 37% of the entire state. And you can see it if you look at the ethnic profiles of the state legislature, for example. And so if you have a very sophisticated state and technology, engineering, bureaucracy, universities, and it was the leader in the country 50 years ago, it was like, I think it was in the top 10 of all schools. Its infrastructure was in the top two or three. Its oil, gas, timber industries were the top. Its aerospace was among the top. If you look at what UC Berkeley or Stanford or UCLA were rated like compared to the other university, everything about it was top. That's where everything happened, Hollywood, you know, everything, McDonald's. And you don't, and you don't integrate the population and hand that expertise down and say, you, all you newcomers, here's how it works. And here's the ethos and the values and the traditions and the competency required to make this California Aqueduct work or to build a San Luis down or any of that or Diablo Canyon. And you don't emphasize that, then it's not gonna be, that expertise is not going to be given to a population that had no experience with California or the United States. So we're still in that learning curve. And people like Jane Fonda were some of the people who were against that, against trying to integrate in a culture a foreign-born population. They just thought it was appropriating their culture or I thought it was, I don't know what it was, but it turned out that their primary motive was to make sure that their big mansion would not be crowded out by a bunch of people with tract homes down in Fresno and Madera and Merced with their stupid little lives of having, you know, jet skis and snowmobile and a lawnmower, they didn't like any of that. But they're dinosaurs. - Yeah, okay. - Dinosaurs. - They did the most damage of anybody, the white coastal left wing elite. They are dinosaurs with these spectacular houses and I have to hand it to the New York Post. They gave pictures, aerial pictures of them. They're like, whoa, I've never seen that. - I have no problem with big house, I admire success. I really do, but I don't like people who are hypocrites and they are hypocrites. - People with big houses that don't want people with lower incomes to have even a small house available to them. I know a lot of close friends that are Mexican-American. I just talked to one, two weeks ago, and he's working fanatically, saving money and he wants to buy a house. And because of people like Jane Fonda, if you wanna go to Fresno and you wanna buy a nice home in a new development, it's about $500,000 or $600,000. And that's not on the coast, where it's a million and a half. - Yeah. - And that's because of the regulations that they demand. - Yeah, exactly. All right, Victor, there's two things here at the end and you can choose one and we'll leave the other one for. The American Association of University Professors has endorsed LSIED. That's after 110 years of this 501C3 organization of not endorsing any candidates. Why would they do this for the first time for this Abdul LSIED? And the second, you can about that, or would you like to talk about? Tucker has a 10-point vision for the country and he's talking about a third party. - I can do both very quickly. They do it because they're academics and academics are by nature cowardly and they're sheep. And you can see that with this black guy professor at Cambridge, there was a complete phony. And we'll talk about that next time that he completely fooled them all because they were terrified of saying you're a plagiarist and a liar and a cheat. - Yeah, we talked about him on Friday. - Yeah, we did, a little bit. - We did, there's new information now. He resigned. - We'll let you and Jack talk about that. - So I'll talk about that with Jack. So they're cowardly and they look at their student body. If this was 50 years ago, Jews were about 25% of elite college enrollments. Then they were labeled, well, they're part of the white 8% are admitted at Stanford, for example. So there's not a very big Jewish president. The faculty, when I was at in the UC system, I would say that 25% of the faculty were Jewish. And they all came from the IB league. And I dealt at 5% of them are now. But who are the students now? They are increasingly minorities and they are leftist and they're from the Middle East. But more importantly, even if they're not from the Middle East, there is now a socialist, communist alliance with Islamism. Don't ask me, take me five minutes to explain why that is. They do have one thing in common. They hate Jews and they're anti-Semite. So these professors look at that and that's where where their students are and that's where they feel that the left-wing academic establishment is and they're gonna try to get out and hunt and pat themselves on the back. We did this for the first time in 100, we did it. I'll say, well, wait a minute. He said this about the communist's death was not too bad, well, what's wrong with that? That's how they think. As far as Tucker's third party, there was that picture of Thomas Massey and Kid and Tucker and Marjorie Taylor Greene. And they're all gonna form a new party and they want Tucker to run. - Yeah, is that Kid Rock or not Kid? - No, no. - What was his name? - He was the, he went for Congress twice and he worked for Tulsi Gubber and he resigned and then he attacked Trump. And they think they're going to do what? Tell me what they think they're gonna do. I don't know what they're gonna do. I go to ask Tucker if I had Marjorie Taylor Greene here and Tucker here, I'd say, do you or do you not like the Biden immigrate? No, I don't like it. You didn't like 12 million coming in. No, do you want, how would you stop it? Well, I would want to walk, walk, walk. Okay, Trump's doing that. I would want no catching release. I would not want this crazy refugee status once you get her. Well, Trump did that, nobody else did. Tucker has been yelling about the 14th amendment for years. He was the first president that challenged that. Trump was, how about defund the police, Marjorie? You and Thomas Massey, you want to defund the police? He stopped that. He sent the garden and cleaned up Washington. How you against that? Okay, how about the Green New Deal? You guys like that? No, would you like to have more natural gas and oil production? So with the greatest production producer of oil and gas in history, Trump did that. Where is the problem except Iran? So their attitude is, I'm willing to hurt the Republican party and the Trump administration and what follows it, especially JD Vance, whom they've was their hero, because they felt that he was the mega, ultra mega of the party. And they're going to, if he's going to be the nominee, as Trump wants them to be now, they're going to challenge him and do what, see if they can hurt him. So Al Saeed or AOC could be elected and we'll get communism. It doesn't make any sense. It's like Bill Crystal. You know, Bill Crystal writes for the bulwark and then he endorses Montgomery. And we say, well, wait a minute. For 50 years, you've preached the gospel of ultra conservatism. And now you're endorsing Montgomery. Will you line then or you're lying now? People don't make 100% you turn based on their personal experiences. All those people in that party, they have one thing in common. Tucker was fired, I think, unfairly by Fox. That was a terrible blow. Marjory Taylor Greene got on the wrong side of Trump and started to criticize him. And she didn't want to endorse her. So she saw she was dead in Georgia. So she didn't run again. She's dead. She's now offering to give you a little Instagram message or something on the internet for $5,000. Thomas Massey was supposedly the Pat Buchanan conscious of the Republican party, conscious of the Republican party. He was primary. He didn't even make it to the general election. And his career was destroyed. And what was his last little part-- the Jews did it, basically. Oh, my opponent was in Israel, that kind of stuff. And then he had failed for Congress twice. And he was going nowhere. And then they appointed him to work with Tulsi. And then he quits in Blast Trump. So my point is the nucleus of that, they all have personal grievances that their careers are imploded. And, too, they can't explain how you form a political party with a 10% disagreement with the MAGA Trump movement. When 90% of the things that MAGA has done, they support. Unless they've gone way off the deep end. And they were in the ground, platinum, hard left, or the Nick Fuentes hard left. The Nick Fuentes hard right, right? Hardly. Well, I don't know what he is now. I don't know what they are. That's true. Because they're taught when I say hard left, I didn't mean hard right. I think Nick Fuentes is kind of a hardcore national socialist. If they were here, I think they would say this if I can put their ways in here. I like to hear that. They would say, we're for the domestic policy, but we are against the diplomacy of the Trump. We like the diplomatic ideas of the left, but we don't like their domestic policy. So we are a third party. Well, let me ask questions. Did they bolt when Donald Trump attacked the Wagner group? No. Did they bolt when he killed Soleimani? No. Did they bolt when he killed Baghdaddi? No. Did they really even bolt when he kidnapped and put on Trump a girl? No. They started to get angry when that we had the one day bombing last year of around. But they got angry. We've lost tragically 18 people. We only bomb for 38 days. Clinton bombed for 77 in Serbia. Obama, seven months in Libya. And it's not even a war really. It's just a bombing campaign that stops, talk, resumes, stops. So why did they revolt about this particular? Because Trump just said today, I don't want to kill any people. I want to make a ran grade, he said. We're not Afghanistan or Iraq. It's Israel. It's Israel. It's Jews. They don't like the idea that we were using our resources to hit an age-old enemy of ours. It was getting a nuclear weapon whose missiles already have Europe in range. They didn't want us to do that because they said it would benefit Israel, or it was only benefit Israel. And Israel was calling the shots. So their whole party is built on two things. Their personal angst that things didn't go well. Right now, if Marjorie Taylor Greene had a 20-point lead, and Massey had a 20-point lead, and Tucker didn't have to have his own interviews, but he was still at 8 o'clock prime time with 5 million people audience. You know, and Candace, it wasn't very often to Macron had genitalia, his wife has genitalia and most into the nutty, but where she was with daily wire, you know, very, they wouldn't do this. The kid was right now consulting with Tulsi Gabbard and he had his security clearance and he was a big shot. No, that's part of it. And the other part is they don't like Israel in general and I don't think they like Jews in particular. And their whole party will just take away mostly from the Republican party because people, people, you guys were mean to me, you were mean to me, but I can't help myself, I can hurt you and I'm going to try to run and draw votes from you because they have zero chance of persuading people. If you look at Tucker's popularity, it's not that great, it's not great at all. And I say that as somebody who liked him and likes him, I have no personal animosity toward him. It's just not going to work. Where are the, let me just finish by saying, where is the never-trump people now? Oh, David Fum, can't remember anything he's doing to you? How about Bill Crystal, nope, can't think of Chris Hayes, that was him was, I can't think of what he's doing, I can't even remember a Max Boot, what happened to Max Boot? I guess his wife was being charged with being a South Korean accessory. I don't know where those guys are, I really don't know where they are anymore. How about all those senators that quit and discussed? And so my point is, anytime you're in a movement, conservative or liberal, and that mainstream alienate you or angers you on a couple of issues, and you make the strategic mistake of saying that your disagreement, which you're perfectly and should err and try to work within the party and see if you can come to, but if you don't and you fail and then you get furious and you turn on that whole movement. And then in one of the catalysts for you turning on that whole movement is that you don't have, your career has been sidetracked, then there's a history that that's not that's not going to work. I'll just leave you with one anecdote, I won't mention the person's name, he know if he was just and he knows who he is, but one of the primary never trumpers in 2016 came out to where I worked, the Hoover Institution and he gave a talk and he was in the news and he asked me to go to lunch. Right there where he was speaking and I went to lunch and he said, Trump A, B, he went through the whole thing. They don't know anything, they don't even know who to do and you know, I've been in Washington and I've worked, so I said, well, and I just listened, I didn't say a word. I said, well, would you, would you like to work for him if he asked you, well, if he asked me and if he called up and I had authority, yeah, I said, oh, you would then. I thought you just told me he was the Prince of Darkness, well, I mean, he needs help. So there you go. All right, Victor, so comments at the end, I'm going to do Randy Polasek, very short. He says, because you've done it, please address it if you possibly can. The education system in America has been taken over dot, dot, dot, by socialists that want to destroy America and we did and then Stephen Butchek says, you said Victor that you do not wish to use the word Karen to describe certain people on the left and for good reason. Might I suggest using the word awful, which has come to stand for a fluent, why female ultra liberal? It's a good idea. A awful awful. It can, it can notes the same idea without be smirching. You think that was his discovery or it's well known. I think he must know it. I mean, I could be, because I thought I think I've heard that before, but maybe I have so many currents in my family or immediate circle of friends that I like, that I have to be very careful. I've said that too many times. Yeah. So now we have to use the word awful. Okay. Awfuls. All right. Thank you. And thank you to our audience. Thank you everybody for watching and listening. This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hanson and we're signing off. Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like, share and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhanson.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.