Victor Davis Hanson: Can Steve Hilton Still Win?

We heard about the Palestinians. They claimed that we are victims and then the UN and the United States said they need an election. They're sophisticated people and they voted in Hamas, but how did Hamas win? Anytime they saw a Palestinian authority activist, they threw him off the roof and they said, "We're not corrupt. We're Islamists purist." And then for the next 20 years, they took 40 to 50 billion dollars. When they got pipes imported, they made rockets out of them. And we're supposed to be sympathetic that they're refugees. Hello, and welcome. This is Victor Davis-Hansen in his own words. We are on our Saturday or weekend edition and we do something different in the middle. Victor's been looking at each of our presidents and this week he has Andrew Johnson who followed Lincoln in the Civil War and then Herbert Hoover, who was president when the Great Depression started. So we'll hear from him on that, but first we're going to do more news. Things have come out as October 7 has passed, so we'll look at for a moment at Netanyahu and then maybe things going on in Mondamis, New York. And Suzy Wile is bringing a case against Jack Smith and Tennessee and it seems to have difficulties. So stay with us and we'll be back with those stories. 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 Maga 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 Kamela 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 he 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, 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 did not act on. Not just addressing the transgender issue or the Green New Deal and all of those issues that were so dearer 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 Signal. Welcome back, Victor Davis-Hansen, in his own words, "Victors, the Martin and Ely Anderson 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 you can find all of his articles and these podcasts and also links to his books and his new book, "The Counter-Revolution" seems to still be selling very well. I think everybody needs to go out and get themselves a copy. We have available on the website, you can order a signed copy. It's in the right hand column and you need to scroll down once you get on the page to the signed copy. There is also just a link to Amazon if you just want to buy it as well on that page. So, Victor Netanyahu gave a speech on October 7th, of course, bringing back to mind the massacre on that day, but also that it was one of the worst. It wasn't the only massacre of Jews besides the Holocaust that Jews have had a long history of that. We just want to bring up one of our readers, listeners, wrote and said, "Why do people not realize that October 7th was one of many terrible massacres beyond the Holocaust of the Jewish population?" And so, I just wanted to make that point. Now, your thoughts on this October 7th? Well, there have been many. I think most people know that. They've been slaughtering Jews in Argentina. They've been slaughtering Jews in Europe. They slaughter Jews in vacation in Egypt. They've slaughtered them everywhere. They ethnically cleansed almost a million of them between the 1948 and 1973 war. They had been there for 800, 900 years in North Africa and most of the Arab countries. It's very weird about the Palestinians. They claim that their refugees, anybody can find anybody else who tells me they're a refugee from 1947, I would like to know. I mean, when Poland was recreated, that was the end of East Prussia, and 12 million Germans had to walk back to Germany, 2 million died of starvation. When I go to Germany today, I don't see any Germans waving the little keys to their apartment building in Danzig and saying, "I'm a refugee. I'm a refugee. I don't see Cypriots have been to Cyprus twice." They had 40% of their land taken by Turkey, and they had the two most beautiful cities. Nicosia, the part that they took, was the most beautiful part, but Bella Pies. It was one of the most beautiful cities in the Mediterranean. I don't see Cypriots today. Oh, waving like only they are refugees. I don't see Jews in Israel in their 90s saying, "When my family lived in Damascus for 800 years, and they kicked me out and took my property, my family lived in Cairo. They could kick me out and took my property." My family lived in Beirut. They kicked me out and took my property. My family lived in Baghdad. They kicked us out and took our property. My family lived in all over the Middle East. They lived in the Gulf States, some of them. Nobody talks about that. It's only the Palestinians who created this victimized group that alone can claim that for 1947-8, basically they are sane for 78 years, we are victims. We don't know what to do. You say to them, "Well, I can tell you what to do." They ethnically cleansed themselves. The Jews did 20,000 of them in 2006, and they didn't want your country at all in Gaza. They took everybody out and they left hundreds of millions of dollars of sophisticated greenhouses and an entire infrastructure to create and continue a lucrative shipping of winter vegetables to Europe. What did you do? American philanthropic people and agencies, mostly Jewish, bought it, handed it over to you, and you looted it. Then you turned 40-50 billion dollars that was given you to build something like Dubai, with not one Jew in it, except you did demand that the Jews give you 15-30% of your fuel, your water, and your electricity, which they did. In that case, 16-70%, and what did you do with that? You had an election, and then you win, and the United States, that was George W. Bush, said they need an election. They're sophisticated people. They have their Gaza country now, and they voted in Hamas. But how did Hamas win? When they went around the entire Gaza city structure, any time they saw a Palestinian authority activist, they threw him off the roof. They killed about 200 of them, and then they bullied everybody, and they got elected, and they said, "We're not corrupt. We're Islamists purist." And then for the next 20 years, they took 40-50 billion dollars when they got pipes imported for plumbing and sophisticated, they made rockets out of them. When they got bulldozers and tunnel drilling, did they drill septic tanks? No, they built tunnels for military operations. They built 500 miles of tunnels. It's been a couple billion dollars. Never seen a victimized class like that. They don't exist anywhere in the world. All the displaced people of the world who are refugees have gone on with their lives after nearly 80 years, but not the Palestinians. And they created that name. There was no Palestinians. There were Jordanians. There were Egyptians, but there were no Palestinians until King Jose. Maine said after losing that land, the West Bank, Jordan, losing Jordan to the Israelis. He said, "I don't want these people. They're terrorists." And they attacked the Black September and all that. So then they said, "Well, we speak Arab. Many of us were born in Syria, Egypt, Jordan, but let's just say from now on that we're Palestinian." Kind of like saying, "We're in California and we're so crazy we have a different culture." So we're going to call ourselves Californians and not American. Yeah. And in addition to that, they seemed very organized. This week, Mamdami had on October 7th, he's on their side and they were pro-Palestinian protesters outside his mansion, complaining that he's not doing enough for them. And so. He said he was going to arrest the President of the Prime Minister of Israel. He's basically made it clear that if you're a Jew, you have a target on your back. And he would like them to leave and they're leaving. So he's already said he was going to go after whiter richer neighborhoods for special tax treatment. It's a. And then you see these very affluent foreign students from the Middle East demonstrating on the part of the Palestinians and then you talk to them and they're not. There's not poverty there. Then you look at what happened on October 7th and they're never going to let it down. I mean, they took 4,000 people and they went 17 miles into Israel and they killed everybody they could see and they raped every woman they could before they shot her in the head or mutilated her. And then 2,000 innocent Palestinians, Gossens, said, "You mean this wall is down and there's women to be raped?" I'll get a little, "Hey, hand me one of those cards you have that's written in Hebrew so I can really get going." "Oh, hey, spread your legs, do not resist." And they had cards to read so they could rape people and we're supposed to feel so sympathetic to this tormented refugee group that has committed more to acts of terrorists than even ISIS the last 50 years. It's really one of the strangest things in the world how the West has virtue signaled this whole issue and you'll see those pictures. Everybody should just take. If you don't want to look at the mutilation and rape and killing and depravity, just look at a little bit of it, just look at a truck that took young girls and stripped them almost naked and naked and then killed them and their limbs are at all different angles from broken legs and arms and then they were driving them back and you can see the noble Gossens trying to spit on the corpses or the half dead or rape them or grab them in a sexual fashion. That's what the civilians were doing. Anybody who looked at that 21 weeks and I wrote about it, I thought you people are absolutely insane. You have three weeks, 21 days, excuse me, 21 days that Israel did not react, they did not go in there and I thought, "Do you know what's coming? This is going to be a biblical like retribution for what you did and you should right now turn over the people who planned it and turn over the people who participated but they wouldn't do it." Now we learn, it's unsubstantiated, that of the 4,000 terrorists and the 2,000 civilians, they were so arrogant that they had body cam pictures. They had little cameras, progo or whatever you call them on their helmets, so they not only took pictures of themselves but they took pictures of everybody and the Israelis being Israelis who were brilliant people, have just categorized picture and facial recognition from all of those cameras that they found from prisoners and the dead and then they've collated it with all the Kabuts' cameras and then they've collated it with all the cameras on the wall that were destroyed and they have a pictorial file of almost all the 6 to 7,000 that went in there and now we are told that they're checking them off and they've killed about 4,000. What would you do right now if you had gone in there and you called your mom and they probably have all the phone calls monitored, remember the phone call, "Hey mom, I've killed 6 or 7 Jews and raped them." Wow, that's great, keep going and you think you're king of the world and everybody in Europe and everybody in the United States and Ireland says you're a hero and then you go back to Gaza and it's tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, a righteous retribution is in store for you. You have a rendezvous with it and they're not going to get out of it, nobody's going to stop that. Yeah, so the 7 UN workers that participated with the Hamas invasion. Never rendezvous with death, quote, quote, "Wubert Brook" and I would assume that all these European countries that are going after the Israelis and boycotting products that they claim were produced in the West Bank or wherever, basically it's an excuse to go out. Trump said today that he was going to boycott them. He was going to put tariffs on all of them. I hope he does and then they can pay that little price and I don't think there's another issue involved and it's one that has been completely distorted because of the midterm acrimonies. We have a 40, I'm not kidding you, we have a $30 trillion to $40 trillion national debt and the next president or this administration it's going to have to start cutting. And those cut about $250 billion but it needed to cut it a trillion. But that said, this economy is booming and when the oil issue is over and it will be over easy, we're going to have a glutdeboil and the price is going to crash. And even with the shortage of oil, the inflation rate for the year is running right now at 3.4. It was 5.1 every year under Biden. But what I'm getting at, the United States is getting more and more powerful, vis-a-vis China, vis-a-vis Russia, vis-a-vis the EU, vis-a-vis the Latin American countries and people have two reactions toward that. If you're Japan, if you're South Korea, if you're Australia, if you're the Philippines, if you're Taiwan, you want to ally with. If you're in the Mediterranean and you're worried about Turkey or China and your Cyprus or Greece, you want to align with us. If you're in South America and you see what USAD had done and you see now, how the Americans got rid of Maduro, who was financing revolution everywhere and you see what he didn't, you want to align with the United States. If you look at the Middle East and what we have done to Iran and you'll see that Gulf States, they'll want to align with the United States. And because our economy is deregulating and reducing taxes and we're at the head of way ahead now of Europe and China in AI, digital media, software, space, exploration, satellite launches, they don't know, they don't understand, if they act like Canada, the Europeans or other countries, they should join us and we would be very magnanimous. But Karni is going to be the first casualty of trying to take on this enormous American juggernaut of an economy where he is also fine. He's taking the worst economy China's ever had, Canada's ever had and he's pitting it against the biggest economy in the world history that's growing exponentially. And then he thinks he's going to convince Canada that he's going to create a third way and beat them. It's not going to happen. He's going to ruin Canada if he hasn't already done it. He's all because he hates Donald Trump. I used to think with the Iliad that, oh, it starts with Achilles and Agamemnon curling over some little spiteful thing between each other. And I thought, that's, you know, a thing of myth ridiculous. But this hate of Donald Trump is very much like that, just quarreling because the hate and I just, quarreling because Trump trolled him with 51 states, Canada and he thought, I'm so brilliant. I'm going to turn this around and use that to whip up Canadian nationalism. Now we let in 45% of our country was not born here or their parents weren't born here. And they don't want to mix and assimilate as they should. Now we've got the Quebec people who are back to autonomy, especially as they look at what I've done to Canada. And then we've got the Alberta people who are kind of red-neck pro-Americans and I've got to unite them all. So I can unite them against the Orange Man. And I can demonize him and say, I walked out of the 11th hour. No comment. He wanted to tell us we couldn't have sovereignty. He wanted to smother our culture. wanted to break us. No, he didn't. You know, all he said was, we could solve this in two seconds. We import 50 billion dollars more than we export and it's mostly with tar sands. So give us an avenue so we can kind of get it down a little bit. Meow, if you said, if Karni called up and said, hi, Donald, I'm a little upset. I didn't plan what was going to happen. We're in trouble. And here's what? Why don't we just do this? I'll give you an offer. Build the keystone so I can send another two or three million barrels of Arab oil to you. And I tell you what I'll do. I'll lift up the 250 percent tariff on food and you can make up that with food exports and you can export some tariff free stuff. And we'll try to keep it on both sides within 10 billion. Some years you'll have 10 billion surplus. Some years we will. And then we'll just solve that. You know what? That was a bad idea. You don't do it to us. We don't do it to other people about the cultural appropriation and French language. And you know what? You're right. Only us in China haven't cut a deal with you. Everybody else has. And we know now that China is using us as a way to dump cheap materials to fabricate products to go into your country and take market chair and then avoid their tariff. But we'll stop that. And then let's just really integrate. We're going to go up to two or three percent. How many icebreakers do you think we should make? You know what? We need a whole new fleet of planes. We're going to get them. We'll buy them from you. And we'll all patrol the vast North American hemisphere. Can you include us in your new iron dome project, Golden Dome? We'll pay our fair share. We want to go up to two or three percent in NATO. And you know what? We have to cut taxes, deregulate. And we're going to close our borders just like you did. If he did that, no problem. And he could brag. Yeah. But he's not going to do that. He's a globalist. Yeah. And he doesn't believe in any of that. Yeah. And all because of spite for the orange man, it's just so crazy. But Victor, we have other crazy things out here in our cyber world. And we are welcoming our sponsor home title lock. AI can clone your voice, forge your signature, even create fake documents that fool experts and criminals. And criminals are using these tools right now to steal from you. How? It's called title fraud. Your property records are public by law. 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Again, that's home title lock dot com slash Victor and they provide an excellent service in our new cyber age. So Victor let's turn to the Jack Smith case and or Jack Jack Smith's testimony and Susie Wiles is bringing a case against Jack Smith in Tennessee. He monitored her phone as well. And she's having a hard time even bringing a case because all the judges know him and they're all recusing themselves. It seems pretty crazy. Well, I mean, if they're not fulfilling their judicial responsibilities to take case, they should be impeached. But the problem is there's four or five hundred of them. And their trump really hasn't appointed judges at the same rate he did the first administration. And then you had so if you look at that way, we had the eight years of Obama and the four years of Biden. And these were radical judges. These were not. They're mostly DI people, but they're radicals and they hate Trump and they hate everybody around him. And they will squeeze, turn, manipulate, flip the law any way possible in their judgments to hurt him. So if she wants to file suit against Jack Smith in a federal court for abusive power or surveilling her or monitoring her phone records or her GPS position, whatever the particular complaint is, they just said, no, we're not going to do it. Go find another judge. So she'll find a judge, but I hope she finds one in Texas or Alabama or somewhere or Florida. He looks very shaken. He knows what he did when he was testifying before Congress. He looked so old. And he said he wasn't a partisan. And then a few days later, he goes to a spring sting concert with the no-king shirt. And he's hailed as the left wing savior. And for every yang and there's a yang and there's going to be he's, he knows what he did. All of those people, everybody should take a deep breath. They didn't end well. Nathan Wade is disgraced. Fanny Willis was fine. She was taken off the case. She is completely a joke. That whole case collapsed in Fulton County, the registrar case. Alvin Bragg is a buffoon. Yes, he got an up conviction. Yes, he can say that he don't Trump, but even the federal prosecutor said that's a joke. That's a federal matter, Alvin. Don't do it. And it will be overturned eventually. Eging Carol's a mad woman and no judge will overturn it, but everybody knows she lied and made that up. If you go, I, I discussed it at length in the counter revolution. It wasn't, it was the most egregious thing I'd ever read about. And the Tita James, they've vastly reduced that. That will be over Tisha James will be overturned. The idea that a bank lends you money. Hey, I want to make a barn on my farm. And the banker says that Bank of America. Yes, Victor, what is your house worth as collateral? And I say, I don't know, 250,000. Yes, how much is your barn worth? 100,000 if I build it. Okay, we'll loan you the money and we need it paid back in a year. Okay. And then here's your infest payment, pay it, pay it, pay it, pay it. And then I don't know, I'm just taking the arbitrary in October. I just, I did really well as you're going to pay it all off. And then the local DA from Fresno County says, you know what, I'm going to go after you. I don't like you. You do podcasts. You're too high profile. And I looked at your house. It's not worth 250. And you say, well, I have an immigrant who just offered me 700,000. I don't care. It's only worth 150. You inflated your real estate. And then I said, we'll call Bank of America. Yes, we looked at the property very well. In fact, we found it undervalued. Therefore, we loaned it in the money because the collateral was more five times worth the money that was at risk. And he, he was not a risk. He paid it back on time and ahead. And so then I would go have to pay them what? Not five. I'd have to pay him a 500,000. He'd had to pay 500 million. I'd have to pay 500,000 to that. And that prosecutor then would run for office and say, hey, everybody, I got Victor. You know what I mean? Not that I'm anybody, but he could do it to anybody. And so all of those were a joke. And it's really disgraced. All of the prosecutors, all the federal judges. I think right now, if you say that you're a US federal judge, people are very scared of you because they think that a Christopher Ray FBI director or a Merrick Garland DOJ can use you and call you up on the phone. Hey, Bob, remember me? We had dinner last night in Georgetown. We're going out, you know, with a good guy's us. We're going out to this guy and this guy. We got to got some nutty abortion protesters. We got these crazy people that are mad about trans literature or something that's school board. The women are going on there. Teachers union call us up and said the get rid of them. So we're going to go after them too. Can you give me a search and see. And then you know, we've got this Josh Hawley and Ted, you know, this old trouble might just, you know, I mentioned to you dinner last night. Can you just give me a writ that says I can go after them and tap their phone and phone records and email? That's how it works. Well, let's turn to the California governor's race and Steve Hilton is closing the gap, but it was a huge gap. - Internal poll, but it might be correct. - Yes, and Javier Bracera has angered the Latino community because he's been pushing the lie that his own parents were immigrants. And his father, we've all found out, was actually born in Sacramento. And yes, he did go back and forth between Mexico and California, but nonetheless, he was born in American, so the immigrant story has really angered the Latino community. - Everything he said is untrue. He said he had nothing to do with losing what, 300,000 people when he went homeland security. He couldn't even find them, right? And then he, I watched that debate and he canceled. He just walked out of the second debate. He's not going to debate. It was all scheduled the day before. I think it was supposed to be tonight. He just canceled. His advisors came to him and said obviously, we looked at the tapes, Javier, and you got slaughtered. You're just as finks, you just sit there quiet. And then you turn to him and say Trump, Trump, Trump. And then you get your little racist tidbit in and you said you're just wanting to get people into the country that only look like you. And then you, you don't mention anything about your record of defendant. You have no idea what you want to do as governor. You can't give an answer in high speed rail. You can't get it on the water bond we haven't used. You don't know about the homeless. You don't know how to stop the fires. And then he, I guess he says, yeah, but people in California don't vote for the people. They just look at their little ballot and they say D in 60 to 65% in the state. So they punch it. And that means to them, the SEIU and the teachers union and all these people are going to get me more money whether I'm a government employee and I work for the state in some fashion, our school district. And I'm going to get more money. And there's all these fat cats that can pay me more money. And most of them, the people who were voting are first or second generation immigrants. And that's about in California. It's about like Canada. It's about 45% now. And that's his whole strategy is what I'm trying to say. Don't talk, don't debate now, don't be out in public. Just tell everybody to get the machine out, get the SEIU, get the mail ballots and store them on pallets and then five to 10, we know what's going to happen. It's going to be closer than you think. It's going to be 80% of the vote in Steve Hilton is behind by three points, five points. And then Bacerra is going to go, yes, he on do the pallets and then he's going to go ahead by it'll be even and then he's going to call the teachers union, get the trucks and get the boats out, release them, and then he's going to lose by 10. And this will all happen after the election day is done. Just like what happened, Spencer Pratt. Yeah. Well, speaking of people who are MIA, apparently, Tolerico in Texas hasn't been seen for a week or showed up for planned events the last week. Did you ever hear thoughts on that, not that? Yeah, I do. He's got, they have internal polls and they show him five points ahead. He spent 10 times the money of Paxton. Paxton can't run. John Corden was Mr. Republican in Texas. He was a good old boy. He wasn't really right wing. He was just like a John Connelly guy and people would call him up and say, "Corden, I need a liquid "natural gas terminal to take care of it." And he was that kind of guy. He served his constituents. But when Trump wanted these key bills, like voter ID, say, he wouldn't do it because he felt his span, he always put his finger in there. But he did vote 80% of the time. So Trump and everybody got rid of him and the primary, they didn't endorse him and Paxton won handedly. But the problem with Paxton is he was a flawed candidate. In many ways, he had a dubious background. He's not a good speaker. He's not a charismatic person and he can't raise money in Texas 'cause Corden has said to everybody, Corden has shut off the billionaires. He's basically said, "I'm sober and judicious "and Lincoln asked, can I look like a senator?" And this guy is some funny, dirty, nutty guy and don't give him any money. And then Trump and Eli, for him to win this week, Trump's gonna have to, with Elon, excuse me, they're gonna have to unleash a hundred million dollars. And Tawariko's idea is, they've done internal polling. And they said, you know, they liked the idea when you say Trump, Trump, they liked the idea, you're a Christian, they liked the idea, you're young, they liked the idea, you're a fresh phase. But that's it. When you open your mouth, they hate your guts. 'Cause you make fun of the meat industry, you make fun of the oil industry, you make fun of evangelicals, you make fun of every single Texas constituency. And you know, what off the tip of your finger, who your favorite drag performer is. You can talk about non-binary. You have a whole record and we tried everything to erase it, but it keeps leaking out. So we tell everybody you have a couple of sniffles and you have to cancel and you can kind of maybe sort of do a zoom, but do not for the next four months just disappear. It's kind of like what Kamala, remember the nominator? She was going to be so happy (laughs) to have Kamala Harris. Well, I'm going to go out there and wow, I'm a woman of color and I was a senator and then she went out. And the process of being, you have to understand, is an essence that recalls your existential system. And then (laughs) you just like coconut tree and go, coconut tree. And then it's the being and time and being. And she did that about five times. And then those guys said, get her out. Get a hook around her neck and pull her off the stage. And she is not, not to have any interviews and debate anything. So they did for about 30 days. And meanwhile Trump was just like he was talking about everything non-stop. And JD was eviscerating her surrogates on TV. And then finally they said, she's got to show up. But she's got to debate Trump. So here's 10 answers and memorize them. No matter what the question is Kamala, what do you think about deportation? (laughs) Well, yours borders are and it's a very critical issue. And what we really needed was comprehensive immigration reform. Okay, but you didn't answer the question. Kamala, did you ever say defund the police? Defund the police? We, the police are necessary, but we have to have some guards over them. And she didn't answer any questions. It was just memorized and she won the debate by everybody said she won. And I thought, yes, she won the debate because Trump was all over the place. But when they start to show clips for the next, the Republicans are gonna show clips. And every clip makes her look like a ignoramus. And they did. And then they ask each week, who won the debate and finally it was even a Trump won the debate. And that's what, that's what Tower Rico is. And they don't want him out. As if he's out there, somebody's gonna run up to him and said, you said Jesus is non-binary. Did you mean he was a woman? Are a man? Are he's gay? Are he's trans? And what is a non-binary God mean? He has breast, but he has testicles. Or what do you want to do with the Old Testament? He's our father who are in heaven. Is it our trans? I don't know, our transsexual, or what, transvestite, or transgender? So he's not gonna go out there. He's gonna try to coast. He's got so much money they're gonna run ads about Donald Trump, Donald Trump. And then Paxton's wife, wife, wife, wife, wife, wife, wife, wife, wife, wife, wife. And then he's, and then they know that if he goes out there, somebody's gonna ask him. You keep saying you have this girlfriend, but did you really meet her in a gay bar? What were you in a gay bar for? And this is Texas, and we have family values down here. And where's your, and he's already done what he can for a guy he got a Stetson hat. And then he got a ram truck. And he drove into kind of like a blue collar thing and he worked at a lay there's something they filmed it. And he looked pathetic. It's like, these people are not authentic. It's like Said with his cowboy hat. He's got a cowboy hat in Michigan. And then he, he tries to go and lift weights or he tries to act like it's a blue collar. And as soon as the elections over, They're going to go we perk to set breeze. Sanders form. If they win. All right, Victor. So we need to get to our middle segment where you talk about Andrew Johnson and Herbert Hoover. But first we have a new sponsor, black out coffee. And we are delighted. I tasted it and I am a straight black coffee drinker. And it was delicious. And you can't fool somebody who drinks straight coffee with delicious coffee. We are delighted to welcome black out coffee to show as a sponsor. They've been making huge waves in the coffee industry for reasons you'll love. Black out coffee was started eight years ago by John and Rachel, a husband and wife team who built the company from the ground up and are still very involved in the business today. They're an American family-owned company roasting their coffee in Florida. 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And, um, Johnson was actually a Tennessee native, or not a native, but he was a Tennessee senator. And he had moved into the north. And he thought that he would bring balance to the ticket, which he did. But shortly, as you know, in April, April of 1865, Lincoln was killed. And the new, newly elected Lincoln had to turn over, I mean, he was gone. So this person that no one ever thought would be vice president. He was kind of a back bench or senator. He came there. And everybody thought that he was going to carry out the Lincoln plan. But Lincoln was not going to carry out what they thought was the Lincoln. So the radical Thaddeus Stevens and all the New Englanders, they had a radical reconstruction plan, which they had pushed through. And it basically said that any person who fought as an officer was stripped of a citizenship, and voting rights for many southerners who participated were, were ended. And that allowed only black citizens to be eligible to vote. So throughout the 11 Confederate States, you had, uh, about 25% of the population, 20% of the population now held governor centers. And they were all Republicans. And so people think it was a race thing, but it wasn't a race thing alone. But the radical Republicans are trying to do would be to have a one party movement and have a one party Congress, a one party house by denying all of the Southern representation and replacing it with liberal faux New England radical Republican blacks. And that's what happened until the crooked bargain or whatever you want to call the election of 1876. So Johnson didn't know quite what to do. He was a deer in the headlights because he was a southerner and he knew what they were doing, but he knew that was his party. But his party was a Republican party. That's what he was part of. And so he began to chip away at the radical Republicans idea. And he said it's not fair that we have millions of people who live in the South who can't vote. And we have a minority of people who are voting and they're not representative according to the Constitution and the war is over. So he began to, um, give pardons to particular officers and depending on their rank and their role. And they got angrier and angrier and angrier. And then he started to, um, he removed certain people that were in charge of reconstruction. Because the South was a huge country, the size of Europe. And after the war was over, you have people who are pretty tough people. And they were armed still with their arms. And they were not going to say we were, they were already humiliated. And only 2% of them had slaves. They were all insurrectionists. But the idea they were never going to get the vote and be second class citizens that wasn't going to last. So they started creating these, you know, murder of the white Camilla and Ku Klux Klan. And then Johnson was told by the radical Republicans to put it down. So in the state of Tennessee, he, he suspended habeas corpus, which meant you could just go arrest, pick somebody up off the street arrest him and not even charge him and put him in a cell. And they did that. And finally, he kind of turned not very radically, but he said, I have a plan to allow southerners to regain their citizenship. And the northerners said if you do, the following is going to happen. They're going to be so angry about blacks that were empowered. They're not going to vote for any of them. You're going to destroy the Republican Party. And we're going to have the same old thing that we had in the 1840s and 50s where this crazy Southern block, Democrat block will vote in unison. And this is going to last all the way to Richard Nixon. They had the term for the solid cell. So they impeached him on that. And the problem was that you have to get, you know, the house impeached him, but you need two thirds of the Senate to vote. And he, he was acquitted by one vote. They couldn't get the last vote. But he then was hated by Stanton, the Secretary of War was really his enemy. He inherited the Lincoln cabinet. Stanton was an awful man. I mean, he was the one that accused Sherman after he liberated 20,000 slaves of being a racist. And Sherman wouldn't even shake his hand at the memorial parade at the armistice in the April 1865. So it was a failed presidency. And he was kind of during the headlights of law sky. And he was caught between being a southerner and trying to get some type of reconciliation between the two sections and trying to be a Republican without a control, radical abolitionist that wanted to the only, their, their protocol was the only way that blacks who have been oppressed will be equal to us and vote with us as we have to nurture them and tutor them. And they all have to be elected. So we're going to make a Republican party throughout the United States. And it'll be a unit party. And blacks will do what we tell them. And that didn't work. And it'll be up to Ulysses Grant came in. And, you know, he basically said that He was going to force reconstruction, but he only sent down about 10 or 20,000 soldiers, and that's impossible to patrol it, and reconstruction will end in 1876 after about 10 years. And then there won't be black elected officials until the 1960s. So he was a complete failure, but today historians rank him very low, but they don't really tell you what the radical Republicans agenda was. It was completely punitive, and to render the South sort of like the Morgan who planned for the Nazi Germany defeat, make the South a pastoral people, with a second-class white uneducated population, and then have black people be the overclass. That was basically what it was. And then in particular cases, gradually let people be citizens again. So he didn't know what to do, and he was out within four years. Herbert Hoover was a quite different guy. He was the whiz kid under Coolidge. He had been secretary of commerce, and he was a really brilliant engineer. He was in the first class that graduated. I think he was the first person that enrolled at Stanford University. And he enrolled, he was an orphan, and he was raised by parents. Other than, I mean, he didn't have parents. He was flat broke, he went to Stanford, he studied engineering, and he had a natural genius for it. So then he went into Mexico, and he found basically their minerals, gold, silver, but especially oil. His son was an engineer, Herbert Hoover Jr., who created a system where you could seismically shake the earth and find out where oil deposits were. He went all over the world, he married a really brilliant woman, Lou Henry Hoover. And then he had a large fortune, and he organized what he called Belgian relief in World War One, in which people were mass starving. So he hunger relief, if you go to the Hoover Institution where I work, you can see all of it there. The problem he had was he inherited an unregulated stock market from Harding and Coolidge, and in 1929 it crashed, and he should have just left the economy alone and let it rebound. But he tried to raise taxes to cover up the debt without expanding production, and it didn't work. And he was up against the charismatic FDR, who would say or do anything really, and people were starving in places. So he was called Hooverville's, Hoover Pot was, you know, Hoover, Turkey was, they made all these Hooverville's, were little houses, were tenets, and people, when I was in high school I would talk to relatives, and it's under Hoover we didn't eat, under Roosevelt we ate, under Roosevelt we had gas, we could, you know, there was the government start hiring everybody. So he, he didn't have a expansionary economy, had he allowed the Federal Reserve to release more cash and get fluidity, he could have gotten over it, but that was against his principles. And it turned out that had he been president four years after Roosevelt, and clamped down on the expansion, we wouldn't have had the 38 correction, I mean the 38, many depression. The only thing that saved FDR was the war, and we could have had a policy like that to get out of it. It canes in for a while, but he was a, and then when he, outside the presidency he became a shaker and movie, he wanted to be president again another term, but he was shut out in subsequent elections because nobody could beat Roosevelt anyway for, you know, when to Wilkie couldn't, and Thomas Dewey couldn't, and Hoover couldn't. So that 12 years, pretty amount of politics, and then he used a lot of his fortune for philanthropic causes, he had a big home at the, you can see it today, I lived pretty close to it where he stayed at the Hoover, on the Stanford campus. His family all went to Stanford, and when Stanford was traditional, not crazy like it is now. And he founded the Hoover Institution, I just finished on the idea that it was an archive. So he took all these, he went over to Europe in 1918 and 1919, and he got all of the documents about World War I and communism, and all of the Tsarist papers that were being collapsed. And he brought them all into the campus in 1940's, so he built this big tower, and floors three to ten in between are all archives. But it wasn't a tank tank when he founded it in 1918, 1919. It was just an archival. And then he was going to give all of his papers to Stanford, and that was going to be the presidential, the Hoover President, the Hoover Foundation. But then when he got in his 80's, he saw that Stanford had become very liberal, especially during the MacArthur period, he got really angry. So he looked in the archival people and they were all left wing. So he decided he was going to turn the Stanford Hoover Institution from an archival center into a tank tank, one of the first tank tanks. But he needed a guy to do it in the early 60's, there was an economist, and he had two, he had two, the guy had to be an academic, he had to be a renegade academic, and he had to be very young. So he got Glenn Campbell, who was like his 30's, and he was direct. So when I got there, there had only been two directors, Glenn Campbell and John Racian. And his vision, he got very angry at Stanford, Stanford tried to go and take over the Hoover Institution. He said, I'm not, I'm not going to have my library here. If you go up the 11th floor in my office, he has his desk from the commerce secretary. It's a museum. But it's not the fam, it's not where he grew up, and it's not the presidential library. And he got very angry at the president of Stanford, they had a big fight. And he tried to create an independent, and now that has been modified somewhat worse. We were much more integrated with Stanford than he would have liked probably. 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America is a nation of America, we are a nation of immigrants. The immigration crisis. Watch now on the Heritage Foundations YouTube channel. Welcome back, Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. You can find Victor on social media, his ex-handle is @VidiHanson and on Facebook @HansonsMorningCup. So the hot air had a great article, Ed Morrison, was investigating a United pilot, Ibrahim, Mussolum, and he had posted Pro Hamas things on October 7th or about October 7th. This is the interesting story though, United suspended him when he did that, and then they tried to, I guess it's not firing, but have him resign, right? And the Union successfully defended him and now he's back flying airplanes. That is just scary to me. I don't know. It's kind of hard to believe that after Al Qaeda created this idea that they were going to use planes as weapons on 9/11, and they crashed three planes, Pentagon, two in the world. And they would have had an fourth one if it hadn't been the heroic people in Pennsylvania that forced the plane down, the fourth plane. And we should remember that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was crafting an idea of 11 planes all [BLANK_AUDIO] once. And then after that happened, and they had taken their cue from radical Palestinians had been hijacking 20 or 30 planes all during the 70s. I remember the famous one where they hijacked, I think it was a TWA plane and they threw that American guy on the tarmac bed like it was a piece of meat, it was horrific. And then in addition to that, that had spawned another group of people who were insane pilots. We remember right after 9/11 we had the Egyptian pilot and he crashed his plane right outside New York and we would have thought he was insane. He got grabbed at control. They had the German pilot, I think, in Spain when it was going there, he crashed it. So given all that history, you would think that a pilot who posts this radical Islamic stuff and he's there, you would never ever, ever let him in there. But you're dealing against DI and political correctness versus the safety of three or four hundred people. And so that's a no brainer. You always go, you always use the DI trumps, the safety of the average person. At least according to the union. I would like to know where he is because I don't think I'd fly United because you never know where he would be. Yeah, exactly. I mean, they might say, well, he was flying internationally. So we leave you. We'll just put him in Fresno Air Terminal and he'll be flying from Fresno to Salt Lake and I'll think, oh, but they don't tell you. And you never know what he was going to do. And you couldn't crash in there because the doors are hard. I never quite understood that. I understand that you wanted not people to crash in. But when they made it one way, they should have had like a little release button on the instrument board. Because what if the problem wasn't hijackers taking over the plane from the crew section, but what if the pilot was taking over and you needed the crew section to get in there to save the plane. And that's and so I think they should have a release button. That's a conundrum to say the least. I'm not sure. You know, if you have a release button, then somebody could have part of the crew on their side and they could be the pilot and they could release and release. These ways were pretty smart when they saved the plane. They didn't let the crew go anywhere. They said, you're not going in there because they didn't know what the crew was going to do. They were kind of shocked. They were all male. I thought, where are the female attendants? Yeah. And where some of the I didn't read a whole lot about this. But I thought they thought that some of the crew were on the and did they find out if they were or not. Still a conspiracy theory. But they feel that somebody without record that was so blatant that he wanted to kill Jews and he was an Islamist. They had I think it was a old man had bounced him out. Yeah. That only the UA only if you the UA hired him, there must have been a purpose for it. Maybe it was a renegade group of people hired him in a renegade group that was on the plane. There's no evidence for that though that it was a deliberately conspiratorial plot that involved the the ground crew or the in flight crew. Okay. Victor, we are at the end. We have once again a hard stop. And I apologize for that. But Victor's got lots of interviews to do. And I have a letter from Susan Mural Charmax. And I'm just going to read one part of it. She says one thing my father said and others. He was a POW in the camps in the Philippines. Yeah. One thing my father said and others from the POW camp was that was that the U.S. had the U.S. invaded Japan. The Japanese overseeing the POWs were to kill all the POWs in their care quotes under care. When you were discussing the invasion versus the atomic bombs, I did not hear you mentioned the murder of all the POWs. Perhaps it wasn't true. Is that true? No, there were some that were killed, but there were some that were bombed that were killed accidentally. But the reason that they didn't kill them all after Hiroshima. There was the idea there might be bargaining chips, but the reason they didn't kill them is they realized that after Hiroshima, they were going to be occupied. The United States government had been broadcasting propaganda, good propaganda to the Germans and the Japanese that after the war was over, they knew the names of all the people who ran the POW camps. And they were going to go after them. I mean, we hang the conqueror of Singapore and we hang the conqueror of the Philippines because they went, they were in charge of POW camps where hundreds, thousands died. We hang tojo. Somebody shot him and tried to assassinate him in other Japanese. Then we spent a lot of care operating on and and curing his stomach wound so he can hang him. And we hanged a lot of Japanese war criminals, but they didn't kill all of them, but they didn't isolate cases, kill aircrews. But then, I mean, after Dresden and Hamburg and Colón, there were a lot of Allied pilots that were killed by German civilians before the Luftwaffe was pretty professional when they caught them because they didn't want their pilots. By 1943 and four more, excuse me, by 1944 in October where the United States was already in the France and coming into Germany, the Luftwaffe knew that their pilots were bailing out over Allied troops in many cases and they did not want them. And they had heard that they had been treated very well by the British when they were shot down or were written. And they heard in North Africa, when they were shot down in Mediterranean fighting the Americans, it shipped them to along with the ground troops to Alabama and Mississippi and they loved it there. They were better fed. They had better beds. They were, a lot of them stayed after the war because they liked it so much. Well, Victor, she sent a heart to you. Oh, that's so nice. And it is also doubles as a pot holder. I hope it too. Everybody on this weekend is barbecuing if they get a chance and this pot holder will be great for. Well, thank you again. Yes, thanks to our audience for joining us and thank you Victor for all the wisdom today. Thank you. This is Samuink and Victor Davis Hansen and we're signing in on. And thank you everybody for watching and viewing. Thank you for tuning in to the daily signal. 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