Victor Davis Hanson: Mark Carney Is Leading Canada ‘Right Over the Cliff’

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It's I think it's number eight or nine today or 11 and there's been you know their reviews every time I write a book though of course there are people on the left that will just put zero stars with no comments you know or just say awful liar. They do that they do that to all conservative authors. Yeah but I think it I think it'll it's I think it'll sell well but it's not it's not Ra Ra Trump it's explaining what he's trying to do who his opponents are and how he's still here after all the efforts to destroy him you know physically mentally psychologically economically. So I think people will like it and I it's all documented I have a lot of I think a hundred pages of citations so it's not it's not intended to be just you know quick buck book with you know not that those can be bad but it took me a long time to write it. I'm re-write it and re-write it yes and re-write it and re-write it. Yeah quite a process. Well Victor's website you can go on his website do anything play around there this tons and tons of free things you can find the link to the book if you have not ordered it yet and you can also find ultra articles and those are Victor writes twice a week he writes ultra articles and once a week he does an ultra video and that's available to subscribers it's $65 a year or 650 a month so that's the blade of Perseus Victor Hanson.com is the address. Victor the last episode I promised or I said we were going to talk about an important essay you had written for the new criterion we didn't get to it but I do want to get to that at the end of today's show but let's start off the show with with I said you beforehand I think Canada is going to clear war on Victor. Well I listened to your 9/11 terrific show commenting on 9/11 the 25th anniversary but then you also did a full-throated review of the our relationship with Canada and Canada's welfare approach to America and plus its own the problems that's created self-inflicted so you want to give us an update on that so I do yeah I do okay Canada announced that it's going along with the votes EU countries that are boycotting Israel products yeah from the West Bank so I assume Canada this is not this is sincere that you are also initiating boycotts against Nigeria because of the slaughter of Christians you won't allow any products in from Afghanistan doing what we know the Taliban are killing women and I know you're not going to do you're going to break that deal with China because they have a million wagers in a labor concentration camp and that's fins your sensitivities is that sure that I grant you and you're looking at certain places in Cuba that you you've disturbed you it's they have people in jail political prisoners so you're not going to have any commerce with Cuba because you're not just picking out one particular country because it's a Western but be especially in particular it's Jewish I may be wrong the problem is getting down to it again we want we Americans like Canadians we want them to be strong we remember World War 2 Canada was ferrying convoys to Britain beginning in October of 1939 all of 39 40 41 we weren't even in the war and there were German subs off the coast of Canada and so my point was they had the fifth largest Navy in the world they were superb fighters they had they had taken advantage of this treasure house of natural resources and then they went full EU socialist with credo and now carney but we don't we don't want to tell you what to do we're just saying that you are headed in a EU direction at full speed at the time the EU is leaving that direction and making a U-turn so the reason that we have this disagreement is not Donald Trump it's not he's wants to rename Ontario or he'd wants to troll you and say Alberta should be the 51st rate it's not here it's you you have a birth rate of 1.25 1.25 that is among the lowest of all the Western and I think only Spain is lower than you are of the Western industrialized nations 5.5% of all the deaths last year in Canada were euthanasia you have the highest rate of killing people who are assisting them to commit suicide you have 45% of your population was either not born in Canada or as the or children of parents who were not born and they're not being acculturated assimilated integrated no they're not you you fought for 15 years not to man up and pay your 2% even though you have extravagant extravagant claims to the Arctic and un enforceable claims to the entire northwest passage and yet you have 88 jets 45 years old you have this navy that's not over 80 little ships or whatever they are and you still won't pay for them and then in addition to that of all the Western industrial nations in terms of per capita GDP you are the slowest growing 1.1 and if you're an American you have a per capita GDP share of GDP at about 95,000 if you're a Canadian right across the border it's about 40,000 dollars less so you did that to your country and as a result of that vulnerability and again I'm not getting into everything it's easier for a Canadian company an Alberta to build a pipeline to the United States than it is to the other provinces given your hypergreen energy net zero fantasies and then as I said earlier when Carney started this he thought that he was going to stop the autonomy movements in Ontario and Quebec these October elections are coming up and then target Minnesota the Dakotas Washington Maine Wisconsin and Michigan that are have a lot of cross trade activity and target those to hurt those countries and then until they're mostly blue almost all except maybe the Dakotas Montana Wyoming but the most popular states are blue or purple and then enlist those governors to attack Trump in an effort to interfere with the election and make sure that Trump loses the Congress now that's why you did it because there's no other reason that why you would do it for this reason. Think very hard, Canada. Only you, maybe permuda, but it doesn't count. Over and only you, Canada, can come in. Canadians can come into this country for six months, six months without a visa. We don't extend that privilege even to Mexico or to Europeans. That's why you have a million people here. That's why your prime minister's two kids are living here. That's why he went to college here. That's why his daughters went to college here. That's why 95 or 96 or 91, however he wants to define it, of all of his investments are not parked in Canada. They're parked here because we make it so easy for Canadians to come here, work, and reside. It's much harder for an American to go to Canada and get a work permit and work than it is for a Canadian to come to the United States. It's completely asymmetrical. And so is the trade. We don't mind a couple of years or 50 or 70 billion dollars surplus in a supposedly free trade zone of North America. But when you do it every year, the message you send is, well, we want to experiment with these postmodern policies of no children, euthanasia, open borders, illegal immigration, radical green policy, war on fossil fuels, disarmament, and it didn't work out like we wanted. So we can't defend ourselves. The United States, you're going to defend the airspace of Canada with your shields and jets. You're going to make sure the Chinese Russians don't impinge on our claim on the Arctic. And if we get in the jam on our extravagant Northwest Passage claims that it's all ours, it'll be there for us. And meanwhile, we're going to bite your ankles and make fun of your president. Okay, we get that. But now it's different because you've done it for so long now. And it's so patently political. And I say that because only you and the Chinese have slapped counter tariffs. Everybody else from the Japanese, the Japanese, the Germans, everybody knew they were running up surpluses because of asymmetrical tariffs. And they knew that if they negotiated, they could get Trump down to a tolerable level where they would make some investments in the United States, still make huge profits, but not mega mega profits at our expense. But only you, only you allied with China. Now, it wasn't just that you allied with China. You've signed a series of visa, travel, cultural, and military arrangements with China. And of course, China, at this point, wants to dump aluminum and steel below the cost of production. And they can't do it with us because we'll tear it up, tear up it. So what do they do with you? They say if we can, we can send it into Canada. You can assemble it for your products and then you can send it to the United States cheaper and it won't be tariff. It'll come under lower tariffs and that way we can evade. So you are aiding and empowering communist China. So when you get Mr. Carney, you get on the television and you start running about Donald Trump and how many is, do you understand who your ally is? China, China, not the United States, destroys the patent, the whole idea of patents, international patents, international copyrights, money manipulation, dumping product with low the cost of production. They do that. And that's your new partner. So this is going down and now what you think could be contained by anti-Trump, when you do this elbows up, elbows up, elbows up and you have little signs at the border. We're a nice state. Be careful when you come. And when you boo, it's now filtering down to the American people and they don't like it. And you have 72 to 76% trade with us and we have 10 to 15% with you. So we would like more. We would like you to be strong. But this is all a reaction to your insecurity and your inability economically to fund all of these immigrants that are getting close to 50% of your population and which your left wants to go up to 100 million and its centennial initiative. And because you don't have the economy because you've socialized it, you can't produce the goods and services to integrate, assimilate and serve this huge immigrant community that doesn't believe in the unique history, traditions, language, culture of Anglo-Philia Canada. These are people from Asia, from Latin America, from Africa and they have a different view of where Canada should be headed and your liberal politicians are pandering to them. And they have brought ruin upon the economy and they want the United States to subsidize that ruin. And when the United States finally said we can't do it anymore, we were 40 trillion in debt ourselves. I'm sorry, it's going to have to be equitable. Then you started screaming and yelling and that, you know Donald Trump, he'll do the mim thing and he will get angry at you. But now it's not about Trump and Carney, it's about the Canadian people boisterously, insidiously claiming they don't like Americans, they don't want them there, where they're not going to come here. And that's dangerous for you because the truth is that the United States can prosper and it is prospering. It's getting trillions of dollars in foreign investment. It's companies are 9 out of 10 ranked in software, space launches, you name it, digital media. But you can't. You say you're going to get new, what are you going to do? You're going to get new relationships across the Atlantic and the Pacific with increased cargo cost and you're going to deal with the greatest threat to liberty and freedom and the greatest mass murdering legacy of any country in the world with malkilled 75 million people. And this is whom you're going to ally yourself with. So I'll say one last thing. China does not interpret outreach from weak countries as magnetic to be reciprocated. China treats outreach from smaller weaker countries as obsequiousness to be manipulated and leveraged for its own interest. It has no respect for people who ask to be partners of China that are not equal. It says, "I will manipulate you. Here's what your role is in our grand design." And that's what you're falling into. You don't understand that. The reason they hate us is not because we've done anything to them is because we are stronger than they are and they know it. And they respect that. But they do not respect nations that are weaker. Work Canada to adopt a pan-European, pan-American, pan-North American, pan-Japan, Taiwan, South Korea. Resistance. China would be nice to them. But you break off by yourself, cut your deals and see what happens. We wish you well. Well, I don't know what to say. Victor, you are so educating us about. I'm not angry at Canada. I'm just angry at the lies of the U.S. media and the Canadian people falling for this cheap trick of carning. Well, I'd say half the Canadian people may be because we did see that trucker protest and there was a great outpouring. And despite America having no involvement in it, we saw what you do in the and a real leftist regime will do to people. Break them. What's going to happen to cancel their bank accounts, etc. What are the Canadian people going to happen when two things are revealed? They lost 41,000 jobs when this thing, it was only seven days into it. I suspect this September unemployment will skyrocket. And that man, carny, will not tell people in Canada why he walked out at the 11th hour and rejected this treaty. He hasn't said why. He won't allow his ministers to say why. He says only they wanted to impinge on our sovereignty. Translator, that means the United States does not like us eating and abetting China to get around the tariffs. And then he said they want to squash or silence indigenous culture and Canadian French culture. That translated means we want the right to impose a surtax on their digital media companies and none other anywhere in the world, and nobody else does it to them, but we're unique. That's not going to play well with the Canadians. Not the cost of millions of jobs and money. I think it seems like the Canadians are the classical lemons and they're following this pie-piper right over the cliff and they're right at the brink or the precipice and they've got to draw back because he's going to lead them into of free fall, and it's not going to be pretty. really isn't. Canadians won the lottery in one sense. They're a similar country to ours and culture, et cetera. And they're right next to the world, the greatest economy in the history of the world. And they should ask why that is. I mean, we could be Canadians, right? There was no Canada in US. They were all a British colony. And at one point, a group of unique individuals called our founders, Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, Adam, you name that. They said we have a vision for a country. And it was very different than the British vision. Similar, but also very different. And Canadians were the people from our colonies, the loyalists who went to Canada and who were in Canada the first place. And they said we want to remain in the British system. And now the verdicts out. They're both good systems. But we know that this system, for all of its rambunctiousness and volatility, is very, very unique in its ability to create goods and services, military, economic, physical power. That's just a truth. It's siphons away every entrepreneurial person in the world to come here. And then we unleash them. And they don't go to Canada for that reason. Yeah. I'm going to Canada. So my destiny can be fulfilled. I'm going to Canada so I can bring my whole family and get free healthcare, free housing, free food, and then call my Canadian host racist. That's what they get. Because we know that, because we get a lot of that. We do. Right. Well, Victor, for our listeners and our viewers, most people know there's chlorine in their tap water. How could you not when your glass of water smells like it's been filled at the local pool? But they drink it anyway because they've been told it's what keeps the water safe. What they haven't been told is what chlorine becomes after it's added to your water. And what I found is why I filter all my water. And I mean all my water, water for ice cubes, water for cooking, water for the plants even, water for the dogs even, but especially water for to drink. And enjoy what I found is I filter all my water through cove pure. Chlorine isn't even the biggest problem. Chlorine levels in your water are regulated. 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A really good book on Lord of the Rings. Did you take main roads or were you back in those trips? No, I chose. It was very crowded, Saturday night Fresno. I just remind myself when I'm going 27% of these drivers were not born in the United States and we have one of the highest DUI rates in the nation and the 99 freeway I was on is the most deadly for 100 miles driven and any freeways, not even a freeway completely yet. It's 80 years old but that's California and then of course we have 45,000 unlicensed illegal alien drivers somewhere still driving and you know you get the 80,000 pound semi's in the middle and going 75 so but my point is this I drove my wife's Tesla and I'm not used to Tesla but today in the Wall Street Journal there's an article at Jack that after Elon got involved in politics in 24 and 25 and they were torching sales plummeted. I think he was selling 700,000 and then the Detroit saw opportunities and they really pushed up their EVs for GM and Toyota Mercedes all the rest of them Nissan but now Tesla is regaining that dominance again without and remember they don't have the federal credit and Elon predicted that but what I'm getting out we had a Tesla before I gave it to my son he loves it by the way but we got the new Y last year and I hadn't really driven it that much it accelerates faster than a Corvette so if you want to take off out of a parking lot you see somebody coming and you don't know what I mean there's times when you have to accelerate it's that way it handles well it has all these safety features you have this the mirrors everything beeps when a car gets too near you your radar or it's it's based on cameras but it's like radar you can see the cars ahead behind you it's comfortable it handles well and I thought well they all lie about they all lie about mileage so I had 200 I drove 70 miles last night and I charged it and I had the air conditioner it's the valley it was very hot and even in the evening and I drove 72 miles an hour and you know what it exactly it exactly exactly took 70 miles as advertised off the batteries so it's a wonderful product and I was just I was just thinking about the other day when I when I saw also the Elon launched more satellites than the entire world put together last year 35 hundred launches and I think China did 350 and Europe did about 150 and then other American companies did about 150 35 hundred and he is single handedly revitalized the entire NASA program and then he's got X and X is just it's not like Twitter it it's a free platform it's and it's growing again so what I'm getting at is we were very lucky to have him and people hate him and he's been a very reasonable voice on AI he really has he says you know we're not going to destroy each ourselves with AI if you know what you're doing and that's a good that is a really important to remember because legal measured meritocratic diverse immigration is great for the United States what's not great is blanket mass immigration non-marocratic not diverse but from only from mostly Latin America that's not good and illegal with people that have no language English facility and they have enormous claims of subsistence healthcare food health shelter legal education on us the host but it was it was really a treat to drive that car and it's safe you take your you know you don't need I think you can use about one quarter of the time on your brakes as a regular car and until I think a lot of our viewers and listeners and indication you drove at night you weren't able to drive at night or weren't in trust driving at night and so this is another sign of your emergence from slowly I think so we'll see I have another biopsy to see if it's come back but I gained all my weight back I just kind of out of breath a little bit but I still was a first social occasion we got we drove 45 minutes we and I was there for three hours and then I drove 45 minutes back and my wife usually likes one or two glasses of And she hasn't been able to do that because, you know, 0.8 in California, and you don't want to take a risk. So she's been driving. So this was the first time she could actually eat a dinner and like everybody else have a glass of wine. So designated driver. Yes, I am a designated driver, designated cancer survivor, designated, but not a victim, but not a victim. I'm very lucky. Dr. Barry at Stanford, the gifted surgeon, when he saw the bleed, he didn't hesitate. I know that people have said, when you're bleeding and you come out, maybe it'll stop. He just said, this guy's got to get right in and that saved my life. He had me back in 30 minutes and four hours later they found the bleeds and six transfusions. So I really owe him literally my life. Well, you came close. Well, let's talk about another top issue, Victor. And again, I apologize to our viewers and listeners and dealing with the aftermath of Dr. Fauci's disease here. But this has to do with the Lindsay Clancy trial. I know you've spoken about it. We talked a little. You're just with the great Sammy Wink. But since I think the last recording, news has come out about the the holdout juror, the man, the bad man. Well, he's a black man. So Gail King on CBS morning show had had a juror on and she was getting. So what was it? You know, essentially he got, she said, yeah, he was a man, he was a person of color black man. She was like shocked. Oh my gosh. What do I do? Yeah. Didn't she say something identical now? Yeah. What did she say? He's short circling. Yeah. I have to pause for that and take a moment. Meaning I was just about ready to blast on all white to sympathize with this. Feminist jury. And to say there must have been some East Palestine, Ohio, Redneck, Neanderthal that was stopping this enlightened verdict to letter off after strangling all three of her kids. And then I learned that the most sensible, that was what was interesting about it. The most sensible person on the entire jury is a black man. And she seems to be what embarrassed by it. And of course they will dox that person because they already started a little victory. Excuse me. I just want to know some headlines. I didn't read the article. So he's a, the must know his name, evidence of domestic violence in his past. So he's a bad juror because he has had domestic violence, but the woman has murdered her three children. Yes. Well, that's a hero. I don't know what you would call, I guess, birth or violence. But she was intersectionally confused because the, on one hand, she said, feminist women standing up for postpartum depression, great. On the other hand, it's a solidarily with a fellow black citizen, great. They don't equate. What do I do? I need a moment to pause and figure this out. And so that's what she was saying because she looks at people like all the left does in terms of tribal affiliations. And she has two. One is radical feminism and one is blackness. And she doesn't know which one to put her greater loyalty. But this takes place. You know, we're having this midterm jack coming up. And the midterm is not about changing Lake Ontario. It's not about the White House we modeling. It's not about New America for New Mexico. It's about what, you know, conflict of visions to the nth degree. So on one side we've got the entire left cheering on someone who strangled in succession three children and said it was because of postpartum depression. And then a sale her own husband as if he was somehow culpable for this or the doctors or some anybody but herself. And then we had on 9/11 just think of we had mayor mandami handing this pin over to his chief legal counsel and Joe Biden's chief immigration counsel. Mr. Kasim. Mr. Kasim was the defense attorney for a terrorist al-Qaeda platter who pled guilty. And he was that person who pled guilty was the brother-in-law. I think the guy's name was mandars of one of the five hijackers who took American Airlines flight number 77 and took that. Boeing's 757 and crashed it. He was the enforcer, the brother-in-law of Mr. Kasim's client. He was the one that rounded up everybody and blocked them from going into the and he and then they ran that all killed all 60 something, 65 of them. Killed them all and rammed it into the Pentagon. And when you so Mr. mandami that's his chief legal counsel and he chooses on the day to commemorate 9/11 to hand that pin to him. And he was signaling people. The intermediary was Ms. Tish, Jewish head of NYPD. So he's basically saying to America. You Jewish American who represents the police, which when I was a candidate, I said or rogue people and I'm going to defund them. Do you please hand as my servant this pin over to this wonderful chief legal counsel who was one of the architects of wonderful Joe Biden's open border policies and who has defended a Muslim al-Qaeda terrorist. And he is also the brother who was the, his client was the brother-in-law of a mass murder and I'm going to do that on 9/11. And that just maybe you can say well, it's things happen Victor. Well, I could add more. I said house on park or the heartthrob of all of the left, the new Islamist socials left. He said we deserve 9/11. Well, that's just another one. He didn't mean it. Well, then there's Ilya no more. And she said, well, some, they really clamped down on news because something happened on somebody and something happened. And then something happened on 9/11. Yeah, just, we got our hair must up a little bit. Elon, I could go on, but you're starting to get that we're going to have a choice. And on one side is an Islamist socialist view of America. And on the other, it is a strong, it'll be a strong economy, a strong military, huge foreign investment, record fossil fuel production. And to straighten out the universities, trying to straighten out all our institutions that have gone hard left and politicized and weaponized the culture like the Smithsonian. Strong cultural advocacy that there are two genders. There is a close border that an illegal alien does not is not the same as a US citizen. And that's the choice. This left wing group is. Yeah, I mean, that's you get to see them every day. You see Mondami. You see Hassan Piker. You see L Said. You see this. Millic heroes who wants immediate reparations. You see it all every day. I don't know what the, the well, let's, let's talk a little bit more about Mondami Victor. And then I didn't share this with you in advance. Paul that Scott Rasmussen's got a new polling company. And I think has some interesting data underlying this. But first I want to inform our viewers and our listeners that for nearly 3,000 years, the great books of Western civilization have shaped the way people think about courage, honor, war, duty, leadership, friendship, and human excellence. And the alien stands among those great books. 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They're yucking it up with each other, laughing. I don't know what they were laughing about it, Victor. Americans. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, talk about poor taste. Talk about who gives a rat's petude about these people will go through some public motions. But I find it deeply troubling. It'd be like somebody being at and you were on the battle. Yes. American battle monuments commission. Yes. You can imagine being at one of the the cemeteries or Arlington cemetery yucking it up amongst the fall and the graves of the fall. I know is that there's a growing feeling and I know people are going to write me and say, Victor, there's a growing feeling because you don't understand algorithms that they feed your narrow view. No, I try to get as much information from as much different media as I can, but there is a growing frustration. And I could articulate it like something like the following. The people who defended cemetery Ridge, the people who went forward during the Musa Argon, the people who fought to the death on Iwo Jima, the people who flew a B-17 to their death in World War II, the people who defended the choice on reservoir and got wiped out almost but survived. The people who protected Saigon from the Tet Offensive, those brave Americans that went into God awful places like back down 10, back dead and Hellman programs in Fallujah. They did not die. They did not die. They did not die for people like this to do what they're doing to the country. To make fun of 9/11 to say that this country is racist and needs to pay reparations even in states where there was no slavery and the people are six generations from slaves, either owning them, either being a slave six generations ago and the people who are in the states have no relatives at own slaves and yet no one will address the chief problems right now and that's two and a half percent of the black community is committing 50 percent of the violent crimes. Nobody wants to talk about that. They want to talk about reparations. So that's what people, they're looking at this left wing socialist thing and what L. Said said when he tries to explain why he share a real law that he follows, he said is not in conflict with American jurisprudence. When you look at what the tenets of share real are, every element is contrary to American jurisprudence and you see Taloriko, he came to notice because he was a nobody who was going to shock us in this Texas. I'm a Texan and I'm going to tell you that you shouldn't eat meat. I'm a Texan. Nobody knows me but their God is of many genders. I'm a Texan. There are six or seven genders. I am a Texan and I think it's morally repugnant to deport people. Now everybody knows me and I'm close to winning an election. I didn't say that. I don't retract the word. So remember these socialists that you're going to be voting on. All of them, all of them say that they didn't mean it. AOC says that was woke one. Temperers were a little afraid. So when I said things like that, defund the police, give money to bill and the country was founded in 1619, not seven. I didn't mean it. I got carried away. L. Said, well, when I said that my constituents would be upset. If somebody said taking out the supreme leader of Iran was a good thing, given he was the arch-terrorist of the world, they'd get a little upset. I didn't mean it that way. When I said when that attacker tried to run his car into a Jewish synagogue in my home state, and he had a brother. He came from Lebanon, but his brother was a Hezbollah terrorist and got killed by the Israeli. So he was hurt. And because he was hurt that his terrorist brother couldn't kill Jews, but was killed by Jews in Israel, he hurt people. But hurt people? They hurt people. I didn't mean that. I didn't say that. Hassan Piker, I didn't mean that. There was a context. And they're doing all that. And as soon as the election's over, you will see the real people. They'll be like Mondami with this pen, handing it to this terrorist lawyer, this defender of terrorist. They will talk about confiscating property. And the one thing you can say for all the problems of the right, and I know you're all upset about Lake Ontario, all these means. Nobody in the right is apologizing. Susan Collins, she's not even apologizing. She's not saying I voted against the ID and I'm apologetic. You name it. Ted Cruz, all these Republican senators, whether they're up early, they're not apologizing. Donald Trump is not coming out and saying, well, I get carried away sometimes and I really didn't mean it. And he could apologize. So maybe that's not good all the time, but what the right tells you is what they believe. And then you are supposed to react to it, but they're not going to say, if you relax badly to it, I'm going to change it to something you want to hear. And that's because they feel that their message is in sync with the majority of America and represents its traditions. And the left feels that is a revolutionary force that just don't like America never did once a destroy it, but can't get elected unless it hides and masks and veneers everything they've said that they believed and when they get elected, they will go right back to it. So remember that before you vote. Yeah, this is a good point. I think to share this data from Scott Rasmussen's poll. So bear with me, Victor, and folks, 49% of voters say that the Judeo-Christian moral values are an important part of America's heritage. Just 23% disagree. About 28% are undecided. By the way, I will trouble by that broad look, but so this survey finds that Republicans hold this position by an overwhelming 65 to 12% margin. Democrats agree by a much narrower 42 to 34% margin, roughly one in four voters from each party are undecided. While the right is unified, I'm reading Scots analysis. There is clear division on the left. Traditional Democrat voters say that Judeo-Christian moral traditions are important to America's heritage by a margin of 47 to 31%. However, voters who prefer policy similar to those of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say those traditions are not important by double digit margin of 40 to 30%. One last point here, voters who prefer traditional democratic policies say these traditions have been good for the country by 55 to 18% margin. However, voters who prefer AOC policies say Judeo-Christian moral values have been bad for America. 21 to 32. That's very important what you just said because it clarifies two realities that everybody should remember. Because the positions are majority positions and that the left like AOC and others reject them, but they are majority positions among their congressional districts or their primary supporters. They square that circle by doubling down on being Islamist socialist. And then they get nominated and they look at those polls that Jack just related and they say, I can't win. I cannot win a statewide race. So I'm going to disclaim. I'm going to wink a nod to my supporters in good Islamist socialist fashion. Both those traditions of Zeratical Islamist and as a socialist condone or communist condone misleading people for political purposes to enact an agenda. So I'm going to mislead people and I'm not going to get criticized by my base. They're going to encourage me to do that so I can get elected and give them stuff. And then I'm going to get elected and I'm going to go right back. So trust me, when Taloriko, if he wins, he's going to go right back with all the talk of genders and vegetarianism and open borders and green power and hey, here's a guy in Texas that is on record opposing oil, meat and organized Christian religion as we see it in Texas. Think about that. And he's ahead supposedly in these polls. And that's partly because the polls are inaccurate, I think, but partly because Paxton is not a good, he's not a workaholic out there candidate, like Ted Cruz was, you know. Right. He can be, but he's not yet. You know, he needs a firecracker under his heini. Victor, we're going to take a little break. And when we come back, we're going to talk about the anniversary of the murder of Charlie Kirk and some of the truly evil displays on the left related to that. And if we have time, and I hope we have time, we'll make the time we'd like to talk about your that profoundly important new criteria and essay you wrote on the West and reason. We'll do that when we come back from these important messages. 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. This interactive guide equips American citizens with the tools they need to enjoy the sites that depict some of the greatest moments in our nation's history, analyzing them for historical accuracy and provides resources for families or educators planning to visit from Mount Vernon to Independence Hall to Gettysburg and more. Americans deserve transparency and sites that steward our history faithfully deserve our gratitude. The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites invites every American to rediscover the places and stories that define our nation, whether it's across the country or in your backyard. Visit historic sites.heritage.org to start your adventure today. We are back with Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. We're recording on Sunday, September 13th, 2026. This episode will be up on Tuesday, September 15th. We have so many new viewers. Victor, I want to applaud Rob Bluey and the Daily Signal. Just on YouTube alone, the numbers are skyrocketing. Welcome here and I'll repeat about Victor's website if you're new to this podcast. Go to victorhansom.com. Check that out. Blade of Perseus. Do consider subscribing and do subscribe also to the Daily Signal. Victor, here's a headline from today's New York Post. Students mock Charlie Kirk with six sick dance memes on murder anniversary. The story goes Craven High School College students mock Charlie Kirk's assassination on the one-year anniversary of his killing, posting vile memes of a sick dance that appeared to celebrate the fact that he was fatally shot in the neck. The lefty trolls have twisted the turning point. USA Founders' final moments and last words into a despicable punchline as they perform dance reenactments of the traumatizing public killing for online clout. This article goes on and this is called Kirkmas. I don't remember anybody. I do remember when Gabby Gifford was tragically shot, not faithily, but did an enormous amount of harm. They tried to claim the person was right wing. He was not. He was all over the map, but my point is, and she was a hard leftist. I don't remember anybody on the right other than outrage at that violence and complete sympathy for what she had to go through. I don't remember anybody reacting, reenacting that, but it's not just Charlie Kirk. I saw those pictures where people were taking their hand like it was a gun and pointing it to their jugular vein. If anybody had done that about JFK in 1963, if anybody had done that, I don't think they'd be alive in two seconds. I'm not suggesting vigilanteism was common in 1963, but that culture would not have stood for that. That wasn't the only thing to do. There's a pattern here, Jack. We talked about the Lindsey Clancy contextualization of a murderer. We talked about the women cheering in the background as a Massachusetts governor signed in a radical abortion bill that said that basically a second before a baby sees the world in the birth canal, you can terminate that life and it's not called murder. We saw Luigi Mangio, and they made a musical musical out of his act. We had that tailor Lorenz. You remember that was for the Washington Post, she wrote on tech, and then she interviewed him and said that he was a moral person and good-looking, handsome, she said. The left has this propensity to take murders, killers and deify them and then mock their victims. That's another reason that you should consider that on these elections. Despite what President Trump said, the elections are not just about Donald Trump. Yes, they affect his agenda, but even if he were to lose the Congress, he could do what Obama did with executive orders, but it's about a larger trajectory of the country, word of crossroads, and we're right on the APEC, right on the top of the summit, and you can start to see that Latin America has changed, that the Middle East could flip if the Iranian regime falls, which I think it will. Europe is changing as we speak. It's changing in an American way. It's closing their borders. It's taking a second look at fossil fuel energy. It's starting to rearm. Not all of it, but it's starting to follow our paradigm, because we went through what they went through and rejected it, and they see how powerful we are and how weak they are, and they want to regain their former influence. And the only way to do it is for a free market economy with secure borders and people assimilate it, acculturated, and no DEI, no open borders, bureaucratic, legal, absorbable immigration. So that's what the election is about, and we're going to do very fine if two more years, and I think the universities will pay a terrible price for the anti-Semitism. And you know, school started, Jack, I was thinking the other day. I haven't seen a lot of the big Palestinian protests yet. I think they sort of learned their lesson that they had zero support. Has Hezbollah had another demonstration in Manhattan or something? And I thought I know of, but you know, I wonder what will happen October 7th and eighth. I wonder what, have some of these satanic restaurants? We'll see who they are. I think the left is already telling. I can see right now that Chuck Schumer and Heikam Jeffries and Pelosi and those with the Warren is saying, "Can you call Hassan Parker? Can you call AOC? Can you call Rashida Talib? Can you call El Saeed? Can you call Zoram and Dami? Can you call Millet Kuros? Can you call them all please and tell them? Just keep it down on October 7th. Don't glorify. I know. I know how they feel. We sympathize, but there were 1200 Jews that were butchered and there were 44 Americans that were killed and there were 240-something in Haasijos and a lot of people are sensitive with that. Just calm down and then get us through the election. That's what they're doing because they don't want them to reveal their true views about October 7th. Well, Victor, let's conclude today by focusing on this terrific essay for the 45th anniversary edition of the New Criterion. I should say it's not available online, but it's not available for free. And well if you subscribe to the new criteria head you can act But actually, you can purchase it, an idea to sell subscriptions to the new criterion, but I've done this. I get the print edition by ConnectSys online, but it's three bucks if you want to read it. So it's a significant article, it's about 12 pages printed out, it's called The Western Way of Reason on the Intellectual Legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome. When I think Victor, this should be in textbooks, this is such an important understanding of, why do we think the way we do today? Which also is like, why do others not think the way we do? What led to that? And you write a history here of thinking and the thought process of our Greek Rome and through the Middle Ages. So I wrote several notes, and one of them is, I call it fusionism BC. It seems, well, I'll read this one little passage here, but you can talk about whatever you want, related to the Sessai, why you wrote it, et cetera. But you wrote, by contrast, the Pythagorean, the Platonic Academy, the Aristotelian, Lyceum, along with the Stoics and even the Epic Koreans, instead of the smissing religious belief altogether, they used rational analysis to argue for more coherent and logical form of divine belief. Some like Plato went further and even argued that ancient myths express truths that went beyond what unated human reason could discern. The classical mind understood that while most of the human and natural worlds were explicable through reason, considerable areas of human experience were immune from rationalism. Again, reason and religious belief were not always antithetical and in fact often complementary and symbiotic. This is why I call fusionism BC. Amongst other things worth pointing out in this terrific article, Victor, so what prompted you to write it? And if you want to talk about that section or any section of it, I'd appreciate it, and I'm pretty sure listeners and viewers would also. Well, I'm a writer and residence this year at the New Quaterian and they're having a series on Western civilization to remind people what a unique culture that we all inherit. So Roger Kimberley editor said, maybe you could write the inaugural essay and come up with a topic that sets the foundation and because other people are going to be writing specifically about science, technology, war, politics, etc. But is there a concept that you could develop that would be an introduction to all of those sub-disciplines? I said, yeah. So I asked myself, why are there 300,000 students from China here and there's only 10,000 in America and there's 300,000 in Europe and there's about 15,000 from Europe in China? And why when I go around the world, when I go to the Middle East, I think I've been to all the Middle East countries, but two or three do things except for the Gulf States. They don't work. And why can't I say what I want in those countries? And why when I went to Mexico, I got sick every time I drank a glass of water. And why is Africa still a mess and why are people coming here from all over the world? And the answer is we are the legacy of a different type of knowledge or wisdom or rational than other places. It doesn't mean there weren't scientific discoveries in Egypt and Persia and the Near East, but the Greeks themselves were not always rational during the Mycenaean period. They had palatial kingdoms. They had top-down economies. They had a very clumsy linear B script, but sometime in the seventh century BC, there was a Renaissance after 400 years of a dark age. We talked about this in association with the Odyssey and rationalism. It just means that people try to explain natural phenomena not by Zeus's thunderbroll or Poseidon shaking the waves, but they said, "Can we create empiricism?" We don't know. They didn't have the knowledge at the sub-particle level. They didn't know what a molecule or they didn't know they were atoms. Democritus said, "When you walk by a statue and everybody shakes hands with it, it starts to wear away. Why is that?" It's built of marble atoms that start to be friction. They get hot and they peel off. My point is that they decided to start examining the world for what it was. The second part of the article says that required certain disciplines. One was they needed repositories where they could accumulate facts and people could consult. Not by birth, not by wealth, but everybody. They started to create libraries of obscure text. Very hard to do in the ancient world. You had to copy it on Papyrus. The library at Athens under Hadrian and Greco-Lomont times, a big one in Alexandria, the one in Ephesus. There were places people could go who were learned to examine mathematical treatise, etc. That was unheard of. The next thing they did after Aristotle, they said, "To pursue rationalism, you need to know what disciplines are. The whole world is not obscure. It's knowable. But we need to know what it's divided into." So he said, "This is physics. This is metaphysics. This is biology. This is geology. This is psychology. This is physiology. This is philology." He broke down the world into logical sections or disciplines. They're here today. Then people could systematically say, "I want to know what causes lightning. You will go to a center or you'll talk to people." They have written about natural science. They also would say, "Why do the thrations have one temperament and the gals and other in the Greeks?" We will go to a kind of an anthropology. You can discuss people who talk about different types of tribal characteristics so that it was a breakthrough that they saw in knowledge as a containable finite. The third thing they did, it separated them from Islam especially, although this was done for earlier than Islam. They said there are elements within human experience that science cannot explain. You all know that's true. You all know that there are occasions when a person has a cancer and they pray and they don't know what happened, but something good happened. You all know that that day Javu feel, when you walk into a room, you feel you've been there before. You all know that sensation that you feel at certain times of your life or during the day or a month or week that you have a divine, you can feel something is there. There are too many coincidences. Whatever your experience with a supernatural is, they understood that. They understood another thing. That their knowledge did not mean they were atheists because of that fact that they could not explain everything. They looked at traditional religion, first Olympian religion and then they looked at the birthplace of Christianity, was Rome, rational Greek, rational Jerusalem, supernatural, religious faith, and they lent their expertise. The Catholic Church, the original Christian Church, which is now the Catholic Church, they said the testimonies from God themselves to the prophets and the Old Testament and to the Jesus and the disciples and Paul and that is not a comprehensive doctrine to how to, in the practical world, how to make a church. What happens if you're a little baby and you haven't been baptized and you die and you were good, but you were not baptized? What happens to a person who has had a terrible life but then confessed on the last day of his life? How should you baptize? They thought that Greek thinkers and Roman rhetoricians and thinkers were not antithetical. They brought into the fold people like Augustine all the way to Aquinas and they applied that knowledge of the Greek Enlightenment to religious orthodoxy and religious exegesis and they discussed these things and that made the religion not just a matter of faith but a coherent logical faith and due to this idea in the West that you can have, you can be a computer scientist that studies wavelength, some outer space and be a Christian, it's not antithetical. Because you know in your life there are elements that your knowledge or PhD does not enter, it can't explain certain things but religion and faith can. So that was a great. discovery. So when you put it all together, once you just, you say, I'm going to look at now. So there are four things in the article. If you want to be rational, you need repositories of rational thought, libraries, and centers. And they did that everybody could go to, too. They needed to know what the disciplines are and how to approach knowledge. What was the difference in Heraclitus, and Democritus, and Annexacarus, and make each of them with specialties. They needed as well to know how to deal with religion that is not empirically based. And they solved that. And so in addition to that, they had to have an overarching methodology. And that was, it's not deductive. You do not say that I am green, and green people are good. So then I see a green person, and he has to be good. You say, I'm inductive. I don't know who's good or bad. But if I see 15 green people, and they're all good, then maybe green people are good. So you start with the evidence, the symptomology like a doctor, and then you make a diagnosis, and then you offer a prognosis that was new. So if you say, I don't know how do I describe a duck? What's the difference between a duck and a goose, or a hawk, and then the ancient mind would say, well, you have to look at ducks, and look at a hundred of them, and then look at a hundred, and what do they have in common, and how are they different? And if you, through that inductive process, you reach a theory, or a conclusion. You say ducks are usually smaller than geese. They are related by their bill, and their web feet, and their maritime, or waters. And that's how you start to look at the entire world. Other than the fanaticism that we see in the Middle East, and the Bernard Lewis was very controversial, but he pointed out that there were western contacts with the Ottomans, and there was an Ottoman science with Indigenous roots. But when they wanted to make, let's say, a lighthouse at Constantinople, based on western designs, or even improved on it, there were sure enough clerics and mules that said, you're rivaling the primacy of Allah. We can't allow that to happen. And so that's what the whole essay is about. Why? Yeah, once you're inductive and rational, and once you've solved the problem that you can be inductive and rational and still believe, and the majority religion in this case, Christianity, with this historical marriage with rationalism, once you've done that, then it's all good things follow. You have disinterested learning, and that's why we have a $31 trillion GDP, and that's why China with four times a population is 10 trillion short. And it doesn't mean we have to always do that. That we've had two dark ages in western sub following the collapse of Rome from 500 to 1,000 AD dark age. That knowledge was almost lost. And then again, following about, I think you could the earlier dark age after the collapse of the Mycenaean policies from 1,100 BC to 700. And we can have another, I think we're having a dark age right now, I'll tell you the truth, when I think about LA, and you drive through LA and see fornication, urination, defecation, injection on the streets, medieval pestilence like Typhus. Karen Baas said, "Well, yeah, the streets don't work and they're full of holes. That's not my fault." And the ruins of a beautiful neighborhood and Pacific pals, I just sit in there. That's a dark age phenomenon. So we've lost the ability to reason dispassionally, and we're also atheists, atheists in large part in this country. Well, I wish I could give it away, but I recommend folks go to the new criterion website, and if they want to read it, they can purchase it. And if I do think it's very important, not only Victor for the history of this, of reason, what do we think? I think all of us on the right tend to be rationalists, more than most. When I wrote the Trump book, The Counter Revolution, I tried to say to myself, forget how I feel about Trump, forget who my vote, how did this person that was in his late 70s get all of these attacks on him, law fairer, rated his home, get him off the ballot, to impeach and survive rationally. Not emotionally. Was it his strength, his unusual rigor? Was it his indomitable spirit? Was it his appeal as a victim to people? Was it the overreach of the left that made him a sympathetic figure? And I try to look at and examine the role of each, but I try to do that through the whole book. It's not to say Donald Trump won because he was a better guy. He was not, no, I'm going to find out empirically why his campaign won in Kamala Harris's lost. And if she had have done better in loss, I was still written the book and I would say why hers was better in Trump laws. I was going to write the book and I was writing it during the first part, during the 2024. And I didn't know who was going to win to tell you through. Well, Victor, you've been terrific with all the wisdom you share today. Number of topics we didn't get to, but we'll get to them on the next episode we record. There are so many comments on YouTube on your website, Victor, where the ultra article series you're working on now has a number of comments. It's about people, people we know, we knew who were born in the 1800s. And what that meant to know people, and you talk about some family members, it's a terrific, terrific series by the way, Victor. So I want to, but again, my point here is a lots of comments. I'm going to read three of them from YouTube. And I apologize again for my, this COVID thing. Becky Teague writes, thank you, Jack and Victor, I so appreciate this podcast, so much knowledge shared. Victor speaks the truth. We must listen and learn. Thank you. Another one, Jesse Con writes, Victor, thank you. I'm just a little older than you. And I've been thinking a lot about the whole lost concept of citizenship lately. As we were taught in school back in the 50s and 60s, right down to not littering, picking up after yourself, there was much stronger sense of community, the judicious use of shame and the culture had a practical effect on society that I did not appreciate at the time. And yes, shop class. And then finally, I was thinking of shop class, which you talked about, about two or three shows ago, Laurie, Cornell, 16169, right? I had a semester of metal shop in seventh grade and wood shop in the eighth grade. We also had a semester of cooking in seventh and sowing in the eighth. This was for both girls and boys. I remember that. In the late 70s, we need to get back to this. So, Victor, you'd maybe are leading a movement here. So I think that's good. I would say just in comment, in fourth grade, two miles away, we had to go pick up the trash. All of us did every day on the, on the grounds. And we had to make a poster for our trash campaign. I came in number second. I had a litter bug with jaws and sharp teeth. And he was covered. He, he oozed out trash out of his mouth and he had stuck cans to his tail. And then I had a, a, a boot smashing him. And it looked like a beetle. And the teacher thought it was a little violent, but she gave me second place. Lydia Luhan was a, I remember the names. She was a wonderful artist. And her brother, David Moreno, was a brilliant artist. And so anyway, she won first place. But we all had to compete and write and make posters in art class to discourage. And I was yesterday. I was at Home Depot. We have some more wiring. We didn't quite get on our first, we wiring this ancient house. I found a puck when they're working on a foundation. I found a spider web or spaghetti wooden box. Can you imagine it? And I thought that we had done it. So we took it out and there were all these two wire romance knob and tube connectors. The wiring in the walls is good, but we've got to get, we do it. So anyway, I went into Home Depot for various errands. And I was walking, I parked them on place. So I was walking all the way to drop off my cart. Because I feel civilization is fraying. I think all of us do and any little thing we can do to preserve it. And I'm with you on that. Amen. There was, trying the cart. I was say 90% of the people there were Mexican American. And there was a Mexican American guy. And as I put my cart and he was putting his cart. And I said, why don't people do this? And he said, "It doesn't matter. We're doing it. We're doing our part to save America. We have to do this. We have to do this all the time." I thought it was really brilliant what he said. He was really nice guy and he was picking out little. He said, "Look at all these cards. They have paper in it. Never put paper in a card." I said, "I never do." He said, "I don't either." So he was saying the same thing. If a broken Windows theory, if a society is framed, then you have to do the fundamentals. Your part to put your card back, pick up trash, be polite, be humble, anything that we surface the civilization why these people are trying to scratch it off. I agree. It's some mundane about the picking up trash, but it is the one thing we can all do. And you know trash reads trash. And that's right. I know. California bleeds typos. Yeah, well, that's what we walk, folks. Trash needles, poopies, you know, and you can count it. Well, anyway, Victor, you've, thanks again for all the wisdom you shared, folks. I've, some of something email today that loves civil thoughts. I appreciate it. Civil Thoughts is the free weekly email newsletter. It comes out every Friday. I write it for the Center for Civil Society. It has 14 recommended readings of great articles. I've come across the previous week. I think you will enjoy it. It's totally free. We don't sell your names. 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