Victor Davis Hanson: The Democratic Party Is Unrecognizable

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Sponsored by GSK. - On February 28th, when they finally unloaded on them after the fruitless negotiations, and they did overwhelming damage with the Israelis, that they were gonna collapse. Trump said yesterday, "Those people have to rise up and fight." Which is greater, the fear of being slaughtered as in the past, 'cause these people will kill 40,000 more, or the idea you're gonna starve to death? They're using their own people in the way that Hamas used people. Can you imagine what that would do to Hamas? Hamas and the Houthis and Hezbollah, they would be flat broke forever. It would free Lebanon. It would empower Syria. That could happen. - Welcome. This is Victor Davis Hanson in his own words, and this is our Friday News Roundup. So we're gonna look at the news from the week. We're recording on Wednesday. It's Wednesday afternoon, and so lots has gone on. We'll be looking at the Canadian prime minister. Again, I know Jack and Victor talked about him a bit, but some new things have come out. And then in Connecticut, illegals are mining the shores of all the crab and clams, and the lawful citizens are now a little bit miffed about it in Connecticut. So we'll start with those two stories first. Stay with us, and we'll be right back. - Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I have a new book out on September 8th of this year, and I think you're gonna 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 Mar-a-Lago, the two impeachments earlier, the 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 Kamala 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 counterrevolutionary. 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, not just crime, but sending the National Guard in 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 dear to the Democratic Party, but ending them, defunding NPR and PBS. So it is a counterrevolution 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 recent years. It's a great example of the political history of the United States. So that was the second level. The third and essential level nobody talks about. The third level is they have 40 million. We have 360. We're nine times larger in population. Their economy, if you actually look at the actual goods and services, about two and a quarter trillion, two and a half trillion. We're 30 trillion. We're 13 times larger, the economy. So, if you look at immigration, as I said on an earlier broadcast, of all the people who were not born in Canada, who came to Canada, of all the people who came whose parents were not born, and all of the foreign visa holders, it's 45% of the population. And it comes at a time where their regulated EU socialist economy of all the major industrial nations is at the bottom and per capita, per capita GDP growth. So, if you look at that, that's about 2.2%. Add it all up. Here, we're the size of California population-wise. Our economy's flat, and we're welcoming all these people. And by the way, this is not an accident. There's something called the Century Initiative in Canada, and their idea was this. This is really crazy. Well, we have the second largest territory in the world. We could be like the United States, but we don't have enough people because we're not having kids. So, let's import them from China, from India, from Latin America. Forget about assimilation, acculturation, integration. We're Canadians, and so their attitude is they want to destroy the border, these think tanks and left-wing, and bring in a hundred million, get enough immigration so they have a hundred million people. And right now, their problem is they can't support Canadian welfare for all these people. They're all coming in from the third world, and they need help. So, they're sitting on the fifth largest oil reserves in the world, and the fifth largest, fourth or fifth largest cobalt, maybe the largest potash, timber, rare earth minerals. So, they're sitting on this natural extravaganza, and they won't develop it, or at least. Their federalist system is not like ours, so they can't have pipelines that connect Canada, because they all fight with each other. So, my point is this. They have adopted a EU model that has ruined Germany and ruined Europe, and they are failing economically. And so, they look at the United States, and whatever you people on the left say, I know we have too high inflation, I know that there's a war zone, I know all of this, the straits are removed, but. Record foreign investment, record AI, record stock market, and more importantly, if you look at the top 10 ratings of software companies, digital media companies, AI companies, satellite companies, eight to nine of those rankings are American. So we have never dominated the world in such a degree since 1946 or 7. Canada's failing. So that's the subtext. We are getting bigger and stronger and more powerful. And they're basically saying to us in the subtext, well, you know, you know, you know, why don't you be magnanimous? You've got all the money. You've got all the popularity. You've got all the power. So you should protect us in North America. You have a missile shield. You should spend a trillion dollars and protect North America because we're your friends. And what's 50 billion? You owe a trillion dollars, basically, your trade deficit. What is 50 billion? Come on, we're your friends. And, you know, what kind of ankle bites you once in a while? We want money and shake you down for cultural appropriation or something. You're taking away our culture. Just pay us the money. That's their attitude. Yeah, because America. America had a history of doing that post-World War II. Yeah. But we are in a new age with Donald Trump, I think. And they don't understand that. And so Donald Trump says, who are you? And they said, well, we're Canadians. We have the same language. We come from England. We're your best friend. And he's saying, you know, you took the wrong path. And you get angry when I say you should have followed the American and not the EU path of socialism. And you elected Justin Trudeau, who was an anti-American flunk. And you and I elected a man with three passports who's a globalist, who is more English than he is Canadian. And they're both anti-American. And we offered you a fair deal, but you want a symmetrical deal because you think we're wealthy and you're poor. But you're poor because of your own choices. You could be the wealthiest country in the world. You could be a Switzerland of North America. All you have to do is extract your natural resources, open up your economy, deregulate. Get the government out. You could be booming, but you won't do that. That's why there's a million Canadians living almost in America. And that's where we are. So then he says, after he cooked up this psychodrama, and it was very brilliant. I got to give him a hand. I mean, he's going to get the Alberta voting population and the Quebec to reject greater independence and autonomy because he's saying, are you Canadian? Are you with the Americans? Because I'm fighting them. He said the word war. And so now he's got himself into a war and he doesn't know what he's getting into because 75% of their exports come to the United States. And then every time they try something, they say things, I feel bad for them because I like Canadians. But I don't think they're in the right mindset right now because they said, well, most of the surplus is oil, so we're going to cut off your oil. And we said, okay, it's going to go up for the midterms. You'll blame Trump, but we'll survive it. I mean, after all, take a look at you. It's full of tar. It's tar sand oil. We like it because we alone know how to refine it. And so you just pump it across the border. We refine it. But if you really want to get nasty about it, you can't even have pipelines connecting your provinces. You come down the United States and go around. You can't even apply propane or natural gas to Quebec or Montreal. How do you like that? So what I'm trying to get at is they do not want, because I like Canada, you want to tell them, do not get in a fight with this huge economy, this huge population. I understand that it can be overweening right on your border. Trump is braggadocious. But just grow up and think, you know what? We've got as much natural resources as the United States. And we don't need to be 100 million people. We don't need to have open borders. They tried it. It was a disaster. We've learned that a free market economy is outproducing all economies in Europe, the free market in America. So let's just cool the rhetoric, negotiate the deal, and we'll be fine. But he can't do that because fine for him is that he's so happy now. Because Alberta was very pro-American. Now they're not. They're melting off all the time and they're angry at us. And basically this dispute that's been ongoing has destroyed the Conservative Party. And that's a tragedy. That was the party basically that elected Stephen Harper, who was their best prime minister in history. And we don't have anybody like that now. And we're never going to get one again, I don't think, because the immigration is altering the demography of Canada. Yeah. So Canada needs to grow up and enter the new age. It's post-Cold War and post-World War II. It's very hard. America put up with voting the bill during those wars and after those wars. Everybody in America remembers Canadians. They like Canadians. They're great people. They're very competent. And if you ask my father's generation, they're tremendous fighters. They alone from 39, 40 braved the Atlantic with their transport. They kept Britain alive for three years. They really took a great risk. They took all of their natural resources, oil, timber, and shipped it to Britain across U-boat waters. And they paid a terrible price. They had the Dieppe raid. Where they were slaughtered because it was a very tricky raid. The British put them up to it. And then they had a whole beach at Normandy. And then they had a wonderful navy. And they adopted socialism and stagnated the economy. And then they adopted greenism and stopped the full use of their natural resources. And then they adopted open borderism and brought in people from the third world who had a normal life. They had enormous welfare needs. And they didn't have the economy to support it. And they did have the economy to support it if you told the population. You have to wait nine months for a CAT scan, and that's what they're doing. So, I don't know. I like Canadians, but I think Carney could have solved this. And he's mad now about Lake Ontario and shading and memeing and all that. But what did he expect? Yeah, I don't know. So, the Internet seems to have made people, I would consider him the crybaby prime minister. I mean, he goes to the NATO summit. They go to the NATO summits, the Canadians, and they look around, and they say, last year, everybody paid the 2%, but you didn't. They said, we're going to do it next year. That's what they always said. But why haven't you done it? And then they whisper, because the United States is right next to us, and we have 79 jets, and they have 4,000. So, obviously, they can protect us. And we have about 100. They have about 100 ships, and they have about 500 or 400. So, they can protect us. I don't think they have 100 ships, by the way. So, that was the attitude. Yeah. And finally, people said, I'm tired of it. Yeah. And the other rhetoric was, and we can just go with China, because they think we'll protect them if something happens. He said, basically, the United States is an outlier. It's not following the rules-based order. And we're going to go with the EU, and we're going to go with China. And China is a dictatorial, autocratic cheater in trade. And it will have you for lunch and have one hiccup. And if it ever wanted to do something to you, it could without the United States. The United States protects you. And then the EU, and you're thinking, okay, Mr. Carney, let me get this straight. We have 360 million people. China has 1.4. So, one American. Is producing more GDP. They have 21 trillion. We have 31 trillion. One American is producing 30% more GDP than four Chinese counterparts. And the EU has 21 trillion. And we have 31 trillion. And they have 100 million more people. So, it's basically, we're saying, I tell you what. Take 100 million. Take 100 million people in your country, and just let them stay home all day and sleep. And we can still outproduce you by $10 trillion. That's the difference. And that means. I think all of us know in the real world, they're listening, that human nature being what it is, when you. Because it's a dog-eat-dog world. Not that you should be Darwinian, but when you can't do something, then you complain about that. The system, or it's unfair. It doesn't mean it's not unfair. And it shouldn't deserve complaint. So, when I was in graduate school, to take an example, if a person I know, I won't mention him, couldn't read Greek very well, and he'd come out of the Greek exam, and I was, well, they ask Aeschylus and Pindar, can you believe that? So, of course, I flunked it. I said, we passed it. Well, if you're farming and, you know. You're picking your grapes on August 25th because you want 10 days of guaranteed good weather. You don't have quite the sugar content. They don't weigh, so you're not going to make a lot of money. And then your neighbor or somebody down the road says, I wouldn't make a raisin until it's 22 sugar, so I'm not picking the 7th of September. Okay, the days gets three minutes shorter every day. The moisture content, your trays are not going to dry in 10 days. They're going to dry. They're going to dry in October 1st. Then you meet the guy, and he lost everything. Well, that wasn't fair. The weatherman didn't tell me that this was going to happen. What did you expect? So, that's what I'm getting at. Canada, what does they expect when they adopt a socialist paradigm? Yeah. And they open their borders, and they're right next to this colossus. Yeah. And they're not electing the smartest people in the world. And they interfere with U.S. politics. They're now, Gavin Newsom just cut a video for them against his own country. As you were talking, I was thinking, what if all of those European countries and Canada get together for their own October surprise? Forget Iran having an October surprise. Who knows what they're going to do. I don't think Scott DeSantis should have gratuitously said, what are they going to do to us? Get two submarines from their Toronto mall? Is that what he said? Yeah. Two submarines. They're two submarines, and bring them down on top of us. I know, but I mean. Yeah. But they brought it on themselves. Yeah. Carney thinks he's really smart because he's pulled. Here's his thing. He's pulled off. He may have saved Canada unity by creating an American monster in their mind. So, all these Canadians there, I'm getting tired of being pushed around by the Yankees. I'm voting Canada unity, not Alberta sovereignty. I think I do not like to be French anymore. I like to be Canadian in Quebec. That's what they're saying. And that's really smart. And he's thinking, ah, I'm going to make him lose the House and the Senate because all my blue butter brothers are going to be empowered. And I'll kind of selectively put little tariffs on red states. He'll lose his base and all this stuff. So, he thinks he's really smart. But all he's doing in the long run is. Poking the bearer. And he's, that's stupid because he doesn't know Trump. Yeah. Well, Victor, before we move on, let's turn to our sponsor, My Patriot Supply. All right. It's National Preparedness Month. And this isn't just another made-up observance. It was launched in 2004 in the wake of 9-11, one of the worst attacks on American soil. 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In other words, who's the greater victim, the trans guy, woman, or the individual? The illegal alien or if you're not white versus Muslim, who gets the greater share? So now you have a dilemma for the left. On the one hand, if Joe white guy went out there at night, they put him in jail for a year. But these are illegal aliens, so they're victimized, oppressed people. So they have to figure this out. How much ecological damage to these rarefied species can we endure? Or versus how much virtue signaling can we transmit on behalf of illegal alien? It's a tough call, but they came down on the side of illegal aliens. The second issue is generally the left in a matter of adjudicating American citizens and their rights and freedoms, they don't like American citizens. They prefer victims. They like American citizens if they are in the victim. victimized 30%? Are there illegal alien. So this asymmetry on enforcing environmental laws can be transposed to all different issues. So let's ask everybody in the audience. In California, is it harder for a vet to get a professional trucker's license or for somebody who came across the border illegally who can't speak English? No brainer. Let's ask another question. In Los Angeles, who will be the first to be arrested? A family who's coming up from, I don't know, Bakersfield to go to Disneyland and all the hotels are crowded. So they're just going to camp out on the sidewalk and right on the street and put their little tent. Will they be cited? Yes. How about a. A homeless person who is fornicating, urinating, injecting, and defecating. Will he? No, he will not. This was brought home to me in a video somebody sent me in New York where there's a bunch of homeless people and they park their cars way, you know, in places that are like 30 minute parking, but they took the license plates off. So then some other person found a place, followed the rules, has a registered insured car with a license plate, and he gets tagged. And they say, well, why about those guys? Well, they took the license plates off. Well, can I take the license plates off? No, you can't. You're a law-abiding citizen. Who's going to pay the fine? These people and that's how the left operates. And so the culmination of that day after day is, that's why I wrote The Dying Citizen. Citizen is a secondary concept. Victims, you know, it's the same thing about. I like people send me things, links. So somebody sent me a link, not too long ago, of a store. And it was, let's just say that there were minority youth, primarily black, and they went in and swarmed the store. And I mean, they swarmed it. They all met on social media. Social media told them, be at the store. And they just looted it. Most of the people they loot are small ethnic groups, owners. So the question is, if 10 frat rats say, we're going to go into a surf shop and just take things, you don't think they're going to get. I don't think they're going to get away with that. And so there's one of two concepts working. Either the problem is so overwhelming in psychological or even logistical terms, they can't deal with it. So they ignore it. I.e., how are you going to arrest 50 African American teenagers for theft? That's a social psychological catastrophe. The media would crucify you. And some of them might fight back. And then you have George Floyd problems. Versus how hard is it to get a bunch of white frat boys and line them up and arrest them? Same thing about the family who wants to go to Disneyland camping out. Mr. Smith, did you know you didn't get a permit for camping? You're parking overnight. That is illegal in Los Angeles on this particular street. You have no water. We're going to have to fine you. But look at them. Well, there's thousands of them and there's one of you and you follow the law and you won't tear up that summons or that fine like they will. And so that's what we do. We put increased enforcement upon the law-abiding citizen to subsidize the growing number of people who don't play by the rules. And we're getting to a point where the people who don't play by the rules in terms of dollars, our time and expense, it's not sustainable. It is not sustainable. And you can see it in California when you're driving. I drive on a 55-mile-an-hour zone cross-country on two-lane roads to Palo Alto. I've done it for 25 years. What do you do with the people who are going 80 miles an hour and trucks pass you? You're going 55 and the truck passes you at 75 on Manning Avenue in the middle of nowhere. And they do that. They do that because they can get away with it. And I don't know what to do. It's just, that's what's behind the harvesting of clams and oysters and crabs. I'm going to make a bet that those Connecticut liberals are going to figure out how to stop these people from taking all of the shellfish from the beach. Yeah, they're going to figure a way, but it's going to have to be, I'm not going to see an illegal alien. Maybe they can map a little helmet with blinders on them and they can't look sideways. And they just look down at the beach and put signs up, illegal. Or they call the police and say, I'm not going to be home. I'm going to be taking my nap for two hours. Would you come and get ice and deport all these people? Because they can't actually be seen or heard to have done anything to enforce immigration law. Of course not. All right, let's turn to El-Saeed. I know he's out there in the news. And, you know, I wondered, whether we should do this or not, but I'm sure, I'm pretty sure he's got a lot of rhetoric that needs to be put out there and needs to be addressed. So we're going to look at some of his things he's said this week. So he's said about J.D. Vance, there seems to be an argument going on between the two, that J.D. Vance has, quote, brown kids, according to El-Saeed, who, quote, actually don't belong as much in this country. What a very strange thing to say and very racist. And then he has also said, and or blamed the media for bringing up Hassan Piker as though he's separate from Hassan Piker. Oh, he's a California podcaster. Did I ever meet him? Did I hear? And then, because Hassan Piker is an egotistical narcissist. So what did he say? Actually, I've never campaigned before until, El-Saeed called me up, invited me into Michigan. It was a whole new experience. So I put on my little Mao costume and I did what I was asked to do. He's not going to be the fall guy for El-Saeed. I mean, we don't expect him to win, but I want to point out one more thing. No, I don't be so sure. It's not just his racism, but his anti-Semitism as well. And he's now got a lot of problems with the Jewish community because he said about, a synagogue that had been attacked hurt people, hurt people. And he's tried to apologize, but I have a feeling it's not going to go over very well. What he basically said was this. This man who attacked a synagogue has a brother in Hezbollah. And Hezbollah, he didn't say this, but this is the truth, was sending thousands of rockets into Israel. And they thought that an ascended Iran and the Hamas after October 7th, they'd finally crushed Israel. And then Israel went medieval on them. And this man got killed as part of a terrorist organization. So his brother was hurt, hurt. My terrorist brother got killed by the Israelis. So I'm going to go to the closest thing to Israelis that I can think of, Jews, and then I will hurt them and try to kill them. And so then- I said, Saeed says, this hurt man should be exempted because he hurt them as if they're culpable. And this isn't going to work. And then we had the attorney general, I think, of Michigan, Ms. Nisa, is her name? N-E-S-S. N-E-S-S-E-L. Yes, N-E-S-S-E-L. And she said something quite extraordinary. She said, given the Republican record on the environment, i.e., they're against the Green New Deal, and that Rogers is emblematic of these heartless environmentalists, they're not even anti-environmentalists, that even though Saeed hates Jews and has threatened them and wants to kill them, basically, we should sacrifice- We should sacrifice- We should sacrifice- We should sacrifice ourselves and vote for him for the greater good of humanity. And she gave the example of Esther in the Bible, who put down her life to save Jews. So what she's basically saying is that as a Democrat who knows Michigan better than anybody, and as a Jewish person, this guy hates us and would like to kill us. But environmental issues are more important. So we're laying down our lives and we should be accredited, even though we're going to vote for- I want you to vote for him, because we're going to be sacrificial lamb. It's a pretty bad indictment of Saeed, because she's basically saying that he will do all he can to destroy Jewry. Yeah, he's an anti-Semite, but we all, all us Jews should vote for him. Like, that is just insane. Why is she saying that? Because in the latest Jewish groups, Democratic, not convention, but meeting, almost- No one showed up. You look at donations, they're not giving to him because they're smart and they know that this is all an act. And so what he's doing right now is he was an anti-Semite. And for years on social media, it's all over there, he raved and raved about what gave me the most career leverage. I am not an American. I am an oppressed Egyptian immigrant who deals every day with anti-Islamic, anti-minority racism. And I am really angry about this. And oh, by the way, I deserve a Rhodes Scholarship. And he got it. And then he said, oh, I get admission into medical school. Okay. Well, I didn't ever take the medical exam, so I'm not a doctor, but I did get a degree as a physician, but I never was a physician because I never got a license. But I deserve a job as the chief health officer. And then I need to do this. So his whole existence has been using the minority card, the racist card, to propel his own career and then to justify that not by showing magnanimity and thanks to the larger culture, but to show contempt and hatred and say they're racist and they are mean and then Israel should be destroyed. And then he wants to run for a statewide office. And once all Michiganders to vote for him. And that's impossible to score that circle unless he does two things. He goes back and wipes clean his whole record. And two, he starts wearing his little tight weightlifting black T-shirt and his American slang, and he puts on a cowboy hat. He does a little disco. He does a little rap. He talks like he's just a guy down the street that I have a funny little name. Abdul, I'm just like you. I love you people. We have to stand together with our Jewish brothers. And then, you know, as soon as he gets elected, he's going to out Elon Omar, Elon Omar. It's not going to be Benjamin babies. It's going to be bad because that's what he does. Kind of like Mondami. I'm not really a socialist. I'm just sort of a liberal Democrat. And then he gets in and, you know, if you don't take care of your apartment, we're going to confiscate it, your rental. So. It's going to be tough to see. He doesn't poll well in the sense that he was supposed to win his primary by ten points. And he won it by one percent. Yes, that's true. And the AIPAC, the American Israeli. Everybody in Hillsdale will get out to vote all ten thousand voters. Yeah, I'm sure they will, by the way. Yeah, everybody in Michigan for this particular election. Just call Larry Arndt up, president of Hillsdale, sober, judicious guy. And ask who to vote for and take his recommendation and follow it. There you go. Hillsdale can lead. I hope there's not enough Hillsdale in Michigan. That's a problem. Yeah, well, I'll be interested to see if there's any Jews that vote for El-Saeed because that there will be. I know I have a feeling there will be, but it's I hope that it is a very small proportion of the vote. I hope so. Well, you talked about the financing of campaigns. And so that was the other thing. With El-Saeed, I wanted to approach. He is accepting funds from CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations. CARE. I thought it should be C-A-R-E, self-caring. Yes, and it was the brainchild of an organization, the Islamic Americans for Palestine, that was funded by the Muslim Brotherhood, the 26th or 29th. 1926 or 1927 in Egypt. So there's two things on this funding campaign. He's accepting those funds, about $175,000. Mike Rogers is rejecting any funds from AIPAC, which is the American Israeli public. He's doing it. So I don't think that's a wise thing for him to do because it feeds into the accusation that, well, I'm so sensitive that you say Jewish money is affecting the election. But if the result is this, well, I have a lot of Jewish friends and I like their money, but I don't think a foreign government, not a foreign government, but an outside entity should give money into Michigan, then I don't think that the care should give money either. You know what I mean? And I'm doing something against my wishes because I want to be neutral. And I want him to be neutral and do the same thing. But I feel a little bad. I like Mike Rogers a lot. And I hope he wins in a landslide. But you don't, with Islamicists, give in. Donald Trump learned that trying to be reasonable and fair in dealing with Iran. I'm talking about not Muslims, Islamicists. People who are theorists. 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So you're going to save the environment? That is lunatic. That's lunatic. So let's turn then to somebody not lunatic, Scott Besant, our Treasury Secretary. And he had a couple of things this week. One, he is engaging in a newsletter. Operation Economic Outcast, where he is continuing new sanctions on bank and finance with Iran. And that's interesting to me, because it seems like just about every two or three weeks, he announces an operation of this kind. And so, I mean, maybe our audience knows a little bit more, but it seems like they find new things all the time. Countries that are helping Iran, finances that Iran has access to that they can cut off. And he's always got something new on the horizon. I was wondering if you had any thoughts on that. Well, I think the problem was that on February 28th, when they finally unloaded on them after the fruitless negotiations, and they did overwhelming damage with the Israelis, that they were going to collapse. But they were kind of like Japan. By 9th. After Okinawa in July, Japan was done for. Their harbors were mined, their cities were 60% were hollowed out by the B-29s. They had no control of their own airspace. Battleships, you know, sent salvos into their shores with impunity. submarines wouldn't let anybody go in or out but they lasted all of july all and all the way up to the atomic bomb so it was very hard to make them give up so you needed a shock so we thought they were going to surrender but this is a theocratic unhinged regime that just killed 40 000 30 to 40 000 of their own people they don't care so their attitude is well the americans stopped so we'll negotiate and by the way not all the countries are following the blockade or embargo and they will never enforce it because people like the spanish the north koreans the chinese the russians and we have rail links on land that haven't been touched we have airports so we don't get all of our stuff out or in just by sea and we kept thinking well we're and it was hurting them the the embargo and sanctions and then finally people said if you can't trust these people the 60-day memorandum of understanding was a joke and they had a lot of as people say there's a lot of rot left in an institution so what i'm getting at is each time they make a pronouncement somebody tells them you can do it better than that so now we are embargoing and sanctioning not just them from trading but people who trade with them so in theory if we find out the chinese are sending missiles say that we're not going to deal with china that would bankrupt china we'll see how that goes and then secondly we're trying to tell the world that these theocrats that feel that they any day they would like to be in heaven with 72 virgins are on hinge but on the other time they're savvy business people and they're greedy and they have luxury estates in london and paris and property and vineyards and we are going to trace every single one and confiscate it and that's going to hurt them there are people who have been writing that the problem that we're going to have is that since the currency is worth nothing more than waste paper and there's no um oil getting out for revenue and even being pumped in some cases for gasoline because they need spare parts and they don't produce their own oil and gas it all has to be in everything in that country's got to be imported except drones and even the components have to be imported and so now after march april may june july august six months they're running out of parts and the whole thing is starting to grind to a halt so now the existential question is trump said yesterday those people have to rise up and fight which is greater the fear of being slaughtered as in the past because these these people will kill 40 000 more or the idea you're going to starve to death or you're going to not just be confined in your home and you'll have no air conditioning no heating with winter coming on for heat and that's what we're worried about but there are people who say well what are you going to do trump when they can't eat and the government likes that because they think that you'll ease up they're using their own people in the way that hamas use people to shield their tunnels and mosque schools and hospitals they're doing the same thing on a national scale they're using their own people that are pro-american we like and they are saying well you can do what you want but they're going to die before we are and that's a problem trump's attitude as i said is kind of the anaconda and it's trying to make the the war livable by basically saying we got it down now so we don't have to do kinetic action very much it's expensive we've tragically lost 17 but we're not going to really lose any more people price of oil goes between 17 and 90 dollars but nine million everybody said they're lying it can't be nine million barrels well we found out this week there are nine million barrels getting out and there will be 15 million very quickly on pipelines to the mediterranean the gulf of oman and the red sea so what i'm getting is trump is basically saying i can sustain this and it's a war but it's not a war everybody says it's a war we're losing no it's not a war it's a sanctions now it's like the blockade of cuba in 62 how long did that last they couldn't withstand that so that's what we're doing as long as we're not spending a great deal of money we are but not like a real war and we're not getting people killed it's sustainable but it's not sustainable for them what the left is terrified both the european left the canadian left and the american left is a scenario like this everybody should listen very carefully so everybody is saying trump is down trump as in the republicans are generically down eight points and they may lose the senate by may even get the democrats to to senate seat majority and they're going to lose the house and they're thinking thinking thinking this and then on october 20th guess what the people come out thousands of them are starving in iran and they head for the iranian national uh islamic guard corps islamic iranian islamic iranian guard corps and they go in there and they get in a pitch fight and they win and it's kind of like jubilation and they have pro-us sign that is what everybody's afraid of if that happens two weeks before the election or we then all bets are off for the democrats because and it at the cost that we paid to get rid of a 50-year existential threat that everybody said was impossible to get rid of and it would be another vietnam or iraq or to get that out with no bomb and then not just to get rid of them but to have them pro-american basically the most sophisticated largest population except for egypt biggest area pro-american on both sides of the gulf can you imagine what that would do to hamas and the houthis and hezbollah they would be flat broke forever it would free lebanon it would empower syria that could happen so that's what they're really worried about i would say the odds of that happening are 30 70. i think it should be noted too that even our left-wing presses are some of them cnn has a headline no iran is not winning it's losing its leverage in hormuz and newsweek has a headline iran is facing its soviet moment and possibly its end which is extraordinary for those left i don't understand why the left and the right are that is true but i think i mentioned i think it was john mishamir that the author about the israeli influence the united states he said that no country is not rooting for us besant just got back from the finance financial minister of 20 western countries he said they're all basically hoping that we win tucker said uh that it's completely a disaster and donald trump should be impeached robert kagan who used to be a stalwart republican married to victoria newland who was the nato minister he wrote that we lost the war so one of two things are happening one of three things they're completely unhinged and lost their minds they know that's not true but their hatred of trump is such they hope it's true and they think they can realize that by promulgating something or they're sitting in their office they have no knowledge at all they're not even reading they don't even care they don't look at the news reports they don't talk to people and they just decide they're losing it's either they're completely ignorant or they know what they're doing in their lives or they're completely ignorant or they know what they're doing in their line or they hate trump so much they they're blinded to reality because reality there's evidence out there from any source it's not just cnn from the arabs from people who call their iranian relatives everybody is worried that they're starving to death well victor let's go ahead and take a break and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about um more about scott bisanti stay with us and we'll be back every state is home to significant historic sites that tell the american story but not every site is telling that story honestly and fairly that's why the heritage foundation created the heritage guide to historic sites this 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elizabeth warren know even less about the foreign exchange than you do about banking what is equally shocking not a single member of your media mob has a rudimentary enough level financial marketing literacy to spot your rudimentary error you know he drives them crazy um because ostensibly he you he fits their little blueprint of people you don't criticize he's openly gay and he was the chief financial advisor for george soros so he was the mastermind and made the money that's basically fueled the left-wing radical project and then trump gets he talks to trump and he sees that the left-wing project's no good so he wants to help trump but he's not an academic i'm not making fun of my friends that are academics that are in economics they're brilliant but this is a guy whose life livelihood depended on betting on bond the bond market stock market and mastering the intricacies so he knows all of that so then the left looks at this he says well he's gay and he worked for soros but on the other hand he's a billionaire and he's savvy and he's a hyper capitalist and he's working for trump and then the thing that really gets them aggravated he talks like he's trump so he uses memes i i had to there was he had an argument when somebody said they had to separate them from throwing punches or he said i think he said once we're going to kick their a s s e s and then he said why would we be afraid of two submarine toy submarines basically so he doesn't fit any category but he's really knowledgeable and he basically says i'm going to run the treasury department the way financial markets bond markets the stock market works i know the mentality because i'm one of them and i did it for 40 years and so we'll see yes he's a very smart guy he's getting a lot of i would make a there's been controversy around jd vans there's been controversy around pete hexes i'm not saying i agree with it but there's been controversy about all of them except for the one guy who's a very smart guy and he's a very smart guy marco rubio and him yeah and all of a sudden you see him everywhere so you get the impression that he is making decisions outside the realm of economics and finance foreign policy decisions along with rubio yeah yeah he's doing a great job and he has also sort of this weird endearing nature about him where he has a slight stutter but it's nothing you'll really notice and he sort of looks like he's almost confused a little bit the way he looks six inches over everybody's eyes or their head he just kind of stares off and then he starts speaking cosmically to the world and he doesn't show any emotion and they don't know what to do with him he seems entirely rational that's true speaking of entirely rational um a mr marcus coleman testified his daughter was um his car was hit by a driver illegal and his daughter is now in a wheelchair a quadriplegic and he testified and the democrats are sitting there this is if any you can go out there and see this on video everybody i highly recommend it um he was there only for five minutes he did things you expected like he said these democrats don't care about me or anything except when they have their moment here in committee they want to act like they do their open borders have hurt people and they all are trying to disrupt ice when ice is the proper way and crop cooperation would save people like his daughter but he said one more thing that was really interesting he said democrats are changing all the time the things they're saying to the people and they're switching this way and that and i think that people are starting to notice that and i they don't know what to do he's like basant they don't know what to do and i think he's afric part african-american or hispanic maybe i think he's hispanic yeah so they don't know what to do with him because he's a protected group and he's very articulate and very smart and he's fearless and he knows this daughter was done a terrible injustice by this illegal truck driver and he knows how the liberal mind works so he goes to congress and he basically tells a bunch of left-wing mostly white people you think you're so good in virtue signaling and because the consequences of your terrible ideology never affect you they affect people like me and my daughter i'm sick of you and somebody has to call you out you're complete phonies you sit here and you're so sanctimonious you feel so good about yourself letting 12 million people in and then you go to your smug secure places i'm ad-libbing but that's what he's basically saying and then we have the fallout we suffer not you and i'm tired of it and so it was it was very powerful what was really insightful is when he said they have no agenda they have no principle because they do change you turn on um tv and you are told by hycom jeffries that um the democratic socialists are separate it's not us and then you hear carville say that it's a crazy podcast and you hear rama manual say they're not part of us and then hycom jeffries endorses a socialist for mayor over a democrat andrew cuomo and then chuck schumer the second of the two most powerful democrats says we're a big tent and so what is it or i just wrote an article called the democratic chicken or the socialist egg which came first and the traditional and i had said that the socialists i mean the democrats came first i called them once dr frankenstein i think i started that metaphor and the monster was they created it and that's important to remember because everybody has this idea they were taken away from them and they were taken away from them and they were taken over by this foreign group of anarchists and radicals no they set the tone and so when adult when the democratic socialists give you really radical that we're gonna pack the court and get 15 judges we're gonna bring in dc and puerto rico and get four senators we're gonna get rid of that racist filibuster we're gonna destroy the constitutional electoral college where do they get that they got it from the democrat that democrats are saying oh well yeah we've been saying that for a decade then they say we're gonna destroy the border we believe in global socialism we're gonna let in 10 000 how do you like that and they say duh we've been doing that for four years and then they say you know what we're gonna get the rhetoric we're gonna get on the barricades we're gonna say get in their faces and harass them we're gonna get out in front of the supreme court and say you know justices you reap the wind you're gonna solo you you're gonna sow the whirlwind you don't know it's gonna hit well okay we did that four years ago schumer did it maxine waters does it every day and they're thinking what are we doing and basically the democratic party says to them well you're a bunch of irrelevant people that nobody ever heard of and you're a bunch of downwardly mobile urban white elites 85 percent of you and you're over educated downwardly mobile and you have debt and you've got a lot of crackpot ideas so come on over here grow up where the money is and the power is and we'll let you have three or four of your nutty ideas you know you can say you want to get rid of the pentagon or senate that's okay but basically you're going to tow all of our agenda and that's what they're doing and i can't tell the difference between and if somebody said well victor no no no no no no no rama malini explained that they're that socialism is different that democratic uh let me ask you a question who is being mentioned as the democratic uh best nominee in 2028 i think i just saw aoc say she changed her whole staff for president and i've heard so many people uh say she'd be great and she is a charter member of the new york chapter of the democratic social so they're going to run a democratic socialist let me ask you another question why don't they call themselves the independent socialists of america or how about the republicans Socialists of America. How about just Socialists of America? They chose Democratic because that had the most affinity with them. And so they are one and the same, and they have simply come out of the cold. It's like some person, snotty-nosed little teenager that was spouting off, and they say, you know what? Bam, bam. They slap them three times, get cleaned up, come in the house, and they'll listen to you. And you're going to do exactly, I think they are in control. And they learned, how could you get more left than what the Democrat, you know, what if they said, we've got a grand plan. We hate Trump, but you guys haven't done anything. Here's what we're going to do. We've got two and a half, we're going to impeach him twice. And we're going to try him even when he's out of office. You know what we're going to do next as Socialists? We're going to. Raid Mar-a-Lago with, get the FBI to raid him. And then, you know what we're going to do? We're going to try to get the next Republican off the ballot in 20 states. And then we're going to get all our left-wing DAs in Manhattan and New York and federal prosecutors, and we're going to try to fine him a half a trillion, half a billion dollars and four lawsuits. And we'll dig up somebody like E. Jean Carroll, and we'll sue him. And. Yeah. And. And maybe we'll accuse him of being a Russian. We'll do all this stuff. That's what they did. Yeah. They didn't do it. The Democrats did. Yes. And the Democrats will not say that those are the things that they want to do to the audience that's voting for them in a general election. No, because they. But they'll change to do that. And I think that's what Marcus Coleman was trying to make a point of. You guys talk one way during campaigns, and then you're. You know, they get the idea of accusing Trump of something because they did it to Trump. So when they say he's tearing apart institutions, he's a dictator, he's king, you're thinking, oh, well, hmm, he's had less executive orders than Joe Biden, or he's had less than FDR, or hmm, his brother is not the attorney general. Like Kennedy's, or he hasn't had Kash Patel do a raid on the Biden home yet. You know, he hasn't gone to Hunter's apartment and taken him out and, you know, showed all his. gone through his wife's lingerie drawer. So whatever they think they have done to excuse that and erase it from the collective memory, they accuse Trump of doing it, or their opponents. They're not Democrats anymore. That's the only thing that that guy might have wanted to think about. They have nothing in common with Harry Truman and JFK or my parents. There might have been tendencies to be naive about where the trajectory of the Democratic Party would never lead to, but they're not even Bill Clinton. Started when Barack Obama and Michelle said we're six days away from fundamentally transforming America. And that's what they. That's what they tried to do. All right, Victor. Just the last thing. There was a stabbing in New York. A crazy woman took two kitchen knives, basically, or store-bought knives, and killed a 32-year-old young girl, just married, vice president in the Bank of America. And the cops then shot this woman. And I think the issue that came out of that was crazy. I mean, forget illegal aliens. This crazy people should. Should not be out on the streets because they are very dangerous. And I don't know if you had more thoughts. She had been two prior contacts. DeCarlos Brown was 12. So the subway killer. Again, it's very easy to feel morally superior to people by being magnanimous at other people's expenses. So when you let a person like that out or you know that she's crazy, chances are that you, a legislator or judge in a nice neighborhood with chauffeur service in many cases, are going to be affected to very small. It's going to fall on somebody else. And they don't care. The only complaint I had was that post-George Floyd, they're so scared of doing anything. In the old days, some Irish cop, she was saying she had stabbed. She was a murderer at that point. And she had injured another person. And she was approaching them with two knives. And they were backing up. And they tased her, but her body fat and weight were such that the electrical current was having very little effect. In the old days, some old Irish cop would have like walked around the back with his billy club and hit her on the head or something. Or there was a similar incident in San Diego I saw where a guy with a stick was hurting people and threatening them. And so the cops were going closer and closer and they had their guns drawn. And then they had a little canine German shepherd. And so at some point, they let that dog go. And that guy tried to hit him and hit him and hit him. And that shepherd. And so it would have been nice. But, I mean, you can't ask the police to walk around with canines all the time. But what I'm getting at is they've so restricted the use of non-lethal force that you're almost. To save your own life, you have no chance. But to use it, where if they just said, if somebody's charging you or a knife, you can do whatever you want to stop them. I think it might be. They should give more tools to the police. Yeah. That woman might still be alive, not. I mean, that's a hard thing to say, but she might still be alive. Not the one that she killed, unfortunately, the vice president, but the perpetrator. All right, Victor, let's turn to comments. And you had a. A really played article, Progressive Regression and the New Medievalism. And on your site, there were two comments that I thought were insightful. Alex Piltz says, One of your most thought-provoking and deepest posts. Scary to think about. Reminds me of Taylor Sheridan's dramatic TV series, Lioness. Lennon, or was it Marx, referred to the. The hard-left college professors and influencers as useful idiots. They lecture about how worthy it is to get an education and hard work in a professional field only to be compensated equally by the state and not with money or capitalist currency. I'm glad that I'm within five years of the retirement end zone and no longer have to play the game. So I thought that was interesting, the useful idiots comment. Just that. I've never. I saw the TV series, Lioness. Did you? No, I did not. But I watched the Duggan Ranch. Duggan. Yeah. Wait, you mean Dutton? D-U. Dutton Ranch, yeah. Dutton Ranch, okay. That's Taylor Sheridan, isn't it? Wasn't he the one who. Oh, yeah, he did that as well, yeah. And the guy, that idea is that renegade families will not be pushed around and cannot be intimidated. Yeah. Basically. All right. And Sheridan actually. When people said he was making movies or series that were right-wing, he said, Wow, I don't think they really know me, so I'm not really dead sure. He feels like they're not necessarily right-wing series that he's produced. All right, Michael McDonald. Anything that's not communist is right-wing now. Apparently, yeah. Sadly, the issues Victor has discussed in his writings will always be with us. The elitism and smugness. The elitism and smugness of the oppressed oppressor binary crowd will wax and wane depending on the country's general prosperity and the people's sense to say no to elite indictments of our constitutional order. Just say no to the false bromides from virtue-signaling types like Norman Lear or the antique theater of Robert De Niro. As Professor Hansen has said, we're good even if not perfect. Perfect. Given humanity's history, that's something to appreciate. I'm going to comment very briefly in a variety of ways. I was thinking the other day about Robert De Niro, and I realized one of the reasons he's a great actor, he plays himself. And himself is Max Cady in Cape Fear. That was him. And it was him as Capone in The Untouchables. And that's his best role. When he tries to be neutral or when he was in heat and he says, I want to warn you that we're going to have a showdown and I'm going to shoot you, that's him. And he's great at what he is. He's not great when he acts out of his natural persona. So I don't think he has a lot of range. But in that, I'm Robert De Niro and I'm a blank, blank, blank, S-O, blank. That's what he is. And he doesn't have to act. The other thing, when that article was written, and I mentioned a little bit about that. little bit out of it to jack i said i was going to write it and i did but it's so weird because in the medieval world they tried so hard to stop plagues and and they didn't know that the bacterial microbe origins of path pathogens so they just had an empirical idea you don't you try to get clean water but they couldn't stop the plagues and the sewage we can and yet the streets of la and the streets of santa monica and places look worse than the medieval city in some cases and it's the same kind the medieval was schizophrenic they had chaucer they had dante they had say thomas aquinas they had eyeglasses they were really progressing but they were regressing and we're doing the same thing right next to spacex and ai you've got medievalism on the street and it's kind of like they're saying you we know rats cause typhus in la and we know rats breed on the soil blankets of homeless people where lice infect their fur and spread the disease but because we're not medieval but we're worse than medieval because they made an attempt to clean that out we won't do it we won't do what we know and we won't do it because we care more about feeling good about ourselves and the few homeless in the thousands that we have and we're not going to do it because we care more about the millions of people that might be at risk we don't care about them they have a contempt people should remember that the left has a contempt for the middle class family that plays by the rules they work hard they like to have a beer they like if they can save their money in retirement for winnebago it's all for their the left bourgeoisie crass consumerism even though they're the most consumerist people i've ever met you know the only differences they want wood floors and granite counters and da da da da da and driving a subaru or something so it's it's really strange how they prevent us from doing what would benefit most average people because they don't like that the catalysts are twofold they want to feel good about themselves in the abstract as long as it doesn't hurt them get back to that martha's vineyard scene when you know the illegals were shipped off that bus for getting their care packages and then or i went to malibu last year i noticed that every public walkway utah that you have a right to walk to the beach near a movie star's home they have planted bougainvilleas with spikes so you can go through there but you're going to get scratched because they don't care about you and your rights and because they feel they're morally superior because they champion the homeless they don't care about rats they don't have i mean they're scared of rats in their own home but not in the public domain and that was true about i ended that column with satuska the uranian irena yeah and that picture of de carlos brown looming over her and prepping his slaying her throat and then the efforts that everybody went to to say well she fell down and her throat was turned so you couldn't see the spurting blood so the five people who walked over her don't get mad at them why not get mad at them five of them can't take one person and they let her bleed to death so and then he it was just declared mentally incompetent well everybody who would do that is mentally incompetent so in other words she's just ancient history now and they don't they didn't want to run the story they didn't want to commemorate her they stopped some commemoration and we have to hear about him being mentally incompetent because we don't want to hear about him being mentally incompetent because we don't want to hear about him because we're medieval and the same thing with about abortion we spend as i said to jack we spend millions of billions of dollars to to hone the science of keeping premature babies alive so 23 weeks that's amazing scientific accomplishment but what's the purpose of it when you in massachusetts pass a law that say a nine pound baby as he's working his way through the birth canal and he looks out and he sees the world and all of a sudden the needle goes out and goes into his brain and sucks out his brain that's what kind of society would allow that so it's medieval and it's scientific and advanced at the same time that's the juxtaposition so we have the brilliant people with satellites and internet and iphones and ai and then we can't solve medieval problems because we feel that to do so would subject us to we wouldn't get an opportunity to be morally superior to everybody and that's the way we are that's that that stop that applies to stopping gang activity to stopping inner city crime to help inner city people it homeless problem you name it you just can't you ice all these things are virtue signaling that prevent us from dealing with element elemental problems that the medieval period tried to do but they didn't have our expertise so we're worse we have the expertise to do it we're worse we have the expertise to do it we're worse we have the expertise to stop plagues and sewage and bad water and yet we won't do it if you're a fisherman out in la harbor when that guy in a high mud suit gets up at five in the morning and he gets his bleach water and he shoots that stream and when he tells the homeless to get out and all that feces goes into the storm drain and he goes out there and you're a fisherman say a mile away and if the coast goes up and you're a fisherman you're a fisherman you're a fisherman you're a boat sees you drop an empty beer can on the water they will arrest you but they won't do anything to the person who's whose feces are going out to pollute at the same time phds and environmental science are going to la water treatment plants and finding 1 billion toxic substance we found dbcp there was a 100th millionth of a roundup in this treatment plant we better be careful there we found that there's enough code to get us out of this we found that there's enough code to get us out of this we found that there's enough code to get us out of this we found that there's enough code to get us out of that there's enough COVID that suggests there's a minor outbreak in Brentwood because of their sewage. We have that ability, but then what's the purpose of it when you just allow people to hose off raw feces into the, because you don't want to hurt the feelings of people who are mentally ill. Yeah. Well, you don't want to have, create insane asylums that are run by the government because the government can't run anything. So, all right, Victor. Well, it's a terrible problem. Hopefully people will vote not to have decline. Let's hope. You get older, you start to think, not in terms that are mean or racist or exclusionary, but you look at what life was like in the 1955s when we had no science, basically, and people had horrors. Horrible diseases and died. And I had people in my family that died. I had an aunt that had melanoma and they just watched it grow. And then they cut it off once and then, see, I wouldn't want to be, that was all we could do. So, we have all this expertise in technology. And yet, when you look at the streets and crime and the way people treat each other, we've regressed to medievalism. I don't know if it's because of our technology or just incidental, but I have a feeling a lot of it is this Marxist, binary between victims and victimizers. Once you excuse 30% of the population and you don't apply the standards of behavior and you don't fully enforce the law, then you get what you get. Yeah. All right. So, thank you for all of your wisdom today. And thanks to our audience for choosing to join us on this Friday News Roundups. This is Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. Thank you very much for listening and watching. And we'll see you next time. This is Sammy Winkler. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansen.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition. 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