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Mike Gallagher Podcast
Victor Davis Hanson: Public Pressure Forced Biden to Act on Balloon
"To apologize in advance for what we're going to have to suffer through tomorrow night as grandpa Joe stands there at that massive podium and takes credit for things that he has no business taking credit for, it is and I'll bet he makes the Chinese spy balloon a centerpiece of tomorrow night State of the Union. Victor Davis Hanson was a guest with Dan bongino over the weekend on Fox News channel had some pretty solid analysis as Victor Davis Hanson always has on this massive failure by the Biden administration waiting until after this spy balloon completed its mission going from the northwest all the way off the east coast of the United States before finally shooting it out of the sky over Myrtle Beach. This administration could have taken this thing down as it approached the Pacific or over the aleutians and our airspace or water space, but they didn't do it. And I don't think they would have, and I think you're right unless somebody had saw it. And then the explanations kept changing. They said, well, it's just a weather balloon. It's not very sophisticated. They can find it by spies. And then people's pointed out, well, it has a capacity of two buses, so they must be experimenting with a big payload, and they could have weapons significance. And maybe this slow moving balloon can take more accurate pictures. And then they change and said, well, we wanted to protect people, and we were afraid of the debris. And Montana's a pretty empty place. And so I think public pressure finally forced the administration to do that. But if we had done anything like that in China, we would be on the brink of a war.
Mark Levin
Life, Liberty & Levin: Full Hour With Victor Davis Hanson
"But I've decided this Sunday I'm gonna have a full hour With Victor Davis Hanson a full hour You know when I started life liberty and Levin I had one guest And I've decided from time to time we will have one guest And Victor Davis Hanson is the kind of person I could sit down with for hours And I bet you feel that way too I just don't think he has enough time to develop his thoughts and so forth In a half hour my show or 7 6 5 four minutes of somebody else's show So while have him on for the full hour I'm going to do it this Sunday There's no football so I hope you'll DVR if you can't watch the show live if he can I'm sure it's going to be great No I mean I have to do it but I'm sure it's going to be great because he's there And I want to encourage you if you can To check us out because well you can't go wrong with him Honestly me either But you know the point right mister producer He's fantastic So we're going to get him for an hour
The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"No, that's a very good point. I have a daughter who lives with three children in Santa Cruz, a very liberal place. And there's a phenomenon of people moving out to auburn or the Sierra Nevada mountain. A lot of her friends have moved because they do not want their children and their liberal people. But they don't want their children to come home at 12 and 11 and say they think they might want to transition. And they're getting that message from the public school. And it's kind of like who's next? And when you start to see the whole system here in California, for example, we've had two weeks of unusual. You never see anything like it, moisture, and we were told that we were in a climate change drought permanent. But my point is, we let out 9 million acre feet this week. Out to the ocean. And because we didn't build enough reservoirs, we voted for the reservoirs. We paid $8 billion bond and then the environmentals held it up and they decided, well, this is a godsend. We can send all those water and we can re flush the rivers in 19th century fashion. And now we're going to not have water. Going to a final break just a few more minutes left. Folks with Victor Davis Hansen don't go away. And I. Love. You folks, welcome back. I'm talking to Victor Davis, Hanson, about everything about what's happening in this country and around the world. And Victor, I said, I am vaguely hopeful because I think that there are enough Americans waking up, seeing things. I never know the statistics, but I know for sure many, many parents have said, I'm going to homeschool my kids. I had no idea the garbage, it's worse than garbage. Garbage is almost neutral. The vile lies that they are being taught on the taxpayer dime in this public school or that school. I am not going to, it'd be better if they don't go to school at all, or I will homeschool them. There's a lot of that kind of thing happening, and it strikes me that the media doesn't report on this because they don't really want people to know. It's bad news for them and for their ilk. I think that's right. And the same thing is applicable to 18 year olds. And I have, when I give a talk on military history, the first question is someone stands up and says, my grandfather fought in Vietnam, my father fought in the 91 Gulf War. I have a child that wants to join the rangers and marines and the mother will say not over my dead body. And I'll say why, if she said, I don't want him subjected to woke education or as Mark milley said that he's guilty before evidence is produced that he's a white race. And I will always say, will The Pentagon always collect data on inequity and uses that for reparations as they see it, but they don't collect data on who dies in their wars. And what you're telling me and I would say to a woman or a man that brings itself in ten or 12 times, I said, white males died at 75% of all fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan. That was double their numbers in the general population. So they've been gone counts every type of data they can to show that there's discrimination except who was dying in combat and got awful places like Boston or the Helmand province. And when I've said that, I've been, if it's on YouTube, I've had military officers who write me and get angry and said, how dare you break down race we're all one country and the idea that one group is dying, and that's unfair. And I said, I didn't say it for the purposes that you're in Tony and I'm showing the show throw it back in your face and see where it ultimately leads. Because if you're going to do this on promotions and women in combat and you're going to keep data about everything except he dies, then I can say maybe we need a diversity adviser to suggest maybe you're over recruiting south of the Mexican Dixon line or in rural America to focus on a rubric that traditionally very patriotic and sends their children to wars and got awful places. So that's happening and that's the book and to what's happening in the university when people say, I don't want my child left. $250,000 of debt and graduate in 7 years taking 6 or 7 units a semester in psych or sociology or environmental studies when they could be a class a electrician or plumber or make a $100,000 without the debt. And read books on the weekend and learn take courses online. Yeah, I mean, again, I think that ultimately what we're talking about is, you know, will the free market win and by the free market, I mean, we have a lot of movement happening. People are voting with their feet. Sometimes literally leaving one state to go to a state that they feel is freer or better governed. People are, I mean, the best thing I've heard is that major law firms are not hiring people from Yale law school because they know the nuts that they're going to get and they say I don't really want that here and so I think good things are happening..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I have the joy of speaking with Victor Davis Hanson, neglected to mention earlier he is a senior fellow at the Hoover institution and a teaching fellow at hillsdale. And this brings us to the strange question. People mentioned hillsdale. Well, my problem with hillsdale is there's only one hillsdale. Or maybe there's a couple of hillsdale sort of, but there hillsdale isn't big enough. I still feel hopeful, though, because I think going to some of these other institutions, Yale Harvard, Stanford, not only are you wasting a ton of money, but you're working backwards. In other words, what you're doing there is the opposite of what you think you're doing. You're getting some affiliation with an institution. But you're unlearning reality and truth. And in a way, this is to use the cliche term creative destruction. Something good seems to me to be happening in the midst of all of this. How it's going to play out, I don't know, but you know, it's, again, it's the cliche of things have to get better before. I have to get worse before they can get better. You have to sort of see what you're dealing with and it's only in the last number of years that many of us have seen what has been there all along. Yeah, I think so. You get a lot of feedback from what I would call classically liberal people who wrote a straight democratic ticket and I talked to professors, they'll say to me, if I'm at Yale or Harvard or Stanford, and I give the grades that the students deserve, and that turns out to be less for a particular rule breaker tribe than another one, then I'm going to come to the attention of the diversity zone. And I'm not going to die on the altar of diversity. I'm just not going to do it. Or I'm not going to, I should say, I'm not going to die on the altar of standards. I'm going to make the necessary adjustments that I don't become aware to a diversities that are. And at Stanford, we have 15,000 administrators and 16,000 students. We have a staff administrative staffer or administrative head for almost every student. It's a very big drag on the operation of the university. And so there are people on the left who say things like there was a carjacking in my neighborhood or. My son, we live in, you know, they'll say things like we live in a big city and they've brought in illegal aliens and they dump them in downtown Manhattan or something. So they're starting to see their consequences of their own ideology. And they thought they were to be exempt, but the only people who were exempt or they're very, very privileged and wealthy. They bought this stuff. The politicians, the corporate heads, the administrative elite, but the middle class upper middle class teacher or liberal or small psychologist or what they are starting to feel that it's booming ranging upon them. And I think if the Republican Party can be adept at a those people will silently vote for them and I thought they would have in the midterm, but that didn't happen. Part of the reason is that we still don't have, we have an alternative media, but we kind of for ourselves that when we walk Fox News or we watch podcasts or we read really good conservative blogs or epic times, when we look at the numbers of the audience of NBC ABC CBS in their decline and we see MSNBC and CNN in their decline and we look at the warped search results on Google that have about 90% of all search and we have 50% of all social media is on Facebook worldwide. Even though these people are under examination, they have about a ten to one advantage in reach the reader and of course the money now in America is all on the web. Because of globalization and things like insurance law, tech, the corporate boardroom and when you look at the fortune 400, it's not 500 million gets you on like 50 years ago. You've got to be 4 billion and almost all the names on there are electromagnetic. And that's new. The Democratic Party used to be for two things. At least they profess. They were skeptical and big money in the power of riches and they felt that they wanted free speech. And now those are the two things that they most certainly want to they want to cultivate the very wealthy and they want to advance the expression. Well, again, I don't think that you don't need half the country or more than half the country to get this. I think there are enough people. My theory, at least my hope, for sure, is that there are enough people waking up to the madness. That things have gotten so bad. And the people on the left are much more open about what they believe in the past they would have been quieter about it, but I think, again, in large part because of the advent of Trump, they kind of had to come out of the bushes and fight openly, whereas they were doing it much more covertly before. And what that's done, as you said, is it's causing people normal people who ordinarily might have voted Democrat to say, well, wait a second. I know someone who is a teacher at a school here in the northeast, who said that giving someone a, I'm not sure what the term would be a demerit or calling them out if they're wandering around in the hall during class. That, to do anything about it, is considered racist. And I thought, this is exactly the kind of thing you almost hope for because you think you're, hey, I know I'm not a racist. I know that's not racist. This is crazy. I'm trying to help these students. These policies are crazy. In other words, we haven't really arrived at this level of madness before, open madness..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
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The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I don't know what happened to our elections. We used to have 70% of the electorate always voted on election day. And there was something called an absentee ballot where you were sick or out of town. And you applied for it. But partly due to COVID and partly due to radical changes in the voting laws, everybody gets a mail in ballot, and the resort is 70% of the people who vote on election day. It doesn't election day doesn't really exist as we know it anymore. Nor does election night returns. And that was a radical change. And then we went from proportional representation in the affirmative action identity realm to something I think we could call compensatory or repertory admission where so called marginalized roots are being admitted to colleges or hiring any number of larger than their demographic. So for example, where I work, the incoming class at Stanford University and will be 23% white and out of that 54%, 53 to 54% are going to be women. And most of the legacies were probably be white. So your white male incoming class will be about ten to 12% well below their 33 or 35% of the population. And they drop the SAT score. It's optional, and yet they will not release the university did not release the number of people who were admitted that chose not to take the SAT, but for some strange reason they did admit that those who took it and performed brilliantly on it and got a perfect score of 70% of them were rejected. These are radical changes in the very fabric of society and they happen very quickly. So that was a sort of bewilderment tone of that essay. And there were more, but that's essential part of it. Well, again, for folks looking for it, the author, my guest, Victor Davis Hanson, the article is a country we no longer recognize a coup, we never knew. I want to talk about the coup. But, you know, I have my own theories and ideas on what's been happening, I would say on the positive side, I think many Americans, if not most Americans see exactly what you see, they don't have your voice or your platform or even mine or my platform, but they see these things. And they see that it makes no sense. They see that this is not just incremental change. This is not a pendulum swinging. This is something fundamental, which I think would lead most people to believe that it's at least mostly intentional, that there are people behind this who want these things to happen. What do you say about that? Yeah, I think that's accurate, but I would add that they want them to happen and as you say, the majority of vast majority of people, if these were transparent issues, they wouldn't support them. So nobody voted for an open border. Nobody said, let's just in the year 2021 ignore federal immigration. Well, that was done by executive order or neglect. And no one really said, I think that we should all vote absentee, or we have both harvesting our third party vote harvest being or curing the balance. That was done in May, April, and march of 2020 when people weren't on that Democratic Party and assumed the legislatures and overturned in the course, voting laws so that you didn't have to have a full name or you didn't have to pull the grass or you could have ten days afterward the deadline or everybody would be mailed a ballot with a request that you're not. Those were all things that were done by pressure groups or activists groups that were not fully discussed and they were not part of the legislative agenda. And I don't think any of these are our same thing with these district attorneys and prosecuting attorneys and major cities. These are executive decisions making. It's true they were elected, but most of them were not elected on that protocol..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
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The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
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America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Victor Davis Hanson Shares His Thoughts on the Twitter Files
"Significant do you see the revelations? We don't have a smoking gun of The White House telling Twitter to do something, but the evidence about the FBI, DHS, collusion with Palo Alto. Is this a big deal politically and historically? Yeah, it is. And we wouldn't know any of it if it wasn't for Elon Musk who probably take a big hit for this, at least financially, because he bought a company that was a money losing company and was overpriced, but he did it. Apparently because he wanted to expose what was happening in American social media in Silicon Valley. And remember that 1975 church committee, that was the heartthrob of the left. And they said that the FBI and the CIA had systematically robbed us of constitutional rights. But one of the things that people forget was church uncovered that at that time, the CIA was working with news organizations to promulgate direct warp the news and suppress news that didn't like. And people right now who are still active like Carl Bernstein were writing these Rolling Stone articles about we've got to support church. We've got to have free expression. You can not have the government contracting out to private news organizations to evade or get by the First Amendment in their efforts to censor people. That's exactly what's happened with Twitter.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Unpacking Monolithic Voting Records With Victor Davis Hanson
"Question of the modern living monolithic voting record for the speaker's race, with nary a dissension, is that monolithic nature of the Democrats today is that really ideological installing step with each other, or is it a function of fear or a combination of both? A combination of both, they don't have any, they don't tolerate any dissent. And remember, there are fused with the media. So the architects of this fusion insist on absolute political loyalty and they have ways of punishing it. If you wanted to scent from Nancy Pelosi in the past, then you were going to be hit with a Twitter barrage of Facebook barrage. You were going to get your money cut off. You might be primary. So you weren't going to do it. And the same thing from that speech there will be talking points, and you will hear them on network news, PBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN. So they've got a very tightly, they've got a prob that megaphone and then they've got this ideological straitjacket. But as far as his speech, they were just a bunch of incoherent binaries. And it was kind of like Jesse Jackson back in the 90s. Kind of a hip thing, but this was a guy who always talks about an election integrity but on over 70 occasions claim that the 2016 election, which we know now, both through the Mueller investigation and some of the inspector general's reports was not rigged by the Russians, and it was a fair election, and yet he has denied the results and said that Donald Trump was an illegitimate president. Not once, but again and again and again.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Victor Davis Hanson: 'Put on Your Armor and Face These People'
"Get your reaction to the election of the speaker? I was asked that by Tucker on Fox News and I think day two when I said, I think another four to 8 hours would be helpful, but after that would be counterproductive only because why they were hammering out an agenda and a protocol that was long overdue when it was messy, you looked at the other side and it was almost stalinist. It was 212 on every single bow. There was not one defection for Jeffreys. When they have a defection on Ukraine, they squash it. We're dealing with some of the most disciplined, hardcore cadres on the left. This is not the old messy Democratic Party that was all over the map. These people are hardcore leftists. So when we're trying to deal with them, I like the idea that we're getting these issues out in front of the American people, we're arguing over them, but my only point was after three or four days, I think it's time to put on your arm or face these people
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
'The Coup We Never Knew' With Prof. Victor Davis Hanson
"To be the most strategic public thinker of weight of consequence in America today. And his latest piece, which is titled the coup we never knew. Well, basically I read it on air because it was that important. But now we have him with us from the Hoover institution from Stanford University, the author of a veritable library of works on ancient history, strategy, domestic politics, anything with his name on the spine of the book is worth your time professor. Victor Davis Hanson, welcome back to America first. Thank you for having me, Seth. Now I have some big questions to do with the so what of your latest piece, which was unusual in terms of style, because basically it's just a list of questions. A list of questions across a complete panoply of topics from natural gas to lack of sovereignty and open borders from the point of view of the scribe of the man of letters. I'm just curious, and this is a peek into the sausage factory, if you will, what made you write a piece purely positing? I mean, it works. I read it aloud to my wife on a long car trip, then I read it to my 3 million listers on the radio show. Was there some trigger, something that made you say, okay, I'm just going to ask questions for a thousand words. I wanted to capture the bewilderment that I had since to cross the country, and it was almost as if no one yet has explained the multiplicity of radical changes in American life or the effect that they've had on people in the result is sort of a bewilderment. We all in the abstract know how they happen. And we all know the effect in the future of their consequences, but the process, I think, is what would be Willard, so I wanted to somehow find a rhetorical way of conveying that
Mark Levin
Victor Davis Hanson: The Coup We Never Knew
"Victor Davis Hanson And so as chuck Todd would say tomorrow's January 6th so a January 6th in mind I want to read to you what Hanson said not about January 6th But about a real coup He said the coup we never knew We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize and from a coup we never knew he says Did someone or something seize control of the United States What happened to the U.S. border Where did it go Who erased it Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally So it's 5 million The Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws Did Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the board and reside in the United States as they pleased Since when did money not have to be paid back Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed the more prosperity would follow When did American break zero interest Why do we believe 30 trillion in debt is no big deal When did clean burning cheap and abundant natural gas become the equivalent to dirty cult
Mark Levin
Catch Mollie Hemingway, Victor Davis Hanson on 'Life, Liberty & Levin'
"Whatever you do this Sunday I hope you'll watch life liberty and lavin at 8 p.m. eastern 5 p.m. Pacific 7 p.m. central And if you can't watch it go to your DVR now and set the recording for the time that applies to you I really want you to watch it We're going to have Molly Hemingway and Victor Davis Hanson And we're going to discuss the extent to which the Biden crime family is being protected The extent to which they have committed enough predicate offenses in our view that they should have a special counsel appointed And we're going to get into this in great great great great detail So I hope you will I hope you will watch live And if you can I hope you'll set your DVR now
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Intellectual Shallowness of the Left
"Davis Hanson is a remarkable human being, and he has a very important piece up at American greatness, which I am honored to say, publishes my column each week. And I'll talk to you about maybe I'll do the column as the ultimate issues hour. It's certainly certainly an ultimate issue. We'll secular conservatives have conservative grandchildren. That should make you think if you're a secular conservative. When I think of the people that the left the doors and the people that the right adore us, when I think of a Victor Davis Hansen, or I think of Jordan Peterson, just to name two, and I think of the people on the left, like the folks Dave Rubin used to work with Young Turks. The moral difference, the depth difference, the decency difference is so large that I don't know why it isn't obvious. Just the intellectual shallowness of these people, what I read these people on the left, including New York Times columnists, it's the intellectual shallowness that hits me as much as anything else. All you need to do is call right wingers bad things. You don't have to engage us.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Sam Bankman-Fried, Now the Greatest Fraudster in American History
"Victor Davis Hanson, one of the most important writers of our time, an important piece in the great American greatness on the great American greatness website. About bankman Sam bankman fried. I never heard of until the Ponzi style scheme of what is it $32 billion how much? I think it's 36, but 36 billion. So is this like the biggest ripoff monetarily speaking in American history? Bankman freed is merely one in a long line of Bay Area social justice hypocrites and frauds. They share in common loud but cynical left wing politics.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
What Is It to Be a Man? Professor Victor Davis Hanson Weighs In
"Is it to be a man? Let me just make it as succinct as possible. Perhaps you could share with us Hellenic conceptualizations of what other non negotiable aspects of being a true man. Well, first of all, there are certain innate responsibilities. And that is, I think, all of us to the degree you can perpetuate the species and that means marrying and if you can have children you do and you protect your family and whether you like it or not, the males role is to protect the family first and foremost. So if you're in your home and you hear a noise at night, you don't have your wife go out there while you stay in bed. Or if your children come home from school and they say they've been attacked on the bus, then you were the one that goes investigates that. So that's the first primary without security for the family. There's nothing. And that's the males point of view. And then the second thing I think is very important is that certain people have to speak up when the majority is wrong or when there's consensus. And that requires punishment or victimization or attacks on you, and it very important for an element of masculinity. The heroic tragic view is that no one's going to speak up, but I'm a man and it's my duty to do what's right. And that was the essential of all sophocles plays. In fact, it wasn't even necessarily male at sometimes. What was brilliant about sophocles? He transformed the male instinct to do that in an Ajax and put it in antigone. And you see it in the western with Shane or high noon, somebody has to stand up and stand down the posse. Some has to deal with leave more of an in the man who shot liberty balance. Somebody has to come in out of nowhere and deal with them with the bullies and Shane. And usually that's a solitary man, and that's the idea that no matter what your own circumstances, somebody has to stand up and take the punishment for being right.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"victor davis" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"If you had to choose which of the sources, the focal points of the assault is most damaging, is it academe? Is it wokeness? Is it the assault on faith the assault on family? Is it third, fourth way, feminism? What is the epicenter, the driving force of the assault? If you had to choose one. If I happen to do one, I was suppose is the university. That's where all bad ideas start and they start with the premise that their leisure, and their affluence that allows them to have a pretty soft, critical life of other people, is basically the result of the work of men from Greece through the Roman period, the renaissance, to the enlightenment, to America. And so they target particular men that they hate. They hate the founders. Can not stand the founders. They can not stand Jesus Christ. They can not stand Socrates. So in their way of thinking, even though they enjoy the elements, they take it for granted of market capitalism, reason, individual freedom, constitutional government, scientific inquiry divorce from superstition, and that's what make them that's what made them who they are. They hate the people who gave them that and for some reason they focus on men. Men, men, men did it. And each group then says, well, I want to live in the United States. I'm risking my life to come across the border or I'm a feminist corporate mover and shaker, but I don't like these white men who created this society which I indulge in.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
The Driving Force of the Assault on Manhood With Victor Davis Hanson
"If you had to choose which of the sources, the focal points of the assault is most damaging, is it academe? Is it wokeness? Is it the assault on faith the assault on family? Is it third, fourth way, feminism? What is the epicenter, the driving force of the assault? If you had to choose one. If I happen to do one, I was suppose is the university. That's where all bad ideas start and they start with the premise that their leisure, and their affluence that allows them to have a pretty soft, critical life of other people, is basically the result of the work of men from Greece through the Roman period, the renaissance, to the enlightenment, to America. And so they target particular men that they hate. They hate the founders. Can not stand the founders. They can not stand Jesus Christ. They can not stand Socrates. So in their way of thinking, even though they enjoy the elements, they take it for granted of market capitalism, reason, individual freedom, constitutional government, scientific inquiry divorce from superstition, and that's what make them that's what made them who they are. They hate the people who gave them that and for some reason they focus on men. Men, men, men did it. And each group then says, well, I want to live in the United States. I'm risking my life to come across the border or I'm a feminist corporate mover and shaker, but I don't like these white men who created this society which I indulge in.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Victor Davis Hanson Comments on the Cultural Assault on Masculinity
"How serious what is the magnitude of that assault is somebody who understood through time the role that men have had in from antiquity to modern western civilization, how serious is the assault professor? Well, if you do this, if you assault the idea of masculinity for 20, 30 years as we have been doing in the schools and you suggest that men are capable always of sexual harassment sexual assault, white men and particular exercise dualities of privilege, then what you do is you've disconnected an entire demographic from mainstream activity in what I'm really worried about is that the fentanyl crisis, this higher incidence of male suicide, especially failure to, I guess we would call it almost failure to advance prolonged adolescence, tocqueville warned us about that. So all of us in our families have this phenomenon that we've never experienced before of nephews or children or friends that are late 20s, males, they date, but they don't form lasting bonds. They don't marry. They don't buy a home. They don't have children. And they're disconnected. They were either prolonged adolescence or and these are, this is the conservative manifestation, but on the liberals manifestation, you see the pajama boy stereotype, these very elite young urban metrosexuals who are not engaging in the body politic. They're not buying a home. They're not confident. They're not getting married. They're not having two or three children. They're not coaching little league. They're not being examples. So, and then it's been disastrous in the African American community as well.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Is Joined by Victor Davis Hanson to Discuss Masculinity
"To our special manhood professor Hansen. Thank you for having me. All right, so I can't think of a better guess to have given what you've written about Ancient Rome about the warrior spirit, the two world wars dedicated to your relatives. So seminal to your life who gave theirs in World War II, let's start at the beginning. I just have a handful of questions. The first one is, is masculinity is the concept of manhood in trouble in western civilization today. Yeah, I think it is. I mean, we always hear it now with its adjective toxic toxic masculinity. It's never just masculinity. It's so it's contrary to a lot of special interest groups and it's been manipulated and worked as sort of the driving impulse behind capitalism and western dominance, et cetera, et cetera. So, but remember all of the criticisms of masculinity come from an elite class in the United States and Europe as well. It doesn't come from the masses of any race or particular even gender. So everybody understands that traditionally masculinity was a very positive and necessary element of civilization.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Welcomes Michael Walsh, Editor of 'Against the Great Reset'
"Joining us now is Michael Walsh, author of against the great reset, 18 theses contra the new world order with contributions from Victor Davis Hanson Douglas Murray, roger Kimball, Angelo codo villa May he rest in peace. James poulos, Conrad black, Michael Anton, David Goldman, Janice, John tyranny, Harry Stein, and more and edited by Matt Walsh. That's a really great list. My goodness. Michael Walsh, welcome to the program. Hey, thanks, Charlie. Good to see you again. Yeah, you too. Tell us about your book. Well, it's not edited by Matt Walsh. She said it by Michael balls. I have a problem being confused. I'm sorry. I say it so often, so I apologize. I know you do. My young colleague, the idea behind the book is a direct attack on the great reset. And I know Charlie, you've talked about it a lot and many of our colleagues and conservative movement have talked about it. But very briefly, it's an idea that arose at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. It's been kicking around for some years now and generally on the left. It's been dismissed by our ideological opponents as a conspiracy theory. And yet the World Economic Forum under the direction of Klaus Schwab is quite open about their ambition for the world, which is to put it in a nutshell, you will own nothing and be happy. So as we said, as I say, the introduction to this book, this is our salvo opening salvo against Davos against the great reset against Schwab against their plutocrats who would keep all of us to basically confined to high rise buildings, driving electric cars, whether if they allow you to have them, and of course eating bugs instead of beef because after all, cows are killing the planet.
The Eric Metaxas Show
'Defenders of the West' Author Raymond Ibrahim Shares His Background
"Raymond Ibrahim, welcome to the program. Hi, Eric. Great to be with you. Thanks. Don't be nervous that you're sitting in for John's mirac. Others have done it before. Many of them have died, violent deaths. But I'm just saying, just put that out of your mind. But when John's mirac raves and raves about someone, it's really not difficult to us for us to understand, we need to get this person. And so we're just really grateful to you for coming on. And tell my audience a little bit about yourself. I mentioned that you're the author of a brand new book called defenders of the west, the Christian heroes who stood against Islam. What is your own background? I know you have an Egyptian background as well. Yeah, so my family is the cops Coptic every time I say that word coughs have to people ask me what precincts I come from, but cops Coptic of course the indigenous Christians from Egypt so my parents immigrated to the United States in the mid 60s. I was born and raised here. Because of that background being coming from a Christian minority sect from the Middle East, surrounded by Islam. I was always interested in, of course, in those issues, but then in college, as you mentioned, Victor David saints and was my professor for many years and I'm proud to say a friend and mentor and so forth. I naturally gravitated towards history, military history, and then long story short in 2001 when I was writing my master's thesis with the Victor Davis as Victor David Sanchez my chair. It was actually about the first military encounter between Islam and the west for really Christianity, Christendom. And because I was employing the languages I was studying, Arabic and Greek and so forth. And anyway, long story short, and then that's when 9 11 happened and I went to Georgetown university, studied there for a little bit in their contemporary center for Arab studies, which is, as I later found out, it was very ideologically charged. And I left there. Despite stellar performance, I might add straight age, but I had to leave there just because of the political reasons and then I got a job at the Library of Congress in the near east section where I dealt with Arabic materials and other Middle Eastern languages. Sounds writings by Al-Qaeda in the early 2000s and long story short. That got translated into my first book, the Al-Qaeda reader,
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Lord Conrad Black Shares His Prognosis for Russia
"We have the mass mobilization first. I mean, since 1945, for Russia, we have the impending winter approaching and then of course the explosion of the Nord stream pipeline. There are those who think that there is a negotiated settlement. There is an off ramp that we can provide Putin. I know you've been discussing this issue closely with your fellow podcast colleagues Victor Davis Hanson and Bill Bennett. So what is your analysis of what could be done in the realms of the possible? Yeah, my analysis is a little more optimistic than victors. I agree with him that neither protagonist wants to end where it is right now. But on the other hand, they both wanted to end. And it's terribly onerous for both of them. I mean, Ukraine is suffering casualties and terrible damage to the country. And it's being supplied weapons all right. But you know when wants a war going on in their own country for very long. And in the case of the Russians, and it's obvious there are terrible problems in the Russian armed forces. There's a very high desertion rate. There's great public discontent that have heavy casualties. It's over a 100,000, which would be more than 200,000 in the United States. And they're not getting anywhere. And I think Putin is sort of set out his stall what he would settle at if he could take the four provinces to the purports completely spuriously to a bad next with their approval. But I think you could get something there if there was a real referendum and you redesigned the borders of congressional redistricting. You managed to carve out something around the areas of people who actually voted that they would rather be rushed and then Ukrainian. And you give him that and that's all he gets. And you tell zelensky that you're not you, in this case, being NATO is not prepared to pay for more, but you get an absolute guarantee of Ukraine in its revised borders. And this for the first of several times, all of the people guaranteeing Ukraine's borders, including Russia and all of NATO have to honor their word.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Victor Davis Hanson: Why You Should Go Out & Vote
"You listen to Victor Davis Hanson about staying home when somebody says, well, why am I going to bother to vote? I don't know if they're going to cheat or not. I asked Victor Davis Hanson that last year. What do you say to a listener who says to an American who says, guys, we got to get our country back, but I don't know that I trust the election process. Well, that would be like saying that I went on a B-17 mission and we lost too many planes, so we're going to quit because it's not fair up there. That's a reason to go out and vote because if you believe that the left has undue influence in the election, then you have to ensure that you and your friends and everybody else vote in such overwhelming numbers that even the left can't figure a way out to cheat. So, and I would say that to people who listen to my show who don't agree with me politically, if you're a Democrat, if you want the Democrats to keep control of the House in the Senate and you're all right with surging crime and the out of control inflation and the open borders and all the mess that we're facing as a country, hey, you should vote too. I want us to win. I want the Republicans to win, but the Democrats want to win too. And I get that. I respect that. We need to make your voice heard by going to the ballot box and voting. And that means every single American who's eligible to vote should vote, period. Republican Democrat independent, I don't care.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"We got agnew out. Does she have a skeleton? I don't think that's. I love the fact that you're going back to 1973. Thank you. Because I remember, I'm old enough to remember that era. But I don't remember and because I was too young then, but to have heard the idea that agnew, who was vice president, of course, under Nixon, that he that he stood there in a way as Kamala Harris does. That was the left. That was the anger of the left. Every op-ed said, Richard Nixon deliberately appointed this crazy governor from Maryland who had a checkered career. Right. So he would never be impeached. And they didn't know what to do. And then they found out they went way back and found bribery in his past and brought it back out and then they got rid of it. Right. I mean, I remember when he resigned, I was in 6th grade for those who were scoring at home, but I remember, and then of course, another old hand, Jerry Ford, University of Michigan football star, kind of rhino. Republican. He comes in. And then bob's your uncle, suddenly he becomes president with two asterisks by his name. But that's the question, is who is jockeying right now? People that I know tell me that Elizabeth Warren has quite a lot of power in the current White House. We've got a few minutes left, folks. We're talking to Victor Davis Hanson. Please stick around. Look what's going on inside you. That's now can't you folks, if you've tuned in, you've tuned in just in time, we're talking about Spiro Agnew. It's always my secret goal to bring the conversation eventually around to sparrow agnew. I have in my home a Spiro Agnew trash can. He was a Greek American politician. Of whom we are all now mostly ashamed. But it's an amazing thing Victor Davis Hanson that you would recall this because I didn't, that he was the bulwark. They didn't want to get rid of Nixon because if you do, you have president agnew, we certainly don't want that. Right now, we're in a similar situation with Kamala Harris, who is really hard. I mean, I think she makes agnew look Chilean practically. I mean, I've never seen anyone as dramatically shallow and incapable, at least as she appears publicly. So who do you think would be jockeying? And what do you think is possible? I mean, I keep thinking that there are all kinds of scenarios. We've got a long way to 2024, and I can see people changing. I could see a lot changing. This is not something that's imminent. We have quite a lot of time between now and 2024. Yes. I think what you're watching now is that everybody in the Democratic Party in the country realizes that Joe Biden is a lame duck. So whatever happens in the next two and a half year he will not run again. Camp. So you have Gavin Newsom suddenly touring the country attacking successful red state governors. And you have other people but a jig we can have a supply disaster with ships out to the horizon. We can't get a flight that's on time. We can't afford gas to get on the highway. He's transportation secretary. All he's talking about is roe versus wade and Donald Trump. January. So you have these people who feel that they are more effective. Spokesman for the hard left agenda and therefore the hard left agenda would be tolerable. And why are they doing that? They're not just positioning themselves for 2024. They're positioning themselves in the eventuality that some type of solution has been found to get rid of Joe Biden. And that would be something like maybe a big appointment for Kamala Harris somewhere. I don't know a senator or I don't think you could do it, but maybe someone would resign or somebody would give her a big appointment or there'd be a big corporate billet, but they're trying to find a way to get around the constitution. I mean, I don't mean illegally. I mean, just practically, because it's perfectly legal. But my point is that they know that if they remove Joe Biden and they've got to get rid of them, they feel at least by 2000 24, if not earlier, and they have her in there. And they don't want to go through the 2024 primaries where they're attacking a black woman as the incompetent. So just because she put that to the side, let's just not mention it because it's bad for business. Right. Yeah, yeah. I think all of these things are subject to question. I don't know what she identifies as or it just identifies this black. She's from her father is a professor emeritus at Stanford who was Jamaican American who actually started out as a hard leftist, but now in commentaries to the press he's been very conservative. Her mother was from India, but in our very racially fixed fetishized world, if you're, I mean, it's kind of tragic that we're going back to the neo confederate idea of one drop that if you're partly black, then you're black. Right. And I don't understand that. That's what we do. And it's, of course, exactly where the Nazis were with Jews. If you've got a couple of drops of Jewish blood, you're a Jew. Except in that case, it was negative..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
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"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
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The Charlie Kirk Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Show with me. I feel like is a teacher of mine. Someone who I've consumed hundreds of hours of his commentary and content, doctor Victor Davis Hanson. Thank you for having me. I just we were just talking how I finished your World War II course and I was blown away by that and your citizenship course for hillsdale college. And I suppose let's just start there. Tell us about your book, the dying citizen. Well, it's a, it's not a lamentation or a eulogy for the dead citizen because I would have called it the dead citizen. It's a process of dying. And it's an erosion in the traditional prerogatives of a citizen. I think it applies to the western world in general, not just the United States in particular, but it's the suggestion that there's no sharp difference between a resident, legal or illegal and a citizen whether that means voting today or engaging in a campaign. You can be a resident. You can be here illegally and do that. Or military service. The only thing the only distinction that's left really is the ability to hold office, only citizens can do that. But if you're not a citizen, you're a resident, you can come and go as you please, apparently, see in the southern border. You can join the military. You can vote in certain places. I think soon you'll be able to hold off. So I tried to explain the history of citizenship. It was very rare, peculiar, late in history, and 8th century in Greece, fragile, today there's only two or three places that can pull off a multiracial constitutional system, Brazil, maybe India, they don't do it very well. But I was trying to remind people that unless you invest in citizenship and constantly audit it, it's the aberration in history and it will disappear. I think it is disappearing unless we stand at attention and try to do something to save
The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Age the dying citizen is the book victor. Since you've permitted victor. I i've been talking in this last year the plague year about hope and about the idea that i believe that The good part of what. We've been enduring Is that many people formerly asleep or waking up. I have been a excited to see a lot of that. People who Realized when things get this bad maybe they should pay attention. Maybe they should change their opinions on things. So i have hope Do you do you have hope. Where do you see things from here. I do have hope. And i. I have a long epilogue because the book was written before two thousand twenty one but i have an epilogue and one of the things that i'm very hopeful about. Is that the traditional. Republican party is starting to metamorphasized. In other words. There were a lot of americans believe in many of its principles but for variety of rational and irrational reasons. They didn't want to be part of the party of mitt romney. For example a decent man nice guy but in their mind representation of a very elite person. That was not concerned when he gave that. Talk for example. Why can't do anything with a forty seven percent all takers and wrote off that part of it. So what i mean in particular is when you see the border crisis and then you see that mexican american communities along the borders are electing conservative representatives. Because they say that's not what we want destroying our communities or where i live in the san joaquin valley california people who are mexican american are saying. I'm not going to be taken for granted anymore. And maybe i'm going to. I'm going to vote for a republican. Because they're not the party of the golf course only anymore and then you see the people who were the elite. And that's what's really striking for me. Eric i when i know a lot of the never trumpers people. I agree with them on a lot of issues on free market economics and opposition go portion in some cases and things like that but they seem to be very angry. That this new party starring to say we're not going to write off the interior of the united states and say we'll go. Golden coding sure fall on. Opiates that they could be very valuable workers. We need them. This is the industrial heart of the world. At one time it can be again and so this new slowly. Transformation of the slow transformation of the conservative movement into one that says all different races all different crees at but our primary focus is not race or religion. It's class and we want a middle class because they are the most practical people and they are the foundation of citizenship. I think it's really spreading. And i think it's slow and we don't really know all of its contours yet. But how ironic that somebody. Who was a crass multi-billionaire let off this explosion and was the first person to say. China is not in our interest to have complete free trade and they will never interpret our magnaminity to be reciprocated and like kind. They'll see as weakness are if we're not gonna go and optional wars in the middle east and take the middle class and send them over there. Because we're gonna be energy independent and we're going to have our own choices or you can't have an open border because it will ruin the wages and the bargaining power of the light labor in muscular classes and you have assimilation intermarriage integration. If you have people come to quickly from one place all of those things were the ingredients of. I think a new a new idea about america and i think as haphazard an imperfect is that metamorphosis is that. I don't think maybe you can disagreement. I don't think we're going to see a candidate stands up and says well trump isn't the mag agendas over. And i think mitt romney had the right idea. We are going to see people who are going to say that but they will go down in flames very quickly. I can't wait to see both them saying it. And the plummeting inflames. We're out of time. Thank you. Victor davis hanson. The book is the dying citizen. Appreciate your time. thank you for having me..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I'm talking to victor davis hanson. Also known as the age the dying citizen is the book victor. Since you've permitted victor. I i've been talking in this last year the plague year about hope and about the idea that i believe that The good part of what. We've been enduring Is that many people formerly asleep or waking up. I have been a excited to see a lot of that. People who Realized when things get this bad maybe they should pay attention. Maybe they should change their opinions on things. So i have hope Do you do you have hope. Where do you see things from here. I do have hope. And i. I have a long epilogue because the book was written before two thousand twenty one but i have an epilogue and one of the things that i'm very hopeful about. Is that the traditional. Republican party is starting to metamorphasized. In other words. There were a lot of americans believe in many of its principles but for variety of rational and irrational reasons. They didn't want to be part of the party of mitt romney. For example a decent man nice guy but in their mind representation of a very elite person. That was not concerned when he gave that. Talk for example. Why can't do anything with a forty seven percent all takers and wrote off that part of it. So what i mean in particular is when you see the border crisis and then you see that mexican american communities along the borders are electing conservative representatives. Because they say that's not what we want destroying our communities or where i live in the san joaquin valley california people who are mexican american are saying. I'm not going to be taken for granted anymore. And maybe i'm going to. I'm going to vote for a republican. Because they're not the party of the golf course only
The Eric Metaxas Show
"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"It's just a joy to speak with you because you bring some historical perspective. Oftentimes i think people are weary of the news cycle and it's just a constant static. It sounds like we know. Everything's horrible but to understand where it came from how we got here. How we might get out. I think we need the perspective because it does give us hope. So you do believe that even given the current tremendous breakdown That's everywhere in the culture. You you see hope. I guess my question is there. Are people today who seem emboldened in wielding naked power in lying. They don't seem to have the code They don't believe in virtue they believe in power and they seem less troubled journalistic class the medical establishment. They they seem to have come on moored from Something that held us all together. That's kind of what concerns me most because if you're fighting an enemy that doesn't play by the same rules you've got a bigger problem. I was looking for more than a. Yes or no answer. I'm sorry you cut out. But i can hear you now. I guess what i'm saying. Is that and i tried to do that in the book that we're not alone. We have history to guide us in. It has been a trademark across time and space that the left feels that the means that you talked about are justified by their more noble ends nobility defined as radical quality result. And so they feel that what you line. The russian collusion hoax or joe biden son. Hunters laptop is russian. Disinformation or anthony fao cheese e saying. I had no role in the gain of function research. These all of that is okay. Because the ultimate end that is making sure the quote people are equal or that their fair it justifies them and they and they feel that they have a right that you and i don't have is superior moral beings to us. They don't call it lying. They call it a noble live when anthony says on one day. Don't wear mouse than where mouse and where to mask or xenophobic. To have a travel ban. Yes then maybe not. He said himself that he lied on about mao. So there wouldn't be a quote on quote run on mask and they've been doing that with everything you said. Why did james clapper say lied under oath and say this. Nsa does not spy on people. Why did john brennan say under oath. We've never killed anybody. Drones assignations or. I don't spy on senate staffer computer. Or why did james me say. I can't remember under two hundred forty five times or white robert mueller. When asked the font about the font of the whole collusion hoax the steele dossier and fusion. Gps he said under. I have no idea what you're talking about. And i feel that they don't they field. They're not lying. They're just doing what's necessary for the greater good and the media and they don't care about the people because they found out. In the twenty first century they can run the country with the media with social media with the corporate boardroom with k. Through twelve of the academic world with foundations that that twenty percent of the population. It's highly educated professional. They have such power over communications in this electronic global age. They don't the joe biden doesn't even try to get a fifty one percent consensus. He said yesterday. I came in and there were four million. That's all he knows. There were seventeen million people vaccinated. He just lied because he knew that the media wouldn't say it. And then people like you and eric our listeners. Today probably think well. How can he he. He's non kumble's mint as he doesn't he doesn't even finish sentences. He won't answer questions. He doesn't try to build a consensus. He just says. Pay your fair share and the tactic. We're not getting enough taxes when he welched out on five hundred thousand dollars of taxes we're told and yet the left would say we don't care if maybe this is liberated. He's you say that he's non minto. What are you gonna do about that. Are you going to do. That's the question attitude. Do you think we'll be able to do anything about it. That's the first question i think. If we get the vocabulary we understand without being shrill we just say listen. These are not democrats. They're not progressive. These are hardcore socialist-marxism. I know there's a lot of naive that follow them. That may not be but when you rename the country from seventeen seventy six basically. Its founding brand sixteen. Nineteen you tear down statues or you counsel people out your jacqueline's and bolsheviks and you've got to say that to them and then when you have racism to fight racism or discrimination to fight discrimination racist this be honest about it and we don't use that terminology we don't say these are jakobsen bolsheviks bolsheviks and they're racist and they want to destroy a country and yet they're out the trough on the country The first thing that squad did those three congress women almost first thing they did. A upon assuming office was violate campaign financing. They were all under audit for using campaign funds in dishonest way. And the second thing they did was promulgate antisemitic tropes. No-one said a word and they knew that. And so we've got to say to people we don't care what background you are. What color you are. What gender you are going to judge you on what you say and what you do and once you start doing that and i think the left the right has a really good argument because it's the party of the middle class now. I should say to the people check go by zip codes. Go by congressional districts per capita income by any measure you want to use. The democratic left bolshevik party is the party of the super rich and subsidize for and the lower middle and upper middle and middle classes or conservative. Just thirty or so seconds left but it seems to me that a big part of the success of the marxist left i has been their ability using the media to convince us that most people think that way. If you don't think that way you're the anomaly. I think part of what you do. And i do is we try to encourage people to say that. No no no no no. You're quite right. They're crazy you're not crazy and most of us know they're crazy when you say you can't put on a birth certificate. The american medical cessation said we can no longer put male or female on a birth certificate. We all know that's crazy and we simply have to encourage each other that that's the that's the case. So final fifteen seconds. Forgive me. I think all of us have to say that we have to speak honestly and and attack that revisionism and we have to expect the first way of cancel culture and back but once it bounces off you and you survive it your liberated you say. What is that all you can do. I'm still here and once you get that attitude. I think you're liberated you'll be successful fantastic books. The book is the dying citizen. Victor davis.
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"Even you written a lot older than your. You've you've written a. I'm glad i fooled you. We've written a. You've written a lot of important books. you've been a classics professor for decades. Your new book is called the dying citizen. How progressive elites tribalism and globalization are destroying the idea of america. I'm always mortified. When someone i trust like you Sees what i see. Because i prefer to be suffering from from emotionalism or something you know and you write about it in this book that we're facing now is simply unprecedented. What do you say in the book about. What do you think what you think is possible in terms of of dealing with it. That's always gotta be my first question. Do you think it's possible for us to pull out of this death. Spiral i identify sick symptoms of three from the organic natural historical forces that migrations into a country without borders and the disruption of a private space the destruction of the middle class tribalism which destroys civilization. And then the elite postmodern forces that are destroying citizenship. And that's kind of a euphemism for the country as you as you suggest. And that's this administrative state. These two million people. It can be anybody from general milley to james comey and you know the score. And then people who are trying to change the constitution the customs whether it's the full buster or the electoral college fifty state union and then finally this globalization that our first allegiance to go to the un who were going to you know on the invitation from secretary. Blinken going to see whether we're racist or not so. All of those things can be reversed is what i'm trying to say because we we had a very controversial president but let's admit that after four years we had a wall and had a tough immigration policy and we had legal only immigration for about six months finally after all those lawsuits and we were going before. Eric floyd i think people realize they were getting sick of identity. Politics is here in california even after we voted remember in two thousand twenty to reject affirmative action in the blue state in the union the effort to try to throw away pop to nine and the middle class under donald trump for the first time in twelve years had a real increase in wages. There were a lot of talk about the one point. Seven trillion dollar debt and student loans and the culpability at universities and the government had they were so there was an effort. We didn't have this eroding seven percent. Parental inflation that we have now so there were good signs that we were onto something and then as far as the administrative state he deregulated more than anybody had in four years. It didn't dent the administrative state but it was a start. And he as you know. When i will he went into the arena as a gladiator. You went mono mono with james komi and james clapper and andrew mccabe and all of those pentagon generals on elected and he fought with him. He did crew often cross fashion but he was the only person my memory who said there is such a thing as a deep state. You're going to have to deal with it. And he you know he got into the election reads but there were reasons to question one hundred million people voting for the first time in history not on election day and so he was trying to do things globalization. Of course he got. Out of the paris accord he got out of the iranian according recalibrated against china in a way we hadn't seen so what i'm getting out if you have somebody who has the right agenda but his controversial and by that i mean eric i think sometimes trump got mad but he didn't get even if you know what i mean by. That's a big point. Very few people say that. And i think you're quite right. It's it seems to me counterintuitive. Because you think of trump as a you know almost belligerent. He's a he's a he's a warrior and yet you're quite right and i've heard this said many times that he didn't do what was necessary because like most of us he thought he would have more time. Yes i think he would have been the second administration but take dr fallacy. I- incentive saying that dr foul cheetos a ball like a girl and have a gratuitous insult and then gives superficial sympathy for dr paltrow. Why not put your arm around him once you've signed him up and say this is a loyal servant. He's eighty years old. He did heroic work during the aids crisis. He's given me an valuable advice. And i just can't draw on him anymore. I don't want to burden them anymore. He will be retiring tomorrow and if he had done things like that about the people around him that we're giving them terrible advice and then nullifying his Efforts whether it was anonymous in the deep state or all of these pseudo impeachment but he he he never did that he just got these verbal joust and then he didn't get even well and i've spoken to people as well Who say that. He kind of He could have fired people he needed to fire people. In other words he needed to drain the swamp as immediately as possible because these people every day they existed. They were working against him. I don't think he had people around him who really apprised him of you know an existential threat to him and to the country i don't think so either. And so my point was that given these problems of having one person in his seventies with no prior military or political experience. Come in and have the entire. Bipartisan establishment oppose him. Remember rosa brooks the pin avant pentagon council wrote an article in foreign policy. Seven days after he was president. This was a high ranking pentagon official under obama saying that we should either immediately evoked the twenty fifth amendment are starting peach mint or have a military coup words not mine and so he was up against forces that cosmic forces media wall street corporations entertainment professional sports k. Through twelve academia. We've never seen them. Silicon valley coalescence such frantic frenzied fashion. So my point of all this is kind of a long excursions. But he was trying to do things that that i had identified and i was riding not about him but the citizenship and the erosion. We just talked about and he was successful on the border and a challenging identity politics and helping the middle class and talk challenging the deep state and if we have that agenda continuing and he could play of a senior role in it. I'm optimistic. i'm not pessimistic. And so i try to tell Accentuate that in the book. Especially the apple on that That went through the events after the election. You you're not..
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"victor davis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Now if you know me you know. I'm not just saying this. This is important for the nation. And if it's important for this nation it's important for the world hard to believe we're living in such historic times. Unfortunately we are unfortunately. I wish we weren't but we are. And so i say to you folks. if you've got the guts get those signs fixed. Twenty twenty i who disagrees with that if you disagree with transparency in american election. I don't know who you are. I don't know how you consider yourself in america. And i don't know how you think you should vote if you don't understand how vital something like that is so i want to say to people. Put that sign in your front yard about if more and more people do this folks you'll be part of something you want to be part of something or do you wanna be a sort of a little guilty for the rest of your life that you didn't stand up. I talked about this. All the time in bonn hoffer day. Good people great people kept their mouth shut and they regretted it for the rest of their lives And i i just wanna say how important this is mike. We've just got a less than a minute. When you bring this case to the supreme court before thanksgiving what specifically in this case do you think will make them look at the evidence whereas in the past they would say now. We're gonna take a pass. What do you think specific words here. There's there's there's not just that we have one hundred percent of all the of all the cyber evidence but also we have some of the smartest people in our country a mathematicians physicists. People that have like say the highest. Iq's i've ever seen all from different parts of of our country but the main the main one is dr douglas spring. He's got the shows from our twenty ten census report. That's where they use the base for this algorithm. And anybody can do it it. Does you could pick any county pick any county in your state and then pick an age eric picker county. We have what no yep. We're we're at a time. Mike my friend but you picked you picked that county and age everybody and the same percentage of that age group voted in the whole state. I know i have heard this. Forgive me that we're out of time mike. We love you folks. Go to mypillow my store. Frank.
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"Before we continue the conversation with mike lindell. And then we're going to have. Victor davis hanson. I want to remind you about the alliance defending freedom. Were doing a campaign with them. They are the last line of defense for many americans. We are being subjected to things we never dreamt of or maybe we dreamt of them but we thought it would be in the distant future The alliance defending freedom is taking these things to court. They're standing up. I have friends good friends who are losing their jobs because they refuse to get the vaccine. Now folks there's no way. I would get this vaccine. What i've read about this and heard about this. I think you'd have to be crazy to get it. That's my opinion. You don't have to agree with me. But the idea that in america people will tell me. If you don't do this to your body with who knows what results in the future you lose your job now. The of freedom is standing for these people. They're taking this stuff to court. We need your help. I want to tell you Well here's the phone number eight five five four seven fifty three thirty three eight five five five four seven fifty three thirty three or just go to our website. Metaxas talk dot com taxes. Talk dot com. You'll see the banner. We need your help folks. We're in a war. Speaking of which my friend. Mike lindell mike. You've just been a hero so many people love you cheering you on. I wanna ask you when you said. China wanted to win the election. Help us understand for people who don't maybe understand why they would be involved. Which of course would be. I mean a stunning thing. Because we talked about this fig russia thing for four years this is real right. Why do you think they would go so out on a limb in the us election did they fear. Donald trump that much. Well i think You know it's been planned for decades. And i and their plan was broken in the in november. Eight th of two thousand sixteen. Obviously that was a big disruptive thing that it would have been world takeover and and anyone. That doesn't believe that if you have you seen the evidence. I've i've had ninety. Two percent of the cyber intrusions into our country came from china. We know the buildings. We know that the ip address we know the ideas that computers companies that were involved on these are public and private companies. That were involved. I mean and then you've got the media and then you've got social media you got all these things but china they got into our colleges. This has been planned for a long time. Eric and make him say mike. Subjective call whatever you want. I'm making the best of the year. Cnn all around everybody. I mean if you take away. What do you take away pers. You take away our our first amendment right to pre speech you take away those rights you take away a right to free speech and it's pretty much you get. You got everything. If it wouldn't have been for like yourself. Eric myself and many many other people that just continued to speak out after after the big thing on january. Six going okay. Anybody says anything. I'm just gonna ask you though because we shouldn't joke around. How many members of congress were murdered by pro-trump people. How did you know the number. I'm pretty sure it was. I'm pretty sure we it was zero. Folks you can't. You can't joke about that mike you when you think what we're going through in this country people are going to look back. History books are going to be written about the madness. I mean originally. I said this is our reichstag fire. How the nazis used that to bully their opponents into submission. I never never thought. Never thought in america. I would see something like this. The january sixth thing is that you. And i and many others as you said we will not shut up and the only reason we won't shut up because we believe that if you honor truth honor god and you can't out his rod folks. You can't even if even if he ended up being wrong. If you believe. You're doing the right thing you need to do. The right thing and god looks on our hearts. He says that person loves freedom. That person cares about freedom. Tell us about frank speech because a lot of people they don't know about it and i want i want people to know by the way this program. This show is a daily tv show in beautiful. High definition glorious studio at frank speech dot com three pm eastern every single day. But mike talk about a frank speech. Well it's the one of the most important things we have to our freedom and to win this and people say well mike you know you built it. Yeah i put millions of dollars tens of millions of over ten million dollars into getting my own servers getting my own platform so that they couldn't take it down like they did too many other sites okay and this was our voice. We were losing our voice. I did this this spring. We did the impossible. We built the broadcast network part. I we have the social media part coming. Hopefully before thanksgiving i put on there. But what is is when they went out. Started cancelling people on youtube and this was all part of a plan where you can't all these platforms out there and terrible google but all these places where they're canceling you now. The the great shows there. Like your show eric coming to you but the most important thing is to get the beers we've got almost five million people now that have come to bring speech but we need all of you out there to keep telling more and more people. We need our voice to win this thing. We need our voice to put the pressure on the supreme court when it gives her. We need our voice. We have great things going out. In north dakota maybe california maybe florida from all corners of the country. But you know what we need to hear about this. We need to ulker. You can't stand up. they kill they. Everybody knew everything that was going on. Which which i know most of it. It's amazing you'd be so hopeful unhappy join. You'll be going crazy going. This is amazing. So you what you can do out. There is number one get people to break speech dot com and get there and watch. Watch eric show. Every day uses promo code..