Victor Davis Hanson
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And other countries who welch out on what they owe say, look at Germany. It did, so we can. So they are failing. They're failing, and they had exactly no, zero GDP growth a year ago. And this last year, they may have a slight in 2024. A year and a half ago, they had none in 2023. Negative economic. Negative. This year, they may have a slight.
And other countries who welch out on what they owe say, look at Germany. It did, so we can. So they are failing. They're failing, and they had exactly no, zero GDP growth a year ago. And this last year, they may have a slight in 2024. A year and a half ago, they had none in 2023. Negative economic. Negative. This year, they may have a slight.
And other countries who welch out on what they owe say, look at Germany. It did, so we can. So they are failing. They're failing, and they had exactly no, zero GDP growth a year ago. And this last year, they may have a slight in 2024. A year and a half ago, they had none in 2023. Negative economic. Negative. This year, they may have a slight.
So they're failing economically, socially, culturally, politically, militarily. And everybody's trying to tell them to wake out of their slumber, deregulate, cut taxes, start using natural gas energy and nuclear energy, get cheap energy again, close your borders, integrate people, have legal-only bureaucratic immigration. Yeah. People are leaving.
So they're failing economically, socially, culturally, politically, militarily. And everybody's trying to tell them to wake out of their slumber, deregulate, cut taxes, start using natural gas energy and nuclear energy, get cheap energy again, close your borders, integrate people, have legal-only bureaucratic immigration. Yeah. People are leaving.
So they're failing economically, socially, culturally, politically, militarily. And everybody's trying to tell them to wake out of their slumber, deregulate, cut taxes, start using natural gas energy and nuclear energy, get cheap energy again, close your borders, integrate people, have legal-only bureaucratic immigration. Yeah. People are leaving.
It used to be everybody was just leaving Britain, but we had a job at the Hoover Institution. We had 900 applicants for a junior fellow, and I could not believe how many brilliant German scholars and historians were applying. I mean it. And then I looked, and you looked at all fields, political science, economics, Silicon Valley is, the German elite is starting to leave.
It used to be everybody was just leaving Britain, but we had a job at the Hoover Institution. We had 900 applicants for a junior fellow, and I could not believe how many brilliant German scholars and historians were applying. I mean it. And then I looked, and you looked at all fields, political science, economics, Silicon Valley is, the German elite is starting to leave.
It used to be everybody was just leaving Britain, but we had a job at the Hoover Institution. We had 900 applicants for a junior fellow, and I could not believe how many brilliant German scholars and historians were applying. I mean it. And then I looked, and you looked at all fields, political science, economics, Silicon Valley is, the German elite is starting to leave.
And that's hard because Germany is not a, it's not close to, I mean, it is closer than I suppose to English than it is to Spanish. It's not a romance language either, but it's a difficult language. And a lot of Germans have trouble, and vice versa, Americans learning these languages, and yet they're over here. And we don't have the same relationship we had with Britain. We were enemies of two wars.
And that's hard because Germany is not a, it's not close to, I mean, it is closer than I suppose to English than it is to Spanish. It's not a romance language either, but it's a difficult language. And a lot of Germans have trouble, and vice versa, Americans learning these languages, and yet they're over here. And we don't have the same relationship we had with Britain. We were enemies of two wars.
And that's hard because Germany is not a, it's not close to, I mean, it is closer than I suppose to English than it is to Spanish. It's not a romance language either, but it's a difficult language. And a lot of Germans have trouble, and vice versa, Americans learning these languages, and yet they're over here. And we don't have the same relationship we had with Britain. We were enemies of two wars.
And yet here they are and they're fleeing the United States. If Donald Trump is successful and he deregulates and reduces taxes and he gets three, not he won't do it right away, but if he gets three to five percent GDP growth and he closes the borders and makes meritocratic immigrants, you will see a wagon train from Europe.
And yet here they are and they're fleeing the United States. If Donald Trump is successful and he deregulates and reduces taxes and he gets three, not he won't do it right away, but if he gets three to five percent GDP growth and he closes the borders and makes meritocratic immigrants, you will see a wagon train from Europe.
And yet here they are and they're fleeing the United States. If Donald Trump is successful and he deregulates and reduces taxes and he gets three, not he won't do it right away, but if he gets three to five percent GDP growth and he closes the borders and makes meritocratic immigrants, you will see a wagon train from Europe.
And unlike Biden, he will not discourage them because they are not the right color or religion or background.
And unlike Biden, he will not discourage them because they are not the right color or religion or background.
And unlike Biden, he will not discourage them because they are not the right color or religion or background.
Yeah. That whole Biden-Merkel mentality, Obama. I mean, we lost $5 billion. I think Ford alone lost almost $5 billion on this EV mandate. And it was even worse over there with Porsche and Audi and BMW and Mercedes and Volkswagen. It was just mindless when they were producing basically zero emission cars.
Yeah. That whole Biden-Merkel mentality, Obama. I mean, we lost $5 billion. I think Ford alone lost almost $5 billion on this EV mandate. And it was even worse over there with Porsche and Audi and BMW and Mercedes and Volkswagen. It was just mindless when they were producing basically zero emission cars.