Victor Davis Hanson

And he knew that if he had been a white male president, he wouldn't have got it.

Just like Donald Trump, who did 20,000 times more things to earn it than Barack Obama did, probably will not get it.

So they know that.

And so the only way that they can square that circle of their privilege and prejudice and bias in their direction is to completely play this victim game.

And it's getting...

It's getting really pathetic, and I don't know what... I don't think it's... It's never going to end until people who are them, whoever she considers them, say, you know what?

I know that our system is fair and meritocratic.

You can call me a racist.

It has zero effect on me.

I'm sorry.

There's so many different characteristics that we all have that can hurt or help us.

I think it would be a lot easier to be Michelle Obama than Governor Abbott in a wheelchair.

What he had to overcome or her middle class existence in Chicago was a lot easier.

more conducive for her success than J.D.

Vance's was with a dysfunctional drug-ridden family in Appalachia.

You got that right.

So everybody comes to the table with individual debits and pluses.

But once you do this race thing and you think it supersedes every other consideration of individuality and your race is essential rather than incidental to who you are, to your persona,

then it's not going to work out.

And you can see it puts enormous pressure on people.