Victor Davis Hanson

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The Charlie Kirk Show · Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World · 3 Apr 2025 podcast

So if they think that they're going to hurt a particular sector of the American, and that's what they do, when they negotiate with Trump, they look at particular red state or areas that are his supporters and they want to target that type of commodity for these small towns and rural areas.

Well, Trump got 26%, I think, of the black vote and about 55% of the Hispanic male, maybe 48 in general. So there is a, part of that was cultural. In other words, they like a strong leader. Biden's mental and physical feebleness bothered them, of course. But they also, on cultural issues, they don't like the idea of biological males, crime issues.

open borders especially here people didn't like but there was also something about i don't want to say macho but there was the idea that you want a strong representative of the united states that embodies our confidence and and so if somebody they don't like optional military engagements in the middle east or anywhere but if some it's more of a jacksonian don't tread on me but no better friend no worse enemy that type of foreign policy appeals a lot to males but class-wise

The idea of bringing jobs back in the United States and having, say, a worker and a half for every job, I mean, two jobs for every worker rather than, you know, two workers for every job is what they want because it makes them... more valuable and prized and appreciated.

So this idea when Trump says, I brought in $3 trillion worth of foreign investment and in three years, most economists say for every $10 billion, some say 20, you get a million jobs. So if what he says is correct, you could see 30 or 40, 50 million jobs in the next decade. And that appeals to people. They'll say, you know what?

I can be a machine operator and I'll have three or four offers rather than have to go beg and humiliate myself to work at minimum wage part-time. And so it's kind of like a can-do. We want to get the country moving. We want to be preeminent in every field, military, food, oil, gas, everything. And that appeals to, I think, men in a strange way.

Well, he's a counter-revolutionary, so he's mapped out his counter-revolution. And he's got, as you know, more lower district court injunctions in the first two months than any president – I mean, than Biden had in four years or any other president. So – They are trying to do everything they can to stop him, and we're right at the abyss.

But if he should do just four or five things, achieve a peace in Ukraine, a peace in the Middle East, make Iran inert in nuclear terms, get somewhat symmetry or parity in trade. And if he can cut even a half a trillion and get on a trajectory within three years, we're gonna have a balanced budget.

Just those things alone would make him more successful than any president in the last half century, at least. No other Republican has ever tried that. Reagan, George H.W., George W., they all said the same thing. We're going to slow down the cultural revolution. We're not going to stop it. We're going to slow the growth of government. We're not going to cut it.

We're going to look at deregulation and taxes, but we're going to not talk about trade. So they knew that if they were to do – they wanted probably some of them to do what Trump did, but if they did do what Trump – they would meet a level of resistance that they thought would be incompatible, either socially or culturally. They just didn't want to handle that.

And they got a lot of resistance as it was. But I think something about Trump's temperament or background or attitude or outlook makes him invulnerable or oblivious or protected from social opprobrium. He didn't care.

Yeah, I mean, they told us that you had to have comprehensive immigration reform, which was basically amnesty in their view. And if you didn't, you couldn't close the border. And he understood that the border was open because they wanted the border open, and they wanted 12 million people in here, both for cheap labor and for future political constituents and for larger federal programs, greater...

taxes, more redistribution. And he just simply said, if you obey the law, and that means you fortify the border and you secure it and you turn people back and there's no catch and release and no refugee status once you're here, but you have to do it, you could stop it and create, more importantly, a psychological sense of deterrence.

And when he started to say things like, I have an executive order that if you come across the border illegally, you can't come back for 10 years. That was very brilliant because it told people, oh, I'm here and these people are serious. They might catch me and then I can't come back legally. So you're actually seeing a little bit of reverse immigration.

I think they really need to enhance that because it's something people had talked about in the past, but they thought no president would ever dare do it.

Well, I have a website, victorhansen.com. For $5 a month, you can get my usual stuff. It's two columns a week. I do 11 videos of various statuses there. But I also have about 2,000 words only for subscribers and a video only for subscribers. And it's fresh. I've done it for four years. Haven't missed a week yet.

So every week, two long essays and a 10-minute video in addition to all the other stuff at the website.

I think the messaging, I think, could be improved. I would get a little bit more tragic than braggadocio. In other words, I wouldn't have a chainsaw when I'm cutting. I would say something along the following. I don't like laying people off. I don't like the idea of getting in arguments with Canada, and I'm willing to hear things, but I didn't start this. I didn't open the border.

I didn't let in 12 million people. I didn't run up $37 trillion. I didn't get us into $3 billion in interest a year. I don't like any of that. But I'm the one that's tasked with fixing all this. And that sometimes is a rough thing to do because in this transition, there's going to be people that are going to have to change their methods. They're going to lose jobs.

And I'm going to try to get as much federal investment as I can. $3 trillion worth. And for every person that we have to... eliminate their job. We're going to try to get them something better in the private sector. But I think a little bit more of that tone that we didn't ask for this, but if we don't do it, nobody else is going to do it.

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