Victor Davis Hanson

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2,022 appearances 16 recordings 5 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 23 Mar

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

And they left it, they being the whole progressive agenda and project, and we have to do this and there's no, we ran out of time. It was on our watch, our station, our time, this task fell to us. We didn't ask for it, but we're gonna complete it. That kind of attitude I think would be a little bit better, or at least explain in detail.

But if you just say, you know, we're going to invade Panama or we're going to take, you know, Canada should be our 50. I understand the art of the deal, but you've got to you. We've got about a 10 percent independent conservative democratic constituency that we've got to reassure that things are going to get better. And we're doing this radical things now. Because they were the radicals.

We weren't the radicals. We're the counter revolutionaries. They were the revolutionaries. We're bringing things back to the normal. They were the ones that took it off the spectrum. That kind of explication very quickly, each time they have an important announcement, I think would help.

I hope not. It's worse than Stalingrad. I think everybody understands. I don't want to admit they all understand the contours of a peace. They're not going to get the Donbass and Crimea back, Ukraine. No president ever advocated it. They're not going to be in NATO anymore.

But on the other hand, they've got the biggest army of any NATO country, and they're well armed to the teeth, and they've killed or wounded, tragically, a million Russians. And so Russia... Thank you. you.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show · History of Income Tax Amendment 16 and News of the Week · 1 Mar 2025 podcast

Well, it's a lot to talk about. There's a general rule that Everybody knows in the healthcare industry, Medicare, Medicaid, and the local equivalents, say here in California, Medi-Cal, there is so many people on it now that we've never had a higher percentage of the population on it because we're aging and we're impoverished.

And we brought in 30 million people who were impoverished the last 30 years from south of the border. Okay. Everybody knows that millions of people are dependent as their only source of income and their only source of health care. Everybody knows there's massive fraud and abuse. So when Elon Musk looks at that, he has two warning signs. Number one.

If you mention the word, I'm going to have to cut Medicare or Medi-Cal, under any circumstances, you're going to get a blowback that has not happened on any other. USAID, EPA, no problem. Defense to budget, go to it, Elon. But those people do not want to even hear it. Once Dan Raskowski, the Republican... majority leader mentioned cutting Social Security, but also Medicare.

He was swarmed by his car. They went after him. On the other hand, that's where a lot of the abuse is. So it's kind of a lose-lose situation. If you want to really cut, you're going to have to go in there because there is a lot of fraud. But the fact that you're cutting anything, the left is going to destroy you. As far as the measles epidemic,

The problem with measles was always, it was, I had measles. We used to call it the German measles, the three-day measles, the red measles. But we all had it when we were growing up. In most cases, it was not dangerous. I think that, and people, please look this up, but I'm pretty sure it was about 500 deaths per year, about 50,000 cases.

The problem with it, with measles, of course, is if a woman is pregnant and has measles, it is one of the And I had a sister, Georgia Ann Hansen, who died, I think, at two years old. And my mother had German, what they call German measles, and she was born blind with heart defects. So it's a very, it's a, and it's a, it's a treatable disease. So we have been vaccinated.

And this is interesting because RFK has been skeptic of vaccination. But here's the intricacies. I want to be very careful what I say. It's such an emotional issue. The left is saying he wants to cut measles as a requirement. But there are people right now who... don't have measles vaccinations.

In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of parents who do not trust any vaccinations and their children are not allowed in most states in the public school system. So they're being homeschooled, right? We haven't, I don't think we've had a death in the last five years from measles, a death. We probably have four or 500 cases per year, if that. I think that's too high.

But now we're starting to see an outbreak. So if we were a rational, informed society, we would say something along the following. Because if a parent chooses not to have their child inoculated against childhood diseases, which whooping cough, measles, mumps, then they can't go to the public schools because That's a rational thing to do.

But why then would you let in 12 million people the last four years from one of the poorest areas in the world that is rampant with childhood diseases and say that you're a racist or a xenophobe to even mention the fact that these people coming in unaudited might have diseases? And Texas, where the outbreak is, might be indicative of that.

I can tell you that in rural southwest Fresno County, we've had one years ago, we had cases of leprosy, Hansen's disease. I think there was two cases one year, but nobody was allowed to talk about it. So my point is, yes, you should be inoculated. And yes, RFK will probably widen the window of exemptions if you do not want to be inoculated. You don't want your children...

They're not going to be at risk, but here's the catch with all vaccination. You say vaccinations are dangerous, so I'm not going to be vaccinated. But the fact is most people will be vaccinated. I think just like 95%. So those people, in your view, are taking a risk. But by taking a risk, they're suppressing the ability of the virus or the infectious agent to transmit.

And you're a beneficiary of that. So if everybody did what you did, we would go back to the 40,000 and 50,000 cases a year. And I don't know how many deaths, 400 or 500 deaths per year in the United States of 330 million, maybe more now with the population increase. So that's what we're talking about. But surely...

If you're going to have an open border and you're going to let in three to four million people a year and you make it taboo to even discuss the fact that they're unaudited and they're coming in without health checks and they're coming from areas where these diseases are not rare, and then you're telling people who are citizens in an area where there are no outbreaks that they can't put their children in the state schools because they're unvaccinated, then you've got a disconnect.

And so I would think that you should, under our new immigration policy, there should be a health check at the border. And nobody should be let in who's legal, and anybody who's coming legally should have a vaccination history and a checkup, as was true in the past.

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