Victor Davis Hanson

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

Without Elon, we would still be censoring social media, and the FBI would be working with Twitter and Facebook to try to weaponize an election. So I don't know what the anger is about him. Without Elon, we wouldn't even be talking about cutting waste. All he's doing is basically Donald Trump said Joe Biden went crazy. I was crazy, but he went crazier with the debt. I had the excuse of COVID.

He didn't. And then he said, Elon, you took over Twitter and they said that you had all this feather bedding and didn't you get rid of 90 percent? And Elon said, I not only got rid of 80 or 90 percent, it works just as well. Well, could you come over here? Yes, I want to come over here and do the same thing for the U.S. government. That's where we are. So, yes, he has a great admiration.

And yes, he's 78 years old. Yeah. I can tell you I'm 71 and my level of energy from 71 to 60 or 68 is very different, but it makes him more reflective. So yes, it enhances his message. He still tweets with capital letters. He still calls people bird brain and idiots and despicable and crazy and stupid, but less so. And, um, And he looks tired because he is.

He probably gets four hours sleep, 78-year-old. And it makes him, oddly, it makes him more effective. And he's flooding the zone. That's what he's doing. He's saying, you know what? He got all that cabinet. You saw that picture the other day. And he's saying to Sean Duffy, I want you to go in there and save the FAA. Everybody says, we're having all these crashes.

We're not having any more per day than we did Under Joe Biden or Barack Obama or Trump's first term, but they're more publicized. But more importantly, he's only been in there five weeks. The FAA is Joe Biden's and it was DEI, just like United States.

pilot training was DI'd, meaning people were being hired on the basis of their superficial appearance and fired if you didn't fit the particular favored profile. So then he's saying to Pete Hexeth, And recruitment, we're down 50. They keep lying. Every time they're short 40 or 50, they just said, we didn't need that many. We do need that many.

And then all of a sudden, Pete Hegseth, 350 people a day, 10,000 a month. It's record he's been able to do. So everybody said he's crazy. He's tattooed. He's out there with the, he looks like a soldier. He's fought. And he's trying to radically change everything. We've talked about that. My gosh, I don't think I've heard one retired general. Have you?

Who have said that Donald Trump was a pathological liar, that he should be removed sooner than later, that he was Mussolini-like, that he's an architect of Auschwitz-like cages, or that he is on the wrong side of the D-Day beaches and Nazi-like. Why don't they say it? Because they know that he is going to enforce the Uniform Code of Military Justice. And I think he's going to open up procurement.

And the same thing with Marco Rubio. As I said last time, he is Patton, and Trump is the chaotic armored thrust. And he confuses the enemy like Patton did, and then the infantry comes behind the sober and judicious people, and they iron out. So Panama's in a frenzy. Oh, he's going to invade us. He's going to do this. Marco Rubio goes down and says, look, we want to be friends.

Donald Trump gets a little wild sometimes, but you signed a... deal with the Chinese and you knew what they're doing. You knew that even if it was technically legal to put a Chinese controlled company at the beginning and the end of the canal, are you insane? And to turn this over to these people? Okay. And that's what he does. Ditto Greenland, ditto Canada. I will say one thing.

Donald Trump's got to be very careful about Canada because, yes, they have an inordinate asymmetrical tariff and they run up a $50 billion and they know exactly what they do. And they spend about 1.4 on their defense. They don't meet the NATO requirement. This is one of the most impressive militaries ever. per capita in the history of the West during World War II.

The Canadians, they had a huge fleet. They had wonderful soldiers. They sacrificed. The Dieppe raid, the British planned that, and the Canadians got bled white on that. They were very courageous. For them not to be armed. But here's my point. This was Trudeau, Trudeau, Trudeau. If he keeps the pressure on Canada, and it's already worked. I'm not criticizing that.

He's got a billion dollars invested by the Canadians to close the border. All they have to do is up their defense a little bit, and they can do that. And the second thing they do is just say, we want reciprocal tariffs. That's all. If we charge you for milk and butter, you charge us for milk and butter, timber, timber, oil, that. You know what I mean?

But here's the problem when he, if we, and I understand the art of the deal, you have to be crazy and talk. But what we're doing is we're taking this Nen Kampuk Trudeau, who had rock bottom liberal labor, et cetera, ratings of the left wing parties, and we're making him into a victim and a protector. the protector of Canadian sovereignty.

Every time we say, well, you're Governor Trudeau, 51 state. Meanwhile, we have these wonderful conservatives, the Stephen Harper wing. And the others, there's four or five of them. And they are put into an impossible situation because they have to, as politicians, defend Canadian sovereignty. And they have to defend them from whom? Kindred spirits, Donald Trump.

So the conservatives want to do to Canada what Trump's doing, that is lower taxes, lower deregulation. have a good military. But when he attacks Canada generically, then Trudeau said, look at them. They're Trumpers. They're just like Trump. And the result is it's wacky now. The conservative popularity is going down. And if it continues, they might not win what would have been a landslide election.

And so I think we have to find a message and thread that needle. We have to say, we're angry at Trudeau and what he's done to Canada. We need a conservative. And once we have a conservative government, every issue can be worked out. Now, that's interference in Canadian elections, but that's what they do to us. Everybody does that to us.

So I just think somebody in the administration, not Trump, but maybe J.D. Vance or someone should say, Boy, if we had a conservative, stable, normal government, not this crazy man Trudeau, we would have everything negotiated on a symmetrical basis. And then I think the conservatives would win.

This is not Gavin Newsom. You should have just had nobody show up because that's what he is, an empty suit. I don't know. I mean, I've talked about this a little bit. He wants to talk with MAGA people. I'm a MAGA person. Everybody listens to MAGA persons. If all of our audience who's listening right now could go on his show, they would say this.

Gavin, you have 13.3, the highest income taxes in the United States, and you're, I think, number nine in sales taxes, average per county, depending on the county, 10% to 12%. You have the highest gas taxes. Gavin, we rate 45th in schools' test scores. We have the highest per capita crime rate in San Francisco and Oakland of any major city. We have one third of all the welfare recipients.

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