Victor Davis Hanson
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In fact, I think I'm going to, as I speak, I'll be in Hillsdale next week talking about World War II films. I'm going to talk about that film along with Patton and my favorite World War II movie, Das Boot, The Boat.
He worked harder than he was known in Hollywood as the hardest working. He was in his 50s, because he started late. He started in his 40s to get known. He didn't have a 20, 30 year. He was unknown. And he was doing five or six films a year. He worked himself just to death almost.
Thank you, everybody. I appreciate listening. And call into Gavin's show and get on there and tangle with Gavin Newsom. He wants your voice to be heard. That's what he said.
Thank you, everybody.
Yes. Yes, I'm going to go to a military history conference. And on the 4th? Wait. 5th, 6th, 4th, I'm going to give a talk on Hollywood World War II movies. Oh! Yes, I am. Well, do talk about... My three favorite, I'm going to say, are George Patton and Das Boot. And then one that nobody likes, but I do like it, and that's The Bridge Too Far. That is a very good movie.
Yeah, there's two issues here, I think. One is, if it's about the majority of people, if you go back, Jack, and you look, if everybody would go back and take dates like 1970, arbitrarily 1980, and the word transsexual, I don't think the word transgender was used at that time, but there is a term that was used, gender dysphoria.
And that would mean that people felt that they're in the wrong body, so to speak. And then you look at scientific studies that were conducted and demographic studies. It's about point... 001% of the population. And then you look at current news stories that say that 20% of the Ivy League campuses say they are gender dysphoric or 10% of
And so you get the impression that this has been widely known through antiquity. I mentioned before a famous The Atheist poem by Catullus that was written somewhere around 045 BC in Rome, where he talks about a person who gets caught up in the ecstatic Eastern's cult of Sibylle.
They go into these ecstatic rites, and then he castrates himself, and he becomes, and halfway through the poem, they start to use the Latin illa for illy, the feminine pronoun. He had his right pronouns, Jack. And then he sits at the beach at the end when the trans wears off and he sees that he's become Eastern and effeminate and he laments this.
But my point is, if you read Petronius' Satyricon, this is all through antiquity. And there's little isolated cases in Diodorus with people who have disparate sex organs, a whole thing. But it's not the majority. And so what the...
The Democratic Party has done, in search of a new civil rights cause celeb, they have taken the transgendered issue, which was always a very minute portion of the population, and they've magnified it. The second thing they have done is they have blurred the idea of mainstream feminism. normality versus tolerance. Nobody on the right is saying that they want to go out and hound transgender people.
All they're saying is that if you are biologically one sex, that is, you have a muscular skeletal particular, and we're usually talking, Jack, about males, then And I think that's very important, everybody. We're talking about males who say they become women who compete in female sports. We're not talking about females who say they have become males competing against males with advantages.
They don't have an advantage. They have a disadvantage. And that should tell you something right there, that women who transition to males for large part do not win male athletics. The second thing is, I don't think there's a lot of objections from the male community that when males come into their restrooms and they are biologically female, people do not care.
What we're talking about is young girls who are dressing after gym or after sports events with people who have male genitalia. And the left used to be that we have to protect our children, we have to be careful about sexualizing, and they have completely thrown that out. The other larger question is, What Trump is trying to say is we want tolerance.
And I say that because he has a gay secretary of treasury. Rick Grinnell was gay. He's had more people who were gay in top echelon positions than almost anybody. But what he's trying to say is in any society... The idea of a man and a woman and a nuclear family and fertility of 2.1, 2.5 children is essential, not about ideology, not about politics, but just statistically to that society.
And what I mean by that is all of our sociological studies, if you believe anything from social science, show that a two-parent family, and I'm talking about people who are single, not that it's impossible, but it's a normative situation.
But what the Democratic Party is doing is they are taking things that have minute constituencies, and they are magnifying them to try to leverage the Republicans as illiberal, and it's not working.
So when you have trans people come in and storm in or you have Bud Light ads and it's not appealing to the mainstream and it's especially bleeding and hemorrhaging the Democratic Party support among black males and Hispanics. And they can't stop it.
No, it's not the messaging. It's the message. You could have Cicero articulate the message, and people do not want the message. They don't want it. Mark Penn, remember, along with Doug Schoen, was the architect, I think, of the 1996 project. Democratic Convention statement, which I've mentioned before, which reads pretty much like a MAGA statement.
Not that the Democrats ever followed through on all of them. And Clinton took, in the second term, he took the country to the left. But for a while... The idea of a closed border, legal-only immigration, strong support for defense, for the police, physical sobriety, that was a Democratic winning message. And that's why they won in 92 and 96 with a little help from Ross Perot.
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