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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Because they've got half the problem solved, but that problem of letting them in, it was easier to solve than asking them to leave. And what they need to do is start the deportations in mass of violent criminals, and they're going to have to find some way, I think Pam Bondi has been working on it, to coerce these blue state renegade officials to follow state law.
As far as the cutting off, that's mostly a... Donald Trump can only do that on the federal level. And most welfare or electric bank transfer, most of it, not all, but is state and local. But there are a lot of people under federal reimbursements for Medi-Cal or Medicaid, I should say. We call it Medi-Cal in California.
Medicaid, and more importantly, we have a big abuse of the Social Security Disability Program. It's a multibillion-dollar expansive program, and a lot of people who come here know that, and they get on disability on the federal level. So what he's saying is...
we've got to stop this in california they we passed 187 there's a big myth jack that pete wilson who was that he was just he and he suffered terrible uh popularity problems because he backed 187 that passed by over 60 percent of the california population and that led uh to a democratic renaissance under Jerry Brown. That's not true, actually.
There was, after we passed 187, Pete Wilson still enjoyed favorable, always did favorable popularity ratings. The courts will say, if you're here, then you're an American, basically, and you get everything. And that's not legally apt. And so, I'd mentioned that very controversial period. In 187, I was a professor at Cal State Fresno, and we had just demonstration after demonstration.
It was really, and they were burning the American flag, and some of my own students were doing it. And I ventured out there and said, do not wave the Mexican flag if you don't want to go back there, and don't burn the American flag if you want to stay here. It's incoherent. And we saw that again with those, when they shut down 101, the protesters were doing just that.
That's not a good thing for the Democratic Party, everybody. If you're here illegally, do not protest against immigration, your immigration status by burning the American flag and do not wave the Mexican flag, because that suggests to an outsider, whether that is a fair impression or not, that you love Mexico so much that you don't want to go back.
And you hate the United States so much you have to stay here. And that's incoherent. Incoherent.
I think the problem we have with China and the Europeans is, everybody knows it, but we don't really say it, is that they have been taking advantages of us for ossified or anachronistic reasons. In other words, the Europeans still think it's 1946 and we're the only superpower. They've been devastated. And so they get the Marshall Plan or they get asymmetrical tariff.
China still thinks it's 1980 and the post-Mao era or the middle 80s, and they're trying to liberalize their economy. So we're going to let them with this George H.W. idea that we kind of let them cheat and then they'll become democratic because they get wealthy. That's both over with. So what seems a shock is not a shock.
All that Trump is trying to say on a series of these issues are, I will go down to zero tariffs with you, Germany, with you, France, with you, China, if you do. They don't want to. They love this market here. They can dump stuff. And so no tariffs for you, no tariffs for us. You go 5%, we're not going to go 2% on you anymore. And China, you have 350,000 students before COVID, probably still 300.
You dotted our landscape on campus with Confucius Institutes, which were PRC conduits. You have about 1% or 2%. of your students are active espionage people. That's probably 2,000 or 3,000, or if not more, you're buying key farmland, often real estate next to military bases. We saw what happened with the spy balloon. We don't do that to you. So don't do it to us.
And then they, and to a lesser extent, the Europeans, then say, look at Trump. He's a disruptor. Or they write an article in Foreign Affairs or the New Republic, and they say, this is horrible. This is what he's doing. No, he's bringing us back to the middle, normal. And what Donald Trump believes, and we haven't seen, we'll see what happens. We'll keep an open mind. But he believes...
that if you take the United States back to zero, and it has zero tariffs to any country that has zero tariffs, it has 5%, 10%, 15% with any country that does, then we will be getting a lot of money from either tariffs or from increased profits from trade exports. and we'll see what happens. But we are going to treat people the way that they treat us. And I think that's not asking so much.
I'm getting really tired of people that are lodging these complaints against the United States. They say things like, you're interfering. Germany, for example, when Elon Musk interviewed Donald Trump on his own ex inside the United States, Jack, They said that that was an interference.
It was in their own affairs and that Elon Musk was interfering because he commented on German politics and he praises the ADF and that J.D. Vance met with the AFD. Are you kidding me? Christopher Steele almost destroyed our electoral process with a lie and he was a British subject.
During the last election, the Laborites broadcast that they were raising money to pay people to come over here in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and campaign in our elections. All Europe does and all people abroad do is interfere with our elections. They always do. And so all Trump is saying on all of these issues is we're going to treat you like you treat us.
Not better, not worse. But they think it's going to be worse because it is worse in their case because they've been getting away with murder. And I don't know why the left, the Democratic Party, they used to be for protecting American jobs. And all of a sudden, they're the worst offenders. They're hand in glove with our
trade opponents or military opponents, but they will not insist on parity, parity, parity, parity. When a German chancellor gets up, as Scholz did right after February 24th of 2022 and said, this won't stand what Russia's done. We're going to be sending everything over to Ukraine or after October 7th. And then they don't do anything or they do very little. We don't believe you guys anymore.
We don't believe that what was so hard about spending 2% of your GDP on defense. You all promised in 2014 you were going to do it. And you still got 10 or 11, 9, 10, 11 countries that won't do it. And you want to be in NATO. And then you get mad when Donald Trump bullies you. What if the United States did not meet its 2%? What would happen to you people if that happened?
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