Victor Davis Hanson

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The Victor Davis Hanson Show · Overexposed: The Truth and Troubles of Left Politics · 25 Feb 2025 podcast

into the government each year of thousands of households and tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. So why doesn't she just say... I'm very proud of what we're doing. Don't cut it. She's a wonderful steward of your money. But they never do that. They just scream and yell, constitutional crisis, and they never actually address the cut.

You know, because of this podcast, I get emails now maybe three a day. And they're from people like the following. I am a Forest Service lifetime ranger, and I clean the trails, and I'm going to lose my job. Or I have been a soil chemist for EPA, Victor, and you need to point out that we're all losing our jobs. And I have no way to adjudicate that, right, with the program.

But the other thing, very quickly, Jack, is And I'm not criticizing Elon, whom I praised to the skies, but they need to get a better narrative and the sense that it's tragic. In other words, you don't want to act like you're getting scalps. You've got to say something along the following. We didn't create the problem. You people, you were the revolutionaries. You hired all these people.

You were the one that spent $7 trillion. You were the one that opened the border. You were the one that let in 12 million people. You were the one that canceled Keystone and put 650,000 acres off. You were the cancer. And it was not sustainable with 37 trillion. So then we came in and we are the ones, it's very easy to hire people and get patronage.

It's very hard to say there's no money and have to lay them off. We don't like doing that. It's very easy to let in 12 million people and say, ha, ha, ha. It's very hard to find them and tell them you have to go home. You entered under illegal auspices. Very easy to destroy the border. Very hard to build a wall and reconstruct it. Very easy with it. Just say, oh, we're not going to have Anwar.

We're not going to have Keystone. It's very hard to get those projects resurrected. So my point is... We are the counter-revolutionaries, and we've had the most radical revolution in our history. And it's not easy to undo what Joe Biden did and earlier Obama. And we're not bragging about putting people out of work.

We feel bad, but we feel worse for the taxpayers who are strapped and have to give money to an irresponsible federal government. And they have to have more. They're starting to do that. They had a wonderful press conference. I looked at it on YouTube yesterday. Jack with Caroline Levitt. She brought out Kevin Hassert, who's wonderful.

And then they had Steve Miller, who's got a photographic memory. And then they had Waltz. It's national security. And each one explained what they had done in one month. Waltz went over the foreign policy, which I hope we'll talk about in a second, about Ukraine. And then Miller went over the whole idea of the constitutionality of what they're doing and illegal immigration.

And Kevin was really good on immigration. Just hold on, everybody. We're going to deal with inflation. We didn't cause it. We've only been in 30 days. But when we address this massive overspending and when we get we're not trying to put tariffs on anybody. We're just saying you have a tariff. We will have a tariff. You have no tariff. We will have no tariff. And it was very good.

I think they need to do that almost every two weeks. Bring in Christy Noem. It's your turn, Christy. Tell us what's going on at Homeland Security. Your turn, Pam Bondi. And showcase them. It would be wonderful.

I don't understand how the argument the Democrats, it's almost like they're saying a federal employee is not subject to any of the conditions, risk, any of the real world that all of you are out there. What are they going to tell some farmer who's out there farming wheat or corn? He has no idea or she has no idea what they're going to have any money at the end of the year period.

And they are living on borrowed money from the bank on their crop loan. And every day they go out, they don't know if they made money that day or if they paid somebody for the pleasure of being an attractor all day. And they won't know until that crop is harvested, if there's not a rain, there's not a frost, something.

And if they actually get the crop, then they don't, the price, they're at the mercy of the brokerage.

people and the world market and they're going to tell those people oh it's so bad that we have to go into work with a steady guaranteed income i don't think that's going to be persuasive for a truck how about a truck driver you know he's driving down there in the all you know 17 18 hours every couple of days he looks at what's the price of fuel in indiana oh god i got to go to california what's the price of diesel there oh my car my truck insurance went oh my god

And you're trying to tell him that somebody with a guaranteed job you're supposed to feel sorry for? I don't think they're going to be sympathetic. Same thing like a guy on a forklift in Modesto and you say to him, how long you been on that forklift at 15 bucks an hour? I've been out here since I was 18. Do you want to pay your taxes to forgive 1.7 trillion in student loans? No.

He's half the country. And that's why the Democrats don't quite get it, you know. Yeah. I know that the polls, as they did with Reagan, Reagan had terrible polls. And as you remember, Jack, in 82, he got hit in the midterms and in 83, and then all of a sudden, the Reagan revolution kicked in with tax cuts, deregulation, and the economy grew almost 7% in 84. He wiped out Mondale, but...

It's going to be rough to administer chemo to this patient. It really is. That's us, the patient.

No, people were very friendly. I flew in. It was kind of a storm, and the pilot was wonderful. He went right through the storm. We landed, and then a dense fog ensued in Dallas, and we took right off. I arrived right on time.

I had a connection, and then it was kind of cloudy and cold in Naples, and I had to go to a Bradley Foundation meeting for two days, and then I took a car and went to Palm Beach. It was very cold and windy. It got a little warmer, and then I went to Scott Atlas' Liberty,

It's a new institute that Scott has founded mostly geared toward young people, young professionals to see if they can create each year advocates for free speech and free expression all across business, health care, everything. So I gave the speech, had a nice – I sat at the table with the first lady of Florida who was just very – She gave a talk right before mine. She's brilliant.

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