Victor Davis Hanson

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

And the worst thing you can do with an enemy like Putin... Is to a be weak and appease him and then smear him and say that he did all these things that he didn't do and then call him a killer. He is a killer. But if you insult him like Biden did and call him all these names and you're weak, that's much better to praise him and then get tough with him. And that's what Trump does.

Just like he did with Kim Jong Un. It doesn't mean he likes him. It doesn't mean he really praises him. He just says, you know what? I'm going to let you back in the G-12 and you'll try to get back your country and be a normal country again. And then privately, he says, do not blank, blank with us.

Don't. He talks softly and he carries a big stick. And Biden is a loud blowhard with a twig. That's the difference.

Very quickly, everybody knew this was going to happen because the center-left has ruined Germany. And by that I mean in every aspect. They dismantled their nuclear and coal plants. They pay four times more for electricity than we do. They suppress free speech. 60 Minutes was trying to praise what they're doing, but they raid people's homes if you object to the orthodoxy in Germany.

They let in 16% of the German population is foreign-born. They let in over a million illegal aliens from the Middle East. They get almost a terrorist incident. I shouldn't say incident, assault, killing, rape, daily rape, assault, and then killings often, mass killings. And that's driving people crazy. They're...

They've deindustrialized, so their car companies, because of EV mandates coupled with the price of electricity, coupled with the United States is getting very angry at their asymmetrical tariffs. They haven't had no GDP growth to speak of for two years. This used to be the engine of Europe. So people are much poorer. They can't afford to keep warm in winter or cool in summer.

They can't afford the price of gas. They're scared of immigrants that prey on them. And they're not allowed to object. And J.D. Vance comes over there and says... You've got a big problem for those reasons.

But more importantly, you want us to be your partner and to subsidize your defense and to subsidize your economy by letting you have these asymmetrical tariffs and run up 80, 90, some years, 70, 80, 90 billion. We're not going to do it anymore because you're not a free Western country. And they went nuts.

And he was speaking, as I said at the time, Jack, he was not speaking to MAGA as they accused him of. He was not speaking to that audience. He was speaking to the silent majority of Germany. And almost half of them, I guess, supposedly voted for one of two conservative parties. They say far right, far right, far right. I know that every...

Party has extremists, there's probably some neo-Nazis, but that alternative for Germany is run by a lesbian woman. who has a non-German born girlfriend, wife or whatever. She doesn't fit the portrait of a far right. What they call far right is closed borders. You have to come legally.

We're going to frack and we're going to develop our own natural resources and we're going to have nuclear power, et cetera. And we're going to have free speech. That's far right in Germany.

What he's basically doing to the rank and file, he's saying – You don't have to do anything but what I tell you and I'm going to protect your back. So you don't have to, whether it's smart or not, it doesn't matter. I think Elon Musk and Donald Trump will allow him to tell the employees you don't have to say what you're doing because he wants to create...

a positive climate, and that's very hard to do when you've had a politicized FBI that puts informants on January 6th or goes after parents at school boards or goes after anti-abortion people or takes a laptop and hides it for a year while its intelligence brotherhood lies to the country. I could go on or is behind Russian collusion or pays Christopher Steele money to interfere with an election.

Well, that's what they were doing. James Comey, Andrew. And then, you know, what Cash is saying is. We're not going to have a guy like Robert Mueller around anymore who says he doesn't know what the Steele dossier is under oath. We're not going to have a guy like Comey who feigns amnesia 245 times under oath.

We're not going to have a guy like Andrew McCabe who lies under oath four times to federal execs. We're not going to have a guy like Christopher Wray that just won't answer a question. And so that's going to be good. But to do that, he has to get rid of dispersed people. And he's going through the ranks and he's trying to find out who gave the order to go after parents at school board.

Who were the people who carried out the Mar-a-Lago raid and dreamed that way up? By the way, there were 14,000 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago. We were told by the FBI they were classified documents. A hundred and two were point zero zero seven. And they brought props in to put around top secret secret to place next to these documents. It was all scripted and choreographed. So he's trying to. Yes.

He's trying to get get rid of the people who have destroyed the reputation. You look at polls that barely left and half the people have confidence in it. And make it a professional group. And if you're an FBI person and you join the agency to fight crime, then it shouldn't be considered Siberia to go to Huntsville or go to Victoria or Chicago. Yeah, Oakland is waiting for you.

Yeah, that's what you're there for. And that's what he's trying to say. But you're not there to go to Washington and have your wife work for a Democratic operative or run for office or to be a lobbyist or to hang out at cocktail parties in Georgetown with Comey and... And Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

And just get back to that famous iconic quote when Peter Strzok says to Lisa Page, don't worry, Andrew says that Andy says that Trump will not be elected. Or that Peter Strzok says, I went to a Walmart and I could smell them when I got there. So that's the kind of people there are.

When you have a subpoena for FBI listening devices, excuse me, communication, and all of a sudden, I don't know where they are. They disappeared. Or when Kevin Clinesmith gets a document and he has to forge it. And an FBI lawyer commits a felony and then he gets a little slap on the wrist by his friends in the DOJ. That's what he's talking about. Yeah.

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