Victor Davis Hanson
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Mar
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And after that, they had no control over her because she always felt she could play the race card because she had. And the same thing with her guest. Yeah. I think here's a thought for one second.
She's not very bright because you can make the argument that the 23 to 26 percent of black males that voted for Donald Trump might have made the difference in places like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and Milwaukee and Detroit that put him over the top on the electoral college. You got you split almost split the Hispanic vote. And he got a record number of Jewish voters.
So when she said that about black people are going to make the difference, yeah, they did make the difference in getting them elected. And he kept pretty steady with white males, his base. He didn't lose any. But where he got that extra million and a half were from minorities. And the reason is, is that... They don't listen to people like her anymore. An increasing number at least don't.
They look at things like energy prices and inflation and they don't like to hear all that because, you know, you know, Where I am at the Hoover Institution, you know, when I used to talk to Tom Sowell or Shelby Steele or Chiron Skinner, it was almost as if, it was as if that you didn't even realize what color you were.
It was just on the strength of an idea that you assess people and that's, they welcome that. And a lot of African Americans do, and I think an increasing number do. And then she comes in and because she's not very well versed and she's not very bright, Then she has to play the race card. And then people who, you know, are very accomplished don't want to have anything to do with her.
And because she kind of, she pollutes the whole racial dialogue. She's done a lot of damage is what I'm trying to say, Megan. She's not just an entertainer. She's a hate monger. And she's done a lot of damage. And she's brought a lot of people are angry at her. And she brought it on herself.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that's one of the reasons they lost that iconic moment when Barack Obama started dressing down those staffers. You remember for Kamala Harris, those black, young, really idealistic people they were working for. And he came over and said, you really basically said to them, you're suffering from Marxist false consciousness. You don't know that you're supporting sexist and racist.
But I have to tell you that because I'm morally superior and intellectually superior. And I've got to tell you what you're doing because you're so stupid to find out.
And that condescending attitude was why people that were sort of on the grassroots in popular culture, some of the rappers, people like Stephen Smith, Charlamagne Tha God, not that they were for Trump, but they got so sick of all these elite African-American, bi-coastal elite, which they played the same role, Megan, to the African-American male community
that white liberals on the coast and the media universities do to the working class people of East Palestine, Ohio. It's that condescending, we're ashamed of you idea. You're of our same race, but we're ashamed of you. And that gave a lot of latitude for Donald Trump.
What he was basically saying is all you people who are poor whites or middle class whites or middle class blacks or poor middle class Hispanics, you all have more in common with each other than you do with these people. And he was able to, you know, he didn't get a majority, but he was really able to make inroads in that.
And it was a class, shared class anger and repulsion at elites of each of these groups. And what it did is under Trump, Trump really was a maestro at it. He was able to tell these people, if you're a white truck driver, if you're a black carpenter, if you're a Hispanic contractor, you have more in common, you guys, with each other.
And that iconic moment again at that McDonald's when the Indian guy from India and his wife were there. And he said, I'm just an ordinary person. And Trump said, you're not ordinary. That was right off the cuff. And then his wife said, you took a bullet for us. He said, you know, I guess I did. And those moments were really they resonated throughout the campaign.
And these people kept trying to play this 1960s. you know, Black Panther almost line. And everybody was sick of it. They were completely sick of it. And I hope that they keep doing it because I guess Mark Penn came out this week with polls that show that the Democratic, everybody was saying that the Trump honeymoon would end very quickly and he's doing such controversial things.
And maybe he slipped a point or two, but you look at the Democratic polls and they're not getting any better. Whatever they're doing is not working.
That's a really good point about James Carville, because he was always posed as the authentic voice of the working man Democrat, but he had become just like the bi-coastal elite. You could really see the other day when Stephen Smith said something about politics, and he just went into a profanity-ridden thing. You don't know anything about politics. You're an ESPN sports announcer.
You don't know anything. It sounded like a professor. You know, it sounded like a media grandee that was dressing down somebody. And here was this so-called white working class voice of the Clinton years acting like an elite, talking to this black man and saying, you don't know your rear end from a hole in the ground and started lecturing him. And and they can't help it.
And and that's who they are now. They're a condescending, out of touch elite. And they keep they think that the more heat, the more profanity, the more screaming, the more threats, the more light they're going to get. And it's not working. And. We'll see what happens in the midterms. But their strategy of demonizing, it's not working so far.
No, you know, they were on the hinge before George Floyd, but somewhere between Me Too 2018-19 and George Floyd after that, they really did miscalculate.
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