Victor Davis Hanson | America and the World, 2017-2018 

We have so many of them cast to the sidelines by the loud mouth left; the crazy commies who have become very vocal as of late.

He's from our Central Valley in California, bread basket of the western United States.

The man is essential but his message (nearly) unheard. The institutions that suppress his message must be exposed for the snake they are.

He has his critics, in South America, where they are great fans of Hispanic culture but not American culture so much. In Chili he has been labeled a neocon, which they confusingly define as anti Stalinist.

bluskies1000 That doesn’t make a lot of sense. He has spoken many times about Hispanics because he lives in the midst of them in Selma, CA The legal immigrants actually appreciate much of what he says. I’m surprised that they even know who VDH is in South America. What’s wrong with being anti-Stalinist??? Aren’t we all? Shouldn’t people on the LEFT AND the RIGHT be anti-Stalinist? You make it sound like people in Chile are PRO-stalinists.

Dan, I am sympathetic to that last bit, but that's not an opinion you can express without saying, "so here is my solution." Do you want to deport all non-whites? Do you want to stop all immigration? (that would not be a bad idea - say, a moratorium on immigration for 10 years) We cannot stop people from reproducing who are already here. The white birthrate is much lower than the Hispanic (a catch-all term that is too general) or black birthrate. I agree that self-loathing globalist multiculturalists (that's not a recitation of gobblygook - it's an apt description) are poison to the US and Western Culture in general. I agree that we must push back with all our might against the "diversity is our strength crowd". I agree above all else that anyone who tries to shame "old white men" should be put on an iceberg and shoved offshore in Nome, Alaska.

​@DefinitelyNotDan You are an idiot and probably haven't opened a book in a loooooong time. Also, you seem to be confused about the difference between race, culture, and ethnicity... Go back to school or back to Gab!!!

@DefinitelyNotDan need to read a History of the World - JM Roberts

Agreed: mandatory listening. I'm not well read enough to sharpen just one of his arguments, but it occurs to me in his touching on Principled Realism that the business of shifting to a different perspective than what the US government has clung to the last 75 years pretty much dovetails with our State department being polluted with progressives. Of note to me is the mirage of so called "eurosocialism" which might not even exist but for the US underwriting their security to free up more cash than they ever knew what to do with - and warping their will for self preservation. Have we destroyed Europe? I think it's a real question, as evidenced in the micro: Karl Marx was a trust fund kid who became a misanthrope with all the money he didn't know what to do with. Things are still unfolding, and... I have a ton of reading to do.

Love your comment, minus the concept of "mandatory listening"...

Hey. I grew up in HANFORD- not that far from where he lives. You are RIGHT! He DOES still look like a farmer. I love it! Good people in that area- the ones who grew up there anyway... by and large...😁.... now I’m one of the coastal folk... yikes... I haven’t forgotten my roots!

Salt of the earth people!

@@mR-dc4oq Never change that part of you.

Yes, he does, and I love it. I'm a Greek-American immigrant who went to law school in Nebraska where I met many people who, like Professor Hanson, were farmers and they deeply touched me with their simple honesty, integrity, patriotism, and good common sense.

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That's awesome, I only hope that my boys will be open minded enough when they are of age to watch VDH as well.

Good man

I sat in his class back 14-15 years ago and came shocked why no one told us what he just had said. I've been his ardent fan and follower ever since. The first lecture I attended was by accident I was new on campus, an undergrad and didn't know I went to the wrong room.

California is so massive it has more conservatives than ohio or pennsylvania have people, around 15 million or so.

the left has no equal because they believe in things that aren’t so.

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He’s a wonderful speaker however he doesn’t know Trump. This was talked about by Trump in 94 and again in Obama’s 1st term. He was always talking about how he’d fix America he never changes. ❤️POTUS

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AFTER 75 YEARS OF STALEMATE, IT TOOK PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SET IT STRAIGHT.

Well said

There's a lot he doesn't say since time constraint but you can read his columns in newspapers and his books.

And he alludes that TRUMP was indeed right.

Listen to Dennis Prager at Prager U also.

DON'T BE FOOLISH! IT FAILED ONLY BECAUSE OUR WORLD ECONOMY HAS BEEN A RIGGED GAME FOR OVER 60 YEARS IF NOT MORE! GET A CLUE! IF ONLY ONE THING IS BASED ON A LIE, THEN THE WHOLE BALL OF WAX IS A LIE!

Foolish? No, I see this very much like the Highland Clearances, where barons sold out their kinsmen, leaving them to starve while becoming wealthy beyond the dreams of Croesus.

Crash103179 yes this is true. The West bought people over to study in our countries and taught them all our knowledge and skills, at the same time we created our own competitors whom we now have to compete with. This was done out of a "help the world mentality " which was a noble idea" but it was done more so for the big money that could be made from the overseas students. The universities also then went on to pander to these ethnic groups by glossing over their bloody histories, and focusing ad nauseum on the British Empire and Fascist Germany. The kids coming out f uni today, are very knowledgeable about the sins of the West but know nothing if the 9million killed by the Japanese, in 1937'1938 and 1939 when they invaded China. They know nothing of the millions killed under the Ottomon Turkish Muslim Empire or the caliphates set up by invading Muslims in Syria in 1850, when they massacred all other ethnicities and Christians in Damascus and Aleppo. They don't know that the Muslims invaded Northern Africa in earlier centuries, Keller and enslaved 100,000,s of thousands of Black Africans.

Trump is the first president in our history that has a degree in economics.

Cheryl Lawlor Excellent comment!

Dennis Prager as well.

I listened to an interview with Hanson once who said something like, "anyone who dismisses a man who has learned to navigate the Manhattan real estate market and build a skyscraper while having a vocabulary of 1,000 words had best be careful".

+jbudd032003 - what wounded you the most about Obama - the nearly 100 months of job growth, pulling out of the pointless Iraq War, the skyrocketing stock market, bringing science and reason back to policy making, saving GM, killing Bin Laden, or increasing healthcare to tens of millions of Americans?

@@thanksforbeingausefulidiot9016 are u nuts? 90percent of that is pure lie

Obama was a CIA-born communist, faux muslim warmonger. He was Bush 2.0. He destroyed Libya with Hillary. Pulling out of the war? Look at the numbers. DEMOCRATS are the NEW NEOCONS. Obama was 8 years of Democrats turning on the constitution entirely and ignoring war crimes.

Yeah but the damage is done! Are BRAINWASHED generations won't STOP until this entire country is over with! No one is having children anymore! So there is no one to help take back the COUNTRY!!!

that is what genius does

@@joeantonelli5533 yup

Don't undersell yourself, Hobart. VDH earns his living lecturing and there is honestly no one better at it. But it was you who chose to not only give up your time and listen to it, but to walk away with something as well. A wise decision to my way of thinking. Put one in the win column, Hobart.

Truly brilliant thought there, so MAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN!

A civilized war of Titans.

Chomsky would never debate

@Nobby Barnes Huh?

You FORCE your kids to listen to him?? wow great parenting skills you have!!!

@ Mimi Hoyte good. I force my boomer parents to watch him and they are still nice and brainwashed :)

Hi Bill! My kids are college graduates, contributing members of society. I also insist that they take their vitamins and refrain from using elicit drugs. It's my job.

Hillsdale is a thinking school a great books school that is what makes it think. I graduated Seton Hall and now realize compared to hillsdale, St johns college or St thomas Aquinas I did not receive any education at all.

@ZERO you made very great points and interesting reading then killed it right at the end with lol ---how shallow

LOL!!!

I skip ahead but the young man who said welcome me in joining VDH was priceless

That's exactly what I do. Long-form, civil discourse is making a comeback.

Mudhut Productions having lived around Fresno, spent most of my time in the Bay Area, and been educated at one of the exemplary universities there, and while now living in Los Angeles, my superficial impression is that, the people who have made this state suck are mostly people who hail from elsewhere. The core Californian is either leaving, left already, or plugging their noses and putting up with the Jerry Brown who ha and Newsom encore... I agree, it’s great to know someone like VDH is from the heart of this state! There’s hope yet!

Look up Bill NYE'S the video on RU-vid called my sex junk! It is MENTALLY disturbing, but gives you a good look at what's truly going on in our COUNTRY and the WORLD! We must, be aware of these things to PROTECT our kids and grandkids!

Well put!

So love your comment. I'm a transplant from Silicon Valley and in my 30 years living here in the same valley he hails from I've leaned a lot from the farming and ranching folks and it's all good useful things.

@@mR-dc4oq Sir let me impart a bit of knowledge to you as an immigrant to CA but a proud American none-the-less. California has been ruled by FOUR families for 80 years now. Pelosi's, Newsom's, Brown's and Fienstein/Getty's so if you don't believe me do your own research the info is public. These four mob cartels has been shaping California and now we have it. Who voted these people into high offices? The very people who up and left. The very people who lived high on the hog then when it began hurting they cashed in and ran. How is it that Nancy Pelosi has been in the Senate for over 30 years? How is it that Fiendstien is in the Senate for so long? How is it that the Brown's both Father and son became two term governors. How is it that Nancy's nephew now is the governor of CA? Pete Wilson was the last Republican gov way back when and I recall how the Democrats mistreated him so why did the core-Californians not rise up and do something about it at that time? Please learn something useful so we may be able to salvage our state!

Burial I know you can. You know you can. Do you want it bad enough? That’s the only thing that will stop you. Post if you do. 😷Coronavirus ugh

David Halseth is it they are suddenly no longer able to feel empathy? They are so angry. They are a group of zombies

Great point, and spot on....

Because most faculties would never let someone of his outlook (political) pass through. But then, I was in the social sciences so maybe other disciplines consist of faculty that are more "tolerant" and open to people unlike themselves

@Myron Jones They do think, but many think badly and superficially. I personally have been a Democrat for decades, but I see very little thought and good common sense, not to mention leadership, coming from the Democratic Party these days. Much of what Trump has done (i.e. Immigration, tariffs, trade deficits, non-conflict-engagement, cost of global security, to name a few), I agree with - but these (good) things are delivered by such an ugly, crude package.

Timothy K and you won’t

Garrison Nichols you would never see Obama hug and kiss the american flag in the comical way Trump did at that event back in May or June. You would never see HW Bush, Clinton, or W Bush do it either for that matter.