The Atlas Society Asks Victor Davis Hanson

The Atlas Society Asks Victor Davis Hanson, the award-winning historian and political commentator. He is the author of The Case for Trump, which details Trump’s journey from businessman to president.
Dr. Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution and a nationally syndicated columnist. He has written or edited 24 books, including "The Second World Wars."

[@johnregan2652]

I've found VDH here and speaking on a music channel in the last month, enjoying deep discourse on smaller channels for free, yet his speaking time and opinion are valuable and expensive. That is a genuine intellectual gentleman. Awesome 👍

[@416dl]

Best 34 minutes I've spent on the internet since the last time my mind was engaged by Dr H. Thanks, and Tally Ho!

[@davidscott6201]

Always informative and enlightening. I THANK YOU, both. God Bless

[@PRODOS]

Brilliant interview. Learned so much! Thank you to both Stephen Hicks and Victor Davis Hanson!

[@drstrangelove09]

I'm a big fan of both of these men! Great insights by Dr. Hanson! At the end a frightening prediction that makes a great deal of sense.

[@MRCKify]

Do you support a draft or some kind of mandated National Service after High School?

[@drstrangelove09]

@@MRCKify I don't know, should I?

[@MRCKify]

@@drstrangelove09 I don't, not for any country. I wish Hicks had asked more questions about policy implied by Hanson, rather than the ups and downs of zeitgeist.

[@addictedtohisgrace]

civilised society is only three meals strong

[@MRCKify]

@@addictedtohisgrace What about trendy diets?

[@carolyncunningham3847]

I hope and pray we can keep our republic.

[@villagecarpenter2266]

"WE THE PEOPLE"!

[@MRCKify]

Do you support a draft or some kind of mandated National Service after High School?

[@MRCKify]

Do you believe there any policies intended to bolster American national self-confidence that are not worth the cost?

[@davidhunt7427]

We lost the Republic with the 16th and 17th Amendment,.. not to mention the 18th & 19th. Now we're a Democracy,.. no longer a Republic,.. and the public has succumbed to bribery from the public treasury. I don't have much hope,.. unless we can once again establish commodity based currencies. Western Rome fell when they had totally debauched their coinage. America is only hanging on because the World still accepts the American Dollar as the World's reserve currency. Once that is lost,.. we will have to rebuild what we can.

[@kenneththiessen1674]

Excellent interview. Thank you for this presentation with Dr. Hanson.

[@jbudd032003]

VDH is the most valuable asset our country has. This man is brilliant and should be a role model for generations to come.

[@jonroyyubeleno532]

Prolific is an unintended understatement. He is incisive and reflective of astounding events in the ancient and modern world stage.

[@michaelwoehrl1746]

Every time I listen to VDH my brain gets bigger.

[@TeaParty1776]

Say something intelligent.

[@michaelwoehrl1746]

@@TeaParty1776 Boston Tea Party was in 1773.

[@jakeforrest]

Pamela Anderson has the same effect, it’s just another body part .....

[@TeaParty1776]

@@michaelwoehrl1746 Symbols are of ideas, not facts.

[@dylanharding1546]

How small was your brain to begin with if a white supremacist makes your brain bigger?

[@thomascrist4140]

Mr. Hanson's water pump analogy was fantastic!

[@davydacounsellor]

Good to here victor, awesome talk.

[@dragounian5567]

Excellent talk. I hope VDH can come on again soon!

[@kentcrockett440]

Excellent! What a way to get an education at any age.

[@TreeLuvBurdpu]

Enjoying hearing VDH explain to Stephen Hicks!, of all people, the importance of the inductive form of reasoning! More! Encore!!

[@kewlbeone5949]

Inductive deductive and adductive are all required. See Hayek the knowledge problem - most cited scholarly work.

[@basketcase-0140]

Powerful interview! Thank you!

[@kevinhornbuckle]

Very stimulating discussion here.

[@thomascostello5780]

Lively conversation gentlemen. TYVM

[@delbert3539]

Trump seems to fit the bill as it pertains to foreign affairs but gets little to no appreciation for his instincts and achievements.

[@nikmills]

Because liberals want to look up to refined minorities and mild men.

[@paytongreyson9322]

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[@colinaden2844]

@Payton Greyson instablaster =)

[@joelmull]

Great interview with a truly intelligent and very well educated man. One thing I like to do in my life itry to figure out "The Essence" of things. Like, "What is the reason for all war?" I think there are 3 basic reasons (1) acquisition of more land (2) acquisition of resources and (3) making money off war production (materials used to fight) and the further production to replace materials destroyed as a natural consequence of war. Here's another question: "What is the essential struggle in the world now that has always been a struggle in the world. To me it is Totalitarianism vs Freedom. Big government that taxes us to death and whose power can never be questioned, taking more control over every aspect of our lives. I think all the other "Conflicts" are just distractions, keeping our attention off the real struggle. Like the old British technique of "Divide and Rule."

[@UKtoUSABrit]

"We'll give you Utopia - or else!" VDH is brilliant.

[@MRCKify]

Do you support a draft or some kind of mandated National Service after High School?

[@MRCKify]

Do you believe there any policies intended to bolster American national self-confidence that are not worth the cost?

[@seanmoran6510]

Andrew - French Revolution

[@seanmoran6510]

@@MRCKify Afghanistan Iraq Syria Libya Military Industrial Complex Big Tech Corporations creating Dystopia Brave New World meets 1984 Cultural Social Imperialism The Culture of Excessive Materialism PC

[@MRCKify]

@@seanmoran6510 That's not burning toast. You're having a stroke. Seriously, do you have an opinion about my questions? Could they be phrased better? Is there enough people employed by the American Military or would a different number be better?

[@PastorBrianLantz]

Wonderful!..well asked and answered!

[@vijay-1]

Excellent and insightful

[@t.c.s.7724]

"We'll give you utopia...or else."

[@MRCKify]

Do you support a draft or some kind of mandated National Service after High School?

[@OpethTheater3]

@Amerikan Idiot lol the zeitgeist itself is who idiot

[@MRCKify]

@Amerikan Idiot Take this time-series (fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGRECPT), then divide it by this time-series (fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPDEF).

[@cfibb]

@Amerikan IdiotThe quote is from the above video @34:13.

[@keithbm1]

Agree mostly. Definitely worth the time.

[@LoricFox]

Facts on Germany vs USA are frightening👹 VDH IS MY TRUTH HERO💕👍

[@buckwheaton129]

Two people who are both in their own way among those I consider to be intellectual heroes.

[@TreeLuvBurdpu]

Hicks asks the exact right questions. I've always wondered if Hanson thinks the downfall is inevitable.

[@MRCKify]

I appreciate SRCHicks' history of philosophy materials (books, Open College podcast, blog), but I think he could have asked more policy questions than "zeitgeist" questions. Hanson's (partial) explanation of 9/11 is because there was a spirit/cultural assumption that America had evolved beyond war and we didn't need to pay attention to enemies, so now enemies less deadly than nuclear Soviets could make far bigger attacks. This sounds at odds with American Foreign Policy from 10 years prior. What was the Gulf War? What was Kosovo and Black Hawk Down in Somolia? Bill Clinton's "Operation Infinite Reach" bombs from Afghanistan to Sudan? That doesn't sound like a State that had gone lax abroad. Is he making the slightly different suggestion that Americans in the domestic lives had lost interest in foreign affairs, so all Americans were nebulously guilty for 9/11? Does this mean that merely being vigilant in our personal and commercial lives isn't the baseline of being a "good" citizen of a free society, but we must always temper "Live and Let Live" with Cold War mentality?

[@MRCKify]

By the way, do you support a draft or some kind of mandated National Service after High School?

[@warnerchandler9826]

@@MRCKify You claim to cite American foreign policy of the 10 years leading up to 9/11/2001, so let's clear up some of your confusion. The Gulf War under George H. W. Bush (1991) was appropriately outward focused. However, the attitude of our ruling elites was to cash in on the "peace dividend:" that is, with the fall of the Berlin wall ('89) and the Soviet economy and government, we could gut the military and its spending. Claiming to be able to fight two major conflicts at the same time, the first Gulf War strained US military resources, giving the lie to that fantasy. Somalia was Pres. Clinton's fantasy that the US military could be farmed out to the international community (UN), with predictable and disastrous results. Remember Clinton's trouble with the meaning of the word 'is' while being deposed? He used the military to bomb an aspirin factory in Sudan to distract attention from his troubles and lies and other moral failures. Not exactly putting America's interests first.

[@MRCKify]

@@warnerchandler9826 Long Version: You didn't clear up much of anything. You just put your impression of the events that I was alluding to. One of the conclusions - the one stated above- that I draw from my examples is that there was *no policy* from Bush 41 to Bush 43 that America had "evolved beyond war." Hanson might conceivably be correct that this was a "feeling" among people who called the shots (and people who claimed they could read such motives in the tea leaves). But if that were true, then these people - politicos, pundits, police, clerks and spymasters- were guilty of cognitive dissonance and distracted governance, *NOT* of leaving America "weakened." The American government and its military had no land, sea, or air contender from Bush 41 until ... basically until the Red Chinese occupy enough to the South China Sea to claim toll fare from any shipping through there (I wouldn't be surprised if that's already the tacit case, or if the CCP is really 60% vulnerable to the scheme). I'll leave cyberwar off the grid b/c it had little to do with 9/11 and the preceding decades. While there've been arguments about what tools the Pentagon should buy to chase at least 3 priorities (Conventional-to-Cold War with Red China, counterinsurgency for a War on Terror, or funding pork projects in key Congressional districts), but the closest the military came to be "gutted" that I'm aware of is the spending caps that were dissolved anyway in 2018. America hasn't wanted for military resources for nearly 40 years; what's missing is priorities, and the public is not the well to go for that water of wisdom. The men who actually crashed the planes are responsible, but as far as Americans go, 9/11 was a failure of government policy, not a failure of the personal culture of Americans. The only preventions that could have existed were either in espionage or in counterterrorism. Both of these are bureaucratic affairs that -at the time - could inspect suspects deeply but narrowly & inspect the public shallowly and (comparatively) broadly. I have my doubts that this arrangement could have permanently staved off terrorism from Sunnis, Shias, or guerilla strikes from the constellations of other causes. I suspect that such a bureaucracy would be the National Security spin-off of what Mike Munger calls Unicorn government (kzbin.info/www/bejne/b562p6aJgbWngtE, 2:52) - we can imagine it working perfectly with the ideal staff and appropriate resources, but the reality is imperfect people responding to incentives outsiders can only guess at. This is why I'm annoyed by the "zeitgeist" claims Hanson & Hicks are chewing on. Waiting for the public to decide on calculated policy is more useless than Waiting for Godot: the public is a whole lot more people. Condorcet's Paradox gets a lot of mileage when it describes political democracy. What kind of people is Hanson suggesting America generate (the most appropriate single verb)? What values and principles should adults live by for their benefit and to impress kids? It's a boilerplate conservative answer to say that "envy is bad" and "entrepreneurism is good," but I think Hanson is a fickle friend to these values. You only need to hear him with Lou Dobbs & others on the slogan-infected American Right undermining these values with *tariffs on imports* and *regulate Big Tech.* Imagine a kid who follows the values that his mentors taught. He succeeds and feels enormous material and spiritual satisfaction, but then his own mentors scold him b/c he was supposed to reach a different outcome; it turns out that the mentors cared more about the *outcome* than the *values.* This shrill and doubly-hurtful reaction erodes respect for both the mentor figure and the values that were* correctly* pursued. This means that our culture, to the extent it will influence policy, should be consistent about the values it wants to cultivate. This is why I hoped that Hicks would turn the conversation into the themes he outlined in this podcast: [Stephen Hicks on Manifest Destiny Wasn't: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2bPo6qNorlnprc. 39 mins on 1.0 speed] This is why I went through this comment section, asking a few who seem to have intelligence what policies they’d favor in America or the Western countries or what constraints their values demand. -Should the American government reinstate the draft to prevent slipping national self-confidence? -Should America spread its culture overseas? -How much uniformity should the American government require of Americans today? -What's the least extreme measure to bolter national character that shouldn't be pursued? -Should government action be taken to prune subcultures?

[@keithbm1]

Divided we fall 🇺🇸❤️‍🩹

[@rezzer7918]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ EXPLAINS IT! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ THE BIG PIC!!

[@rexboyles1529]

Listen to this man!

[@johndeagle4389]

Carnage and Culture is a great book.

[@michaelgrossmann6902]

I think thinking of Rome’s decline in purely Gibbon’s terms (i.e. an internal moral decline) and not considering the external invasions of multitudes from the North is a mistake

[@benjamingoldstein1111]

Also, the death of the Roman Republic was such a decline that the following Empire had hardly any morals left to fall from.

[@michaelgrossmann6902]

@@benjamingoldstein1111 Oh dear, the fall of morals in the Republic started with the Gracchi brothers (130sBCE) and their ridiculous Exitus acta probat strategy to subvert the will of the Senate

[@benjamingoldstein1111]

@@michaelgrossmann6902 Also true. They were the Marx and Engels of their time.

[@ransomcoates546]

Benjamin Goldstein This is much too reductive. The Gracchi remain hard for scholars to pin down. And the response of the optimate senators in clubbing Tiberius Gracchus to death with a leg pulled from a table is not the best illustration of Roman moral fiber, especially since tribunes possessed by law ‘sacrosanctitas’.

[@blakefunk100]

Hicks is really asking great questions of VDH

[@ansondesimone5928]

Dr. Hanson is spot on . When quality is forsaken for quantity the result is just mediocrity. Quality is the best of the best . That is edge the has west has that Dr. Hanson refers to .

[@therealtoni]

What areas of study does the Atlas Society focus on?

[@mikedawson1376]

I'm a simple guy and my brain hurts! Thank you for the pain!

[@locoemutwo4872]

lol

[@6663000]

Fantastic

[@Eyesayah]

Searching 'Victor Davis Hanson' on KZbin and applying channel filter results in a channel with no content (Davis' picture is there).

[@offcenterconcepthaus]

Damn good.

[@cleliamariapereira6090]

Vitor sou uma fã sua! Sou brasileira e te admiro muito!!!

[@thomascummings7589]

Wisdom, maybe we need to listen a little more to some of our wiser older thinkers.

[@Iallisios]

love the conversation but Macedonians were greeks and this is even many times stated by Alexander the Great. I mean when he says "we the Macedonians and the rest of Greeks" what more you want...? Alexander the Great (Greek: ὁ Μέγας, ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon[a] and a member of the Argead dynasty.

[@bonsummers2657]

14:00 to 15:20

[@mikegalvin9801]

If you were lucky in college you had at least one great professor who broke your fog of hormone addled adolescent self absorption and started you thinking in completely new ways. I can picture VDH being that teacher but sadly it is inconceivable that any one of the Ivys or other "top" schools would hire him today. He is at home at Hoover but that's because it is independent from Stanford where the Red Guards who terrorize students and faculty alike unless they tow the ever more ridiculous party line.

[@albionicamerican8806]

Also Rand's philosophy comes into conflict with what Hanson recognizes as the tragic view of man, namely, that man's nature doesn't change from age to age, therefore, "social progress" is an illusion. She wanted to promote innovations which conflict with man's nature, namely, her radical, atomized individualism and women's autonomy and sexual freedom. (She didn't invent these innovations, of course. They were already in Western culture, but Rand chose to emphasize and romanticize them as the "rational" way to live.) In reality man is inherently tribal, and women find fulfillment in their natural roles as wives and mothers, not as childless corporate employees and executives who engage in sterile sexual encounters with a series of men who have no intention of marrying them.

[@MRCKify]

Do you support a draft or some kind of mandated National Service after High School?

[@MRCKify]

Over two years since I've asked this policy question of the thread. Any answers you've had on the back burner?

[@gloriaduane4363]

Am looking for a way to sign up for E Metaxas ‘ prayer call

[@MRCKify]

You won't find such a link on an Objectivst page. Did you already know that?

[@kewlbeone5949]

VDH IS GREAT. I wonder if he knows the next level that underpins all of this. I never see him even hit at it

[@jesusmysavior2424]

❤️❤️❤️

[@TheWhitehiker]

Still, Victor's comments seem dire.

[@kskufan]

WHY ? WHY ? Tell 'em that is human nature Why, why does he do it that way?

[@DevinRSanto]

Regarding Germany; they are the children of Dan(ube/sk). They will be joined unto their brothers (Jacob's sons) as part of Ezekiel 37, but will judge their own according to Genesis 49. Nevertheless, it is notable that when the 144,000 are sealed in The Book of Revelation, that Dan is not one of the 12 Tribes sealed (Revelation 7).

[@davidhunt7427]

*_[On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again._* ~ Edward Gibbon *_A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence:_* . *_From Bondage to Spiritual Faith_* . *_From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage_* . *_From Courage to Liberty_* . *_From Liberty to Abundance_* . *_From Abundance to Selfishness_* . *_From Selfishness to Complacency_* . *_From Complacency to Apathy_* . *_From Apathy to Dependency_* . *_From Dependency back into Bondage_* ~ Alexander Fraser Tytler 18th century Historian and Jurist *_I wish men to be free, as much from mobs as kings, from you as me._* ~ Lord Byron, 1788-1824 *_Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters._* ~ Benjamin Franklin *_When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic._* ~ Benjamin Franklin *_The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own._* ~ Sir Richard Burton *_The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money._* ~ Alexis de Tocqueville *_Americans are so enamored of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom._* ~ Alexis de Tocqueville *_The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave._* ~ Alexis de Tocqueville *_Even despots do not deny the merits of freedom; only they wish to keep it for themselves, claiming that no one else is worthy of it. Thus our quarrel is not about the value of freedom per se, but stems from our opinion of our fellow men, high or low as the case may be; indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that a man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him._* ~ Alexis de Tocqueville *_America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves._* ~ Abraham Lincoln *_Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it._* ~ George Bernard Shaw *_The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries, but between authoritarians and libertarians._* ~ George Orwell *_You can easily vote your way into Socialism, but you must shoot your way out._* ~ Ayn Rand *_Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same._* ~ Ronald Reagan *_If fascism Ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism._* ~ Ronald Reagan *_A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both._* ~ Milton Friedman

[@maria369]

Ελευθερία ή θάνατος 🇬🇷 Freedom or Death Meaning Live Free or Die

[@MRCKify]

Do you support a draft or some kind of mandated National Service after High School?

[@maria369]

@@MRCKify Of course. All men here in Greece have to go to the army for a year. No one can avoid the draft.

[@MRCKify]

@@maria369 Interesting. How often does military pay raises become a Parliamentary issue?

[@maria369]

@@MRCKify What do you mean? I don't understand

[@MRCKify]

@@maria369 Since all men will or have had a military job, how much does that service pay and how often do politicians talk about changing that pay rate?

[@fleurdrose5504]

Sadly, too few people watch these discussions. The masses would rather go to a pop concerts.

[@davidclaywood]

Fine gentleman.

[@MRCKify]

Do you support a draft or some kind of mandated National Service after High School?

[@rolandsdurendal6673]

North American Unilateralism.

[@fleurdrose5504]

The character of the herd society in a country will define their existence for good or bad.

[@christopherneufelt8971]

Sorry, scholar?! I thought that a degree in Philosophy gives you the title of the scientist! Scholars are in Europe people that have a degree in Patristics or Religion studies.

[@jodygifford4894]

I heard you say Rockford . In Illinois?

[@waynesmith3318]

VICTOR HANSEN DAVID FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024

[@MRCKify]

I've got to pause here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKuUc5iOd9R4Ztk - Hanson is either off on the facts or not explaining himself clearly. Maybe he will in the rest of this interview - maybe Hicks will bring him back - but I've got to pause and type out my thoughts. Hanson's (partial) explanation of 9/11 is because *there was a spirit/ cultural assumption that thought America had evolved beyond war and we didn't need to pay attention to enemies, so now enemies less deadly than nuclear Soviets could make far bigger attacks.* This sounds at odds with American Foreign Policy from 10 years prior. What was the Gulf War? What was Kosovo and *Black Hawk Down* in Somolia? Bill Clinton's "Operation Infinite Reach" bombs from Afghanistan to Sudan? That doesn't sound like a State that had gone lax abroad. Is he making the suggestion that Americans in the domestic lives had lost interest in foreign affairs, so we're all nebulously guilty for 9/11? Does this mean that merely being vigilant in our personal and commercial lives isn't the baseline of being a "good" citizen of a free society, but we must always temper "Live and Let Live" with Cold War mentality? Now I'm posting, hitting play and waiting for a reason to edit in an addition here. Edit: I hope that Dr. Hicks will put some of these themes in an upcoming blog post or episode of his Open College Podcast (perhaps something in collaboration with Elan Journo), but I'm coming out of this interview unhappy that my kind of question wasn't asked of Hanson. Here's a couple other ones: -Should the American government reinstate the draft to prevent slipping national self-confidence? -How much uniformity should the American government require of Americans today? -What's the least extreme measure to bolter national character that shouldn't be pursued? -Should government action be taken to prune subcultures? I basically think that Hanson presented himself as a capitalist in this interview, but you can catch him presenting himself as a Nationalist on, say, Fox News. Nationalists give themselves a lot of latitude in acceptable State goals and means to most of the questions I've listed. I've learned too much about Rousseau (and his overvaluation of "unity') to trust this optimism.

[@albionicamerican8806]

I get the impression that Ayn Rand was not well read in the classics because she didn't have access to a classical education when she was growing up, though she could have read the ancient literature in translations and at least picked up a working knowledge of what the ancient Greeks and Romans wrote about the human condition. She probably couldn't have delivered a competent lecture on a classic work of Greek literature or philosophy, like, say, Plato's _Republic_ , despite her imposture about being an authority in philosophy. By contrast, many of the early communists, starting with Karl Marx himself, were much better read in canonical Western literature, and Marx could probably have talked knowledgeably and at length about Plato's dialogues off the top of his head.

[@MRCKify]

What did Marx say about Euthyphro? Any links?

[@knightrook4264]

I remain unconvinced that Trump is the only one who could have redefined American foreign policy. However, I will give him credit for the measures taken with China, Israel, the Gulf States, and our Western Allies. I will never concede that closer relations with KGB officer Putin is a wise move.

[@jimcroneberger8111]

You "remain unconvinced" only a liberal would still be screaming Russia! Meanwhile the Biden crime family and many others get rich selling us out to the CCP

[@gregcoste5332]

The move towards Putin was a triangulation against China (rich China is a local problem to Russia) .. "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" .. 4 years latter all countries bordering China want closer relations to the US and it's Pacific Rim defense alliances (incredibly we were even invited back into Subic Bay by the Philippine government).

[@robertwatson9359]

@Amerikan Idiot I always follow the money and find it to be the root of all evil. Only been that way since man defined ownership of basic tools.

[@ReviewsAndMore9]

@Amerikan Idiot you must live in the MSM bubble. You clearly haven’t been looking.

[@patriciaeb1320]

@Amerikan Idiot see the New York Post, Oct. 14, 2020 piece, “Biden Secret E-Mails.”

[@waynesmith3318]

OOOPS I MENT VICTOR DAVIS HANSEN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024

[@troyedwards76]

The host is almost a dead ringer for Mitt Romney.

[@kaisersoza7937]

Hicks is way smarter, and genuine.

[@paigemccormick6519]

I have such a crush on Hicks.

[@henryluttinger2101]

What an awful thing to say !!

[@mitchellhawkes22]

Victor says in this video that 911 was an "existential" threat? Don't think so, Victor. I mean, was our "existence" was at stake? Bah. Like you said, Victor, the suicide bombers destroyed 15 acres. Out of 2 billion American acres. There will always be these mosquito bites. These relative pinpricks are not existential, unless the suicide bombers make you think so. If they make you think so, they win. Shore up your vast defenses, and don't be intimidated. That's the answer.

[@greenbeanfroggy3177]

VDH is an old guy and has already been abandoned by history. He is dying, just as America.

[@henryluttinger2101]

And your brain !!

[@ReviewsAndMore9]

Groggy: What a mean spirited comment. Shame on you. Shame.

[@greenbeanfroggy3177]

@@ReviewsAndMore9 Old America run by elites is dying, a revolutionary new America will reborn.

[@greenbeanfroggy3177]

@@craigbernthal7548 VDH, along with old elites-run America with world hegemony, is dying. America needs revolution, these old relics must be destoryed.

[@cherylmockotr]

Guess what, froggy... history does not refer to your short, little life experience. Your generation has the attention span of a gnat, that's why it thinks socialism/communism is a good idea.