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00:01:49.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:57.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:09.000I want to start by talking about Victor Davis Hansen.
00:02:15.000Victor Davis Hansen has brought more wisdom to the American conversation on politics than any other person I can point to in the last couple of years.
00:02:26.000You see, Victor Davis Hansen is formerly, he still is a classicist, so he focuses a lot on the classic Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Greek and Roman classics.
00:02:39.000He was a lecturer at Fresno State University and just started to get into the political space recently.
00:02:44.000He's also a military historian, and he has been able to pinpoint exactly what's happening in our country better than people that are political experts for the last 30 years.
00:02:57.000He understood Trump as soon as he ran for office.
00:03:01.000He understands the need for his presidency.
00:03:03.000In fact, he wrote the book, The Case for Trump.
00:03:06.000And many of you have probably seen Victor Davis Hansen on Fox News recently.
00:03:10.000So I was driving yesterday evening listening to Tucker Carlson's terrific show.
00:03:17.000And I heard Victor Davis Hansen go through chapter and verse, a better analysis in one of the most incredible cable news segments I have heard in recent memory.
00:03:30.000And it's a very long segment, so we've broken it apart, but we're going to go piece by piece.
00:03:36.000Because what Victor Davis Hansen was able to do to describe the landscape of our country was able to make a series of points that show that the real divide in our country is not based on race.
00:04:10.000Marx was about the seventh or eighth choice for him to write the manifesto.
00:04:15.000He was hired by communists in Europe to do it.
00:04:18.000And Marx was largely sponsored by Engels.
00:04:23.000Engels was one of, he would be almost a modern day equivalent of the Silicon Valley masters that we see, the techno-tyrants that live in Silicon Valley.
00:04:33.000And so Engels and Marx together wrote Das Kapital, this idea of a class struggle, the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, actually kind of fell flat on its face when Marx was alive.
00:04:48.000And so then eventually Vladimir Lenin takes up these horrendous ideas, but Marx wasn't totally wrong about everything.
00:04:54.000Marx was completely correct about how you're always going to have some class friction and some class tension.
00:05:02.000Now, those of us that believe in markets and those of us that believe in individual initiative and entrepreneurship, a lot of that class tension, a lot of that class struggle just naturally erodes.
00:05:15.000A lot of the kind of rich people versus poor people, there is some of that, but eventually a middle class gets created.
00:05:20.000As Aristotle would call it, the golden mean.
00:05:24.000Eventually people that are somewhere in the middle that earn $80,000 a year, they're able to take their family on a vacation or two.
00:05:57.000There's 100 million people, muscular people, are out there every day taking a risk that they're going to be infected while they serve you at a store or they bring your DoorDash food to your curbside or they bring your oven when it blows up from Home Depot or they're trucking all night or they're producing food or they're farming.
00:06:16.000And yes, they don't always have the correct mask and maybe they don't social distance, but they're keeping the country going for whom?
00:06:23.000The Zoom and the Skype class that are in their basements telemarketing or teleworketing or whatever they do and making a lot of money and then hectoring everybody that they're politically incorrect or they're racist or their mask is an inch too small or they were one foot closer.
00:06:38.000And Trump's got to say, you know, I'm one with these people.
00:06:41.000I want to frack because that frees us from these Middle East quagmires and it gives your kids good wages and doesn't send your kid to Afghanistan or Iraq.
00:06:50.000What VDH pinpointed right there is that the true divide is based on class.
00:06:56.000Now, we as conservatives don't like talking this way.
00:07:06.000But what Victor Davis Hansen mentions is so unique than any other person in the pundit class.
00:07:16.000If you're listening to this right now and you've had the opportunity to stay at home and telemarket or telework, as he says, you're part of the Skype and Zoom class.
00:07:27.000Have you ordered something on DoorDash or Postmates lately?
00:07:31.000There's a whole class of people that have to wear that mask for nine hours a day.
00:07:38.000They have to work their tail off to make sure that the Zoom and Skype class can continue to have things delivered to their home.
00:07:46.000Those people, as Victor Davis Hansen describes them, are the muscular class.
00:07:53.000And what you have is basically the Zoom and Skype class that live in a virtual world versus the physical world.
00:07:59.000People that are working with their hands, they're making sure the supply chains are never uninterrupted.
00:08:04.000They're making sure that the Amazon products are still delivered.
00:08:07.000They're making sure that the food is still being replaced in grocery stores.
00:08:11.000They're the ones that are at the checkout clerks, and they're actually the ones that are the most exposed to the virus.
00:08:17.000They're the ones that actually are the most exposed to being infected.
00:08:21.000But who is it that is making the decisions?
00:08:41.000The people making the decisions are the people that can roll out of bed five minutes before their Zoom call starts, never having to put on a mask, and all of a sudden they're able to earn the same sort of income level they were six months ago.
00:08:54.000Now, that's not the case for every person, but it is for millions of people, and especially the upper-income people in this country.
00:09:01.000And so while they're prognosticating, while they're virtue signaling, talking about how great of people they are, because they keep six feet a distance, well, yeah, you're able to stay in your home all day and you get all of the products delivered to you that you want.
00:09:14.000You get all of the food delivered to you that you need by the muscular class.
00:09:20.000And they're the ones that put the BLM signs out on their lawn.
00:09:24.000They're the ones that are complaining that the person in the park who's 95 feet away from them isn't wearing a mask, isn't socially distanced.
00:09:35.000Well, maybe that person was part of the muscular class.
00:09:39.000Maybe that guy just got done with two weeks of trucking to make sure that you could get your delivery products and he just wanted to see his kid for 10 minutes play in a park without a mask on.
00:09:49.000And what you see here, and there's a political truth here, is for the first time in the modern economy, you now have an entire class of people that are able to physically disconnect themselves from the costs, the vulnerabilities, and the potential issues that arise with having to produce.
00:10:17.000It's obviously made possible thanks to the internet, faster, fiber optic speed.
00:10:22.000But now the people making the choices can literally disconnect themselves from the sweat, from the toil, the exposure, and the difficulty of actually having to produce.
00:10:37.000And that's exactly why the class struggle is starting, because we've stopped having markets.
00:10:44.000As soon as you shut down the country, the markets disappear.
00:10:49.000All of a sudden, you're going to have disruptions that none of us like.
00:10:53.000When you have a government edict that is the most powerful totalitarian edict in my lifetime of telling people they can't leave the home, don't act as if you can map out every single decision that comes after that.
00:11:08.000Victor Davis Hansen continued on the Tucker Carlson show by making a point that I think we need to lean into more.
00:11:18.000Victor Davis Hansen argued that as we have this divide of the muscular class versus the Zoom and Skype class, that the muscular class is actually the ones that are exposing themselves to the virus.
00:11:30.000Which of the two presidential candidates is more like the Zoom and Skype class and who is more like the muscular class?
00:11:37.000Well, Joe Biden is, of course, more like the Zoom and Skype class.
00:12:18.000When I get sick, I'm going to take risks by taking experimental drugs if I have to to get back on the job.
00:12:23.000I am not going to stay in my basement and quarantine myself and isolate myself and pass judgments on others that you're not willing to take the same risk.
00:12:52.000He's not a creature of political science.
00:12:54.000Instead, his entire life has been becoming the subject matter expert in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Greco-Roman Wars, the birth of Athenian democracy, and then World War I, World War II.
00:13:11.000He is probably the premier historian on World War II.
00:13:16.000So when you study that form of literature and understand the type of people it takes to achieve phenomenal things, Victor Davis Hansen starts to build out archetypes of those types of people that actually get that stuff done.
00:13:32.000And what Victor is saying here is that, of course, Donald Trump exposed himself to the virus.
00:13:40.000How are you supposed to govern a country in crisis without playing into the risk a little bit yourself?
00:13:46.000The same could be said for Winston Churchill walking the streets of London after bombing raids.
00:13:51.000The same could be said for five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower exposing himself to military threats throughout World War II.
00:14:03.000Victor Davis Hansen talked very quickly there, meeting foreign leaders, taking experimental drugs.
00:14:08.000If you're listening to this and you're part of the muscular class, you're the ones that are loading boxes and you have to wear that N95 mask all day long and breathe on yourself, almost risk hyperventilation.
00:14:21.000If you're a flight attendant and you have to wear that mask all day long, and yet the person that is telling you that what you are doing wrong is the person that gets to stay at their 8,000-foot home in Evingston, Illinois, or Highland Park, Texas, or Palm Beach, Florida, or Beverly Hills, California.
00:14:45.000They're the ones that tell you what to do because it makes them feel good.
00:14:52.000And what's really being created here is a political opportunity where President Trump is now able to say, for the 100 million people out there that are working with your hands to make the luxurious lifestyle possible for the virtual class, I'm with you.
00:15:14.000In fact, it's harmonic with why Donald Trump ran in the first place.
00:15:22.000What's now been more clear than ever after seven months of these shutdowns, of these government edicts, the wealthy are wealthier than they ever have been in our country's history.
00:15:33.000This is something that Marx predicted, that when crisis hits, those with capital will get more and those with less will be crushed.
00:15:44.000We call this the Matthew principle, actually.
00:15:46.000It's a biblical principle, and it's a harsh teaching.
00:15:51.000If you've ordered something recently delivered to your home, there are probably at least 10 human beings behind that.
00:15:59.000There's people listening to this and watching this all across the country in different socioeconomic walks of life.
00:16:08.000And interestingly, the edicts to keep our country shut down and lock down, the measures to keep our country in a perpetual state of fear are almost all being advanced by people that have the luxury, the capital, and the capacity and the ability to live a virtual life.
00:16:26.000The 100 million people in the muscular class in our country that drive trucks and lift boxes and frack and work with their hands, they are the ones that have an ever-diminishing voice in our country.
00:16:39.000Business insider, how billionaires got $637 billion richer during the coronavirus pandemic.
00:16:49.000When people are calling to lock down our country again, there might be a reason.
00:16:55.000It's because the wealthy, the elites, the ruling class, they actually have materially improved their life more so than any other period of time we have seen in recent memory.
00:17:07.000We've mentioned the biblical principle that reinforces this.
00:17:14.000And the verse in particular talks about how those that have a little will lose everything.
00:17:22.000It's Matthew 25, 29, for to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
00:17:34.000It's a vicious teaching when you think about it.
00:17:37.000And it actually applies to economics as well.
00:17:39.000And this is one of the main complaints of the Marxists.
00:17:43.000And Karl Marx's policy prescriptions are horrendous, evil, and immoral.
00:17:48.000But some of the observations he made on the landscape, hard to disagree with some of them.
00:17:54.000And when you have a virtual class that hides in their 9,000 square foot mansion in Winter Park, Florida, or in Greenwich, Connecticut, or in the Hamptons, and they're the ones that are the loudest and the most invested, eventually the workers of the country are going to look for a voice.
00:18:21.000And so as the workers of the country look for a voice, the question is, what voice are they going to choose?
00:18:32.000Senator Kamala Harris probably received sequences of polling the night before the debate or the night, the morning of the debate, that reflected that the working class in this country has a great deal of anxiety of the current state of the economy.
00:18:53.000The American way of life, where you work hard, you believe in the system, your kids get a better life than you.
00:18:59.000You don't have to worry about criminals or thugs coming down the street to burn your house down or burn your church down.
00:19:05.000A lot of that is being put in jeopardy.
00:20:49.000The second school of thinking is what President Donald Trump represents.
00:20:54.000Recognizing the needs, wants, and the anxieties of the muscular class versus the Zoom and Skype class, and saying, I want fracking because it delivers meaningful work.
00:21:06.000I want entrepreneurs because that's a bedrock of a society.
00:21:09.000I want you to stay invested in this beautiful country that we live in.
00:21:15.000I would brand it as patriotic free enterprise, unafraid to challenge the dogma of the corporate class, having the courage to criticize some of these transnational corporations.
00:21:31.000President Donald Trump articulates that viewpoint very well.
00:21:35.000And the more he leans into it, the more he'll benefit politically.
00:21:39.000And the third category is the corporate class.
00:21:44.000And that's who Joe Biden actually represents.
00:21:47.000When Joe Biden says, yeah, I'll shut down the country again, who does that benefit?
00:22:16.000We know this through campaign donations.
00:22:17.000We know this through social media manipulation.
00:22:20.000We know this through a variety of different ways.
00:22:23.000So Senator Harris is actually trying to make an overture to the workers of the country.
00:22:28.000And no, I'm not going to go as far as say, workers of the world unite.
00:22:31.000That is definitely a Democrat, socialist, Marxist phrase.
00:22:35.000But what I will say is that if you're working with your hands and you feel as if you're losing faith in the system, President Donald Trump is your only political choice.
00:22:49.000And here's the issue that almost everyone misses.
00:22:56.000If the box fulfillers at Amazon and the Chipotle order fulfillers and the Uber drivers and the Postmate delivery people and the overnight truckers and the grocery store clerks, if this continues as is and the billionaire class adds another trillion dollars to net worth and we get some form of inflation and you have an entire group of people that are $60,000 in debt and they don't have a mortgage and they have no equity,
00:23:25.000eventually that 100 million people, the muscular class, they are going to say, forget it.
00:23:35.000I want a voice back in my government and my country.
00:23:38.000And this is where Victor Davis Hansen, looking at this from a non-political perspective, the reason why he's so prescient, the reason why he has such wisdom is because he's been studying history his entire life.
00:23:49.000And it's almost as if we just parachuted VDH into our period of time and we said, tell us what's going on.
00:23:59.000And he articulates what is the greatest danger and fear ahead of us, those of us that believe in a market system and private property.
00:24:07.000It is the greatest disruption that we have seen since the Industrial Revolution from the agrarian-based society to the Industrial Revolution, when Teddy Roosevelt had to manage the transition of tens of millions of people from the farms to the factories.
00:24:22.000And mismanaging that transition for Russia meant that Vladimir Lenin picked up Marx's ideas and said, this will give me power, promised things he'd never be able to deliver, took absolute power.
00:24:36.000One of the things that we get wrong as conservatives is we are convinced that Marxist revolutions are always purely ideological.
00:24:52.000Most Marxist revolutions, whether it be the revolution in Rhodesia to Zimbabwe with Mugabe, in Southeast Asia, in Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia, in Korea, China with Mao Setong, Eastern Europe, Vladimir Lenin, Cuba, Venezuela, or a pseudo-Marxist revolution in Argentina.
00:25:13.000Every single one of them is because the middle class of that country stopped believing in the system.
00:25:20.000It wasn't because they were indoctrinated for 18 years beforehand.
00:25:23.000Some of them were, and that helped a little bit.
00:25:25.000But a country can go from a country that respects private property rights and has commerce to not if the middle class of your country or the muscular class of your country loses faith in the system.
00:25:40.000And if the muscular class in this country are going to continue to be bossed around by the BLM Incorporated sign-waving Sierra Club donating Beverly Hills, Highland Park, Palm Beach, Greenwich, Connecticut, Hampton class, because they're able to sit behind a screen all day long and see their stock portfolio increase and their wealth managers able to find specific derivative opportunities.
00:26:08.000So all of a sudden they've increased their net worth by 22% and they complain because their kale vegan salad and their celery juice is six minutes late and the Uber driver that delivered to it is all sweaty and not wearing their mask properly, you got a problem in your country.
00:26:27.000And President Donald Trump incredibly is actually positioned to transition us from the farms to the factories, from the physical to the virtual, without a Marxist revolution happening in our country.
00:26:39.000And if President Trump leans in on this and says, I'm actually one of you, I've walked job sites my whole life.
00:26:45.000I believe that risk is a necessary form of living a fulfilled life.
00:26:49.000I'd rather be brave and be wise than be safe all the time.
00:26:53.000That's not to say you should sacrifice safety, but if you only cared about safety, you would check yourself into Rikers.
00:27:01.000You'd go to Alcatraz Island if you only cared about safety.
00:27:05.000Three meals a day in a prison cell, no capacity to hurt yourself, totally safe, no freedom, no liberty, no joy, no happiness, no capacity to create.
00:27:15.000President Donald Trump leaning in on how Joe Biden is the autocrat and the techno-tyrant of the virtual class, the Zoom class, the Skype class, the why is my celery juice six minutes late class.
00:27:30.000He can actually communicate to the economic anxiety that is happening in our country.
00:27:38.000Senator Harris made a small overture to it.
00:27:42.000And here's the choice that is ahead of a lot of these politicians up and down the ballot.
00:28:02.000But wouldn't it be nice if we leaned into why Donald Trump was actually successful in the first place?
00:28:09.000Which is that the middle class of this country is losing faith in the ruling class of this country.
00:28:17.000That's why President Trump won in 2016.
00:28:20.000It's because he was a throbbing middle finger to the Zoom and Skype class, to the virtual class.
00:28:27.000Because he was willing to throw over the tables of the people that are unwilling to take the risk, but they're more than willing to tell you what they're doing, what you're doing wrong with your life.
00:28:36.000I want to go to cut five here, where Victor Davis Hansen explains how the elite leftists have made a deal with a radical socialist, which means they won't answer any questions at all whatsoever.
00:28:49.000Well, it was pretty clear what their strategy is, and you hit on a lot of the points: is that they're going to talk about race and they're going to talk about Trump as a mass killer.
00:28:58.000And that means they're not going to answer any questions about fracking a new Green Deal or packing the court or who they would appoint because they are elite leftists who have made a bargain with desperate hardcore socialists.
00:29:14.000And one of the ways that elite leftists seek to atone the fact that they've gotten wealthier and the fact that they have materially gotten better the last couple months is through the issue of race.
00:29:26.000It's the issue of either white guilt or some sort of racial guilt that they've been told.
00:29:32.000And so instead of talking about how the lockdowns were the greatest domestic intrusion of the American economy in the history of our country, which it was, it was the greatest government interference into commerce, into choice, into liberty.
00:29:49.000They want to distract away from how the lockdowns are widely unpopular and talk about almost distraction issues, such as the color of your skin.
00:30:01.000And they absolutely are elite leftists.
00:30:35.000He had the most liberal voting record, like Kamala Harris almost in the Senate.
00:30:40.000They will run as a moderate and govern as a radical.
00:30:45.000So what happens when you give these people power?
00:30:48.000What happens when you reward the camouflaged communism or the soft socialism that they are expressing?
00:30:59.000Well, then all of the malevolence, the bitterness, and the deceit that we have seen will be institutionalized.
00:31:07.000The arc of civilization can be described as this.
00:31:11.000In the early stage and in the imperfect stage, it is the strong dominating the weak.
00:31:18.000At its optimal level, it is the strong protecting the weak.
00:31:23.000And at its disintegrationist level, it is the weak who dominate the strong.
00:31:30.000And that is where we're headed in our country.
00:31:31.000We're the people with weak ideas, the people that would not be able to possess power if it wasn't for a political system that rewarded demagoguery and insider favors and pandering to the donor class.
00:31:43.000If those things were not options, Senator Harris and Joe Biden would be nowhere near political power in our country.
00:31:51.000Strong protecting the weak would be a true strong person, such as Dwight D. Eisenhower becoming president from 1952 to 1960.
00:32:01.000The weak dominating the strong is Barack Obama from 2008 to 2016.
00:32:07.000And that's one of the reasons why Donald Trump's presidency is such an unexpected disruption in the landscape.
00:32:22.000You see, you have to understand that Democrats and leftists, they think sequentially.
00:32:28.000It could be as closely tied in to something called the Hegelian dialectic.
00:32:34.000Now, mind you, I am not going to talk about Hegel unless we got a six and a half hour time slot to fill.
00:32:43.000The Hegelian dialectic can be simply summarized in political terms as a clumsy set of intervals towards a historical aim.
00:32:57.000This is how the left has always thought.
00:32:59.000They've always thought of themselves as a thesis and antithesis or antithesis going towards a synthesis.
00:33:07.000Hegel was incredibly influential to many of the mass murder movements of the 20th century that disguised themselves as benevolent Marxists.
00:33:18.000So President Donald Trump has an incredible opportunity in front of him.
00:33:22.000He's already showing more and more promise in a lot of these battleground polls.
00:33:29.000He is the hired representative of the virtue signaling virtual Zoom Skype class.
00:33:37.000If President Donald Trump becomes the champion of the muscular middle class, we win a landslide in this country, the likes of which we've never seen.
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