Victor David Hansen has been one of the most influential political theorists and conservative thought leaders for years. He also wrote an incredible book called The Dying Citizen, which pretty much predicted so much of what we re seeing across the U.S. today. In this episode, we dive deep into the root cause of so many of the problems that we face, and how we can actually fix them. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and was a founding member of the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. He is also the author of the book, "The Dying Citizen," which is a must-read for anyone who is interested in predicting what s to come in the world, and what we can do about it. If you re a recipient of a degree from Harvard, if you're a recipient or a beneficiary of the insanity that we see across the political and academic spectrum, then you're totally off the mark because we're seeing absolute insanity across the entire spectrum, and if you re not a recipient, you re totally absolved of being a victim of it. That's right, you're not even close to being on the right side of the madness that we're all seeing. Today's guest is a perfect example of why it's a good time to hedge against the insanity we see each and every day in America today, because it's time to get your head down and get your first 30,000s off the ground. And if you don't have it, you won't be able to. . Triggered! This episode is brought to you by the folks who make this show possible, so you don t have to get a grip on the insanity you're going to be a better version of what's going on in the real world. -Trigger - Trigger Subscribe to get the latest episodes of TROUBLED! Subscribe to TROUBLE! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Become a supporter of the show and get 20% off your first month free trial when you shop at Amazon Prime and Vimeo. Subscribe & Subscribe at Vimeo Learn more at Vaynerchuk.co/triggered. Click here to become a supporter? Watch the latest episode of TROY D.J. Hansen's new video series, "Trigger Warning" on the show Trigger Warning and learn more about his new book "Dying Citizen"?
00:05:37.000hey guys welcome to another huge episode of trigger
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00:06:00.000Historian, author, professor, Victor David Hansen is joining us.
00:06:05.000Victor has been one of the most influential political theorists and conservative thought leaders for years.
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00:09:52.000Well, guys, joining me now is military historian, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, author of The Dying Citizen, Victor David Hansen.
00:10:03.000Victor, thank you so much for joining us here today.
00:10:04.000I really appreciate it. Thank you for having me.
00:10:08.000Well, listen, I think it's a timely time to have you on because we're seeing absolute insanity across the spectrum.
00:10:17.000And first off, I want to get your 30,000-foot view of sort of the declining credibility of academia in America and what long-term impacts The growing pushback, whether it's the pushback against anti-Semitism at schools like Penn, my alma mater, the woke insanity that we see at Harvard, where if you're a recipient or a beneficiary of DEI practices, you're totally absolved from...
00:10:47.000Racism, insanity, plagiarism scandals, all of the things that would have otherwise, let's say, thrown you afoul of the ethical standards of what it meant to be in Harvard.
00:11:11.000Well, it's been going on for a long time, and there was kind of a deal worked out in the 1940s and 50s that a college education, especially after World War II, was going to offer two years of general education for half the population and train people In graduate programs in law, medicine, business, etc., to create kind of an American preeminence.
00:11:38.000And so we were going to overtake German universities, British universities, and we did.
00:11:42.000And part of that bargain was we gave them enormous leeway in exemptions, for example.
00:11:49.000We always knew they were a little bit political, but we said, you know what, they're non-parsons, so 503C or whatever the term was, we allowed them to have no income tax on their endowment.
00:12:02.000We allowed them to get donations, even though some of the money was used for politics, with tax write-offs for the donors.
00:12:10.000We got what came to be a $2 trillion student loan.
00:12:14.000Guaranteed loans. Of course, they raised the rate of tuition higher than the rate of inflation.
00:12:21.000And of course, we would probably give them $45 billion in research money.
00:12:30.000So they didn't do the two things we asked.
00:12:32.000They didn't remain disinterested or nonpartisan.
00:12:35.000And they didn't teach I think part of it was affirmative action led to DEI. That was a big change from trying to restore historical inequality with Blacks And we expanded it during the Obama administration with this word diversity that just meant anybody that wasn't white.
00:13:04.000And then we said, you know, this Marxist binary, they're oppressed, they're victims, therefore they get an exemption.
00:13:12.000And we started to have not just proportional representation as far as admissions, faculty, hiring, retention, but I guess you'd call it repertory.
00:13:22.000So when you look at Stanford today, where I work, Only 20% of the incoming class is white.
00:13:29.000And that's why, even though that's 67% of the population.
00:13:32.000And when you look at white males, it's about 9% because 54, 53% of the population incoming are women.
00:13:42.000That's not the end. When you bring in people on the basis of their race or sexual orientation or gender, and at the same time you throw out the SAT or make it optional, and you don't adjudicate comparative GPAs from high school, So I went to a rural poor high school and I got a 4.0, but I don't think I would have gotten that from a very prestigious prep school or something that was much more rigorous.
00:14:06.000It doesn't matter now. So then what's happened in these universities, they've got all this money that's tax-free.
00:15:12.000Tuitions that pay 100% of the tuition with no discount as they give to Americans.
00:15:18.000So when you look at these campuses, you've got a lot of people who feel that somehow it's unfair that the workload after they got into Yale or Penn, they get there and they think, wow, this is very hard.
00:15:40.000It's a racist system, and these are the courses.
00:15:43.000And you put in the foreign students in the mix, and suddenly you've got an explosive, arrogant, and ignorant population, and that's what we've had.
00:15:53.000Yeah, I actually, I tweeted about the Stanford thing where 20% of the undergraduate population was white, and, you know, I commented, it's sort of odd, right?
00:16:01.000And a bunch of the woke, I think it was some writers at the New York Times, how do you know that, you know, 80% of the white population wasn't just magically underperforming?
00:16:10.000And, you know, it's just not the nature of statistics.
00:16:12.000I'm sure you can see a point or two here or there, but you couldn't as a As a graduate of Penn, I went to Wharton undergrad, and Wharton was sort of the carrot that they would give, whether it was athletes or something like that.
00:16:22.000Like, oh, we'll put you through Wharton, and you'll go to the best business school.
00:16:25.000The problem with that, when affirmative action that I witnessed with certain friends who were let in because of those things is, you know, at Wharton, like, you had to get through engineering calculus, and if you didn't have the foundation for that, you weren't going to do it.
00:16:38.000So they were trying to do someone a favor.
00:16:40.000They were trying to recruit, but in the end, a lot of the people who didn't end up graduating at all...
00:16:45.000It was because they couldn't handle that workload because there was still something that you had to do.
00:16:49.000And, you know, I think there's the Hemingway quote about, you know, how do you go bankrupt?
00:16:53.000You know, you do it gradually and then suddenly.
00:16:58.000Will we see a realignment in academia now that donors are getting involved?
00:17:03.000You see what Bill Ackman's doing at Harvard.
00:17:04.000You saw, you know, $100 million being threatened at Penn.
00:17:10.000Unfortunately, it's that same, you know, $100 million that drives too much of politics and manipulates too many politicians.
00:17:16.000I'll probably talk about that in a little bit, but...
00:17:19.000In academia and at Penn, when it was a white woman, it moved a needle.
00:17:23.000At Harvard, it doesn't seem to be moving a needle, where the president says, despite a plagiarism scandal which would violate the code of ethics, despite turning a blind eye to flagrant antisemitism.
00:17:34.000And again, they've tried to cutely say it was about free speech, but it was never about free speech.
00:17:40.000And the same people who have been crying about words or violence for the last few years probably don't have much of a leg to stand on as it relates to free speech.
00:17:49.000Does something now happen or does it matter?
00:17:52.000I mean, at Harvard, it seems like Claudine Gay is going to stay there because I believe she's gay.
00:18:01.000So, like, you know, plangerism doesn't matter.
00:18:03.000Breaking the code of conduct doesn't matter.
00:18:06.000You're totally immune and absolved because the first rule of DEI is you can't take away from a beneficiary or recipient of it because if you do, the whole thing collapses.
00:18:19.000Yeah. Well, just before I answer, you might tell your Stanford critics that they gave a press release two years ago that said the SAT is optional, but we're very proud that most of our students nevertheless took it.
00:18:37.000And the.01 who got a perfect SAT score We rejected 70% of them.
00:18:46.000So when they say, how do you know that the 20% doesn't reflect people who are not doing well, we just asked Stanford.
00:18:52.000If you do very well and you're rejected with 70% of all the perfect SAT scores, you reject.
00:18:59.000And we know most of those SAT scores came from the Asian and white population.
00:19:05.000I think it's a good start because that's a lot of money, 100 million, but when you look at 50 billion at Uh, Harvard or 40 billion at Yale or 38 billion or 25, 28 at Penn. They still have a lot of money.
00:19:24.000They're getting a billion, 2 billion, 3 billion in annual revenues off the endowment.
00:19:38.000You're a political force, and we're going to be watching you.
00:19:42.000But in the meantime, maybe small universities that have a billion or $2 billion endowment, we're going to allow them to have the income tax for you, but not you.
00:19:50.000You're going to have to start paying income tax on it until we can determine that you're nonpartisan.
00:20:08.000The only people that can do that in government is you're going to have to have a Republican White House, a Republican Senate, and a Republican House.
00:20:15.000That's the only way it's going to happen.
00:20:17.000And then you'll have to fight it in the courts.
00:20:21.000But that will at least put them on the defensive.
00:20:24.000They're on the defensive now just with these $100 million, $50 million threats to withhold funding.
00:20:32.000And... The problem with it is that they are destroying meritocracy, so we're not going to be preeminent in the world anymore.
00:20:41.000And people will not feel, and I think maybe it's good, they will not feel an MBA from Stanford or a BA from Yale or A JD from Penn, it won't mean anything anymore because if you give 80% of the grades are A at Yale, and it's the same most other places, and you're passing people that have to be passed because you let them in without the qualifications that you said just five years ago were absolutely essential.
00:21:12.000If you want to go to Harvard, you've got to have 770 SAT. You've got to have a 4.5.
00:21:16.000Otherwise, you won't be able to do the rigorous work that we demand to be the best university.
00:21:22.000If you just throw all that out, then your name is going to go like Bud Light or Disney very quickly, and it's happening.
00:21:29.000So a lot of employers, and I think that will change them because when employers say, you know what?
00:21:36.000If I get a Stanford coder in Silicon Valley or I got a Georgia Tech coder, the chances are the Georgia Tech coder is better.
00:21:45.000And more importantly, they're not going to go on the first day to HR and start causing me problems.
00:21:50.000Yeah, there's a drama factor, I think, that you're going to get with these Ivy League.
00:21:56.000I remember for me at Wharton, you know, when I was at Wharton undergrad, I mean, we were in there, you know, I was taking finance 101 with guys that worked at Goldman Sachs for five years getting their MBAs.
00:22:06.000You know, you'll learn how to use Excel really quickly because you're forced because our...
00:22:10.000I don't remember exactly what the curve was, but basically, if you're not in the top 25% of your class, you're starting at a C, which wasn't great.
00:22:18.000And when those guys were sort of pass-fail, but they'd have all that real-world experience, it created a structure that made you work, that forced you to actually try to excel, not just whine and complain and figure out how to manipulate a system with some sort of fake grievance.
00:22:35.000Yeah, I agree. And I think it's already starting to happen.
00:22:38.000They feel that they have four centuries of stature and they can never go the way, as I said, of Target or Bud Light.
00:22:46.000If you destroy meritocracy and then you do things like at my university, Judge Duncan came to speak.
00:22:53.000You drive him out. You say you hope his daughter is raped.
00:22:56.000You see these people can't even condemn anti-Semitism.
00:23:00.000You start to see our president at Stanford had to resign because of allegations of Dishonest research.
00:23:08.000I don't know if they were proven or not, but he was forced to resign.
00:23:11.000When you have the president of Harvard, she says she didn't plagiarize.
00:23:16.000I looked at the data. Maybe it wasn't egregious, but according to their own standards, she would have been forced to resign had she been any other faculty member.
00:23:25.000So when you have all of that bad publicity and it's happening every day, It's cumulative.
00:23:32.000And I think I have mixed emotions about it because I want us to have the best doctors, the best engineers, the best lawyers, the best business.
00:23:42.000And so we've got to almost strangle these universities to the point where they give up but not extinguish them because they have the core.
00:23:50.000We've got to get new people in there and use that infrastructure to get back to where they were 30 or 40 years ago.
00:23:55.000It definitely feels like if China or one of our enemies actually created a real meritocracy and actually started educating and putting some money behind this thing, they could actually create a system that would, a university system that would shut down the nonsense that we have here.
00:24:13.000And I feel like that would be an incredible opportunity for them.
00:24:16.000You know, I don't want it to happen because, you know, I've sort of, I love the hegemony that America has had over our adversaries for now perhaps hundreds of years, but that's waning very quickly, and it feels like that would be an opportunity if others wanted to actually put some money behind it, create true A true meritocracy which doesn't exist here anymore and it would be disastrous for our system and ultimately our way of life as our finest talent starts going abroad and likely staying abroad for the future.
00:24:48.000Yeah, well, the irony is that in the 1980s and 90s, China understood that.
00:24:55.000So they began copying, especially in the sciences and STEM courses, our universities of the 1980s and 90s.
00:25:02.000And they ditched the Maoist model that was commissars and ideology, etc.
00:25:07.000That had destroyed their country during the Cultural Revolution.
00:25:11.000And the irony is now we're adopting their system that led to failure in the 60s, and they're adopting our system in the 90s that was very successful.
00:25:23.000The University of Austin, as you know, is trying to be meritocratic.
00:25:28.000It doesn't have DEI. It's a brand new university.
00:25:31.000Ralston College in Savannah is starting.
00:25:33.000There are some schools, and you know them well.
00:25:35.000Hillsdale College is just swamped right now, Don.
00:25:39.000They don't know what to do with the amount of admissions.
00:25:42.000Typically, they have 1,600 students, 400 entering.
00:25:45.000They're getting thousands of applicants, and it puts a great burden on them because the applicants that are applying to a St.
00:25:54.000Thomas Aquinas or Hillsdale are not just traditional conservative students.
00:25:58.000These are the students that are straight A's, perfect SAT, but they did not get into Williams or Harvard or Brown, and they want to go to a meritocratic place, and they're liberal.
00:26:10.000And they want to go to Hillsdale, but if you let them all into Hillsdale, You might change the brand of Hillsdale and sort of like the phenomena of all of us in California leaving to go to a state and then replicating why we left California at the new place.
00:26:26.000So there's a lot of transition going on, but the traditional schools are starting to be They're coming to their fore.
00:26:34.000A lot of parents I've talked to in Silicon Valley and Atherton, Mountain View, Menlo Park, their kids didn't get into Stanford and they accepted it now.
00:26:43.000They sent them to Michigan State or Auburn or University of Alabama, Tennessee.
00:26:50.000They don't care anymore. They're done with it.
00:26:52.000And they think their kids will get just as good an education.
00:26:57.000Yeah, no, I think without question, I mean, University of Austin may face some issues just because of the demographics surrounding the campus and the undue pressure, you know, that would put on, you know, the little communist state within Texas.
00:27:09.000But, you know, I've been fascinated sort of reading, you know, some of your long-form tweets about what's going on.
00:27:18.000You know, in Israel right now and the Palestine conflict.
00:27:21.000Can you provide a little perspective for the audience and context as to why places where we see the pro-Hamas extremist The most are actually on college campuses.
00:27:39.000I mean, you know, again, for me at Penn as an undergrad, I graduated in 2000, you know, 25-30% of the, you know, Caucasian undergraduate population was Jewish.
00:27:49.000You wouldn't think that it would be a place that would be a hotbed of Hamas extremism.
00:28:01.000First of all, when we went to DEI admissions, the group that was hurt the most were Jewish because they were white and they were lumped in, but they had traditionally outperformed almost every other demographic.
00:28:19.000And so there was a time just 20 years ago if we had looked at Penn or Harvard or Yale or Stanford, they were 25 to 30 percent of the student volume.
00:28:30.000They really got killed on the new DEI admissions.
00:28:34.000That was one thing. So a lot of the anti-Semitism is felt to be exempt from consequences because there's not that many Jewish students that can rally in numbers to stop it.
00:28:45.000The second thing is we let in Under our immigration policy and our university, tens of thousands of people, because of the Iraq War, the Afghan War, or the wars in the West Bank, etc. But we're getting tens of thousands of students from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, and they come with Gulf money.
00:29:13.000And in addition to that, Gulf money is endowing Middle Eastern professorships, Qatar especially, $10 billion, all over.
00:29:20.000So you're getting this huge pocket of Middle East students on student visas that are having their own sort of enclaves with Middle Eastern endowed professors.
00:30:08.000And when you final, the final tester on that mosaic is they don't know anything because, as I said, any class with the dash that has studies after it, Middle Eastern studies, peace studies, you know, Gender studies is my favorite.
00:30:23.000Gender studies, exactly. Black, Latino, Asian studies, etc.
00:30:28.000So when you see these students, and UC Berkeley, as you probably heard just last week, found that about half the people who were chanting from the river to the sea didn't know the Jordan River, the Mediterranean Sea.
00:30:41.000So they don't even, at Stanford, if you walk across campus, you see these kids and you ask them anything about the Middle East, they know nothing.
00:30:52.000So it's ignorance and it's the demographics of the university campus have just, I mean, I can't even exaggerate how radically they've changed and how the faculty is terrified, the old faculty.
00:31:07.000How do they accommodate these new students?
00:31:12.000Aggressive. They feel insecure because they were admitted and told they were brilliant.
00:31:19.000They get in here. The classes are not as easy as they thought.
00:31:22.000They gravitate toward a therapeutic curriculum.
00:31:26.000They get active. At Stanford, they have a blacklist.
00:31:29.000So if you're a professor and you insist on punctuality or deadlines, then you go onto a list of professors and courses that people are supposed to avoid.
00:32:06.000I take a month off and I go and teach intensively, or one or two days a week I'll teach at Pepperdine online and go down there a few times.
00:32:17.000At Hoover, we're under enormous pressure because we have a beautiful campus in the center of the tower.
00:32:25.000We're the only faculty members that really don't have to teach if we don't want to.
00:32:29.000Our salaries are competitive, if not better.
00:33:07.000Of course. People would walk the other way, or they would say something.
00:33:13.000In fact, the medical school faculty voted to censure him, and the medical faculty tried to take away his medical license for three or four things he said.
00:33:29.000He said the lockdowns would cause more economic, medical, psychological damage than the virus.
00:33:34.000He said eventually, while the vaccinations had utility, they would not be the only way to get immunity.
00:33:41.000That would not happen until people had natural immunity.
00:33:45.000And then finally he said that he felt that Unfortunately, the economic downturn would destroy the country for years, whether defined as students missing courses or people getting into the habit of Zoom or things like the George Floyd riots, people coming out of apartments and cloisters and then suddenly out in the street.
00:34:18.000He had to get security cameras at his house.
00:34:20.000Yeah, no, I mean, he literally called everything.
00:34:23.000And it wasn't like the predictions he made were so radical.
00:34:26.000I mean, it was, you know, if you look at it today or in hindsight, or if you're a reasonable individual, like perhaps you or myself looking at it at the time, like...
00:34:35.000They were always the most plausible answers.
00:34:45.000It came from two feet outside of the lab, Victor.
00:34:48.000It came from two feet outside of the lab.
00:34:50.000It didn't come from the lab that studies the exact virus in question.
00:34:54.000If you were at Stanford and you had a research grant, Anthony Fauci, who seemed like Let's call it an underperformer throughout his academic and medical career at best, but he was the best bureaucrat by far.
00:35:07.000In terms of protecting his own and snaking anyone who would get in his way, of course they were the most plausible, but it didn't matter because we don't live in a meritocracy.
00:35:16.000We don't live in an area where common sense is at all common anymore.
00:35:24.000It is. And the sad thing about all of this, I was asked, I'll just give you an example.
00:35:30.000I grew up on a farm. I still have a farm.
00:35:33.000So I was asked to talk to a hydrology class, which means at Stanford, it's farming is bad and water should be let out to the ocean for fish.
00:35:42.000But when I walked in, a couple of things, this is hydrology.
00:35:45.000I asked them, What are bowls on a pump?
00:35:50.000What's the difference between a gravel pack pump and an open bottom well?
00:36:41.000In the 90s under the EU, and if we go that route, it's going to radically alter our standard of living.
00:36:50.000I think it already has. Whether it's pilot training, it finally gets into the, I guess you'd call it the essentials of life.
00:36:57.000If you're going to hire air traffic controllers, if you're going to hire people in the military, if Mark Milley says that he's going to investigate white rage and have people read Professor Kendi or...
00:37:09.000He's going to call up his Chinese counterpart and warn him about President Trump's proclivities in a crisis.
00:37:16.000Or we have retired generals who call the commander in chief a Nazi or Mussolini.
00:37:22.000You add all of that together, And now we have, what, 40,000 military people?
00:38:17.000And how did it gain this power, this sort of, you know, immeasurable power inside our major universities?
00:38:26.000Critical theory came from the Frankfurt School, and these were people who fled Germany in the 1930s.
00:38:32.000And Herbert Marcuse is one of the best known.
00:38:35.000And basically it says critical legal theory, critical race theory, modern monetary theory.
00:38:42.000It says that all of the roles by which we govern racial relations are the law, are constructs.
00:38:50.000They don't resemble any reality in nature or human nature.
00:38:56.000And therefore, they're suspect because they're created by wealthy people.
00:39:00.000So, for example, if you and I walk into a store and we steal a candy bar, it's against the law.
00:39:08.000Critical legal theory says, well, that's because a bunch of white, powerful people never steal candy bars.
00:39:14.000So, of course, they made rules to hurt other people and suppress them because they never have to steal Adidas or candy bars.
00:39:20.000Or in the case of critical race theory, it just simply says they created a construct Of white people.
00:39:29.000It doesn't have anything to do with the Protestant Reformation or the work ethic or 95% of the people at the founding were white in the United States or anything.
00:39:55.000So when Lloyd Austin, for example, says, I want you all to read Professor Kendi, and I'm going to look to find out if there's white rage, he knew there was no white rage, at least at an epidemic level.
00:40:12.000No, they didn't. And so what happened?
00:40:14.000All of a sudden, when you look at that drop-off, and if you look at the data very carefully, it's overwhelmingly white males from rural, suburban, middle class, lower middle class groups.
00:40:26.000And they died at 73 to 75% of their demographic, of all the demographics of the dead.
00:40:33.000And if you say that, and I have to generals that get very angry, We don't keep data on the debt.
00:40:39.000They do, but they just don't want to mention it.
00:40:41.000So if you're telling the group that goes over to Iraq and Afghanistan and these god-awful places, and they'd like to be in combat, and they're dying at 72% of all the deaths come from 35% of the population, and then you go out and you belittle those people as...
00:41:05.000They are the one demographic who is not re-entering and explains the general drop-off.
00:41:11.000And there's no basis to anything of the accusations against them other than this theory that on racial hierarchies, they're victimizers because they come from the majority population.
00:41:26.000Why would you fight for a government that hates you?
00:41:31.000That's the explanation. I mean, a key tenet, it seems, of patriotism is actually being able to credibly believe in what you're fighting for.
00:41:41.000And when you see this nonsense and you see the drivel, I remember seeing that speech.
00:41:46.000It was like, I want to learn, I think it was Millie, I want to learn about white rage.
00:41:50.000I'm like, really? Like, I'd never even heard the term before, but like, now I'm pissed off now.
00:41:54.000Now I have rage because it's so ridiculous.
00:41:57.000It's so insane. And, you know, perhaps it's because the military off ramp is now getting a board seat at Disney rather than at Raytheon because, you know, other than since the advent of sort of the Ukraine crisis, you know, I think the general populace of America is no longer interested in the never ending wars.
00:42:13.000They're trying to change that desperately.
00:42:15.000But, you know, and so maybe that's why sort of the leadership of the military has gone woke because that's how to get their board seat and that's their retirement plan.
00:42:28.000I'm very worried because I know a lot of these people from the rural San Joaquin Valley, these families, and whether their father got kicked out because he had COVID three times but he didn't get a vaccination, or their son was over in Afghanistan and was wounded and saw what happened in Afghanistan, or another one kid listened to Millie or Austin.
00:42:49.000Whatever the reason is, they're not re-enlisting or joining the numbers they have in the past.
00:42:55.000And then what's even more disturbing, you talk to a four-star general or admiral and you mention this, and I have on numerous occasions, they say, well, it's because of gangs, or it's because everybody's obese, or it's because there's a short...
00:43:10.000They'll come up with every reason to avoid this truth because they're terrified Of questioning DEI or the Washington establishment.
00:43:20.000I think one of the reasons that you cited is that we have these revolving doors where they go out to these very lucrative positions in lobbying, defense contracting, and they don't want to offend the board.
00:43:34.000Also, you notice in the old days, somebody like Elizabeth Warren would really press a general.
00:43:41.000The left would. They say, you know what, General X and X, you're retired now, and you're weighing in on this issue of, say, gays in the military 20 years ago, but you worked for Northrop, or you worked...
00:43:57.000Now they get a complete pass because they know that...
00:44:00.000That if these generals and admirals that are running the military are woke, or at least act like they're DEI people, they will give them a complete pass on their retirement activities, their lobbying, their conflict of interest.
00:44:14.000It's really insidious what happened, that the whole idea of making a lot of money after being in the military when you retire is now deeply embedded within the left-wing project.
00:44:27.000Yeah, that's what seems so interesting about American academia.
00:44:31.000It's the attack on capitalism, the attack on free speech, and all of these important values that they themselves seem to actually rely on to make their living.
00:44:42.000It's almost as if when a society reaches a certain point of success, it breeds this class of intellectuals who often don't Really have to face any real consequences for their terrible ideas, like abolishing the police.
00:44:58.000I mean, it seems like a brilliant plan, and then when it goes wrong, they're absolutely shocked.
00:45:04.000It's also, from my experience, a lot of people in academia They're very highly educated.
00:45:13.000They're not all that bright, and they're very anti-capitalist, anti-money, but a lot of that is some kind of strange psychological effort To square the circle that they think that because they're articulate and they speak well or they have a lot of letters after their names, they deserve a lot of money and they're obsessed with money and they want to make money and they're envious of money.
00:45:38.000They'll say things, you know, you go to have a coffee with somebody and says, you know, I don't make any more than a guy who works on 7-Eleven.
00:45:44.000Well, a guy to 7-Eleven is a genius to run those stores.
00:45:48.000But more importantly, you can see it with the Bankman Freed.
00:45:52.000So that law couple at Stanford, his parents, they were the most radical, too, on the Stanford law.
00:45:59.000And she was a bundler for dark money in Silicon Valley.
00:46:03.000He wrote about tax law and how it was unequal.
00:46:06.000And then we find out that they were siphoning money from his son to buy $16 million annually.
00:46:13.000In Bahama real estate, there's a text exchange where he says, Sam said that I could be a consultant for a million dollars.
00:46:42.000They do not like to be with people that don't look like them or from a different class, and they create these edifices in the abstract that they're so anti-racist.
00:46:52.000But boy... When you go to these places around Cambridge, Mass, or you go to Atherton, California, around Stanford, these people hang out with themselves, and the only time they see Latinos is when they mow their lawn.
00:47:07.000And so, I think a lot of the academic problems are that you have a lot of people in there that are dysfunctional, and they know they're dysfunctional, and they create these, as I said, they project their weakness and worries on other people.
00:47:23.000And you can really see it, you can see now with your father and Trump's a dictator, Trump's a dictator, Trump's a dictator.
00:47:30.000As soon as the polls are unfavorable to Biden, as soon as the legal jeopardy increases around Biden, as soon as the dementia is now undisguised and accepted, suddenly Trump is a dictator.
00:47:45.000But then you look at it empirically, And you say, did he weaponize the FBI? Did he have people lie under oath to the FBI? Did the CIA director lie under oath as Obama's did?
00:47:56.000Did they have Russian collusion, Russian disinformation?
00:48:03.000Did they try to cancel student loans before the midterm?
00:48:06.000All these things. So then you ask, well, why are they doing it?
00:48:09.000And I think the answer is, the left right now, politics, media, academic, they say, if I was in his position, After what we did to him, and he was on the cusp of perhaps getting the nomination, getting elected, then I would do something to my enemies to make sure it never happened, even though I don't think Donald Trump ever did.
00:48:35.000So then they're saying, he's got to be like I am, so I would really go after and screw people over, so I'm going to accuse him of it, because that's how I think.
00:49:37.000You see noted liberal scholar Liz Cheney.
00:49:42.000She's out there and the left is more than happy to welcome Liz Cheney, of all people.
00:49:49.000Her father, Darth Vader, after the endless wars and all of these things, now she's a noted liberal scholar, someone who's 100% in tune with the conservative mindset, and is given a platform by the left to do anything they can to try to stop Trump.
00:50:14.000I see what they- I think the latest polls show that About 85% of Republicans, which are about half now of people who register, know that these legal proceedings are law fair and they're unfair and about Of the independents, it's about 55 to 60%.
00:50:38.000And what's remarkable is if you look at Democrats, about 40% now, even higher, 45% feel that the legal proceedings are being used to punish Trump.
00:50:50.000And so when you get to those numbers and they continue, they're going to have a problem, I think, if they get convictions because most people are just saying, and the way they rationalize or the way they try to approach this asymmetry, they say to themselves, Has Joe Biden or has Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, have any of these people overvalued real estate?
00:51:20.000Have any of them ever made a call to a registrar and saying, there's got to be something you're missing?
00:51:25.000Has anybody ever had a campaign donation?
00:51:30.000Hillary was fined in 2016 for hiring a foreign national, Christopher Steele, which is illegal.
00:51:36.000No problem. So I think they're looking at a comparative standard of justice, and they can't find it.
00:51:45.000And the left then would say, yes, okay, there's no comparative standard of justice, but Trump is such an existential threat, we have to make a special case.
00:51:54.000Then they say to themselves, As we said earlier, well, exactly show me how he had government overreach.
00:52:01.000When they told him he couldn't build the wall, they put him in lawsuits.
00:52:11.000Some presidents would have just bulldozed it and finished.
00:52:14.000He said, okay, this is what I have to do.
00:52:16.000I have to fight in the courts to get permission to do this.
00:52:21.000It's really funny about that issue because On the one hand, the hard right was criticizing Trump and saying, you're not tough enough or you're not vindictive enough.
00:52:33.000Many wanted him to be a dictator, but he wasn't.
00:53:57.000You mentioned one of your books, but in your book, The Dying Citizen, you talk about the destruction of the middle class.
00:54:03.000This is one of those concepts that Trump really keyed in on, because strangely enough, even the billionaire from New York got it, and yet our representatives don't.
00:54:12.000But, you know... The decline and the destruction of the middle concepts, concepts like patriotism and citizenship, which have been so critical to America's success.
00:54:22.000How do you assess the state of the middle class today and where the country got off track?
00:54:28.000And, you know, can that be fixed or is it too far gone between the elites that are making decisions, right?
00:54:33.000The D.C. Republicans, you know, they know what their people want.
00:54:39.000I talk about the Ukraine war and I've done the survey in front of thousands of people in live audience, probably 30,000 people.
00:54:45.000Not one of the Republican survey thinks Ukraine and funding indefinitely is a top ten priority.
00:54:51.000But if you ask Mitch McConnell, if you ask people in the House, it's a number one priority for Americans across the country.
00:55:53.000And when you have the universities that step in with these $2 trillion of loans, and the university never says to the student, I'm kind of a car salesman, so here's before you sign on the dollar line, this is the majors that will allow you to pay the loan back.
00:56:10.000This is what the compound interest will be.
00:56:14.000And you got to pay me back because I'm going to back this loan with my university endowment.
00:56:19.000If they would do that, Then people would be much more selective.
00:56:24.000But no, the government will make up the difference.
00:56:26.00030% of you default. We're going to keep rising prices because you're a captive audience.
00:56:30.000So you put all that together and you've got this phenomenon, especially among men, where a lot of Young men don't feel that they can make wages to get married, to have children, to buy a home.
00:56:46.000They're not viable. We've got a whole vocabulary among our elite, deplorable, irredeemable, dregs, chumps, clingers.
00:56:54.000And I'm very fentanyl, 100,000 deaths.
00:56:58.000The white lower middle class suicide rate is the highest per capita in the country.
00:57:04.000Life expectancy for lower class whites is taking the sharpest turn of any demographic population.
00:57:12.000So there's something to that group, and they were, years ago, addressed by the lunch bucket union Democratic politician, JFK, those guys.
00:57:38.000And I think he was right four years ago, but I do think the Republican Party is now starting to be a nationalist, populist, middle-class party.
00:58:10.000We make sure that we don't put mandates that warp the market like EVs when they can buy a cheap, clean-burning gas car with plenty of gas that's $2 a gallon instead of here, $5.50.
00:58:23.000Things like that. Or shutting down American energy independence while then giving the money to Iran and Venezuela.
00:58:30.000Who we didn't even recognize as a legitimate regime.
00:58:32.000But it's that stupidity, again, that it's hard to believe it can exist, and yet it's rampant.
00:58:45.000We passed a bond to build more dams so we would have more water, more clean burning hydroelectricity, more recreation, more flood control.
00:58:55.000And we used a lot of that, $500 million of that dollar to blow up four dams on the Klamath River that provided 80,000 or 90,000 households with clean electricity and they're beautiful lakes.
00:59:07.000So it's almost a nihilism on the left of the elite left.
00:59:11.000And they have this idea that we have the Al Gore's of the world or Tom Steyer or the Silicon Valley people.
00:59:17.000We have so much money and we've reached nirvana.
00:59:20.000That we're going to force everybody to adopt our ideas of race, the environment, energy.
00:59:28.000Well, Bill Gates' carbon footprint doesn't count because he's doing good with it.
00:59:32.000So it's okay for him to fly a G650 all over the world by himself, creating a larger carbon footprint in eight hours than the average American would create in their lifetime.
00:59:46.000I don't think these people realize that when you look at the classical Greek city-state or the late Roman Empire or 15th century Byzantium, when you have a group of aristocracy or plutocracy and they have no...
01:00:02.000Interest in creating or protecting a middle class, the entire society starts to fall apart.
01:00:09.000And when I say no interest, it's we're going to use the capital of the society to pursue goals that we think are very important.
01:00:20.000But they have no resonance or no support among the middle class.
01:01:17.000Crime. Critical legal theory, you saw what happened with the Soros attorneys, prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
01:01:26.000But when you look at the types of homes and security systems in the Bay Area or Los Angeles, and even that is not enough sometimes.
01:01:33.000So all of these utopian bromides are based on the idea that we have the wherewithal to protect ourselves where we experiment on the middle class.
01:01:42.000Yeah. And the middle class kind of deserve that experimental treatment because they're not as smart as we are.
01:01:49.000They're not as culturally sensitive as we are.
01:01:56.000They're all going to live in high-rises.
01:01:58.000They're all going to take mass transit.
01:01:59.000They're all going to be in EV vehicles, but we're not.
01:02:03.000Yeah, you'll own nothing and be happy is what they tell you.
01:02:07.000And there seems to be a general sort of lack of happiness that's coming on.
01:02:12.000I guess, you know, there's a book called Bowling Alone, which chronicles the decline in Americans, you know, In-person social activities and the decline in membership in what would be, you know, in the past, you know, key civic institutions.
01:02:26.000You know, there's young men that, you know, they don't even bother to get their driver's license, even if they could afford a car, because they would rather sit there and play video games.
01:02:34.000I mean, can you talk about this declining...
01:02:39.000You know, how it impacts how we view our fellow citizens, our community, our world, the efforts that we would make to succeed and do anything.
01:02:48.000Or does that just sort of breed, you know, a blob, which seems to be what the governments want because you're dependent and they can control you and therefore it's okay.
01:03:01.000Traumatic dislocations in our economy with, say, the internet and technology, cell phones, that all of these appearances, they entice people to go into a solitary world, you and your cell phone, TikTok, cancel culture, deplatforming, all in a distance where you didn't have to see anybody or associate with anybody.
01:03:23.000And at that moment, we should have doubled down on American institutions, Lions Club, Elks Clubs, Little League, all of those things that kept us.
01:03:31.000And yet, those were sort of written off as white patriarchy, ossified relics of the past, whatever.
01:03:40.000But it was considered not cool to have any of those social institutions.
01:03:45.000And all women were going to be single until they were 40, maybe have one child, maybe during that process it would be accepted three or four abortions, they were going to be working hard.
01:03:57.000And nobody ever asked themselves, well, what are men going to do?
01:04:02.000Men can just date without any Without any commitment, and sexuality is free for anybody, and we're kind of biologically different by birth.
01:04:41.000I think part of it, I have a lot of nephews who've never married.
01:04:46.000They don't own homes and they're in their 30s and they date, but they're not committed.
01:04:51.000And you talk to them. And they'll say, well, it's impossible for me to buy a house or it's impossible for me to, you know, work and have kids.
01:05:02.000I don't know if that's true or not, but that's a perception.
01:05:05.000And we really need to find ways to lecture them about their responsibilities, but also create an economy of the middle class that allows them some...
01:05:18.000When you have 7% mortgage rates like we do now and the price of housing has gone up, you just ostracize a whole class of people from buying a home.
01:05:29.000Well, but it also feels like by design.
01:05:32.000And so if we're going to talk about all of these things, which feel like they're on purpose, meaning the decisions that are being made clearly seem to be designed to actually hamper people from being able to get ahead.
01:05:44.000And without all that, we can't We're good to go.
01:06:10.000You know, America's an idea, but it's more than an idea.
01:06:14.000What's your view on immigration and what we should strive for from a policy perspective right now with what's going on?
01:06:21.000Well, we're on unknown ground because the highest we've ever had in numbers, But especially percentages was 13% of it.
01:07:18.000And we, the host, have no confidence in giving them civic education.
01:07:23.000So where I live, which is about 95% Hispanic, we have people who just come from Mexico.
01:07:31.000But in the schools, no one's teaching them what the Star-Spangled Banner is, or what happened at Shiloh, or what the Gettysburg Address is, or the tripart system of government.
01:07:43.000They're teaching them just the opposite.
01:07:44.000You came, and you're going to face discrimination.
01:07:55.000I think we need to deport the 8 million that came under Biden.
01:08:00.000We need to have about 200,000 meritocratic admits every year, legally, that have to go through a process of adjudication and authentication.
01:08:10.000We've got to have bring back refugee status, Determined in your own home country, stop, catch and release, increase the border, finish the wall.
01:08:24.000The last year of the Trump administration, we pretty much, after all the court, all the acrimony, the system finally started to click.
01:08:40.000Mexico was on warning that if they continued To greenlight the cartel smuggling of humans, we were going to do some very bad things to them, whether renegotiate NAFTA or tax remittances.
01:08:57.000They get $60 billion, and they know that $60 billion comes from mostly illegal aliens that are on sizable U.S. government support that lets them free up cash to send home.
01:09:09.000So they're terrified Of what the government could do to stop it.
01:09:14.000And I think the system, the paradigm is all there.
01:09:18.000But when Joe Biden in 2019 said, surge the border, we want you to surge the border, he said that as a candidate.
01:09:26.000And then we'd systematically broke this down, because I think the Democratic Party said to itself, We have an agenda that 51% does not want and never will want, and we have to change the constituencies in this country.
01:09:40.000And 8 million people, we get angry about it, and Mayorkas, what he did, but I guarantee you, five years from now, people on the left will say, my God, Mayorkas was a genius.
01:09:52.000He got 8 million people in here, and now they've got a whole new Democratic Party.
01:09:59.000Yeah, it seems like, you know, there's that big racial, you know, they always go after you, oh my, great replacement theory.
01:10:07.000I mean, you can't, how can you possibly say that?
01:10:09.000It seems... I don't know the racial underpinnings of it, but it seems pretty clear that of course they want people that are dependent on government.
01:10:17.000That's the entire basis for voting Democrat.
01:10:20.000If you have people that are dependent on them, they're going to vote Democrat.
01:10:23.000They're going to change a demographic in Texas, which would in turn change the national vote, which would in turn change the makeup of the Supreme Court.
01:10:31.000If you say these things, you're clearly racist, but isn't it Like, there's no, again, we talk about plausibility.
01:10:39.000There's no other plausible argument, whether you call it the great replacement theory or anything else.
01:10:44.000Isn't it pretty obvious that's what the Democrats are doing?
01:10:46.000Yeah, I think it is. They don't seem to be hiding it.
01:10:47.000I mean... I mean, they really went after...
01:10:50.000Tucker Carlson, say, a year ago on television, did a series...
01:10:57.000Of commentaries where he just took the paper by the left.
01:11:02.000So a book called Demography is Destiny or The New Democratic Majority.
01:11:28.000The only irony is that every once in a while, as you see with crime, even their cocoon is not enough to protect them.
01:11:38.000We saw Martha's Vineyard and now we're seeing in San Francisco, Los Angeles, that it might backfire because we have a lot of second and third generation Hispanics California, 42% that I think could vote 40% or 45% Republican because they're on the front line.
01:11:58.000So in my town, when you have all this surge coming in, what does it mean?
01:12:02.000People come up to a Hispanic kid, third generation, doesn't speak Spanish.
01:12:06.000They call him a gringo. M13, Norteños, Sermenos comes up.
01:12:20.000Are starting to see that this elite project of open borders is really hurting minorities of the lower and middle classes.
01:12:28.000And if the Republicans are gifted enough, they could really take advantage of that.
01:12:33.000And I don't mean take advantage in the negative.
01:12:35.000They could really create a fusion party, and I think they're already doing it, of middle class people.
01:12:41.000And if they can brand this as an elite project, Of elites to bring in people they'll never have to encounter, but expect everybody else to encounter without, you know, I think it's, put it this way, if the Hispanic population votes 45% or 50% Republican, they will close the border.
01:13:16.000You know, I remember why, you know, John Fetterman was literally struggling to speak, you know, during a campaign for Senate, a United States senator that he won.
01:13:25.000When I questioned that, I was called an ableist.
01:13:29.000Apparently, I discriminate against those with disabilities because I expected a United States senator to be able to complete a sentence.
01:13:37.000That said, I've got to call balls and strikes.
01:13:38.000In the last three weeks, he's called the border policies of the Biden administration ridiculous.
01:13:43.000He's done some pretty solid trolling of the Hamas caucus in Congress, so it's sort of hard to believe.
01:13:50.000Maybe he's come around, and maybe I was wrong.
01:13:53.000I doubt it. But what's your view on...
01:13:56.000How political discourse is changing that way, with the ease and access of information compared to the past.
01:14:06.000Well, I think there's a lot of people in the Democratic Party that are starting to wake up and they're saying, you know, not for the right reasons, but they're starting to say, we bought into the AOC squad line, the Elizabeth Warren, the Bernie Sanders, the Obamas, but there's not enough people because we have so alienated the white working class that we have to have 95% black vote.
01:14:32.000We have to have 70% We've got to have 60% Asian vote.
01:14:38.000But we have policies that are increasingly seen as elitist and anti those groups, and they're starting to peel off, and you don't need very many of them to peel off.
01:14:51.000Because of the, as I said, the figures on the white working class voting propensity are staggering.
01:15:20.000So I think the Democratic Party is in panic now, and they don't know quite what to do.
01:15:24.000So a guy like Fetterman is starting to, or SEMA in Arizona, they're starting to say, you know what, we've got to do something very quickly, because if we don't, Our own constituencies are going to turn on us.
01:16:39.000They've done very well at the Senate and the House and the state legislature, governor level.
01:16:44.000But the RNC has never really backed a tough-hitting campaign ever again.
01:16:50.000And meanwhile, the left just, anything's wrong.
01:16:53.000Anything goes. So I think in the next election, we have to be a lot tougher on the left, but we also have to find ways of populism and appealing to people across racial lines.
01:17:08.000I would like to see All of the people up for election, Senator, everybody, to go into the ghetto, or I don't even want to use that term, go into the barrio and say, you know what, you are part of our middle class project, and we're going to help you, and your leaders have betrayed you as much as our leaders have betrayed us.
01:17:29.000And I think it would be really, they could really do something.
01:17:31.000And I think the left is terrified of that.
01:17:34.000I love that because I think in the context of the 2024 race, that would be a philosophical underpinning of the America First movement.
01:17:42.000I think we've shown we are actually the party of tolerance.
01:17:49.000It takes a long time to break those molds.
01:17:51.000You say within the African-American community, I think the Trump administration and policies did far more than the Democrats ever did for them, and yet you didn't necessarily see a movement.
01:18:01.000But now I think you're right with the radical trans agenda.
01:18:04.000Parents should not be involved in their three-year-old's decision-making process about undergoing what I call genital mutilation, but what they would call gender-affirming care.
01:18:15.000The radical nature and the radical underbelly of the Democrat Party today is being exposed, and I think that creates a great opening for us to appeal to people of reason.
01:18:25.000I think if Republican candidates went into South Central LA or they went into Chicago and they said...
01:18:33.000I am more worried that you don't have access to needed social services because you're a fellow American than I am worried about somebody who walked in here from China or Somali or Guatemala.
01:18:47.000I feel for them, but they're going to go back where they came from because I'm worried about you as an American citizen.
01:18:56.000Yeah, and you're seeing that in Chicago, right?
01:18:57.000They were revolting because the undocumented migrants are throwing out Americans and they're throwing out war veterans out of housing and they're spending millions and millions of dollars.
01:19:40.000I think the man who saved the Civil War was William Tecumseh Sherman, because after his resurrection at Shiloh, he crafted a grand strategy that was complementary to Grant.
01:19:55.000He basically said to Grant, who was a Klaus Witzian, you're going to hold Lee in Virginia and you're going to take an enormous cost.
01:20:02.000100,000 casualties, and I'm going to go all the way down, cut my supply lines, and go into Georgia, get Atlanta, go all the way to Savannah, go all the way to the Carolinas, and in this process I'm going to I'm going to destroy plantations, I'm going to destroy government, but I'm not going to touch a hair on the head of the middle class, what there was of it in the South.
01:20:25.000I'm going to free slaves, and I'm going to maneuver around and humiliate the chivalry of us.
01:20:35.000John J. Pershing was not a great tactician, but he had a vision that the American army, after declaring war in 1917 in April, with no army to speak of, could get a million men within a year.
01:20:55.000And by 19, the end of the war near 1990, they had 2 million, and they didn't lose any, not one, on the transit.
01:21:01.000And he was able to keep an American army independent that had never fought in that type of war before.
01:21:09.000Patton, I think there's no doubt he was the finest infantry armor officer in World War II. He was better even, I think, than Guadarian and Rommel.
01:22:29.000People thought they were too profane or their language was not up to standards, but they were authentic military geniuses, and we were very lucky to have them.
01:22:40.000Yeah, we could use a couple of those guys now.
01:22:42.000But as a last sort of thought, you know, there seems to be, if we're talking about war and generals, there seems to be this endless appetite for war inside the swamp.
01:22:53.000Because as it turns out, amazingly enough, I guess there's a lot less money in peace.
01:22:58.000Many Americans, especially now on the right, have drastically sort of shifted their, you know, formerly hawkish views about America's role in foreign policy.
01:23:07.000You know, what role do you see For America now in places like Ukraine, in the Middle East, and Taiwan, because it seems like there's been a huge shift on the mindset and the views of people.
01:23:21.000Maybe that's because they've been exposed to sort of reality and the truth and the lies they've been sold have come out as lies.
01:23:49.000And then, now and then, without getting on the ground, without getting in an optional war, without nation building, We have to do things.
01:24:00.000So I thought what Trump did, getting rid of Soleimani or getting rid of ISIS, those were things that had to be done that the prior administration had been paralyzed.
01:24:11.000Once we did that, we didn't have men on the ground, and yet we warned them that if they retaliated in a manner that threatened or we were going to do something.
01:24:21.000So then all good things happen when you do that.
01:25:27.000Now, they think we're predictably not going to do anything, and we're going not to retaliate.
01:25:33.000And if we are going to get involved, we're going to get involved in a way That unfortunately exposes our weaknesses rather than our strengths.
01:25:42.000So deterrence is very hard to obtain and it's very easy to forfeit.
01:25:47.000But I think all of us are getting to the point where we want a much stronger, much more effective military, much less politicized, and then it's used at key moments In a way that reflects our strengths and we can control it and not get bogged down and help our allies and ourselves.
01:26:06.000And you don't have to keep doing that.
01:26:08.000That's the key to it. You just have to do it.
01:26:11.000When we got rid of Soleimani and we bombed the proverbial SHIT out of ISIS. That was pretty much it as far as kinetic force.
01:26:24.000Yeah, it's amazing what resolve, a little bit of resolve and a little bit of unpredictability can actually do.
01:26:30.000I mean, the nature of predation throughout history, throughout the animal kingdom is you prey on the weak.
01:26:36.000And so when you have a weak leader, when you see them falling down stairs, when you know they're hamstrung by woke ideology, That's the nature of a predator, is to strike and to pounce when that happens.
01:26:50.000And so, yeah, we could certainly use a lot of change on that front right now.
01:27:02.000And more importantly, they have it all wrong about our allies.
01:27:05.000They always say... Well, you have to go consult your allies.
01:27:09.000You have to do this. The allies like to be consulted, but what they really like is the idea that The United States will use force to protect them that shares value.
01:27:20.000So the Chinese go to Japan, they go to South Korea, they go to Australia, they say, the United States is a setting sun.
01:27:26.000They won't protect you. Why don't you join us?
01:27:32.000And when we're strong, we don't have to even get, we just say to them, If they screw around with you, we're going to react in a way that's going to protect you and protect us and then we're not going to have to keep doing it.
01:27:47.000The biggest problem is that this bipartisan foreign elite that comes out of the particular diplomatic graduate programs or this ecumenical globalist rules-based order stuff, they don't understand human nature.
01:28:03.000And more importantly, they're dangerous because they want to put our troops into places where it's not our national interest and expose them to types of warfare that's not our forte.
01:28:15.000We do a lot of stuff really good, but one thing we do not do is go into a Fallujah or Mosul or street-to-street fighting like the Israelis have to do.
01:28:28.000That's going to be difficult for them, and they're going to win, but it's going to be difficult.
01:28:32.000And so I think smarter and stronger, and we'll be fine.
01:28:38.000Well, Victor, thank you so much for doing this.
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