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2/2: #France: The Jacobins 0f 1789 and the Progressives of 2023. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

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2/2: #France: The Jacobins 0f 1789 and the Progressives of 2023. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution
https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/07/the-impending-thermidor-reaction-in-jacobin-america/


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0:00.0

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0:23.0

This is CBS Eye in the World.

0:26.0

I'm John Batchett with Victor Davis Hansen of the Hoover Institution, writing an American greatness about French history and American history.

0:35.0

Victor, you mentioned the border and much talk about the people who are ready to come across the border in some fashion once title 42 hands.

0:44.0

But I have this from Chief Raoul Ortiz, his Twitter feed. He's the head of the US Border Patrol.

0:50.0

One week of apprehensions along the border. It is shocking to read the scale of this. This is one week in early May.

0:59.0

$714,000 of cash, 101 pounds of cocaine, 1,050 pounds of marijuana, 2721 pounds of meth, 138 pounds of fentanyl, 16 firearms, 6 sex offenders, and 7 gang members.

1:16.0

That's not about people, Victor. That's a border that is allowing the cartels to dominate the United States of America.

1:23.0

Not only we do not have a country, we're inviting in poison and recklessness that we know for one of those, the fentanyl, killed more than 100,000 Americans last year.

1:35.0

And the Biden administration has no better answer than to say we're working on it. What is their response to these drugs, Victor?

1:43.0

Well, I think it's a mistake to think they don't have a response or they're not prepared. I've heard that.

1:49.0

But I think the real idea is that they came in with a close border that was closed in 2019 for the first time in years.

1:57.0

The first thing they did was get rid of the wall, get rid of a refugee status.

2:03.0

You had to apply in a different country, the partnership with Mexico. They got back, get your release.

2:09.0

And we had 6.5 million, and they considered that success.

2:14.0

They figured that the more people who swarmed that border underprivileged without a high school diploma, without capital, without sophisticated working skills, without fluently in the English language, not diverse, in numbers so huge, we cannot assimilate them easily or integrating them easily.

2:33.0

They feel that that's a huge constituency. And then as California went flu and New Mexico and Colorado and about and maybe Arizona, they hope Texas that it's a powerful electoral too.

2:48.0

Now they call that demography as destiny. That's a title of a sub title or title of books as diverse as Lonnie Davis to John Judas.

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