Cheap Foreign Labor, Managerial Class Killing America’s ‘Last Cowboys’ | Gord Magill & Jack Fowler

Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

Jennifer Hayne

News Commentary, News

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🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Truckers went from being revered in pop culture as the archetype of the “last American cowboy” in the 1970s and ’80s to teetering on the edge of irrelevance today. Why has the perception of the trucking industry by the American public “gone completely down the toilet”? There are many reasons the rugged individualists of yesteryear have fallen from glory, but chief among them may be staring us right in the face: cheap foreign labor, explains Gord Magill, author of the forthcoming “End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers,” on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”👉Tap water in the United States often contains a variety of harmful contaminants that pose significant health risks. Go to CovePure NOW and get $250 off the #1 water filtration system: https://CovePure.com/vdh 👉Claim your liberty offer of up to $5,000 in free metals with allegiance gold by going to https://www.ProtectWithVictor.com 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest editions of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iOoN0xoOoSNvDFlpLLYGY?si=5a9f369acc874c6e 👉 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words/id1566731706 👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/VictorDavisHansonInHisOwnWords?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o 👉 Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.5	was happening. In fact, it was proven that they were planning a strategy to lie and smear
0:45.6	them before they even got to Ottawa. A legitimate democratic expression has to be suppressed
0:50.6	and, you know, in any way possible. But while i was in ottawa it was it was a party
0:58.1	it was like my friends and i spent that first saturday night and like these techno raver people
1:03.8	showed up everybody was hugging each other it was like love and grinning from ear to ear
1:09.1	all the crap they said about the Freedom Convoy was
1:11.8	total baloney. Everybody was so nice. And it was this collective expression of like,
1:18.1	finally, this nightmare is over. People were partying in the streets. It was like Marty
1:25.1	Gras or Burning Man at minus 30. was incredible you know i think it i think
1:29.5	the book is for everybody i wrote it for everybody everybody can read it and i want people to
1:34.1	come away from reading it saying you know like this could be my job next maybe it already is your
1:39.8	job next maybe maybe we need to rethink the idea of our society as being, you know,
1:47.1	James Burnham and the managerial revolution and Peter Turchin's like overproduction of elites.
1:53.7	There's like way too many people dictating to the working class how to do their jobs,
1:59.4	messing with the economics,
2:02.2	serving corporate interests,
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