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Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: The West Isn’t Finished, as Long as Assimilation Starts Now

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4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Western civilization is being tested like never before. Victor Davis Hanson argues to the contrary, saying that while much of Western Europe and America’s blue states continue down a failing path, signs of renewal are emerging in unexpected places—Eastern Europe and America’s red states. These countermovements are pushing back against cultural nihilism, restoring free speech, […]

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0:00.0

Everybody is worried about the status and future of Western civilization.

0:04.0

We have open borders in the West, and it's a very funny type of open borders.

0:08.0

We have millions of people who want to come in illegally to the United States.

0:12.0

But guess what? They don't want to fully assimilate, integrate.

0:15.0

Are people in Los Angeles waving the flag of Mexico they don't want to go back to

0:19.0

and burning the flag of America? They insist on staying. That's incoherent.

0:22.6

I could go on with these symptoms, but they all point to a period supposedly of decline.

0:27.6

But all's not lost.

0:28.6

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0:42.3

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0:45.3

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.

0:48.3

Everybody is worried about the status and future of Western civilization.

0:52.3

That's a broad term, but it mostly denotes what is now

0:56.9

Europe, the United States and North American Canada, the former domains of the British Anglophonic

1:06.6

Empire, and I mean specifically New Zealand, Australia, Britain, Canada, etc., again.

1:14.6

And then more importantly, the westernized countries, mostly in Asia, and that would be Taiwan,

1:20.8

South Korea, and Japan. And they are in a period of crisis decline and what would be the symptoms.

1:29.3

We all know what they are.

1:30.4

The fertility rate in these countries is falling drastically.

1:36.0

People do not want to raise children.

1:37.5

They want to satisfy their appetites.

1:39.4

They don't want to put up with them.

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