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Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: Will Trump’s Economy Survive the Left’s Sabotage Ahead of Midterms?

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4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The Democrat Party is no longer the centrist institution of the past, and because of that, the midterms will be unlike any in recent memory. Donald Trump’s path to victory for the GOP in 2026 is clear: sustain a growing economy while facing opposition determined to stall it. Victor Davis Hanson explains how the Left’s […]

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0:00.0

These midterms are going to be different than most midterms because the Democratic Party is different.

0:05.0

It's not the Democratic Party. It's a Jacobin, neo-socialist radical clique.

0:09.0

And if Donald Trump loses the House, within a week he will be impeached.

0:13.0

And those impeachment hearings will go on for weeks and months.

0:17.0

They will make the shutdown look like nothing.

0:19.0

So they will derail his agenda.

0:22.2

Donald Trump is in a race to get the message out that the economy is much better than the Biden

0:27.0

economy. It's going to get much better. But if everything works out the way that he had planned

0:32.7

and he does the right thing, right around midterm time, the economy is going to take off. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.

0:50.3

There's been a lot of talk about affordability.

0:53.3

That's a new word for the generation

0:55.9

between 20 and 40 who feel stifled or their careers are derailed because they cannot afford a house,

1:05.4

they cannot afford a vacation, they cannot avoid health care, and this involves questions of the economy.

1:11.6

It's a very strange logic that the left and the Democrats are making, though.

1:16.0

It goes something like this.

1:18.1

For four years, we had hyperinflation reaching 9.1% in 2022, but averaging over 5 percent.

1:28.3

And Donald Trump should be blamed for having 2.6 to 2.7 percent inflation in his first

1:34.8

10 months because he didn't arrest the hyperinflation that we caused.

1:40.9

And therefore, we should be able to either stop him in the Congress or in 2028 take over

1:47.0

because we have policies that created hyperinflation and the prices have not gone down under Donald Trump.

1:55.0

He should have had not just moderate inflation, but no inflation like us. So in other words, they're blaming Donald

2:04.0

Trump for not correcting quickly enough the mistakes that they made. There's another question,

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