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Folks, my guest in the next segment, and for the rest of this hour, is Douglas Groatheist.

We have had him on many times, and I really look forward to that

conversation, always spectacular. He's got a new book out. But we continue our conversation for

now with Victor Davis Hansen. We're speculating on the direction of the country, and we haven't

really talked about the midterms and Trump.

It seems to me that the blessing of the unfolding nightmare of this administration is that

many people who are kind of on the fence are waking up and understanding, wow, I never

dreamt that anyone could make Jimmy Carter look Reagan-esque.

I simply never dreamt that we could have this kind of series of unfolding disasters. And

disasters is almost a nice way of putting it. What happened in Afghanistan, everywhere we look,

we see kind of nightmares of historical proportions. What happened in Afghanistan, everywhere we look, we see kind of nightmares of

historical proportions. And I think that's good for the Republic, because my thesis is always that

we've been so spoiled as a nation that we've kind of acted as though, well, I don't need to do much.

We're pretty, we'll be fine. The pendulum swings back and forth.

We never took it seriously that we could swing so far away that we swing into cultural Marxism and the death of America, which is where I think we are now.

So what are you thinking for the midterms and for Trump, if you have any thoughts on that?

Well, I think there's some historic changes that the Democratic Party is not aware of.

They have been, for the last 10 years, the party of the very, very wealthy, the dot-com corporate

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