Ep 105 | Is 2022 Our Last Chance to Save America? | Victor Davis Hanson | The Glenn Beck Podcast

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🗓️ 24 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Do you know where your water comes from? Renowned historian and conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson gets his water from a well on his family farm. He pumps it himself. And he believes that’s what more Americans need — to be grounded and stop taking so much for granted. Hanson joins Glenn to point out that this needs to happen soon, because as he describes in his new article, “The 10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America,” things are getting ... bleak. The Left is subverting the Constitution more every day. The value of the dollar is dropping. The media has fused with the radical Left. Corporations, Hollywood, Silicon Valley are all working together to increase their power and their wokeness. And academia isn’t any better — as a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Hanson has watched for himself the deterioration of constitutional rights on campus. And as a historian, he knows how all of this usually ends — and what we must do to prevent it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You could accuse America's founding fathers of a lot of things and the left goes out of its way to try but one thing you cannot accuse the founders of
0:08.0	is a failure to know history and think deeply.
0:12.9	That is the exact opposite approach to our current woke authoritarian cancel culture.
0:18.8	It's all about the future not about the past and let's not even take the time to think deeply on these things and question what it all means.
0:26.4	The founders knew that ideas, making arguments, working through issues were vital building blocks for our nation.
0:34.4	The woke culture and other things like it is more fundamentalist than most hardcore Bible thumpers.
0:45.0	It's their way or the highway. It is their salvation or no salvation.
0:50.4	It seeks to silence every idea that questions the power, especially any suggestion that America has any redeeming qualities.
0:59.4	I want you to hear a guy today who has had a long successful career in the academic world.
1:05.4	Yet he is always standing for truth, in defense of truth, common sense, free markets and actual history.
1:13.4	He is one of America's best historians. You may be familiar with him already but if you are not he is a historian and a farmer that you need to know.
1:23.4	I bring that up because we just listen to the podcast.
1:29.4	He is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
1:33.4	He is an American military historian, regular communist columnist for the National Review.
1:40.4	He has written or edited 24 books including the upcoming title, The Dying Citizen, How Progressive Elites, Tribalism and Globalism are destroying the idea of America which will be released next fall in October.
1:54.4	In these unreasonable times, he is a refreshing voice of reason.
2:00.4	Today, Victor Davis Hansen.
2:15.4	Victor, I was at a friend's house over the weekend and Connie Rice was there and as you would know, she is the head of the Hoover now.
2:32.4	She had the best happy face on the country.
2:48.4	I would like to hear from you as a historian. You have studied ancient war, modern war, you are one of America's leading historians.
3:02.4	Where do you see us in the cycle and past results don't guarantee future results?
3:12.4	Where are we and what are we headed towards? Can you compare it to any other time?
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