We the people, do you ever think about what that means and what happened to it?

We the people certainly did not mean an imperial city full of unelected agents

deciding everything from kindergarten curricula to nursing home funding

formulas.

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to their towns and states with them passing along just a small amount of that power

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Visit American Habits.org to learn more. Hello ladies, hello gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hanson show. I am Jack Fowler,

the host. You're here to get the wisdom that comes four times a week from the star of the show and its namesake,

Victor Davis-Hanson, who is the Martin and Ealy Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,

and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

Victor has a website, The Blade of Perseus, its web address. at You should be subscribing. We are recording on Sunday, the 29th of September, and this episode,

Victor, will come right on the heels of the news that Israel has struck once again

and taken out the head of Hezbollah and I think getting your thoughts on that.

We should lead off the show and then get into

Donald Trump meeting with Zelensky

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