Hello, you've joined the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor is a commentator and Alice, and now,

sorry, Robert, let's try that again. Victor is a commentator and analyst of current political

and military affairs. He is trained as a classist and even more so or more specifically a philologist

and has written much on both ancient and modern worlds. He has also grown up as a farmer and

written on agriculture. He has two books out in particular, but he writes a lot on agriculture for

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Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. This is our Friday news edition, so we've got a lot on

the agenda, but let's take a moment for a few messages and we'll come right back.

We're back and thanks to everybody for joining us. Victor, you know, I've, it's a funny world out

there. There's so much that's bright and beautiful in it, and I know that oftentimes when we deal

with the news, it can get kind of bleak, so I expect that it will today, but I was hoping that maybe

before we start, we could get some positive thoughts and vibes from you for the podcast.

Yeah, it'd be good. I have a lot of readers who say that one Gary who writes me quite frequently,

he made that point. Good news. Well, the good news is that the American people, I think,

have lost their patience with the woke and they're starting to push back on every front.

And if they don't blow it, I think there's a good, a very good chance that in about a year and a half,

they're going to vote to take back the Senate, the presidency, and increase the margin in the House.

And then let's hope that, and I think they will start to undo some of the

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