We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize and from a coup we never knew.

Usually I hate playing clips of myself, I hate it when other hosts do it, it's weird, it's just something that shouldn't be done.

But that's not me, that's me reading somebody else's words earlier this week.

And it's a guest that I wish we could have on every single day, I deem him to be the most strategic public thinker of weight of consequence in America today.

And his latest piece, which is titled The Coo, We Never New, well basically I read it on air because it was that important.

But now we have him with us, from the Hoover Institution, from Stafford University, the author of a veritable library of works on ancient history, strategy, domestic politics, anything with his name on the spine of the book is worth your time professor.

Victor Davis Hansen, welcome back to America first.

Thank you for having me, sir.

Now I have some big questions to do with the so what of your latest piece, which was unusual in terms of style because basically it's just a list of questions, a list of questions across a complete panoply of topics from natural gas to lack of sovereignty and open borders.

And I have a point of view of the scribe of the man of letters, I'm just curious and this is a peek into the sausage factory if you will.

What made you write a piece purely positive, I mean it works, I read it aloud to my wife on a long car trip, then I read it to my three million list on the radio show.

Was there some trigger, something that made you say, okay, I'm just going to ask questions for a thousand words.

I wanted to capture the bewilderment that I had sensed across the country and it was almost as if no one yet has explained the multiplicity of radical changes in American life or the effect that they've had on people and result is sort of a bewilderment.

So I don't know how they can be told in the abstract, no, how they happen and we all know the effect and the future of their consequences. But the process, I think, is so bewildered. So I wanted to somehow find a rhetorical way of conveying that bewilderment to the reader.

Just book end the article, we're reposting it right now, we posted it on Monday when when I read it, we're going to repost it on all our media platforms, social media platforms. The full version is of course at American greatness, Chris Boschurch, Superb site, the Kuwi never knew.

So the first question is what happened to the US border, where did it go? And then the last question, I think maybe one of those powerful is how did a virus cancel the Constitution?

And then you close the piece after this, this list of very, very important questions with the phrase, we are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize. And from a coup, we never knew.

Now, when I was teaching the thing I said to all of my officers on day one is the only question that really matters, whether you're a brain surgeon or whether you're an O-6-05 at National Defense University is the so what question?

You can learn a lot of things, you can be studious, but what does it all mean in practice in real life? So here's my question to you, what's the next phase of this article? The questions have been asked in their multiplicity.

You've used this very powerful phrase, it became the title for the work, the coup we never knew, where does this leave us? You've put up the rhetorical question, what's this so what that comes next? Are you working on the next piece? Or can I tease you out here?

I think the answer is, it begs a question or begs the answer, I should say, what are you going to do about it? What are Americans going to do about it? And the answer is most immediately they need to do three things, they need to increase the origin in the house, they need to take the senate and they need to win the presidency.

And then they have to get the people in power who will have sort of a revolutionary, revolutionary contract with America and push through, border control, energy independence, debt reduction, Jacksonian foreign policy, and probably have some federal oversight of this shocking lack of law enforcement.

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