The Michael Barry Show. We love Victor Davis Hanson here on the Michael Barry show. He's been a guest on our show many times over the years. And he had some interesting things to say about why Trump won the 2024 election. And we've been spending a lot of time ourselves explaining it. I read the article by the guy Gourri, I'd never heard of him before, that appeared

in the free press. I think it's important to understand why we won this election. Anyway,

this is the entirety of that piece by Victor Davis-Hanson that we used earlier in the week

in the 6 o'clock hour, the second hour of our show but even if

you heard that you haven't heard this entirety of it so give it a listen victor thank you so much

for giving us your time at this very important moment in human history one of australia's top

journalist paul kelly has just said this about the American election.

The wide swaths of middle America knew Trump wasn't any saint, but they turned the electoral map red because they endorsed his bedrock positions,

that living standards were in retreat, inflation was too high, borders were not

secure, and elites were too arrogant. Is that a fair assessment?

I think it's a very fair, it's a very accurate assessment. I think they also saw that the occasional crudity of Donald Trump was almost a mechanism in their desperation that was necessary to get the attention of the elites.

In other words, they wanted somebody who wouldn't equivocate and didn't come from that milieu.

And so they were really saying,

your agenda has no support,

and yet you're ramming it down our throats

and you won't listen to us.

And you make fun of us, you call us garbage, deplorables,

irredeemables, clingers, chumps, dregs.

These are all pejoratives that Biden and Obama and the Clintons have used.

And you forced us to do this, but we have now a champion, and he's going to cut through all of this

and remind you that we run the country and not Hollywood or the institutions or academia, Silicon

Valley.

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