Hello, this is the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor is the Martin and Ely Anderson senior fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in history at Hillsdale College.

This is our Saturday show and we dedicated to things cultural and historical things and so this Saturday weekend show we're going to look at the mecca that DC is and we're going to turn to Islamic conquest and then we'll look maybe at a little bit of the disaster of diplomacy in our world.

So stay with us and we'll be right back.

We're back Victor maybe something a little bit optimistic because I know we're going to go into the Islamic conquest and suing in DC so these are not going to be light topics at all but did you have anything positive to start our podcast.

Anything positive?

What are our atlift team?

I yesterday I spoke for a local congressman David Valnell who he was one of the 10 that voted to impeach Trump which I disagreed with but he's able to be elected in a plus five democratic district and you say well yeah because he's a rhino but yeah maybe but

if you look at his actual percentage of his voting records about 90% conservative so it was 90% conservative better than 90% left wing no I mean of course it is so what I'm getting out is that there were people in the crowd that I sensed they want to win they're not dissent supporters are not Trump supporters they're not

just a democratic grand ease that want to go back to Romney is them they just want to have sort of a make America a great agenda favor the middle class get tough on China avoid optional wars be Jacksonian don't tread on me no better friend no more

foreign policy become energy independent tough on crime deregulate fewer taxes budgetary discipline all of that they all agree on that and I think if if they can unite and I think they can in 2024 we can stop this and there's periods in history whether it's the five good

tempers or in the third third century early four century in Rome or Constantine in Byzantium or Iraqlius later Justinian where there have been periods of long Renaissance in a society every society declined

this like a human body the Greeks said your age and decline but there's everybody has Renaissance I think we're a dude for one I hope it can happen I think the left is really

and we're reached I really do I think this whole transmogrification of a transgender dysphoric issue into your children are going to trans be careful it's one out of five or

that has really alienated the Hispanic community the poor white working class community and the African American community

and I think the border has scared everybody and I think gas price I think everybody will be sensible but I got that in 2020 so I'm trying to be optimistic we're up against a lot don't ever underestimate what three and a half billion dollars

and the control of Silicon Valley the New York Times Washington post Chicago Tribune NPRP PBS network news all three networks

Hollywood professional sports K through 12 academia can do that's a powerful opposition to deal with

natural is why I have a positive thing I think the royal family has been graced with the knowledge that

Megan Markle is not going to show up at the King's Corden coronation so there are things good things happening to people in this world

and so but let's turn to the DC corridor where we have Trump suing Michael Cohen and Alvin Bragg suing Jim

and I was thinking wow we have suing suing suing and it seems as I said like a lawyers mecca and I was

wondering reflections on those specific cases and just the culture in general that is like this

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