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The Michael Vary Show is on the air. A very warm A very warm welcome to our new listeners in Toledo, Ohio, on News Radio 1370 a.m. and 92.9 FM W-S-P-D.

We are honored to have you, and to let you know you can email me anytime through our website, Michaelberry Show.com, and yes, I do read every single one. Looking forward to

hearing from you in Toledo, Ohio. We are huge fans of Victor Davis Hanson.

And I decided long ago that our show was not just going to be me yammering, that when we found good things, we would share them with you.

You know, back when Matt Drudge was at his most influential in the Drudge report, Drudge didn't write hardly anything.

What he did is he went out and found interesting things and that was a place to go and he

would curate it.

But we kind of view our show that way.

We're a team of folks, not just me.

And while I do most of the talking, a lot of it is somebody else's idea on our team or something I've read or something I've heard.

So what we thought we would do today during this last hour of the show, and maybe we'll take up the whole hour, we'll see, is Victor Davis Hanson.

And we will not be able to get to all of it on the show today.

And it was my intention to.

Saturday's podcast will be the entirety of Victor Davis Hansen with no interruption.

But today we pull just some of my favorite parts of this discussion on why Trump won the 2024 election.

And I think he's done a wonderful job explaining some things that you might not have noticed,

but that you were a part of.

One of Australia's top journalists, Paul Kelly, has just said this about the American election.

The wide swathes 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,

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