Hello, everybody. This is a Bill Bennett show's special feature, the fence of Western

Civilization. Conrad Black, Victor Davis Hanson, and I, Bill Bennett, defend Western

Civilization through the lens of current events. Conrad Black is an author, columnist, and

media contributor. Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute. His

focus is classics in military history.

Gentlemen, holy smokes. We're about 70 days into the Biden administration. I'm trying

to think of the best knowledge here in parallel. Maybe I spent too much time in the fraternity

college, but it feels like a fraternity party. Hey, let's get more beer. You know, but we

got plenty of beer. Well, go get some more. We may need some more. You know, this party is

going to, what the heck is going on? The spending?

Well, that's the fiscal side, but I mean, what about the dishonest response on the issues

like the Southern border? You can't believe a word in official of the administration says.

I think with Obama, because he won electoral college by the same margin, basically, that

Trump had done, and he had a supermajority in the Senate in 2009 and a substantial lead in

the House. They expected him to be ambitious, and he did with healthcare and overreach, but

what's weird about this revolution is there's no popular constituency for it. All of these issues

from immigration to shutting down energy don't poll 50%. He doesn't have really much of a lead

six or seven seats in the House. The Senate's deadlock, 45 to 75,000 votes would have changed

the electoral college result. It was a contentious election, and yet he's pushing through as if

he's, as we said earlier, he's sick of being the understudy of Barack Obama. He wants to have a

hardcore progressive legacy far more than good ol' Joe Biden from Scranton that was the moderate,

moderate, uniter transparency president. Let's talk about the border.

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