The American Experience Gone and European Left's Experiments Gone Awry?
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler
4.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the polls that show Americans believe the American dream in decline, trouble for the Left in supporting murderers and attacking their own, Newsom-Desantis debate impending, California's decline is self-imposed, Europeans see their anti-Western experiments are doomed, and the Roman emperor Elagabalus, a transexual (?).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello ladies, hello gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hanson show. I'm Jack Fowler, the host. You're here to listen to the star and namesake, the wisdom he dispenses four times a week. |
| 0:26.5 | That's Victor Davis Hanson, who is the Martin and E. Le Anderson senior fellow at the |
| 0:30.4 | Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marshall Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at |
| 0:35.2 | Hillsdale College. Victor has an official website, the Blade of Perseus. Its address is |
| 0:42.0 | Victor Hansen. |
| 0:43.0 | We'll talk more about that towards the end of the show. |
| 0:46.0 | Couple of topics to talk about on this. |
| 0:49.0 | First, post- Thanksgiving, all the stuffing digested episode, Victor. |
| 0:57.3 | Wall Street Journal, the other day put out |
| 1:01.0 | a quite interesting poll about the American dream and it's |
| 1:06.4 | disappearing in the eyes of Americans and the questions I'd like to ask of you and I think our listeners would like to know from you is are. |
| 1:17.3 | Is the American dream a good dream? What is it? And who's to blame for it's disappearing. |
| 1:23.8 | And we'll get your thoughts on that Victor and other topics |
| 1:26.1 | right after these important messages. We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show. Victor, the poll that came out, I think the day before Thanksgiving or maybe even Thanksgiving day. |
| 1:46.5 | Voters see American dreams slipping out of reach. This is a new Wall Street Journal poll. Only 36% of voters in the New Wall Street Journal, |
| 1:56.5 | N. O-R-C. I'm not sure what Nork is. Survey said the American Dream still holds true substantially fewer than 53% who said so in 2012. |
| 2:08.8 | The survey goes on to make note of the youth of America, whatever you want to call youth, 18 to 35, I think, particularly |
| 2:18.7 | see no dream ahead of them in their life. Work hard and you'll get ahead. That's baloney. What are your thoughts Victor? Is there an American dream? What is it? Was it good? |
| 2:30.0 | Yeah, the American dream was that you could say what you wanted, you had freedom of expression and lifestyle, |
| 2:37.0 | you were, if you worked hard and played by the so-called rules, then you prospered and you were secure. Tell that to somebody who's |
| 2:47.0 | living in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Washington, Memphis, Minneapolis. |
| 2:54.0 | If you go into those cities, there's carjackings, there's mass looting, there's theft, |
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