The Merits of Joe Kent’s Resignation, the Democrats’ Anti-Israel Shift, and America’s Blue-State Decline | Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Jack Fowler and Victor Davis Hanson discuss Joe Kent’s recent resignation over opposition to military action against Iran. Hanson argues Iran’s long record of attacks and proxy warfare makes stopping now dangerous. Hanson reacts to an Al Jazeera column claiming the U.S.-Israel strategy is systematically degrading Iran’s key assets, suggesting Gulf states back the campaign out of fear Iran will hit their economies. He then examines an NBC News poll showing Israel’s standing has fallen sharply among Democrats and warns Jewish national candidates face a hostile party climate. Hanson also links corporate flight from blue states to high taxes and governance failures, criticizes Canada’s policies, and argues weak assimilation and DEI incentives fuel anti-Americanism and criminal impunity among some immigrants and activists. (00:00) Welcome and Family Stories (09:47) Joe Kent and Iran Debate (29:03) Polls and Israel Politics (43:00) Canada Critique Breakdown (50:06) Blue State Exodus Warning (58:45) Immigration DEI and Wrap 👉Watch The Tony Kinnett Cast NOW! LIVE weekdays at The Daily Signal and wherever you get podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjMHBev3NsoV3kHckydY58R7TaYsizl45v 👉America is worth preserving. Do your part and act now by going to https://www.heritage.org/beautiful 👉Claim your liberty offer of up to $5,000 in free metals with allegiance gold by going to https://www.ProtectWithVictor.com 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest editions of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iOoN0xoOoSNvDFlpLLYGY?si=5a9f369acc874c6e 👉 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words/id1566731706 👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/VictorDavisHansonInHisOwnWords?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o 👉 Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.3	And hello, ladies, hello gentlemen.
0:45.1	Welcome to Victor Davis Hansen, in his own words, on the Daily Signal Network.
0:50.8	I'm Jack Fowler, the host, but you're here to get wisdom from Victor Davis Hansen,
0:55.6	who is the Martin and Ely Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Wayne and
0:59.7	Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. He's a, I forget,
1:06.5	a senior contributor to the Daily Signal. And he's got a website, the Blade of Persseus. Go to Victor Hanson.com. Check it out. Subscribe, 65 bucks a year. It's, come on, you got it. Do it. We are recording on Tuesday, March 17th, which is St. Patrick's Day. This episode, though, was up on Thursday, March 19th.
1:28.4	Victor, that's St. Joseph's Day.
1:30.1	Later on the show, we don't want to get too religious or front.
1:32.7	I'll tell you.
1:33.3	We had a very controversial conversation about the spate of what Joe Biden would call
1:40.6	ultra-maga converts to Catholicism.
1:43.8	So I think we should leave that topic alone.
1:46.2	We'll leave it along. I do have to apologize for something. But we'll do that at the end.
1:51.7	Nobody's here to listen to me. My wife is a Catholic and my grandmother was, she was supposedly
1:58.2	Swedish, but she was outed my grandfather who was Swedish as an Irish Catholic, and my grandfather married her.
2:06.4	My Swedish grandfather, you know what they did to him?
2:09.2	What?
2:09.4	They kicked him out of the Kingsburg.
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