Victor Davis Hanon: The Left’s DOGE Tantrum

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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There is a growing outrage against Elon Musk, including threats to his life over DOGE’s work to find and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the U.S. federal government. On this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” a Daily Signal original series, Hanson delves into the reasons behind this backlash, its broader implications and how the Left is making the “chemotherapy”, DOGE’s work, out to be worse than the “cancer”, wasteful government spending. “We're starting to see, kind of, an outrage where people are threatening a life, even, of Elon Musk and defending all sorts of indefensible expenditures.” “One thing I think is lost in this messaging, this tough love, this effort to restrain the government is that, I think, the Trump administration and Musk must convey that. They must say we don't enjoy putting people out of work. We don't enjoy rounding people up, but we have to because these people, the Left, the Biden people, the Jacobins, they put us in that position. They were the ones that destroyed institutions. They were the ones that broke the law. They were the ones that are bankrupting us.” 00:00 Introduction to Tough Love Messaging 04:38 The Necessity of Tough Actions 04:42 Blaming the Left for the Crisis 04:53 Destruction of Institutions 04:56 Breaking the Law 04:58 Economic Bankruptcy For Victor’s latest thoughts, go to: https://victorhanson.com/ Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqkXbgqrDrDVInBMSoGQgQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	slash setup. There's been a lot of commotion lately about the Elon Musk cuts and the Donald
0:35.7	Trump rebranding of the entire administrative state.
0:38.3	The narrative from the left is almost as if the chemotherapy to cure this problem that we are running multi-trillion dollar deficits is worse than the cancer itself.
0:49.3	And we're starting to see kind of an outrage where people are threatening a life even of Elon Musk
0:55.0	and defending all sorts of indefensible expenditures.
0:59.1	We should keep clear what's going on.
1:01.0	It's much easier to give money out than to save it.
1:04.1	That offends people.
1:05.5	Giving them free money doesn't for some reason because it's an abstract a taxpayer.
1:25.6	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
1:30.6	There's been a lot of commotion lately about the Elon Musk cuts and the Donald Trump rebranding of the entire administrative state and bureaucracy. It's very
1:38.3	strange that it's almost the narrative from the left is almost as if the chemotherapy to cure this problem that we are running multi-trillion dollar
1:49.3	Deficits and we owe 37 trillion dollars, but the efforts to stop that financial bleeding the chemotherapy is worse than the cancer itself.
2:00.4	And we're starting to see kind of an outrage where people are threatening a life even of
2:05.4	Elon Musk, and they're going hysterical and defending all sorts of indefensible expenditures.
2:13.2	And so we should keep clear what's going on.
2:17.2	It's much easier to let in 12 million illegal aliens and to destroy their border
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