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Victor Davis Hanson: Jobs Up. Borders Closed. Trump’s Second Term Is Just Getting Started.

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It’s simple: A booming economy, a foreign policy grounded in realism, a secure border, and popular working-class policies—all contrasted by a Democratic opposition mired in chaos, antisemitism, and no credible alternative. Victor Davis Hanson discusses this on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “Every time people say we’re headed for a recession or his trade war is gonna tank the economy, data comes out. … Inflation is down. Energy prices are way down. Economic growth is up. Joblessness is down. “ Most of the issues that he’s trying to undo of the progressive project, the public supports him. And his Democratic opposition—four months into his tenure—has still completely lost its mind and not only does not offer an alternative agenda, but personally, emotionally, psychologically puts people off.” (0:00) Current Polls (2:18) Economic Indicators and Trump's Policies (2:51) Trump's Foreign Policy Approach (4:47) Public Perception and Media Response (6:09) Democratic Opposition and Conclusion (8:03) Closing Remarks 👉 Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1    👉 If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/victordavishanson7273    👉 He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.0

real clear politics averages, which, to be fair, have a preponderance of left-wing polls is still

0:44.7

only about a point, point and a half down. But in other polls, Rasmussen, he's either even,

0:49.3

or he's a couple of points ahead. And yet all of the media and all of the major organs on the left, but even in the

0:56.7

center and right, the Wall Street Journal, they have been uniformly negative. So how in the world

1:01.8

is Donald Trump almost equal and much higher than he was at his first term at this time? The

1:07.5

answer is twofold.

1:22.6

Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal. We're at four months now in the new Trump second administration.

1:28.3

And a strange thing has happened.

1:29.3

If you look at the polls after diving for Trump with the announcement that he was going

1:36.3

to subject certain countries to high tariffs, which panic the stock market, now the stock

1:43.3

market's almost recovered or has recovered

1:46.0

all of its loss. It went down a little bit when Trump said he was going to continue the tariffs

1:50.7

to force the European Union to have reciprocal treatment toward the United States. But nevertheless,

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