Victor Davis Hanson RETURNS: Surgery, Cancer Battle, and Minnesota's ‘Hypocritical Insurrectionists’

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

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There is “no coherent principle” to the left’s ongoing “utterly hypocritical” “insurrectionary movement” in Minnesota, argues Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson in his first post-surgery video appearance. Nearly five years ago, these same people lambasted Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed 14-year Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by the U.S. Capitol Police on Jan. 6, 2021. The left cheered as hundreds of demonstrators were arrested for allegedly assaulting officers and carrying firearms. Meanwhile, they said it was perfectly OK for somebody like Alex Pretti “to go to a demonstration with a military-grade semiautomatic weapon, with extra clips, and just stick it in his waistband, visible sight of anybody, and then get into a brawl with law enforcement officers,” Hanson continues. “All of our most prominent liberals are saying the state of Minnesota has a right to do what? Occupy federal property? Attack federal officers? Prevent the enforcement of federal law? I thought the left didn’t like states’ rights. I thought they said that this was ‘insurrectionary.’” 00:00 Introduction and Personal Update 01:32 Health Struggles and Recovery 03:58 Minnesota's Street Insurrection 06:13 Hypocrisy in Law Enforcement 09:37 States' Rights and Federal Law 12:57 Conclusion and Future Discussions 👉 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: http://dailysignal.com/donate 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos 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 Also on Spotify: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being an adult sucks.
0:02.0	Adults, they have to work all day.
0:05.0	When adults get male, it's always bills and bills suck.
0:11.0	Sure, but we've got a driver's license.
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0:38.3	about what's going on in Minnesota. What I'm really disturbed about is the utter hypocrisy
0:43.4	that we're seeing with this street insurrectionary movement. They have canonized Renee Good and
0:49.3	Alex Prattie for resisting ICE officers, and they were tragically shot, and they become martyrs.
0:56.0	Why did the left tell us that it was perfectly okay for somebody to go to a demonstration
1:01.0	with a military-grade, semi-automatic weapon, with extra clips,
1:04.0	and just stick it in his waistband, visible sight of anybody,
1:08.0	and then get into a brawl with law and enforcement officers at the same time tell us if anybody had a concealed weapon anywhere on January 6, they needed to be put in jail.
1:18.6	We were told that over 400 people were convicted or would be convicted of felonies for assaulting officers.
1:26.6	They were sacrosanct. We're also told that
1:29.0	five officers were killed on January 6th. We know that none were, none. All of our most
1:35.4	prominent liberals are saying the state of Minnesota has a right to do what? Occupy federal
1:40.6	property, attack federal officers, prevent the enforcement of federal law.
1:45.0	I thought the left didn't like states' rights. I thought they said that this was insurrectionary.
1:50.0	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
2:02.8	I've been off for a while, as you may have noticed.
2:06.8	I had a very quickly a mucanus adenoma, carcinoma, that's kind of a long name for a very rare
2:13.3	non-smokers type of lung cancer.
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