Victor Davis Hanson Reveals The Left's Plan For America
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Guests: Victor Davis Hanson & Todd Mack
Host Scot Bertram talks with Victor Davis Hanson, the Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and discusses his recent essay, “What the Left Did to Our Country.” Todd Mack, chairman and associate professor of Spanish at Hillsdale College, begins a two-part series on Miguel de Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.9 | So they don't really have any strong feelings about the court per se. It's just when the court is a democratic majority, then it must be activist. |
| 0:35.5 | And when they lose the majority, it A, either cannot be |
| 0:39.5 | activist or B has to be delegitimized to the point we have Ivy League professors at Harvard |
| 0:44.5 | writing articles that it's okay to ignore a Supreme Court decision. This is your host, Scott Bertram, |
| 0:52.0 | and that's Dr. Victor Davis Hansen, the Wayne Marsha Busky |
| 0:55.8 | Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. |
| 1:01.5 | On today's show, an in-depth conversation with Dr. Hanson about two of his recent essays, |
| 1:06.7 | what the left did to our country and the remaking of America. Dr. Hansen, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:12.9 | Thank you for having me, Scott. Talking today about a pair of recent essays that you penned at |
| 1:17.1 | Americangrateness.com, one, the remaking of America and one, what the left did to our country. |
| 1:23.6 | And some similar themes in both. It will bounce back and forth a little. But in both essays, |
| 1:29.9 | you lay the blame for the recent radical revolution in our country at the feet of the Obama |
| 1:35.9 | administration. Why was President Obama allowed by party members to transform the party in a way |
| 1:43.5 | that you describe as from its middle class |
| 1:45.7 | roots and class concerns into a party of the bi-coastal rich and subsidized poor. |
| 1:51.1 | Well, there were certainly long-term trends in the 21st century globalization that had |
| 1:57.6 | enriched the bi-coastal elite, and the Democratic Party had been an advocates of, |
| 2:04.3 | basically, to be quite honest, illegal immigration. So we had reached a point nearly 40 million |
| 2:10.7 | people who were not born in the United States and were not being assimilated. But those were |
| 2:17.1 | the long-term trends that were in that direction. |
| 2:19.3 | But with Barack Obama, that eight-year period, |
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