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You may have the right diagnosis of the pathology, but you're not offering any therapy or medicine.

I think they did, but they didn't do it comprehensively and uniformly and loudly enough.

This is your host Scott Bertram, and that's Dr. Victor Davis Hansen,

distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

He's also author of the recent book The Dying Citizen.

We talk in depth with Dr. Hanson on this episode about the 2022 midterm election and what we've learned.

Dr. Hansen, thanks so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

We've now had a couple of weeks to digest what happened on Election Day, even as some ballots are still being counted.

Were you at all, were you personally surprised by the results we saw,

or was this in your realm of possibility of outcomes for the night?

No, I think I was surprised. I had looked at the real clear politics, not just the polls,

but there are calculations of the accuracy

of particular polls based on prior performance. So I really paid a lot of attention to the

Emerson poll or Trafalgar or Inside Advantage. And they were the most off on this particular.

I think Kerry Lake was nine up in the Trafalgar.

So that was a shock.

And then to double check that I called some people I know that are in politics,

house members and retired house members.

And they all assured me that they thought this was going to be a blowout.

And so that was, it was, I was

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