The criticism of socialism is, eventually you have a cadre.

You always say that you're for the people, but you say this.

Kind of like John Kerry says, I have to provide private so I can advance, you know,

global warming advocacy against it.

You always create a cadre that's not subject to the consequences of its ideology.

World-class historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hansen joins me today.

He's got a true master class for us on how we got here. He spent his entire life studying war,

empires, and the rise and fall of civilizations,

taking us inside the mind of Karl Marx. And how did his theories morph into the socialist

and communist movements that reshaped the world and still haunt us today? We examine the

deadly pendulum swing between crony capitalism and communism and how unrestrained corrupt capitalism has bred the resentment that fuels Marxist revolutions and how those revolutions inevitably gave rise to regimes just as oppressive, if not worse.

Victor walks us through the entire arc on history to explain how we

arrived at this moment. A West that's exhausted, divided, and once again flirting with ideologies

that have already burned the world down. You don't want to miss this one.

Keeping it real with Jillian Michael.

To start out with the quote that if we don't understand history and we don't remember it, we're doomed to repeat it.

That was George Santana, from Harvard.

He was a historian.

He wrote that in a very obscure.

I mean, he's always quoted,

those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. But it was a very obscure essay he wrote about it, and it has a lot of context to it. But it's one of the most, that's, it's tragic that

that's why we remember him that one quote, but he's actually a very distinguished historian.

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