Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Bold Measures & The Cost of Correcting the Left

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🗓️ 25 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” a Daily Signal original, Hanson discusses the initial days of the Trump administration and the backlash from the Left. He compares the costs associated with corrective measures to those of the policies originally enacted by the Left. “Over these first few days of the Trump administration, we've seen these bold measures. And it's starting to incur a big backlash, or anger, or counter response from the Left.” “They're saying, well, Donald Trump wants to build the wall. Does he have any idea what it's going to cost? Well, a couple of things: What was the cost of letting 12 million people in here? Twelve million people. We have no idea. What was the cost of allowing 80 to 100,000 people to die every year from cartel-imported fentanyl? So, there was a cost. And that cost was much greater than building the wall.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	Over these first few days of the Trump administration, we've seen these bold measures, and it's
0:34.8	starting to incur a big backlash or anger or counter response from
0:40.3	the left. It's almost as if, well, the person who's going 100 miles drunk and when you pull him
0:46.3	over, the cost to arrest him, to bring him in to the police station to arraign him, to indict him,
0:52.7	to impound his car is so much more than the damage he did by going 100 miles and endangering people.
1:10.0	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen again for The Daily Signal.
1:14.6	Over these first few days of the Trump administration, we've seen these bold measures,
1:19.6	and it's starting to incur a big backlash or anger or counter response from the left.
1:26.6	And it runs something like this. Well, yes, maybe this needed
1:33.0	corrected, but it's going to be so expensive. Do you understand what you're doing? You're
1:37.4	supposed to be cost cutters and now you're going to spend all this money to rectify something.
1:42.6	It's almost as if, well, the person
1:45.5	who's going 100 miles drunk and when you pull him over, the cost to arrest him, to bring
1:51.4	him in to the police station, to arraign him, to indict him, to impound his car is so much more
1:59.2	than the damage he did by going 100 miles and endangering people.
2:03.7	So you don't arrest him, in other words.
2:06.1	So here's what I mean.
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