Victor Davis Hanson: What Would it Take to Destroy the United States?

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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What does an agenda designed to hurt the United States look like? Look no further than the past four years under the Biden-Harris administration, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ If you really wanted to, in civilizational terms, destroy the United States, the first thing I would do if I was an enemy of the United States was I would destroy the borders. “If you also wanted to hurt the United States, you know what I would do if I had nefarious intent? I would keep printing money. And I would call that, in fact, ‘Build Back Better.’” “ The third thing that I would do, and I think it's besides debt and borders and fuel. I would sow disunity. And I would say that the content of our character is not as important as the color of our skin.” If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	I was looking at the news this week and I thought of an experiment. What if you really wanted to
0:34.4	destroy the United States? What if you'd had ill intention for America? What
0:38.1	would you do? What agenda would you pursue? And then I started thinking of civilizations. What was
0:43.7	the stuff of civilizations that make them work? It's basically their borders, their finances, their
0:50.0	unity, their fuel, their food. What am I getting out? It seems to me that in the last
0:55.2	four years, if you had an agenda that was designed to hurt the United States, if you wanted
1:00.8	to do all that, you couldn't have done a better job than what we have seen from 2021 to 2025. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal.
1:23.6	I was looking at the news this week, and I thought of an experiment.
1:28.7	What if you really wanted to destroy the United States?
1:32.6	What if you'd had ill intention for America?
1:34.9	What would you do?
1:35.8	What agenda would you pursue?
1:39.3	And then I started thinking of civilizations.
1:41.6	What was the stuff of civilizations that make them work?
1:45.6	And it's basic. They're borders, their finances, their unity, their fuel, their food.
1:54.1	So if you really wanted to, in civilizational terms, destroy the United States, the first thing I
1:59.5	would do if I was an enemy of the United States was I would destroy the borders.
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