What Really Is An American? ft. Prof. Victor Davis Hanson
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.5 • 44.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
What distinguishes an American from somebody who merely lives in the U.S.? Why is ownership so important to a functional republic? Are the Democrats politically finished? Classics professor Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most brilliant thinkers in American life and joins to discuss how the party of the left has lost the votes of those with children and the "lunch bucket middle class." Plus, Charlie remembers the legacy of Dr. James Dobson and speaks with viral young black conservative Mat Nuclear.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio. We have a great episode. |
| 0:05.4 | Remember, Dr. Dobson who passed away, a very impressive young black man by name of Matt Nuclear joins the show. |
| 0:12.8 | And most importantly, we kick off with Victor Davis Hanson. Really insightful conversation. |
| 0:18.3 | The author of the new book, End of Everything. We ask, what is the |
| 0:21.0 | State of the Democratic Party, Mom Donnie? And of course, what is an American? Victor Davis |
| 0:26.2 | Hansen, legend, professor author, joins us. You'll love it. Email us, as always, |
| 0:30.6 | freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast. That is the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm getting involved with Turning Point USA today at tpUSA.. That is TPSA.com. Buckle up, everybody here. We go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. |
| 0:54.4 | He's an incredible guy. |
| 0:55.5 | His spirit, his love of this country. |
| 0:57.3 | He's done an amazing job. |
| 0:58.9 | Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. |
| 1:03.6 | We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, |
| 1:09.0 | and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. |
| 1:12.5 | That's why we are here. |
| 1:15.7 | Joining us now is one of my favorite people, and when he speaks, I listen. |
| 1:20.8 | I've also taken his Hillsdale online course. |
| 1:23.2 | It's incredible. |
| 1:23.7 | It's Victor Davis Hansen, author of the forthcoming book, updated paperback edition of the end of everything, how wars descend into annihilation. And boy, is that a great way to describe what's happening between Russia and Ukraine. Victor Davis Hansen is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Great to see you, Mr. Hansen. Thank you for taking the time. I want to just allow you |
| 1:45.4 | the opportunity to go deeper into something you said recently. You said, quote, it's over. I don't |
| 1:50.0 | think there is a Democrat party right now. What did you mean by that? And please take some time to |
| 1:56.0 | explain. Well, you can ascertain that by a lot of factors. We've never really seen the Republican Party |
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