In this episode of American Thought Leaders, Jan Jekielek sat down with classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson to discuss the rise of critical social justice and woke ideology, growing limits on freedom of speech, and his take on the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
“It’s like a public-shaming like the Communist Party used to make people wear dunce caps,” Hanson says.
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This guy is awesome.
I agreed until he started opining on, “why Trump lost the election.” That’s when I was finished with VDH.
VDH does not understand that DJT “lost” the election because it was stolen from him. There was massive voter fraud perpetrated on this country with the help of foreign enemies. He’s dead wrong on this issue. He needs to research the voluminous evidence that exists of the 2020 election voter/election fraud. It will soon be made public in SCOTUS and other courts.
I stopped watching him also when he went off the rails with the voter fraud! I guess he likes the gigs on FOX the Fixer Network too much!!!
Thanks for posting.
I usually let a couple weeks go by before I search for the latest VDH. Then I’ll binge him.
His opinions are worth keeping up on
That second pic, It’s just a little bit …
(Love VDH, so please appreciate the well intended humor)
https://depositphotos.com/219827550/stock-video-funny-goat-looking-at-the.html
VDH is a national treasure. What a mind!
Well, at least not as Neocon as he used to be.
It’s more like a Badge of Honor. To be impeached by these corrupt swine means you stood up for this country and her People.
They are only impeaching Actual President Trump because he won. Therefore, it is actually an Admission of Guilt by the Swamp. They are the guilty criminals. They should be entering a plea themselves, not passing judgement.
Because they stole the election, Democrats and the Uni-Party are locked into their criminality. They must now keep committing more crimes to cover-up the old crimes. An illegal Impeachment, for example. Or staging false-flag Antifa at the Capitol.
Even if they wanted to, say, stop the voting machine tabulations from being routed through China–and they don’t want to–President Xi would never permit them to stop. To admit there is a problem is to admit they cheated, and that they can never do.
But we know. And they know we know.
Yes Sir….
President Xi:
Big threats.
Little rice krispie.
Or you could ssy they are doing exactly what the Russian Bolsheviks did in 1920…purging the government, cancelling political enemies, controlling adversarial media, etc etc etc. It is just Lenin and Stalin were so TWENTIETH century. Ours are just 100 years more EVOLVED,
We the Living really captures the vibe for anyone interested in what’s in store.
Yep!
Just as VDH stated re the ‘cabal’ (my word, not his) and their bragging in the Times article.. “what are we going to do about it”?
Take your money to local credit unions (not the silicon valley ones) and buy as much local, made in the u.s.a. as you possibly can.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/huge-development-hand-recount-finds-dominion-voting-machines-shorted-every-republican-windham-new-hampshire-300-votes/
That is an odd variable. It is nearly a fixed amount for each race, versus a percentage variation (vote totals were higher for some candidates but there was not a similar offset in votes as a %). In this case it appears to be a software flaw, but interesting in that it impacted all R’s at that level with only tiny changes to the D’s.
When we watched “The Terminator” series, we thought the “rise of the machines” would be strictly A.I. killer bots. I guess the real beginning of the end is the use of voting machines.
Good grief!!
Trump should have pushed recounts and forensic analysis in the less obviously tinkered-with states using machines, like NH and LA, that weren’t already so obviously captured by China and the DS. The “irregularities” there would have loosened the lid on the whole can of worms, pressuring all states, including the captured “swing” states, to revisit their counts. Strategic error.
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VDH is a voice of reason and a national treasure.
Rare these days, mighty rare.
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. – Mark Twain
Winston Smith: “Does Big Brother exist?”
O’Brien: “Of course he exists.”
Winston Smith: “Does he exist like you or me?”
O’Brien: “You do not exist.”
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” – George Orwell
This, exactly.
I’m afraid the Leftists will eventually invite their Chinese Communist “partners” to help maintain the American domestic peace.
Today’s Democrat / Media Complex = Dark Ages 2.0
And silly me used to think that there would be an internet-blackout-act-of-war someday via a foreign country. I think it will be domestic and soon.
VDH’s main point – you can not reason with monsters.
This is why we must resist. They can’t be reasoned with.
So, when are Schumer and McConnell going to impeach President Obama for inciting BLM and ANTIFA mobs to riot, loot, burn, assault and murder during the Ferguson “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” shooting hoax. In fact, Obama fanned the flames so much pushing the hoax that Michael Brown was murdered by the police officer that a BLM ACTIVIST SHOT 12 DALLAS POLICE OFFICERS AND KILLED FIVE! I’m waiting for the outrage from Schumer, Schiff, Nadler and McConnell but I will be waiting for a long time!
From the outside looking in my understanding of what is happening in the USA is as follows. The SWAMP was determined never to allow Trump to have power again this accounts for the Massive Voter Fraud they have perpetrated and the unconstitutional illogical evidence devoid Impeachment they are pursuing . But more is happening it now appears that the ONLY person who died on January 6th Riots by VIOLENCE was the Veteran Woman shot in cold blood by the Capital Policeman who they will not name ALL the others that are being touted died of NATURAL CAUSES even the Cop Sicknick who is currently lying in State in the Capitol who died of a HEART ATTACK long AFTER the riot was over. Its not hard to imagine that after being successful in the Massive Voter fraud and getting away with it that the LEFT also staged this ‘Insurrection’ and planned their response in advance.
The veteran woman was a false flag event. They already took down the video that proves it.
Meaning? Is she alive and well, shooting staged and fake? Or did cop panic? The shooting scene looked suspiciously calm, especially in slow motion, her social media profile sparce, but her brother seemed genuine, but family wasn’t pushing for investigation. What’s the story?
Two things I would add. There seems to be an investigation into several members of the Capitol Police. And the lefts real goal is to destroy the right.
Not sure if this is the same video referenced about the woman’s death but there’s on on bitchute https://www.bitchute.com/video/3FqeIZpYatDF/.
This is pure speculation on my part about Sicknick, but I can’t help but wonder if they didn’t ‘help him along’ with that heart attack. They needed violence and death at the riot in order to publicize how heinous and violent that Trump supporters supposedly were, and also to give credence to the Domestic Terrorists label. With so many questions about the woman’s death in the beginning, additional deaths helped detract from the questions about her death that they didn’t want to answer.
Found in the bin…. 🙁
Thank you!
Yikes…keep up re: Sicknick. Stroke. No fire extinguisher… no gash on the head, no trauma. Autopsy released.
He spoke to his brother….do some research!!!!!
Really should never start a sentence on this page with “This is pure speculation on my part…”
Unless you have the Bona fides to back it up and are not just sitting in front of your keyboard.
Okay, that was mean, and I apologize.
In hindsight I didn’t word that very well. I knew what happened but my point was that the death, while NOT by fire extinguisher, could have been induced to inflate the number of deaths. I’ll agree with your second comment.
All of the ones you mentioned should face a firing squad for sedition
One of the most learned men if not the most learned man in our country
Dr. Hansen and Dr. Sowell. Two of the greatest people ever. With President DJT, they truly are the American ideal.
And two people who President Trump did not choose to be part of his advisory staff.
Didn’t Adem shifts do a fake phone call before Impeachment number one and now a fake Hollywood movie about Trump’s incitement,
Isn’t this what it’s always been ,we didn’t have a good white boxer so we invented rocky Balboa, it’s what America was built on and you all were part of it , did anyone see the movie”shaving Ryan’s privates” staring Gump, .
In the early part of the movie a bunch of metal boats came to shore with Americans getting shot full of holes and dying ,they repackage that and sold it as the greatness and every one was jumping up and down, everyone but me ,
Hollywood makes the low IQs brilliant,gays are the best parents, and it’s been a happy days America for all of yous , it’s the fiction you live, don’t blame me I tried to warn you s.
Was just thinking that, this whole episode is nothing but pure harassment and all it does is belittle all those who are pushing this scam.
ONe cannot ‘belittle’ anyone connected with this… they are already as ‘small’ as one can get.
It’s incredible uplifting to listen to an intellectual conversation with truth, history and present day culture combined and with such brilliant insight from Victor Davis Hanson. One of my all-time favorite people. Thank you for this.
I used one of Dr. Hanson’s books when doing my Sophomore thesis English themed in War.
From the outside looking in my understanding of what is happening in the USA is as follows. The SWAMP was determined never to allow Trump to have power again this accounts for the Massive Voter Fraud they have perpetrated and the unconstitutional illogical evidence devoid Impeachment they are pursuing . But more is happening it now appears that the ONLY person who died on January 6th Riots by VIOLENCE was the Veteran Woman shot in cold blood by the Capital Policeman who they will not name ALL the others that are being touted died of NATURAL CAUSES even the Cop Sicknick who is currently lying in State in the Capitol who died of a HEART ATTACK long AFTER the rit was over. Its not hard to imagine that after being successful in the Massive Voter fraud and getting away with it that the LEFT also staged this ‘Insurrection’ and planned their response in advance.
We may never know how he died. Why are they hiding the medical report?
https://www.revolver.news/2021/02/maga-blood-libel-why-are-they-hiding-the-medical-report/
If the Marxists/Socialists/Commies/Rinos were half as smart as 1 single brain cell of Victor Davis Hanson or Thomas Sowell, we would be living on that shining hill again.
Good news but who is in charge?
If they have evidence Trump committed insurrection why don’t they just go ahead and arrest Trump? There would be no need for this impeachment exercise, IMO. I see it as there is no evidence Trump is guilty of insurrection which would stand in a Court of Law.
Impeachment of Trump is just a distraction from the real guilt of voter fraud by the Communist Democrat Party, “Deep State”, Globalists and anyone else complicit. Including Congress, Senate and Supreme Court. Perhaps even former Vice President Mike Pence.
Political Theater. Nothin more, nothing less. It’s equivalent to the Democratic Nominating Convention. As a bonus they get 16 hours of Free Air Time.
VDH at the end gave a perfect description of the the deceptiCONs in the District of Corruption, the lunitics/supportors of the Uniparty and it’s promotion of the Communist “wokism” culture. To sum it up he states “We are in a Period of Collective Insanity”…. mostly promoted by no talent failures, undistinguished people and ideological purity opportunist.
I enjoy reading Mr. Hanson’s works. However, he thinks the Republicans and the Democrats are opposing parties who will ‘fight’ each other. He describes how be believes the Republicans will take revenge against the Democrats when they take power again.
I think that is a fatal error in his presentation. They are NOT opposing parties. There will be no tit for tat. His failure to realize that discounts then what he predicts will happen.
“THE STUDENT of human nature who seems best to have recognized the importance of this bizarre dynamic, in which a conscientious hero proves unable to finish off a foe he knows to be evil, was none other than Shakespeare. Indeed, the Bard was obsessed with understanding the phenomenon. Hamlet hesitated to bring Claudius to justice, and he paid with his life and the lives of those he loved. But it is in “Richard III” that one can learn most from characters who see evil, yet freeze at the key moment. The principal characters are fully aware of Richard’s undeniable evil, yet they let him have his way despite themselves. Richard is the most systematically evil character in all of Shakespeare’s plays. “I can smile, and murder while I smile,” he says, swearing that he will outdo all the villains of history “and set the murderous Machiavel to school.” The most important thing Richard knows is that while conscience allows us to understand ordinary crimes, it actually blinds us before the most extraordinary ones. The idea that conscience blinds us, making us less able to oppose evil’s most brazen forms, is deeply disturbing, for conscience is the sine qua non of civil society.
Conscience is supposed to be the faculty that helps us become aware of our effects on others and our motives towards them, notably our baser motives. In Elizabethan English, “conscience” is an equivocal word that can mean either that faculty that allows us to feel guilt or “awareness,” as in “consciousness.” When Hamlet says, “Conscience does make cowards of us all,” he means consciousness, by making us aware of the possibility of death, makes us cowardly. But conscience, designed to ferret out evil within, can also actually narrow our awareness of evil. This happens, according to Freud, because the person with a conscience learns to repress automatically his own most destructive inclinations so as not to act on them. He becomes ignorant, for example, of the thrill of evil that a sadist like Richard III feels when he plays God and exercises the freedom to kill whomever he pleases. But the cost of repressing one’s most destructive feelings is an inability to understand, without significant effort, those who give these feelings free rein. This is seen over and over in “Richard III,” especially in Richard’s seduction of Lady Anne, whose husband he has murdered, and it is seen over and over in our dealings with terrorists. Richard actually gets Anne to drop her sword when she’s about to kill him. Anne, although she knows Richard is evil, cannot see that he has no conscience. She tells him he should hang himself for what he has done. She keeps missing the point. He feels no guilt. Eventually, she marries him, and he murders her.
Conscience, when it is functioning well–automatically and without the intervention of reason, so that we do the right thing without thinking–is not simply rational. It is a force, a blunt instrument before which the conscientious person is guilty until proven innocent. As the preventive agency in the mind, conscience blocks first, thinks later. Men like Arafat and Richard know this. That is why both men constantly charge others with crimes–to paralyze them. Both know it doesn’t matter whether the charges are false. Richard brazenly accuses Anne of inspiring the murder of her husband, as Arafat accuses the West of causing terrorism. It is this force inside the psyche of his enemies that the person without a conscience can so effectively enlist as a fifth column. Having himself no such inner force always second-guessing him, he can see it clearly in others–far more clearly than do those who are in its thrall and take each of its charges seriously.”–Dr. Norman Doidge
Rest in the Vine: Jerusalem: Israel’s Eternal Capital
Very interesting.
It does make sense of the Communists complete lack of remorse no matter the crimes committed. People with a conscience can see the destruction, the Commies do. not. care.
Exactly.
The Democrat party / Media Complex’s conception of Free Speech is to make war on it in 3 stages.
1) War.
2) All Out War.
3) Exterminating War.
And these people call themselves ‘liberals’ and ‘progressives’ when they are the most illiberal and regressive people on the planet.
Oh, I know, they only want to make any kind of war on “Hate Speech”, but then these hateful people hate any speech they don’t agree with and these haters do it in the most hateful way they can hatefully do it.
Liberals Then, Liberals Now
Then: Free Speech
Now: Speech Codes, de-platforming, shadow-banning, censorship
Then: Voting Rights
Now: Voting Fraud
Then: Help the workers.
Now: Help the Mega-Corporations
Then: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Now: How fast can we give Iran nukes?
Then: Anti-war
Now: Endless War
Then: No Government Corruption
Now: What Government Corruption?
Then: All God’s Children–MLK
Now: Black Lives Only–BLM
Then: No Hooded Paramilitaries!
Now: Except Antifa!
Then: Intellectual Curiosity
Now: “Shut up,” they explained.
Then: “Get this CIA officer out of my studio!”
Now: “Get this CIA officer a microphone and a contract!”
Then: My Body, My Choice
Now: Mandatory Masks, Vaccine Passports and Lockdowns Forever
Then: Power to the People!
Now: Unless They Give Trump a Landslide!
I take exception with then: all God’s Children
Now: No Children allowed. (Abortion, and infanticide is OK.)
Rev. King said it in 1963 at the Mall. But I take your point.
You would appreciate this, annie:
If trees were tall and grasses short,
As in some crazy tale,
If here and there a sea were blue
Beyond the breaking pale,
If a fixed fire hung in the air
To warm me one day through,
If deep green hair grew on great hills,
I know what I should do.
In dark I lie; dreaming that there
Are great eyes cold or kind,
And twisted streets and silent doors,
And living men behind.
Let storm clouds come: better an hour,
And leave to weep and fight,
Than all the ages I have ruled
The empires of the night.
I think that if they gave me leave
Within the world to stand,
I would be good through all the day
I spent in fairyland.
They should not hear a word from me
Of selfishness or scorn,
If only I could find the door,
If only I were born.
–G.K. Chesterton, “By the Babe Unborn”
Then: Pro small business
Now: Big box stores
There is no “Biden Administration”. There is only an illegally installed CCP puppet, a woman who couldn’t attract flies in the primaries and slept her way to power, and their henchmen.
Hanson relies on eventually pushing back to thwart the advance of the left. I’m in total agreement. However the party of the RINO will never stand unified against the Olinsky opposition. Cash is the motivation to align with the left. There’s only one way out of this mess. Waiting for a rigged election will accomplish nothing. Read HR 1.
The Saturday after 9-11 Mr Hanson was on Cpan at a bookstore in Fresno Calif. to talk about his recently published book.
He shelved his talk on the book to instead address the terror attacks we suffered that awful Tuesday.
I have been a fan of his ever since.
Damn, he seems so disheartened. ?
IMHO, this pathos was perfectly expressed by the important Lesson Learned from his encounter with the remorseless high school thug: While the ‘kinetic’ solution is absolutely the last resort, it must forever remain available and executable. Personal impression is that VDH sees the peaceful, civilized off-ramps that he describes and desires evaporating before our eyes.
VDH is an elitist with no skin in the game. Seems like a nice guy but just telling it like it is.
VDH,
One of the most intelligent commentators in America today. God bless the man.
Thanks SD for that. Much obliged.
Thank you, Sundance. I watched this ATL last night and VDH was so good. I want to watch again especially to hear his summation. At the end he explains very civilly that the left is insane and you cannot reason with them. He explains how they see any apologies as a weakness to exploit. He also said that we have had insane times in the past: the civil war and the great depression.
You are correct, his mind is a national treasure. Read his recent article “Our Animal Farm” on how the Left’s 1960’s dream has become our 2021 nightmare. It’s based on Orwell’s famous allegory, “Animal Farm,” where the revolutionary animals overthrew Farmer Jones and now run the farm. The totalitarian animals won, but ended up being far worse than the capitalists they rebelled against. “Beware, he warns (Orwell), of the powerful who claim to help the helpless.”
In case you don’t want to watch on Yootoob
https://rumble.com/vdpszr-victor-davis-hanson-on-impeachment-and-the-cancer-of-woke-ideology-american.html
VDH is the most brilliant political analysist going right now. And the most humble. Love you, Prof. Hanson!
Here is the video on Rumble. I always check there first before giving Google any clicks
https://rumble.com/vdpszr-victor-davis-hanson-on-impeachment-and-the-cancer-of-woke-ideology-american.html
called the One World Order.. As seen in V for Vendetta and Hunger Games… The the richest 3 families controlling the human herd
As the days pass, I’ve noticed how people cannot maintain the necessary vigilance to express the Biden regime as illegitimate, illegal, a hoax, fraud, etc.