In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine election to the speakership, diplomacy under Jimmy Carter (hostages in Iran, inflation), farming in the 1980s, corporate v. small farming, Islamic immigrant attitudes and psychology, the choice to go back home, and wishy-washy woke companies and the insurance market.
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I’ve read Trump told them “You are screwing everything up.” And not so subtlety threatened them. Leader of the party.
The Immigrant War against the U.S. began around 1992 when illegal immigration surged and the clobbering phrase, “Diversity Is Our Strength” appeared out of nowhere, was suddenly everywhere, and has never gone away. VDH’s experience with the illegal alien student who protested the U.S. because he “wanted to be wanted,” was typical of the ’90s and now.
I got punished at a teaching position in ’94 for pointing out that ballots, ATMs, real estate contracts, DMV tests, and even the citizenship test itself then, were all offered in Spanish and other languages — and yet immigrants legal and otherwise (still) claimed they feel “unwelcome” in the U.S.
Nothing has changed in three decades. I am 62. The California in which I grew up, and the U.S. culture I was shaped by is long gone and will never return. “Press 1 for English” metastasized into DEI and the Great Replacement. Whenever I hear an accent these days my stomach turns.