In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Trump being sentenced, the ironies of the left revealed by Trump, Karen Bass as an icon of the Democratic Party, would Rick Caruso as mayor be different, Newsom needing Trump, and rebuilding California.
I listened again to a podcast made by Victor a year ago about the demise of California. I was fascinated that at the time, when talking about diversity one would have to preface ones derogatory comments by clarifying that ”I am for diversity’. Or in discussing Zuckerberg’s financing of election fraud one would preface this with ‘according to so-and-so at time magazine’ to not be liable but also to not appear as a conspiracy junkie.. Those pretenses are gone now. We talk about the grotesqueness of DEI and public official corruption in mainstream conversation. And this change occurred in just one year. I think this reflects that the political center of gravity has been moving in the right direction. With all the demoralizing corrupt powers that be, a well informed democratic electorate is still the most powerful force on earth.
Prof. Hanson’s expose’ of California competence pulls my elderly mind back to Canterbury Tales and its gaggle of interesting characters.
I think of the miller!s tale and see in an earlier age the caricature of Gavin Newsome as hopeless Absolon.
Yes perfect for Gavin.
Bravo Victor. Not a native Californian, but lived here since I was 12 years old starting in Fresno, then to Bellfower, Downey, Fullerton (CS Grad) Manhattan Beach, Anaheim and on to San Mateo and the Bay Area and finally, retired in Bakersfield. I have watched the wretched descent from best to worst in education, infrastructure, quality of life, and every other measurable metric. As you so deftly illustrate, the cause isn’t the predictable, unchanging cycles of weather I’ve been witness to for 65 years, it is the relentless degradation of leadership and the ideology that supports it that has brought us to this sorry condition. God help us, they vote for this.
Minute 21 to minute 33 is Peak Hanson.
Californians so woeful – that running down the list is (darkly, highly regrettably) – genius comedy.
A Confederacy of Dunces – indeed.