VDH and Sami discuss the overwhelming population of illegal aliens in California, examining the open border agenda of Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, how both prominent California Democrats are deliberately fighting ICE rather than prioritize wildfire victims, and how Democrats used the government shutdown to their advantage in the lead up to the […]
VDH and Sami talk about leading New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani posing with a controversial imam named an unindicted co-conspirator in the first World Trade Center bombing. They also discuss why the self-proclaimed socialist is likely to win. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness So-called King, Donald Trump, ran in two contested Republican primaries. He ran three times in a general election. He was elected twice, and his party recently won a Republican Congress. In contrast, in 2020, Joe Biden did not run a typical campaign. He avoided the public, staying ensconced in his
Victor and Jack discuss how a recent Supreme Court oral argument reminds us just how “out of her depth” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson truly is, the true “brilliance” behind Sen. John Fetterman’s PR strategy, and why is the Left now trying to “cancel” Taylor Swift. Share This
On today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor and Jack list off and examine a few of the Democrat Party’s’ own self-inflicted surprises this October: Abigail Spanberger’s calamitous performance in the first and only 2025 Virginia Gubernatorial debate, and the strategy behind the Democrats’ unpopular government shutdown. Share This
VDH and Jack react to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, remember 9/11, look at race and crime, examine the Democratic Party’s hatred of capitalism and its shift towards socialism, consider calls to let New York City should be allowed to sink under a prospective Mamdani mayorship, and more. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Trump’s greatest achievement within six months was simply ending illegal immigration as we had once known it—without “comprehensive immigration reform” or any other rhetorical trickery. It remains difficult to find, much less deport, the 10 to 12 million illegal aliens who entered in the last four years. Those who helped
In this Friday news roundup VDH and Sami cover Trump’s cabinet meetings, why the Democrats can’t manage to be viewed as authentically tough, the Gaza-Israel conflict, transgender issues, the Cracker Barrel logo controversy, and more. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The answer was not Trump alone. Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA movement “hijacked” the Republican Party. In characteristic projectionist fashion, the left is simply falsely attributing to their opposition the very hijacking that hit the Democratic Party. The
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative. Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy. Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor. Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to