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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON- Trump Is Doing Well · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Speaker 1: Here we go. We love some Victor Davis Hanson on
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  Speaker 1: this channel. Jobs up, borders closed. Trump's second term is
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  Speaker 1: just getting started. So here is Victor Davis Hanson giving
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  Speaker 1: the counterpoint to the incessant media narratives. Let's take a look.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
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  Speaker 2: We're at four months now in the new Trump second administration.
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  Speaker 2: A strange thing has happened if you look at the
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  Speaker 2: polls after diving for Trump with the announcement that he
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  Speaker 2: was going to subject certain countries to high tariffs which
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  Speaker 2: panic the stock market. Now the stock market's almost recovered
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  Speaker 2: or has recovered all of it's lost and went down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit when Trump said he was going to
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  Speaker 2: continue the tariffs to force the European Union to have
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  Speaker 2: reciprocal treatment toward the United States. But nevertheless, Trump, in
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  Speaker 2: the real clear politics averages, which to be fair, have
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  Speaker 2: a preponderance of left wing polls, is still only about
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  Speaker 2: a point and a half down. But in other polls
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  Speaker 2: Rasmuss and he's either even or he's a couple of
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  Speaker 2: points ahead. And yet all of the media and all
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  Speaker 2: of the major organs on the left, but even in
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  Speaker 2: the center and right. The Wall Street Journal, to take
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  Speaker 2: another example we've discussed, they have been uniformly negative. So
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  Speaker 2: how in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Is well, I mean, even on the right, you know
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  Speaker 1: there's negative coverage. It's because you know, you know, establishment, right,
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  Speaker 1: Trump is disturbing the status quo. I mean, obviously he's
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  Speaker 1: disturbing the status quo. Right before everybody agreed that everybody
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  Speaker 1: has to give everything they have to Ukraine the tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: This is disturbing the status quo on trade. That makes people,
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  Speaker 1: That makes establishment people very nervous.
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  Speaker 2: Let's continue, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump has not been medison.
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  Speaker 2: He has tweeted all sorts of things about Bruce Springsteen
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  Speaker 2: and Taylor Swift and Canada, things that were very controversial.
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  Speaker 2: How can he be almost equal and much higher than
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  Speaker 2: he was at his first term at this time And
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  Speaker 2: the answer is twofold. Number one is what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: Every time people say we're headed for a recession or
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  Speaker 2: his trade war is going to tank. The economy data
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  Speaker 2: comes out this week. It was a corporate profits were
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  Speaker 2: unusually high strong. It came out that we're not in
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  Speaker 2: a housing recession, that housing sales are steady, Inflation is down,
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  Speaker 2: energy prices are way down, economic growth is up, job
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  Speaker 2: busness is down. So that is one reason. The second
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  Speaker 2: is Donald Trump has been touring the world and you
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  Speaker 2: can call it mercantilism, but essentially trump doctrine is we
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  Speaker 2: would We're not going to get an optional military engagements
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  Speaker 2: on the ground anywhere, and we're going to have our
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  Speaker 2: relations be transactional, so even our enemies, to the degree
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  Speaker 2: it's even possible, We're going to try to find some
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  Speaker 2: mechanism by which we can stop wars. Maybe rare Earth
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  Speaker 2: mineral corridor in Ukraine, or maybe we're dangling a end
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  Speaker 2: of sanctions for Iran. I don't think that's going to work,
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  Speaker 2: But the point is people appreciate the idea that Trump
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  Speaker 2: first is trying to exhaust peaceful avenues before he uses force,
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  Speaker 2: and he's trying to address the theater wars that Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden left him in Ukraine and the Middle East. The
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  Speaker 2: economy is strong, the border is ninety nine percent closed.
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  Speaker 2: We've gone from over one hundred and fifty thousand entries
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  Speaker 2: down to less than eight thousand.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at immigration, it's been a top issue
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  Speaker 1: for actually decades now. Nobody was willing to deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: Trump promised to deal with it, and he has. Right,
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  Speaker 1: they have the lowest number of you know, attempted crossings
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  Speaker 1: that they've had in decades. So that's a big thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's something people have wanted and it hasn't been delivered
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  Speaker 1: for decades, for decades, he actually is doing that. That's
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  Speaker 1: going to make you popular, right, you know vocally, you know,
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  Speaker 1: saying I want peace not war, that's going to be popular.
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  Speaker 1: Piece is always popular. You know, Optional wars are never
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  Speaker 1: actually popular, or they're at least not popular after people
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to get you know, to actually take
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  Speaker 1: a look at them and what's happening and what the
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  Speaker 1: cost is. And I think the American public has learned
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  Speaker 1: a lot about optional wars and decided, yeah, we don't
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  Speaker 1: really like those anymore. And wokeness, wokeness is not popular.
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  Speaker 1: What's popular is meritocracy, right, what's popu popular is actually patriotism.
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  Speaker 1: Wokeness is not popular, you know, you know, Western civilization
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest sin in you know, histories in mankind's
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  Speaker 1: history is not actually popular. So these are fundamental things.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we talked about how you know, you've
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  Speaker 1: got all this stuff around it you know, tariffs, all
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  Speaker 1: of this around it, but fundamentally, you know it was
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  Speaker 1: a fork in the road. It's which way are you
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  Speaker 1: going to go? You're going to go the way of
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  Speaker 1: managed decline masochism every you know, the founders of your
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  Speaker 1: country were evil, and your evil and your ancestors were evil,
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  Speaker 1: and everything your country has ever done is evil? Or
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  Speaker 1: are you going to go the other way, which is
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  Speaker 1: doubling down on Western civilization, on your own history, on
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  Speaker 1: your own accomplishments, on the good that your country has done,
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  Speaker 1: and that the good that your country stands for and
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  Speaker 1: has stood for, you know, having a rational, non ahistorical
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  Speaker 1: view of history. Anyway, That's all I'm gonna say about that.
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