Victor Davis Hanson
Articles and commentary from historian Victor Davis Hanson on politics, culture, foreign policy, and the issues shaping America and the world.
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opinion
John Brennan’s Checkered Past Comes Back to Haunt Him Amid DOJ Investigation
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Recently, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump Department of Justice have said they are running… -
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How the Left Lost Its Collective Mind
Across the political Left, from orthodox Democrats to Antifa in the streets, the opposition to President Donald Trump has lost its collective mind. The Democrat House minority leader and now self-styled tough guy, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, poses with a baseball bat to show how dangerous he is in opposing President Donald Trump’s budget… -
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Zohran Mamdani’s Skeletons Are Coming Out of the Closet
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’ve talked before about the front-runner in the New York mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani. And we’ve… -
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Leftists Embrace Sedition and Insurrection as Democrats Lose Power
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’ve talked in the past a lot about the unfortunate turn to the hard Left that… -
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Trump Isn’t Doing Anything Unprecedented
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I usually don’t give advice to President Donald Trump, who knows much more about politics, obviously,… -
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Elon Musk’s ‘America Party’ Poses Threat to GOP
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Elon Musk, as we all know now, has had a rupture. The friendship between himself and… -
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What the First 6 Months of the Trump Admin Have Revealed About Our ‘Experts’
The first six months of the Donald Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes. Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the Ph.Ds. employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary,… -
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A Reminder of What the 4th of July Means
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Today is the 4th of July, and I’d like to remind everybody what the 4th of… -
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The Fantasy World of Mamdani
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to talk about the dream house of Zohran Mamdani. He was a successful Democratic… -
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Trump’s Winning Streak May Soon Face Obstacles
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to review, very quickly, some challenges ahead for the MAGA movement in general and… -
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The Trump-Deranged ‘Experts’ Were Wrong. Again.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I want to talk about our so-called experts. We know they’ve been wrong when they sign… -
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Canada and Mexico Want US Billions, but Also a Fight
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to talk about our two North American partners, Canada and Mexico. We’ve been in… -
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In the End, Everyone Hated the Iranian Theocracy
It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar—the last Parthian shot from a terrified regime, desperate for an out—and a ceasefire. Iran would have been better off not… -
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128 Democrats Reject Latest Trump Impeachment—Here’s the Major Reason Why
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello. This is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. The Democrats, under kind of a volatile and unhinged Rep. Al Green, introduced articles of impeachment… -
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It Doesn’t Matter If Iran Can Build a Bomb. It Matters If America Has the Guts to Bomb It, Again.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’re now in the aftermath of the Saturday night, June 21st American strike to take out… -
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Unhinged Rhetoric Reveals Left’s Desperation
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. After the June 21st, Saturday night bombing of the nuclear facilities in Iran, the Left has… -
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The Left’s Hypocrisy on Trump’s Iran Strike
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. What will be the reaction, here and abroad, in the coming days and weeks to the… -
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Iran Has Only One Negotiating Chip Left: Its Survival
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. On June 22, this past Saturday night, President Donald Trump ordered B-2 bombers—these are the multibillion-dollar… -
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The Optimistic, the Realistic, and the Pessimistic Scenarios for Iran
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’re in the midst of about the seventh to eighth day of this Iranian-Israeli conflict and… -
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The ‘Donald Trump Is Evil’ Routine Isn’t Going to Cut It Anymore
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’re in very troubled and chaotic times. We’ve got a theater-wide war in the Middle East…