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Democrats’ Open Secret

The Democrat Party, which brags that it doesn’t let democracy die in darkness, has a bad habit of culling candidates it feels are politically antithetical to its agenda. Take Eric Swalwell, for example.

Swalwell joined an already crowded field for California governor in November 2025. He threatened to break up the Democrat field, as there are more viable Democrat candidates than Republicans. Make no mistake: Had Swalwell been enjoying a healthy lead in the polls going into last Friday, he’d still be running for governor, and these allegations would’ve never seen the light of day.

Like Joe Biden’s failed reelection bid in 2024, the Democrat establishment made the strategic decision to no longer cloak Swalwell’s sex harassment allegations and instead threw its weight behind a more viable candidate.

Victor Davis Hanson, in a new edition of his podcast In a Few Words, concludes, “But my point is, if Eric Swalwell had been way ahead in the gubernatorial race, I don’t think that any of this would’ve surfaced. It would’ve been analogous to Joe Biden. He would’ve been a useful vessel, and he would’ve won the governorship, and the Republicans wouldn’t have had a chance.”

Eric Swalwell laid out his class motto for his high schoo9l graduation yearbook in 1999 where he wrote, “When you can’t have it, you must take it.”

Now, he’s not only been forced to resign from Congress, but it’s looking like he might be charged with rape involving underaged victims.

In other words,  Swalwell flaunted social propriety. He envisioned himself another Jeffrey Epstein, chasing and seizing young poontang. Here’s more from Benny Johnson.

From Deplorables To Dress-Up

Following the Democrats’ crushing defeat at the ballot box in 2024, the DNC launched a postmortem to answer a very simple yet surprisingly elusive question: What went wrong?

Their findings? On 70-30 issues, Democrats landed on the 30 side. Their solution?

Democrats aren’t changing their message—they’re just rebranding the mess. From Pete Buttigieg in flannel to Tim Walz playing hunter, the “working-class pivot” looks more like political cosplay.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to connect on issues that actually matter to voters. The bottom line: You can’t fake authenticity—and voters aren’t buying it. Here’s more from Victor Davis Hanson.

NATO: Die On The Vine!

Here’s a brutal reality check for the NATO free-loaders!

Germany’s invasion of France wasn’t our war, yet Franklin D. Roosevelt still sent military equipment, and later soldiers, to retake Western Europe. However, Europe’s cold shoulder may not be out of spite, but an inability to help at all, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

“They have dreamed of utopia and a good life, and the result is that their fertility rate is 1.3. They are shrinking. They are aging. They’re not competitive. So they don’t have the manpower, even though they have a 450 million-person population. Europe is larger than us by 100 million. “

And even though they have a $22 trillion GDP, which is the third-largest, apparently they don’t want to invest that in their own defense, or they haven’t so far. They don’t want us to use it when we need it.”

 

The Two Wars In Iran

There are two wars being fought right now in Iran: A military one, which the United States is dominating on all fronts, and a political one, which is proving more difficult than the former. Why?

President Donald Trump has a lot to contend with right now: The MAGA base, the crazy Democrat opposition, the midterms, the economy, the charge that he’s too influenced by Israel, and the general repulsion of the American people for anything to do with the Middle East, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

Trump Shakes The World

President Donald Trump has been the catalyst for a lot of the world’s current upheaval—Iranian threat decimated, Donroe Doctrine enforced in Latin America—and both members of his base and his opponents are making sure we know he’s to blame.

Three quarters of these conflicts, however, are reaching a resolution, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

“There is a good chance they could turn out with the United States in a preeminent position that we haven’t seen since at least World War II.”

A Game Of Threats?

Susan Rice, the former National Security Advisor under Barack Obama, invoked Game of Thrones in describing how the Democrats will seek to villify and destroy every last Republican candidate, office holder, pundit or even voter once her party returns to power.

We can only hope those vile and vicious ghouls do not return to power, but if they do, be prepared for a bloodbath. Here’s more from Victor Davis Hanson on The Daily Signal.

Trump’s Way Of War

Why attack Iran? Why reaffirm America’s dominance in Panama? Why capture Nicolás Maduro?

President Donald Trump has scores to settle. There’s a general pattern in the preemptive actions President Trump’s taken in both his terms in office. A central theme to all his actions is that they’re geostrategic and top-down, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

“Pressuring the Panamanians to divorce themselves from China. Making sure the Venezuelan oil does not go to Russia or China by changing the government and capturing Maduro. Things like that suggest that the current Iranian operation has targeted China. … You’re starting to see a pattern. These are wars of reckoning.”

Unexpected Boom On Way

Economic booms are usually defined by  “greater productivity,” increased foreign investment, “reasonable” interest rates, “energy production,” and “plentiful deregulation and tax cuts.”

But will any of this happen in 2026? Hanson predicts we’ll “see an economic bonanza” in 2026 as “there’s going to be more oil,”  “ new technologies,” and “all sorts of tax cuts” and “more deregulation than we’ve ever seen” in the Big Beautiful Bill on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

“ Add it all up: We’ve had an unexpectedly—unexpectedly, unexpectedly—good third quarter. I imagine the fourth quarter might be just as good if it were not for the government shutdown—the longest in history—that occurred in the fourth quarter, but we’ll see.  But more importantly: More foreign investment, more tax cuts, more deregulation, more energy development, lower interest, and I think you’re gonna see an economic bonanza.”

 

5 Years Ago: Were We Played?

How has the Left’s narrative surrounding January 6th 2021 begun to crack?

On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words,” Hanson explains how branding January 6 an “insurrection” drove impeachment efforts, investigations and years of specifically framed media coverage. He also examines the arrest and confession of Brian Cole Jr., the alleged January 6 pipe bomber, and why the delayed investigation and lingering questions surrounding his background cast doubt on many of the conclusions Americans were first told to accept.

“ We never got the honest story. So, that begs the question, why? Why didn’t they just come out and say, “Here’s all the information”? And the reason is, they wanted to cement a narrative in everybody’s mind that a reckless demonstration that turned into a riot was a pre-planned insurrection by Donald Trump, who ordered it, and therefore, should forfeit his political career, and he should never be allowed to run for office.”

AI Puts Words Into My Mouth

Artificial intelligence is being used to steal voices, faces, and reputations. Victor Davis Hanson knows this firsthand.

Hanson explains the growing problem of AI-generated deepfake videos that falsely use his image, voice, and setting to promote ideas he has never expressed and often strongly disagrees with. He breaks down this dishonest and unethical practice and why it’s harmful to public discourse on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

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