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End Of The American Empire
President Donald Trump returned to Washington in January with a mandate from the American people to end mass migration. That same month, however, the foreign-born population living within America’s borders hit a record high, in an echo of the Roman empire.
Is it too late to save America from mass migration? Even if America is saved, will it be fundamentally changed in the process?
Here, Victor Davis Hanson asks: Is the age of American Empire over or just beginning?
Patel Shuts The FBI Doors
FBI Director Kash Patel is shutting down the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C.—a decision originally made under the Biden administration’s FBI. Symbolically, the closure speaks volumes.
Victor Davis Hanson walks us through the troubling legacy left behind at the FBI HQ on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
Says Hanson, “ Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, was the head of the Special Counsel’s Office. Remember that? And he had the dream team—the all-stars, a hunter/killer team—with the Left. He was almost giddy about that they were gonna get Donald Trump on Russian collusion.”
Hanson continues, “ That same office then gave us Christopher Wray. Why was he spying on parents at school board meetings? Why was he spying on what they called ‘radical-traditional Catholics’? Why did they go after abortion protesters, but not in the same way people who were protesting pro-life?”
The Lawful And Unlawful
Why did Joe Biden let 10-12 million people into the U.S. illegally?
The Good News: We’ve gone from over 120,000 people a month coming across the border illegally in April 2024 to fewer than 10,000 in April 2025.
The Bad News: The Left operates under a simple principle: “It is lawful to be unlawful if you’re Joe Biden—according to the courts—but it is unlawful to be lawful if you’re Donald Trump.
And the result is that we’ve got these 10 to 12 million people. Are we going to have an immigration hearing for each one of them? Or are we just going to pick people?” Here’s more from Victor Davis Hanson on The Daily Signal.
The Trump Restoration
Victor Davis Hanson isn’t just a historian — he’s a voice warning of patterns we’ve seen before, and where they lead. As a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, he connects the fall of past empires with the cracks forming in our own world today.
In this video, we reveal Hanson’s urgent message — one the media has mostly ignored. You’ll see why it matters now more than ever, and how it could impact your life sooner than you think. Among the topics he addresses: The Ukraine War, tariffs, J.D. Vance, transgenders in women’s sports and the leftists tearing down old statues. What President Donald Trump is initiating, says Hanson, is “a return to normalcy. It’s a return to common sense.” Here’s more from Old Soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bMnHuYept0You Are Being Lied To
In this video, Victor Davis Hanson exposes the left’s lies about tariffs. Hanson takes a deep dive into how progressive critics misrepresent tariffs as harmful, often portraying them as economic poison that hurts American workers and consumers. He argues that the left’s criticism of tariffs is rooted not in economic reality, but in a broader ideological opposition to Donald Trump’s policies.
Hanson reveals how tariffs, in many cases, are a strategic tool aimed at rebalancing trade and protecting American industries, rather than the disastrous tactic the left claims. Through careful analysis, Hanson shows how the left’s anti-tariff narrative is driven by political bias and a misunderstanding of global trade dynamics.
Ultimately, he contends that Trump’s tariff policies exposed deep flaws in both American trade practices and the global economic system. Here’s more from Inner Vision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gulzQzB0LRMColumbia: Leftist & Proud Of It!
What is it going to take for universities like Columbia University in New York City to start protecting their Jewish students?
Having the President of the United States cut off $400 million in federal funding is a good start, says Victor Davis Hanson in today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“ It’s widespread in higher education and the country’s been appalled by it. But for some reason, higher education seems to equate Jewish Americans and, by definition, Israel with the white oppressor side of their Marxist binary, which is non-white oppressed versus white oppressor. “
Hanson continues, “ For a long time, the university has decided that it will make no more pretense that it’s disinterested. It’s partisan, and it’s political, and it’s left-wing, and it’s proud of it.”
Pentagon’s Grumpy Old Men
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, was fired from his post last month, along with several other high-ranking military officials. Many of the Left rushed to say that President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were “politicizing” the Pentagon. However, “This is not the politicalization of the Pentagon. It’s the depoliticalization”, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“ They said, ‘This is reckless, it hurts morale, and it will depress recruitment.’ Let’s analyze that just for a second. Recruitment reached near-record levels after the election of Donald Trump. It’s on the way up. It was depressed prior to that.
Why would it be depressed? If you go through the Pentagon data, it’s very hard to decipher. “
More importantly, Leon Panetta signed this letter. He was one, also, of the 51 intelligence authorities that said, right on the eve of the election and on a few days before the 2020 debate, that Hunter [Biden’s] laptop, which was in the hands of the FBI and authenticated, had all the hallmarks of a Russian information, which meant disinformation, campaign.
“ Bottom line: We don’t need any more letters from so-called experts. They’re always partisan. And they’re to no effect.”
