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Mexico, MeToo No More, the Left’s Meager Pickin’s

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

Thu Mar 06 2025

Summary

The Victor Davis Hanson Show Episode: Mexico, MeToo No More, the Left’s Meager Pickin’s Release Date: March 6, 2025

Overview

In this compelling episode of The Victor Davis Hanson Show, hosts Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler delve into pressing political and social issues shaping contemporary America. The discussion navigates through the complexities of U.S.-Mexico relations, the ramifications of the MeToo movement, and a critical analysis of the current left-wing strategies. With incisive commentary and insightful perspectives, Hanson and Fowler unpack the challenges and dynamics at the heart of these contentious topics.

U.S.-Mexico Relations and Pete Hegseth’s Stance Timestamp: [07:20]

The episode opens with an in-depth conversation about former military leader Pete Hegseth’s assertive remarks on U.S.-Mexico relations. Hegseth has been vocal about the need for America to take a firmer stance against Mexico's inability to control violent gangs and the influx of drugs, particularly fentanyl, crossing the border. Hanson draws historical parallels to the U.S. military interventions in Mexico during the early 20th century, highlighting the persistent challenges in curbing cartel activities.

Victor Davis Hanson ([08:00]): "The problem is Mexico is not in full control of their own country... Over the past decade, cartel profits have siphoned off nearly $270 billion from the United States."

Hanson emphasizes the economic and security implications, citing how cartel-driven drug trade and illegal immigration have strained U.S. resources and border integrity. The hosts discuss Mexico’s complex relationship with China, trade imbalances, and the political maneuvers that complicate bilateral efforts to address these issues.

The MeToo Movement and Its Impact on Society Timestamp: [17:14]

Transitioning to the MeToo movement, Hanson critiques its influence on societal norms and the perception of masculinity. He argues that the movement has inadvertently contributed to a climate of distrust and fear among young men, leading to a decline in traditional courtship and family structures.

Victor Davis Hanson ([19:44]): "Young men are being told they're sexual assailants, toxic masculinity, and they've kind of dropped out."

Hanson discusses the broader cultural conflicts arising from the movement, including the tension between progressive sexual ethics and the traditional values upheld by many Americans. He also touches on high-profile cases and their ramifications on due process and personal reputations.

Critique of Left-Wing Strategies and Democratic Policies Timestamp: [22:07]

The conversation shifts to a critical analysis of the Democratic Party’s strategies and policies. Hanson contends that the left lacks a cohesive alternative agenda, relying instead on partisan tactics and cultural warfare to maintain power. He references Mark Halperin’s observations on the inability of Democrats to grasp the widespread MAGA movement's motivations and the frustration stemming from perceived governmental overreach.

Victor Davis Hanson ([25:37]): "The current left is not left. They're Jacobin revolutionary people who want perpetual power."

Hanson outlines what he perceives as the left's transactional approach to governance, highlighting issues such as the filibuster, electoral reforms, and judiciary appointments as mere tools to consolidate power rather than genuine policy initiatives aimed at national betterment.

Jeff Bezos and the Transformation of the Washington Post Timestamp: [38:26]

A notable segment discusses Jeff Bezos’s acquisition of The Washington Post and his subsequent editorial policy changes. Hanson praises Bezos for steering the publication towards a focus on free markets and free speech, distancing it from what he describes as "left-wing lunatics."

Victor Davis Hanson ([59:10]): "Jeff Bezos... changed the editorial policy. We're only going to talk about free expression and the wonderful capital system."

This shift has led to discontent among traditional pundits and contributors who align with leftist ideologies, causing resignations and controversies within the publication. Hanson views this as a positive move towards journalistic integrity and economic realism.

Campus Activism and Anti-Israel Protests Timestamp: [67:00]

Hanson and Fowler address the escalating activism on college campuses, specifically highlighting recent incidents at Barnard College and Columbia University. They criticize the anti-Israel protests and the disruptive tactics employed by student activists, arguing that such actions undermine academic integrity and safety.

Victor Davis Hanson ([68:52]): "Anyone that thinks this BS happening on campus is over, that the anti-Semitic students on campus is over. It's not over."

Hanson underscores the importance of enforcing university policies and legal measures to maintain order and protect the rights of all students, emphasizing that passive tolerance of such disruptions only emboldens extremist behavior.

Listener Feedback and Final Thoughts Timestamp: [75:54]

Towards the end, the hosts share listener feedback, highlighting appreciation for the show’s insights and its role in providing clarity amidst societal turmoil. They touch upon personal anecdotes related to fitness and pet ownership, adding a relatable and personable dimension to the discourse.

Listener Comment (Timestamps vary): "I owe VDH a huge debt of gratitude for keeping me sane during the incredible turmoil of the past few years... Today's episode about the complexities of the Ukraine war and the dynamics around Trump's efforts to end it was incredibly insightful."

Hanson echoes the sentiment, reaffirming his commitment to addressing critical issues and fostering informed discussions to guide listeners through complex political landscapes.

Conclusion

This episode of The Victor Davis Hanson Show offers a thorough examination of U.S.-Mexico relations, the unintended consequences of the MeToo movement, and a sharp critique of left-wing political strategies. Through historical context and contemporary analysis, Hanson and Fowler provide listeners with a nuanced understanding of these multifaceted issues, encouraging informed discourse and proactive solutions.

Notable Quotes:

[08:00] Victor Davis Hanson: "The problem is Mexico is not in full control of their own country... Over the past decade, cartel profits have siphoned off nearly $270 billion from the United States."
[19:44] Victor Davis Hanson: "Young men are being told they're sexual assailants, toxic masculinity, and they've kind of dropped out."
[25:37] Victor Davis Hanson: "The current left is not left. They're Jacobin revolutionary people who want perpetual power."
[59:10] Victor Davis Hanson: "Jeff Bezos... changed the editorial policy. We're only going to talk about free expression and the wonderful capital system."
[68:52] Victor Davis Hanson: "Anyone that thinks this BS happening on campus is over, that the anti-Semitic students on campus is over. It's not over."

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Jack Fowler (1:37)

Hello ladies. Hello gentlemen. This is the Victor Davis Hansen Show. I am Jack Fowler, lucky man. I get to be the host. I get to ask questions. I kind of think the questions you'd like to ask of the star namesake Victor Davis Hansen, who is the Martin and Eli Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsher Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College and the owner of a website, the Blade of Perseus. You'll find that@victorhansen.com I'll tell you why later in this episode. You should be checking that out and even subscribing. We are recording on Saturday, March 1st and this particular episode of the show will be up on Thursday, March 6th. As ever, Ton of things to talk about. We did not get time in our last episode to speak about a big issue. I think it's big. It's Pete Hegseth's comments and thoughts about what America should be doing with Mexico. Some really direct threats are not the wrong word. Just like tough, tough talk and overdue talk. I think, Victor. But you may have different opinion. We'll get your thoughts Victor on Hegseth in Mexico. What else? Inseminated persons. I know some guys who might qualify for that. Kamala Harris, Tim Walls still remain in the news. Jeff Bezos telling the Washington Post, telling people what he's going to do with the Washington Post editorial page make. Maybe we'll have time for something else. We'll get to all of that, Victor, right after these important messages.

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Victor Davis Hansen (8:00)

Yeah, the problem is Mexico is not in full control of their own country. So when he says that he might have to deal with the gangs, I. E like General Pershing and George Patton and people went in in 1916, they went into Mexico to stop via and banditry that had come across the border and killed American. They weren't very successful. It was very hard to find them. So I guess what he's saying is if you, if you just rethink our relations and don't have any preconceptions and just say this is a country, this is B country and they send in Chinese raw product fentanyl, have special cartel factories that process it into drugs that are disguised as methamphetamines, whatever, but laced with fentanyl. And out of that, 75 to 100,000Americans die per year and over 10 years, that's more than all of the American deaths and all of our wars in history. Then they're an enemy because they knowingly do it and that gives them some $20 billion into the economy. And then you also say that Mr. Obrador, remember he said, isn't it beautiful? 40 million people went into the United States from Mexico, meaning illegally. And then he said the Mexican prior President Obradar said he wanted all expatriate Mexican Americans to vote against Republicans and especially Trump. And then Mexico gets China around tariffs by having China send in computer parts, manufactured parts, car parts, and then they just assemble them and come in under NAFTA and they're running 178 billion dollar surplus with the United States. That is on top of $63 billion that expatriate Mexican nationalists, the majority of them here residing illegally and on some sort of health, housing, education, nutritional support from local, state and federal governments and that's 63 billion. You add the 63 billion with a 20 billion cartel profit and then you add the 180 billion and you're getting close to, I don't know, $270 billion that's coming out of the United States. And you would think that that would give us a little leverage, especially when they've destroyed our border. And every time we, we try to suggest something to them, they stonewall us or they, they threaten us or something. And I don't know. And they're very ups. I mean, if you think that this is a racial or ethnic issue, it's not. When Donald Trump got 46% of the Hispanic vote, most of it Mexican American vote. So what I'm getting at is he's trying to think out of the box and tell Mexico it's not going to continue any longer. You're not going to kill American youth and let these gangs come into our country. And that is a legitimate. We had a community, Mendota, not very far from where I lived. It was taken over by M13 by Mexican gang. Taken over. They had to get FBI SWAT teams to come in on my avenue. About two years ago, there was a shootout between Nortegno Sereno's people. One day I was driving into town and there was a, about 15 law enforcement cars. Most of the law enforcement people had bulletproof vest on, but they were in civilian clothes with the little insignia on the back, you know, of their various agencies. And they had maybe 10 people stripped down to their boxer shorts, handcuffed, sitting on the side of the road waiting for it to be processed. Right. I'd say it's a quarter mile, half mile from where I live. So it's everywhere. Gangs from Mexico here running very. And so it has to stop. And when Hexa says there's basically everything is possible, I don't know what that would mean. But we've never since 1916 really gone into Mexico territory without their permission. And maybe they would give us their permission because they're terrified of the gangs themselves. And one of the things that happened in Art of the Deal style, he's been talking about this for a long time, both before he was nominated as secretariat afterwards and now we find out that Mexico is allowed to extradite, what is it, 20 something gang members that were killers, including murderers of American citizens. And they wouldn't let us try them here in the United States and now they are. So they're trying to think of ways. There was another news story this week that Mexico suggested that maybe if the United States would invest money in it, they would be weaned off China and then they would allow American companies to assemble products and not Chinese and they wouldn't try to avoid the tariffs that China should pay. So they are thinking of ways. I mean they're not quite like the loony Canadian foreign foreign ministers. I said last episode where she was on record of saying the French and the British should give us a nuclear deterrent to use against the United States.

Victor Davis Hansen (22:07)

They don't have an alternate. I know everybody says, well, they don't have an alternate plan, but they don't. All they have to do is say, this is our agenda. We want to cut a trillion dollars too, because you can't borrow $2 trillion a year when you owe 35 and your interest payment is your deficit's 2 trillion and 1 trillion of it is to pay the interest. And here's what we're going to do. Like Bill Clinton and Newtown, they don't do that. Or this is what we. It's unsustainable what we did. You cannot have 3 million illegal aliens coming into your country on audit for health reasons alone. But here's our plan. They always talk about comprehensive immigration. They had no plan. It was all amnesty. And what was it for? Oh, we'll only let in 4,000. You have to let in because it's too much pressure. Well, we're not letting anybody now and it's fine unless they're legal. So they don't have an alternate agenda. It's just we're going. They have a three point strategy. Say Donald Trump is Hitler screaming yell about he's the worst thing in the world on every single thing he does. Number two, mouth all of the I don't know what you. The propaganda of our base. So you have no room but to be an LGBTQ fanatic, a Green Deal fanatic, a critical race theory woke di fanatic. No apostate apostates allowed and drive down Donald Trump's ratings so that by the time of the midterms, no Senate candidate, no House candidate will want to associate with him in a purple district. We'll get back the House, we'll eat up two years like we did before with the Mueller investigation. We'll get a bunch of, we'll get a control of the Congress, we'll start subpoenaed people. They'll refuse, we'll put them in jail like Navarro and Bannon and we will eat up the end of the Trump. That's their plan. And that's why it's very important. If Trump just does two things by the time the midterm, if he is very close to a balanced budget somehow or showing that he's going to get there in two years and if the Ukraine war ends with a peace that's not fragile, he will win the midterms. And that's why I think they are so fanatic to stop the cutting of the waste and fraud. They do not want that to happen. They do not want him to claim that he got the first balance budget since Bill Clinton. And they're paranoid that he will say I solved the Ukraine, Stalingrad and there's no more killing and he will come off as a humanist in the peace. And they don't want that to happen. They really don't. Their idea was give, give Zelensky anything he wants, just enough so he doesn't win and doesn't lose, or put it that way and let it go on forever. Because you're bleeding, Donald. You're bleeding Vladimir Putin and will do this to the last Ukrainian. I think that was their policy. Did you ever hear Joe Biden say it was a humanitarian crisis? And the idea of 18, 19, 20 year old, 30 year old just being wasted on that battlefield, killed, maimed, destroyed, a million and a half of them, they never talked in those terms.

Victor Davis Hansen (27:27)

I wrote that article who caused the counter revolution. It wasn't Donald Trump, wasn't Marco Rubio, it wasn't Pete Hexath. They took the country so hard left by inventing a third sex, by inventing a new foundational date, 1690, by tearing down statues, by renaming things, by putting biolog men and female sports, by not a porous but a destroyed border, not a million a year but 12 million over four years. Not just a defeat in Afghanistan but an utter humiliation and turning over weapons to terror. It was something we'd never seen. And to correct that they're going frenzy but Donald Trump is not going to be Mitt Romney. I'm sorry, he's not going to say. Well, they've kind of been a little extreme and I've appointed six committees and they're going to report back to me in a year with commission results. It'll be bipartisan. We can work across the aisle. We'll have sober and judicious. Kamala Harris will be on the commission. She's very responsible person. And then they'll give us a set of recommendations and I will take them to the Congress and we'll see if we can address the. That's what they want. That's what a Republican would do. And so the other thing they're really angry about, they thought that after the first Trump term they had his number. In other words, they, they had the Mueller for 20. They went from the Mueller investigation and they waited about three months and then it was the Vindman impeachment and that went for another impeachment trial. And then they, they had all of the other little shenanigans disinformation lab and they had people in that administration there was anonymous for Saying that we have an internal coup and we're stopping all of that guy, whatever his name was, Low, low ranking Homeland Security official, the New York Times said, a high important official. He wasn't. Then they had people that, you know, Rex Tillerson's a nice guy, but he wasn't on the MAGA agenda. Jim Mattis is a nice guy. He wasn't on the MAGA agenda. John Bolton wasn't on the agenda. And they had the Omarosos and the Scaramuccis. It was chaos. If Trump gave an order to a cabinet official, they either would ignore it or they'd find ways to counteract it. And so he had four years in the wilderness to ponder all this, and four years of being. Five civil and criminal. 83 indictments. And when he came back out of the wilderness, kind of like with a bullet shown, Right? Exactly. He said, you know what? Instead of me arguing with my own cabinet, I want what Joe Biden once called ultra maga. I want them to make suggestions to me. So he picked this cabinet. And it's a revolutionary cabinet. It really is. And I think Elon Musk said that the other day. They're very good at what they do. They're fearless, they're competent. They have enormously successful communication skills. They've been in private enterprise, many of them. When you hear Tulsi Gabbard talk, she's eloquent, mellifluous. When so is Pete Hexseth, so is Marco Rubio. They all. They all are great. And they are. The difference is from 2017, Trump would get frustrated and give an order that wouldn't be followed. Now he's getting suggestions. Hey, President Trump, what do you think of this idea? And he is. It's not as much that he's got loyal people who are. I don't. Loyal's the wrong word. He's got compadres who agree with him and brothers.

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Victor Davis Hansen (50:54)

What's the subtext there? That Luigi was a spoiled brat who wasn't really actively working. His parents were multi, multi millionaires. He grew up in extravagance and leisure and pampered. He kind of kicked around very nice places, Japan, I guess, Hawaii, whatever. And he is a kindred soul. He had a opportune left wing ideology based on his his own security. Never had to suffer any of the consequences of his boutique ideology. And that's what most Stanford kids are. They're pampered, they're wealthy, they come to Stanford, they feel guilty, they have radical professors that indoctrinate them and then they spout the same stuff. Sam Bankman Fried was a perfect example. And my point is that they don't ever look at class. So the person that Luigi shot was from a poor lower middle class and worked his way up to be a health executive. I happen to have a united health care policy. It's not exorbitantly priced. Compared to other policies, it's been pretty good. It serves a social, cultural, economic need. So you go out and shoot somebody who was aspiring to be successful in a way that you're successful only because somebody gave you everything. You didn't have to work for it. And that kind of romance appeals to students that are sent to Stanford not to be educated. The parents know they're not going to be educated because the curriculum is watered down. 80% of people get A's. There's so many therapeutic distractions there. But they're going to be branded with an S on their rear end like a cattle. Cattle. And when they have that S, they think they're going to go out and say, I'm Stanford, therefore I get to go to Harvard Law School, I get to go to, you know, Stanford Medical School, I get to go to Yale and then I get to get hired. And I'm very prestigious. That's what they think. But they're, they don't quite understand what they're doing to their own brand. And the brand is that you see with if you get 80% A's and you don't have SATs for four years for admissions, then the brand, you start to meet people with the brand. So if only 83% of the Stanford top law school in the nation can pass the bar in the first try, that was true. Why not hire somebody from San Joaquin College and law school in Fresno? They have a better rate usually.

Victor Davis Hansen (53:53)

Well, I got a memo the other day that there's a hiring freeze. Stanford has about, I GUESS it's over $30 billion endowment, way over, maybe closer to 40. And do the interest, they're getting about 7%. They have to reinvest 2 or 3%. So probably getting, you know, on the 40 billion, if I were to take that just in the interest alone, they're probably getting two and a half, three billion and then they're probably getting, raising another two or three billion for their $6 billion. But they're, they're facing a double whammy because they were charging, I think, 54% overhead, at least on government NIH contracts. And Bill Gates was private. You go to Private Grant, maybe it's 15 or 20%, melt the government 54%, but that's going to change with 15%, and that is about $180 million. The second part of that double whammy is it the bill has passed the Senate that they're going to tax. I think if the endowment Is greater than 500,000 per student, then Stanford is. It has about 16,000 students, but it's got about three times that endowment. So it's got about, you know, 16,000 students, but it'S got a $40 billion endowment. And so they're going to have to pay some tax on that. The Senate lowered it, I think to 15 from 25%. But when they start paying 15% on when the state, when the university can only take 15% out of grants, public or private, and they have to pay income tax on some of their endowment income, they're not going to be able to have this huge dei. And just the mere thought of that, it hasn't been actualized yet. The mere thought of it has invoked a hiring freeze and we're also subject to it, Hoover Institution or not. And that's because they see what's coming and who's to blame. They are. Nobody said that. Nobody forced them to give 80% A's to everybody. Nobody forced them to have racially segregated dorms, racially segregated graduations, racially segregated safe spaces. Nobody forced them to go censor people like Scott at was RJ Bacharya. So they brought it on themselves and all these universities did well.

Victor Davis Hansen (59:30)

The point I'm making is that when you keep saying that Donald Trump is a troll. No, no, he's a devil. No, he's Satan. I disagree. He's Lucifer and you're doing, oh, he's an ape in a helicopter, that kind of stuff, you don't have an audience anymore. It gets monotonous. So they just keep drumming that in, drumming that in this left wing stuff. And they got, you know, they first, he was reasonable. After the election, they got rid of Jennifer Rubin and they got rid of some of the crazier people there. But it was still, they were still doing it. And finally he had a Marc Andreessen come to Jesus moment. Remember that? We've talked about that so many times, Jack. That interview he gave where he said, I just realized these people wanted. He's talking about his CEO said to him, these people want to destroy us. In other words, we're capitalists. We like a free market and we have to have free inquiry and expression. That's part of how we do this important productivity. And they want to destroy it. They think we're capitalist insects and we're not going to do it anymore. And that's what made them flip over to Trump from Harris Biden. But the left has this idea that they're so brilliant and they're so creative and they're so beautiful people that they should be able, like people at the Huffington Post. I don't know what happened there, but they drove that into the ground and they should write this crazy stuff and that doctor soon in LA Times or Jeff Bezos. These billionaires who are capitalist insects and parasitical on society, all those ill gotten gains should subsidize brilliant people like ourselves. And we, you know, we're not greedy. We think we should get, you know, modest sum, four or five hundred thousand dollars a year to write one of our recycled columns each week. And then Jeff Bezos, he didn't do this. Jack, this is funny. He didn't say, I think that we need to have more columns stressing two things, freedom of speech and free market economics. He said, we're only going to do that, we're only going to do that. It's almost implies you're not going to talk about anything but free expression and the wonderful capital system. And they. It's very different than Lisa Jobs. She runs Atlantic. But see, she's, she's not in the productive. She's on the money interest investment. She's a receptacle of the money from her husband. She never created any money. So she doesn't care that, you know, and maybe in an abstract she wants Apple to keep giving her these great returns on the stock or interest, but basically she's got so much money she doesn't care. But if she was actually out there as an Apple CEO trying to do business when your employees are trying to undermine it and the Bay Area is hostile to you, it's hard to be liberal anymore.

Victor Davis Hansen (64:29)

Well, that's not subtext. That is the subtext of the entire furor over cutting the LGBT 10 million grant for drag queen shows in Congo. The whole USAID, the whole EPA, the whole Stacey Abrams 2 billion. What am I saying? I'm saying these people are being turned out from these universities with. I have a minor in ethnic studies. I have a major in feminist studies. I have a major in black studies. I have a number in peace studies. I have a minor in confrontation study. All of these worthless degrees, but they have a BA and some of them are a Duke ba, the Georgetown ba, Columbia. And then they go into these places where they'll hire them because where else would anybody hire them? Nonprofits, government programs, they are the grub. You know who's written very persuasive. It was Joel Cotton, the other very gifted observer. I'm sure you would disagree with me on a lot of thinks. He's a man of the left, but he's a very fair man of the left. He's empirical and he's written about what he calls. And I think a lot of other people have used the word clerisy. It's not an ancient word. It's 18th century. It's not just clerics, but it's the people who feel in the same fanatical. Not fanatical, but religious sense. They're not religious orders, but they are religious in their adherence to big government and redistribution. And they run. Run these things and they make, you know, two or three. No salaries were released you see what Sheldon Whitehouse wife had got. And so she's Ms. PhD oceanic something, giving money to the oceanic something and then raking her cut off while her husband voted for it. And that's what, that's what these universities do. They turn out these worthless degrees, these left wing soldiers in the army of progressivism, and they get hired by NGOs, non profits and the government. And nobody who's got an architectural firm or no one's running a fleet of taxicabs, or nobody who's on a, you know, Alice Chalmers tractor all day would hire these people. But that's why they're angry. They're trying to dry it up. They're trying to move these people to the private sector.