Has the Military Lost Middle America

VDH's Blade of Perseus // Private Papers

Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender.

Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically “overrepresented” in offering the ultimate sacrifice to their country.

When generals, active and retired, have become controversial, usually conservative America could be counted on to stick with them.

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Homeless, Illegal Immigrant Policy Failures, Election Oil Policy Covered Up

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Ronna McDaniel hired at MSNBC, Newsom’s Prop 1 and California’s homeless, governor Abbot’s immigration policy changing Left politics, buffering oil production for an election, Candice Owen’s current career, and GOP congressman stepping down before their term is up.

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine the news on Fani Willis’s case, removing “duty, honor, country” from the military code, Left rhetoric and the black vote, Trump capturing the middle voter, pro-policy bill in Tennessee, DEI madness, and gas policy.

Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.

He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.

Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007, and the Bradley Prize in 2008, as well as the Edmund Burke Award (2018), William F. Buckley Prize (2015), the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award (2006), and the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002).