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The California gubernatorial debate went exactly how you would expect.

Democrats deflecting blame and re-running the same tired talking points instead of offering real solutions to California’s mounting list of problems.

Climate sermons from private jet flyers, tax the rich rhetoric from billionaires, and homelessness solutions from leaders of failed cities who still think more government is the answer, all while blaming Donald Trump for nearly everything. And not a SINGLE mention of the rampant fraud in the state from the Democrats. 

Yet another reminder of why so many voters feel frustrated with the direction of the state.

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We’re 60 days into the conflict, and President Donald Trump has left the Iranian regime with three options:

The non-hard-liners could agree to the United States’ terms and surrender.

The regime could continue to try and win token victories—send out small PT boats and drones to attack freighters in the Strait of Hormuz.

Delay negotiations in the hopes that a more friendly Democratic administration comes to power in 2028, offering the theocrats more favorable terms, predicts Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

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As America approaches its 250th anniversary, the nation’s unmatched economic, cultural, and military dominance remains clear on the global stage.

The enduring strength of the Constitution, a merit-based society, and a tradition of innovation have fueled a level of success few nations have ever achieved.

But growing debt, declining birth rates, and shifting cultural values raise serious questions about long-term stability.

The future of American greatness may depend on whether the country can preserve the principles that made it exceptional in the first place, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

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Will the 360-degree pressures that surround President Donald Trump force him to stop short of dealing the final death blow to the Iranian regime?

I hope not.

Why, after Iran has been militarily destroyed and has a restive population that could rebel any minute now, does Iran keep saying that it’s winning, and why do people put pressure on Donald Trump as if he’s losing?

The answer is that war is not necessarily just about military affairs alone—it’s politics, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

(00:00) War Status and Blockade

(01:48) Midterms and War Powers Pressure

(03:35) Europe and Fringe Opposition

(05:59) Weapons Shortages and Strategy

(06:35) Politics Decide the Endgame 

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Within a matter of weeks, Iran’s ability to wage war has been rendered inert by American and Israeli forces.

Over the course of seven U.S. presidencies, Iran—the most populous Middle Eastern country—developed a self-inflated view of itself. But why?

Whether through the Biden-backed Iran nuclear deal or Barack Obama’s “creative tension” approach to Middle East conflicts, numerous U.S. administrations gave the Iranian regime the impression that the Western world was afraid of them.

Then Trump called their bluff, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

(00:00) Iran War Status Check

(01:12) How Tehran Misread Obama Biden

(03:23) Myth of Iranian Invincibility

(05:12) October 7 Changed Israel

(06:37) Negotiations and Endgame

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We spent a year as the Commonwealth of Virginia birthing 94,000 babies and taking the lives of 38,000.

That means we are aborting about a quarter of our next generation.

We've gotten to the point where there's a volume of Virginians that have decided they don't care about the unborn. They’re fine with late term abortions, argues Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation of Virginia on today’s Daily Signal podcast with host Joe Thomas.  

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The legacy media, the so-called anti-MAGA Right, and the Democrat grandees in Congress have two things in common:

They never wanted the U.S.-Iran war to go in America’s favor.

Many of the critiques of Operation Epic Fury were not historically empirical, meaning they didn’t compare the ongoing conflict with Iran to past U.S. wars, such as the bombing campaign in Serbia or even the war in Afghanistan.

But the evidence—in five weeks alone, the United States, with the Israeli Air Force, wiped out most of the top echelon of the four ruling cliques in the Iranian nation—was there, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words”:

“We’ve never taken on a country of 93 million people that had the most fearsome, terrible reputation of being dangerous and unpredictable, and running the Middle East with a ring-of-fire proxies in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon—indomitable. They had terrified seven presidents. And yet, in five weeks, we destroyed its ability to make war.”(00:00) Media and Right-Wing Doom

(01:09) Demanding Data, Not Spin

(02:18) Iran Leadership in Chaos

(05:52) Three-Phase War Strategy

(07:29) Hormuz Gambit Backfires

(10:27) Endgame and Final Warning 

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Operation Epic Fury was never the pretext for a larger, endless war, and the so-called anti-MAGA right—Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, or Marjorie Taylor Greene—should know better than to label it as such, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

The whole subtext of the Iran campaign is this: While regime change is not the primary agenda, America’s weakening of the regime may spur people to rise up and overthrow the government.

(00:00) Anti MAGA Critics

(01:34) Iran Strikes Backlash

(02:34) Not a Forever War

(04:10) Trump Rhetoric and Restraint

(06:15) Betrayal or Bigger Agenda

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We don't know what the ultimate prognosis of this war is, but if we take the long view, it's far more favorable to our interests than it is to our enemies.

The media’s 24-hour ragebait cycle can’t explain what’s actually unfolding in Iran. While critics swing wildly between calling Trump a “warmonger” and “weak,” the reality points to a regime that’s been militarily and strategically crippled.

Meanwhile, adversaries like Russia and China are feeling the ripple effects, and NATO’s cracks are on full display. The long view tells a very different story—and it’s one the headlines won’t admit, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

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Eric Swalwell’s forced exit from the California governor’s race, and later U.S. House of Representatives, exposes the Democrat machine’s rank hypocrisy:

It discards him not out of genuine concern for victims, but for political self-preservation, while ignoring similar character flaws in other candidates and the far greater trail of victims left by decades of one-party rule that has made life miserable for ordinary Californians.

(00:00) Swalwell Suspended

(02:00) Party Machine Purge

(03:24) Other Democrats Baggage

(05:41) California Policy Victims

(09:18) Accountability And Closing

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