President Donald Trump has Democrats between a rock and a hard place.

The only way they can win popular support in their ongoing feud with Republicans over funding for the Department of Homeland Security is to protest ICE.

That means going where ICE is: The airports.

Picture this: Your run of the mill leftwing protester screaming into a microphone, making an already unpleasant flight experience worse while immigration agents smile and hand out water to passengers waiting in line.These are the cards Democrats have been delt.

Victor Davis Hanson, and his co-host Sami Winc, also discuss how/why elected Democrat leaders embrace illegal aliens over their own citizens, as well as the delicate balancing act Trump needs to play if he’s to reopen the Straits of Hormuz on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” 

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Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc discuss the killing of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old freshman at Loyola University, in Chicago and criticize Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s sanctuary-state stance, delayed response, and reluctance to cooperate with ICE, arguing Democrats downplay victims and shift blame to Trump while crime rises amid gun restrictions.

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The tragic shooting of a Loyola University freshman last week highlighted Chicago’s serious need for ICE to remove illegal immigrants from its streets.

By making Chicago a sanctuary city, Gov. JB Pritzker can’t blame President Trump for the tragedy, especially when Trump has continually offered to help make the city safer by deploying the National Guard there, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

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Joe Kent honorably served the United States during his 11 deployments to combat zones in the Middle East.

Now, however, he has betrayed President Trump, the man who helped him have a political career as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center after two failed congressional campaigns, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

“He [Kent] wrote and said not only did he feel that the MAGA movement… was not being followed, but it was following Israel… So he bought right into ‘the Jews did it.’ And at that moment, a whole new world opened up for him. And he thinks that's quite a big world on the Right. It isn’t.”

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Medicine is not the answer to most problems, especially when it comes to gender dysphoria.

Stella O'Malley, Irish psychotherapist and author, joins co-host Jack Fowler on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” where she discusses her organization, Genspect, and its commitment to promote a “healthy, evidence-based approach to sex and gender.”

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In this Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson argues Iran is unlikely to strike the U.S. homeland with drones but could use proxies or influenced naturalized citizens, while discussing Trump’s potential escalation options in the region and Europe’s reluctance to help despite benefiting from reduced Iranian power.

The discussion then centers on Washington’s fight over a DHS-related shutdown: Hanson claims Democrats are using DHS as a pretext while aiming to damage the economy by disrupting airport security and broader DHS operations, forcing Trump to negotiate, and avoiding any discussion of ICE because parts of the party oppose deportations. 

He also criticizes Democrat leaders for lacking a governing agenda beyond opposition to Trump and notes debates over voter ID legislation and threats of future prosecutions from figures like Susan Rice.

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(27:27) Cuba and Capitol Battles

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Jack Fowler and Victor Davis Hanson discuss Joe Kent’s recent resignation over opposition to military action against Iran. Hanson argues Iran’s long record of attacks and proxy warfare makes stopping now dangerous. Hanson reacts to an Al Jazeera column claiming the U.S.-Israel strategy is systematically degrading Iran’s key assets, suggesting Gulf states back the campaign out of fear Iran will hit their economies. 

He then examines an NBC News poll showing Israel’s standing has fallen sharply among Democrats and warns Jewish national candidates face a hostile party climate. Hanson also links corporate flight from blue states to high taxes and governance failures, criticizes Canada’s policies, and argues weak assimilation and DEI incentives fuel anti-Americanism and criminal impunity among some immigrants and activists.

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The legacy media continues to downplay recent bombing attempts and other violent incidents tied to illegal immigrants, arguing “Islamophobia” is overstated while antisemitism rises.Victor Davis Hanson, co-host of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” criticizes the 1965 immigration shift toward family-based entry, says the Left excuses illegality and anti-Americanism, and connects these trends to tribal politics. 

Victor and Jack mock a proposed “supergroup” of radical big-city Democrat mayors (New York, Chicago, Boston, Oakland, Seattle, Los Angeles) amid crime, taxes, and dysfunction.

Victors condemns the UK replacing Churchill on currency, defends Churchill’s wartime leadership, comments on Carrie Prejean Boller’s anti-Zionism controversy, and praises Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s “Restoring the West” initiative.

“There's an impression that if you're an immigrant and you come from a hostile country, that you will come over here and we will ask nothing of you. We won't even ask you to be legal, and we won't ask you to obey our laws. “And if you act like a victim or you use violence against the state, there will be people in the United States on the left that either will contextualize or excuse your criminality, or if you're not a criminal, but you're just simply anti-American, they will laud it and think you're a member of the DEI greater brotherhood. 

“Yeah. And we've gotta stop it, because it's getting dangerous.”  

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Iran’s “chaos strategy” consists of threatening the Strait of Hormuz and striking regional targets, weighing U.S. and Israeli escalation options amid Donald Trump’s political constraints before the midterms and concerns over oil markets, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

The episode also addresses controversy over a girls’ school allegedly struck near a military base, noting uncertainty over responsibility and the likelihood of collateral damage from dispersed Iranian military sites.

Hanson then turns to Cuba as a sophisticated exporter of revolutionary influence and suggests pressure without invasion.

He analyzes Trump’s use of Rubio versus Vance as “good cop” dynamics and criticizes California efforts to revive racial preferences, gerrymandering, and a high school transgender track controversy.

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Victor Davis Hanson interviews former USC president and engineer Max Nikias about his memoir, “American Trojan,” tracing Nikias’s journey from a poor village in Cyprus to U.S. citizenship and academic leadership.

Nikias recounts studying engineering in Athens during Greece’s military dictatorship and witnessing the 1973 Polytechnic uprising, then returning home as Cyprus was invaded by Turkey in 1974, displacing his family. 

He describes arriving in America with $1,500, earning a SUNY Buffalo scholarship, navigating H-1B and citizenship standards, and building a career in engineering and classified U.S. Navy work.

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