"This Mistake Will DESTROY Canada For Decades... | Victor Davis Hanson"

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Apr 23, 2025

"This Mistake Will DESTROY Canada For Decades... | Victor Davis Hanson" In this video, Victor Davis Hanson takes a hard look at the unraveling of Canada’s political and cultural foundations. He explores how decades of unchecked immigration, bureaucratic overreach, and progressive ideology have led to social fragmentation, economic stagnation, and rising insecurity across the continent. Hanson argues that Canada’s elites, in their pursuit of globalism and moral relativism, have abandoned the very values that once made the West strong—reason, national identity, and civic responsibility. Instead, they have embraced a postmodern vision that undermines sovereignty and silences dissent. From Paris to Berlin, Hanson reveals how the European project is crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions. He contends that Canada’s collapse is not just a regional issue, but a cautionary tale for the United States and the rest of the free world. This is a powerful and sobering analysis that challenges mainstream narratives and asks tough questions about the future of Western civilization.
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what's wrong with Canada mr trudeau we

0:03

all thought that he was an aberration

0:05

that he was a manchild or you know he

0:08

was I guess he was vote he voted in

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because of his looks because he showed

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no

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intellectual ability he was kind of very

0:17

vindictive we saw that with the trucker

0:19

strike but everybody thought you know if

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you look at terms of per capita income

0:23

and GDP unemployment inflation military

0:27

expenditures and NATO promises

0:31

uh relations with us you got the

0:33

impression that Canada was stalled and

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that the conservative elements that had

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had once been with this great prime

0:42

minister Steven Harper who was gifted a

0:45

free market advocate and really had

0:48

Canada going in the right direction

0:50

after a decade I suppose that they

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wouldn't go back to this fail and but

0:57

who are we to speak we we had under the

1:00

first 3 years of Trump everything was

1:01

going well and then we got we got rid of

1:04

that and we got somebody who was Obama

1:06

on steroids as far as policy that is

1:09

whoever was you know signing with the

1:13

autopin the Biden initiatives so I I

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think

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that and Donald Trump does not like Pulv

1:21

Pulv Pulv he doesn't like him and I

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don't know why he doesn't i think his

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attitude is he's a conservative so he

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should be kind and favorable to me but

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he doesn't understand Canadian pol he

1:35

understands Canadian policy but he

1:37

doesn't appreciate the situation he's in

1:40

the the Conservatives is that people are

1:42

angry at the United States because the

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United States has been saying to Canada

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you're spending 1.37 on your defense

1:50

expenditures you are one of only eight

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nations that refuses to honor your 2014

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promises to spend 2% of GDP and this is

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especially shameful for you because in

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World War II you had the third largest

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navy in the world for a while you had

2:08

your own beach at

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Normandy you were the DP raid you you

2:15

suffered you were courageous and now to

2:18

see this and our open border has always

2:21

been secure and it was not secured by

2:23

Trudeau on your part and so and you're

2:26

running anywhere depending on how you

2:28

figure it a 63 to hundred billion dollar

2:31

surplus you've got asymmetrical tariffs

2:36

and so when Trump emphasized those all

2:39

of what I just said but you know in the

2:41

Trump art of the deal you know it's

2:42

loser 51 state then it made it

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impossible for a

2:47

conservative to object to what the

2:50

liberals were saying about Trump because

2:52

then they would say that he was a Trump

2:54

puppet it so then he was critical or

2:57

more critical of Trump and that meant

3:00

that Trump was critical of him and so he

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lost it was a lose-lose situation for

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the conservatives if they objected to

3:10

what Trad has

3:12

done and Carney is that his name

3:16

carney yeah Carney if they objected to

3:19

that then they were on the they were on

3:22

the side of the United States i mean if

3:24

they were supported Trump and they

3:25

objected to everything that thing he

3:27

would they were on the United States if

3:29

they joined the the liberals to denounce

3:32

Trump is what pretty much what they did

3:34

then there was no difference between

3:36

them they were not able to articulate a

3:38

particular view they were just lumped in

3:41

well if you feel like the liberal

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liberal people do and cares doesn't like

3:47

Trump and then you agree with him then

3:49

why change governments so it was a very

3:53

hard thing to do and yet Trump couldn't

3:55

come out and endorse the conservatives

3:58

because then that would be the kiss of

4:00

death and it was very hard you know if

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you look at the art of the

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deal no one and and we talked about this

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i wrote about it nobody believed that he

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was going to invade Panama but on the

4:14

other hand nobody believed that Obama or

4:17

Biden or anybody had any ability to

4:21

force the Chinese back out of Panama and

4:24

that what Panama was doing was they were

4:27

being intimidated by the Chinese they

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brought in like a guest they brought in

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and wouldn't leave and they had port

4:33

facilities at the entry and exit that

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were used for espionage and mercantile

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the whole thing so Donald Trump said we

4:41

might have to re reject that renew

4:44

panamaians got

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nationalistic long long story short

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there's a 50/50 chance that this black

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black rock deal will go through and

4:53

there will be an American company for

4:56

the first time in years that will be

4:57

controlling the entry and exit and the

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Panameanians will be relying on our

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defense and China will be nobody would

5:04

have been able to do that but Trump did

5:07

it by this rhetoric same thing with

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Greenland you know we want Greenland

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nobody ever thought he was going to

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absorb Greenland but after it was all

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said and

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done Denmark put in an extra billion

5:20

dollars at the disposal of its colony

5:23

its North American colony and we do have

5:26

a base there and the Green Greenland

5:28

people got more autonomy and it worked

5:32

and the same thing with I don't know yet

5:34

with Canada but in the process of all

5:37

this it it gets chaotic but I don't

5:41

think anybody in Canada ever believed

5:43

that they were going to be the 51st

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state what Trump was saying is you

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people have disappointed us you running

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surplus with your friends you didn't

5:52

patrol your border with your friends you

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didn't arm as you were supposed to with

5:56

your friends you would just be better

5:58

off as a 51st and just as a footnote to

6:01

that little rant nobody wants Canada to

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be a first 51st state that would be like

6:07

getting California and Oregon and

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Massachusetts on steroids if you look at

6:13

Canada well let's make Canada the first

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oh he's an imperialist what we Canadians

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hate him and then what's the what's the

6:21

aftermath oh Canada has a $50 billion

6:25

surplus we didn't know that canada

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doesn't let American dairy products in

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canada dumps timber in the United States

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but we don't export timber from our

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northern states into Canada canada

6:36

didn't do anything about drugs going

6:38

across canada kind of wave people across

6:41

that were illegal aliens haha and now he

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Mr trudeau is done for after Trump

6:49

started this he completely was paralyzed

6:51

people said that little wet noodle

6:53

cannot stand up to Donald Trump get rid

6:56

of him and we got to get polar in there

6:58

soon and the other thing that he

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accomplished is now Mr trudeau says uh I

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will spend over a billion dollars and I

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will get all sorts of electronics and

7:07

and I will patrol the border that's what

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Trump wanted and then he said to

7:13

Mexico you're cheating you're running up

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$170 billion surplus supposed to it

7:19

started out with 2 billion after NAFTA

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you're a

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merkantile uh partner with the Chinese

7:26

who send you product to get around our

7:29

treaties and then you assemble it you're

7:31

killing our jobs you're getting 63

7:35

billion that our taxpayers pay your

7:38

illegal aliens to free up money to send

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to you and your cartels are killing 75

7:43

and that's not going to happen anymore

7:45

and I'm going to put a big tariff on

7:47

everything and then now they say "No no

7:49

no no we'll get 10,000 we have 10,000

7:51

troops at the border we'll stop it and

7:53

there's 97% of all illegal entries have

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ceased in just 2 weeks joe Biden said

7:59

you couldn't do that morca said "Well

8:01

you can't just control a border like

8:03

they did." And Mexico will put 10,000

8:05

will Mexico try to cheat yes but Donald

8:08

Trump has told him he's he's if he puts

8:10

a tariff on that lucrative 170 billion

8:15

and he stops the border where there's no

8:17

more illegal aliens and the remittances

8:18

are frozen or they go down or he puts a

8:21

tax on remittances they're done for and

8:23

they know that and so whether it's

8:26

Greenland or Panama and then we get in

8:28

Venezuela Colombia screw you we're not

8:31

taking back our criminals yes yes we let

8:33

out all of our people out of our jails

8:35

haha that feeble infeebled Biden we just

8:38

send all our criminals and you stupid

8:40

Yankees thought that was so bad you

8:43

couldn't do a thing you did nothing oh

8:45

Donald Trump's going to put a big tariff

8:48

on and he's going to embargo us etc well

8:51

he's just this white slaver and then wow

8:54

he's serious he's not Biden he's not

8:56

Obama he's serious okay we'll take him

8:59

back just don't have him arrive in

9:01

handcuffs so it's too humiliating for my

9:04

government so Colombia and so that's

9:06

what he does and the same thing is going

9:08

to happen with Gaza my god he did this

9:11

he's going to he's a colonialist i think

9:13

I watched Joy Reid and Van this is he

9:17

put in as US aid and people are going to

9:19

die they're just going to die and now

9:21

he's going into Gaza it's genocide and

9:23

they had every Middle East student here

9:25

on a student visa who under no

9:28

circumstances wants to go back to Gaza

9:30

wants to stay here where they can

9:32

protest and be a DEI hero on their

9:34

campuses and what are they saying oh

9:36

this is horrible horrible but but

9:39

they're talking about it and that's what

9:41

he wants he wants everybody to get his

9:43

attention this has been a terrorist

9:45

nexus and he's saying to everybody

9:47

they've taken Iranian money and look at

9:49

Iran we've weakened Iran and I'm putting

9:52

maximum pressure so it's going to start

9:54

a dialogue and the dialogue is intended

9:57

to get Arab money in there maybe EU

10:00

money in there maybe some American not

10:02

much and then try to rebuild but don't

10:06

let Hamas in we'll

10:09

see now that Trudeau is gone or sort of

10:12

gone like what was that who was he

10:13

working for actually like everything he

10:16

did seemed designed to destroy Canada

10:19

like on purpose if you want to destroy

10:21

the country you would do what he did

10:22

we're all excited to send all these

10:23

people to jail andrew Tate must go to

10:25

jail or whoever but like I don't

10:27

understand why Justin Trudeau's not in

10:30

jail for destroying an entire nation so

10:32

what is Trudeau doing i mean there are

10:34

many people responsible I would say i

10:37

actually am one of the only Americans

10:38

who's interested in Canada and really

10:40

loves Canada um cuz I live near Canada

10:43

but and so I've followed it and I think

10:45

there are a number of people um not just

10:48

in Trudeau's party but in the in his

10:51

coalition party uh who are responsible

10:53

but he's the most responsible so what is

10:55

he doing now we have these democratic

10:57

systems throughout the West that have

11:00

for 50 years done the opposite of what

11:01

their populations want yeah so it's it's

11:05

a democratic system without democracy

11:07

that's the way it feels to me

11:09

really globalists are they because

11:11

they're not doing this to China and

11:13

Africa in the Middle East they're not

11:15

saying those nations need to invite a

11:17

lot of people from different parts of

11:19

the world they're So it's not actually

11:20

global it's only one side it's

11:22

anti-western they're saying that there's

11:24

something about a majority white

11:26

Christian country that's inherently

11:27

threatening and we're going to destroy

11:28

it and that's kind of not kind of it is

11:30

exactly what they've done

11:32

around the world in the end you

11:34

understand motive by action like how

11:36

does someone feel i don't know let's

11:38

watch what he does sad cuz it was I mean

11:41

Americans always made fun of Canada um

11:44

but in a sort of sweet way and I think

11:46

Canada's Canadians a lot of Canadians

11:48

always resented the United States cuz

11:49

it's this huge country right you know I

11:51

get I get all that but in real life

11:53

Canada was always a very sweet nice

11:55

country and beautiful truly beautiful

11:57

country and you have this disastrous 10

12:01

years where your life expectancy goes

12:03

down your standard of living goes down

12:06

country really starts to fall apart and

12:07

become authoritarian the opposite of the

12:08

sort of sweet Canadian culture you

12:11

remember and then your option your

12:14

option is a guy who actually agrees with

12:17

the tyrant who destroyed your country

12:19

you know most Americans made fun of the

12:21

French Canadians i know a lot of them i

12:23

have a lot of French Canadian friends i

12:24

live near French Canada and I I've

12:26

always liked them and I have always

12:28

defended them and I always liked them

12:30

because they defended their own culture

12:32

and their own language they're a little

12:33

hard to deal with you know the rest of

12:35

French would always complain about them

12:36

and their license plates in Quebec and

12:37

all that but I always thought when it

12:39

came right down to it the French

12:40

Canadians would defend their land their

12:43

culture their language their history

12:45

it's just sad cuz you would go to Canada

12:47

i've spent a lot of time there hunting

12:49

and fishing and even the conservative

12:51

Canadians say you know we've got this

12:52

great healthcare system and they were so

12:54

proud of their healthcare system i mean

12:55

they really were i remember very well 30

12:57

years ago they would always tell you and

12:59

they were a little bit insecure and

13:01

defend you know we're can you know we're

13:03

Canada we're a real country they always

13:04

be like that but we have this great

13:05

healthare system and they really were

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proud i think were they um I'm not a

13:09

conspiracy person but like if every

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quote democratic system in the west has

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the same outcome which is two parties

13:19

that fundamentally agree on the big

13:21

issues but pretend to hate each other

13:23

while the real concerns of the

13:25

population are ignored got to wonder

13:27

like how did every country in the west

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wind up with the same fake system like

13:32

honestly how did that happen i I wonder

13:34

at a certain point um and clearly

13:36

Trudeau and the rest of them Carney

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think this too but like how far can you

13:42

push people before you know they respond

13:45

in an unreasonable violent way i mean if

13:48

this wasn't cannibis any other country I

13:50

would say boy they're going to get a

13:51

revolution if they're not careful like

13:53

you can't oppress people like this you

13:55

can't flood their societies with

13:56

foreigners you can't destroy their

13:58

standard of living you can't throw them

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in jail for expressing opinions without

14:03

provoking like a violent response are

14:04

they worried about that but you see

14:06

throughout the West the democratic

14:09

system controlled by

14:11

authoritarians excluding people from the

14:13

system you see with Marine Le Pen right

14:15

now in France you were just you knocked

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out of the debates gescu in Romania

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arrested uh for running on a populist

14:23

position most popular politician in the

14:25

country and he's arrested because

14:26

because he's the most popular yeah so

14:29

they're basically denying people a

14:31

democratic outlet for their frustrations

14:34

they're basically not allowing people

14:36

any way to express their views at all

14:39

and that seems like a scary thing to do

14:41

and and there is pre-existing

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sensitivity about the United States i

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mean that's part of what it is to be

14:46

Canadian there is a love of the This is

14:49

my read as an observer of your country

14:50

there's a love of the United States a

14:52

lot of Canadians love the United States

14:53

but there's also resentment cuz it's

14:55

just so big and it's right there yeah

14:57

and and that resentment is real i mean

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I've always felt it when I'm in Canada

15:02

and they're basically and Trump has

15:05

allowed them to do this i mean just be

15:07

honest about it if you have debt levels

15:09

at the level that Canada's certainly in

15:11

the United States much bigger debt than

15:12

Canada's you needs inflation the

15:16

government creates inflation because

15:17

they that's the only way to get out of

15:18

the debt right yeah yeah yeah no one

15:21

says that no no this is like a product

15:23

of choices that our policy makers

15:26

consciously make in order

15:27

to you know inflate down the debt so it

15:30

does seem big picture if you're just

15:32

looking at the world a lot of these

15:34

conflicts are about resources like

15:36

physical things oil and gas iron ore

15:40

boxite grain gold i mean right canada

15:44

has a lot of not all but a lot of those

15:46

things some of the deepest deposits in

15:48

the world water canada has massive

15:51

amounts of fresh water so I'm wondering

15:53

what's happening to all your resources

15:55

is anyone paying attention you I mean

15:57

because China needs the resources

15:59

to fuel its manufacturing asian broadly

16:02

speaking Asian needs those resources a

16:04

any country ours definitely US

16:06

definitely included reaches a tipping

16:08

point with population where there just

16:10

too many people who have no roots in the

16:12

country yeah that have different alien

16:15

agendas and it basically becomes

16:18

unmanageable and there's sort of no

16:19

turning back the country can never be

16:20

what it was you can't make it great

16:22

again how far is Canada from that i'm

16:25

looking in UK right now what's happening

16:27

there and in France we are not there but

16:30

we are near i don't quite understand the

16:34

discrepancy i understand limousine

16:36

liberals and all of that we've always

16:38

had that but this radical movement

16:41

that's taking over the Democratic party

16:44

is all the percentage of people who are

16:48

at college in college graduated from

16:50

college is just way out of proportion

16:53

over 50% and the affluence meter is high

16:58

they're not representative and that's

17:00

true every time you you you watch the

17:02

people who were being picked up for the

17:04

vandalism of Tesla did you see that

17:06

there was a mental health advisor a

17:09

woman that was a therapist was

17:11

scratching destroying uh things and we

17:15

every time I read about it it's some

17:16

usual usually and I'm stereotyping but I

17:20

think the stereotype would be supported

17:21

by data a white person male or female

17:25

probably over the age of 50 and with

17:29

some type of either 2year or fouryear or

17:33

even higher degree and that might apply

17:37

also to the people who are leveling

17:38

threats about shooting people killing

17:40

people kind of the L manion uh that's

17:45

kind of what the the profile is now of

17:48

the left and then that begs the question

17:51

why now what what is going on it reminds

17:53

me of the the '7s the late '60s and 70s

17:56

that when you look at the people in the

17:58

Symbbleiz liberation you know army and

18:00

all of that stuff they were mostly white

18:04

they were educated they came from

18:07

affluent families and they they were

18:10

searching for meaning and uh violence

18:15

and it was kind of directed at what they

18:18

thought was middle class clueless

18:21

reactionary deserving of violence

18:23

America and these people do not like

18:26

when when Trump says they hate America

18:29

he should be more

18:31

specific they hate the middle class they

18:34

feel they have no culture they have no

18:36

taste they don't have the romance of the

18:38

poor and they don't have their money and

18:42

their sophistication they can't stand

18:45

them they look at a Trump rally and they

18:47

say "Look at compare a Trump rally to

18:50

Coachilla all those people have American

18:52

flags they all look the same look at

18:55

Coachelli we've got Nudity we got LBGQ

18:58

TQ we've got Hate America we've got all

19:00

this weird stuff it's so much more

19:02

exciting there's music."

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