The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Post-Election Come to Jesus Moment

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” a Daily Signal original, Hanson discusses the significant media and public opinion shifts following the Nov. 5 presidential election through the inauguration. “There's been a whole change of mentality from the trivial to the existential. We can't quite believe that. Mika and Joe Scarborough made a religious journey, as it is, to Mar-a-Lago. Snoop Dogg once cut a film about shooting Donald Trump. Now he has endorsed him. And that is true all over the media. They just fired the head of MSNBC. Now we also learn these disclosures. Why now?” “I think people as they look back, they think we were in a coma. We were drugged. This was a aberration. Maybe it was the COVID lockdown. Maybe it was the George Floyd. Maybe it was the hatred of Donald Trump. Maybe—I don't know what it was, but it was a four-year aberration.” For Victor's latest thoughts, go to: https://victorhanson.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk. Business. There's been a whole change of mentality from the trivial to the existential. We also learned these disclosures. Why now? Why now? Why did we suddenly learn from the Wall Street Journal in the New York Times that Joe Biden had had cognitive decline all these years in which to point that out was blasphemy? And now all of a sudden, we hear we were right all along. All of you were. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. Have you noticed during this transition from the November 5th election to the inauguration of January 20th,

there's been a whole change of mentality from the trivial to the existential. We can't quite believe that Mika and Joe Scarborough made a religious journey as it is to Marlago. Snoop Dogg once cut a film about shooting Donald Trump. Now he has endorsed him. And that is true all over the media. They just fired the head of MSNBC. Now we also learn these disclosures. Why now?

Why now? Why did we suddenly learn from the Wall Street Journal in the New York Times that Joe Biden had had cognitive decline all these years in which to point that out was blasphemy? Remember Peter Dasak? He was in Echo Health.

He was the one who engaged in forbidden gain of functioned viral research. He was getting money from the NIH transferring it to the Wuhan laboratory. But even to say that was considered heresy. And now all of a sudden, we hear we were right all along. All of you were that there was gain of function research, that we did have a role in the Wuhan lab.

And guess what? Peter Dasick is barred now for five years from receiving one dime of federal health care. How about the FBI? They stonewalled, stonewalled, stonewold, all of a sudden, suddenly out of the head of Zeus, they tell us they're going to abandon, abolish, get rid of their diversity, equity, inclusion department. And finally, Christopher Ray, in his last address to us, says, well, there are cabals of Chinese espionage activists, and they're in sensitive places.

We have to be careful. Why didn't he tell us that two years ago? Why all of a sudden is Mr. Trudeau stepping down? Why did the Assad dynasty collapse? Why does Hamas, want to negotiate. It's eerie. We've never seen anything like it. Why did Joe Biden somebody abdicate? He's kind of abdicated from power. Donald Trump is a de facto, and he has been for weeks president. We've never seen anything like it. The obvious answer is the king is dead. Long live the king. People gravitate toward power, especially when power is expressed by winning the popular vote, the electoral college, having control of the House, at the Supreme Court and having issues that all pulled over 55 to 60 percent.

It was a mandate. And everybody wants to be on the winning side in the sense you root for your football team when it's 10 and 0, and you don't go to the stadium when it's 0 in 10. There's another criteria here, and that is a lot of people, as they look back, see that what they did to Donald Trump, the lawfare, the Alvin Bragg, the 4th, Fannie Willis, the Jack Smith, the Latita James, the E. Jean Carroll, Civil and Criminal suits, they really were an aberration. They were a miscarriage of justice. And when they're compounded with the two prior impeachments, the trial of Donald Trump as a private citizen,

the effort to get him off the ballot, the raid at Marlago, a lot of people on the left, in the media, in the Democratic Party, in the liberal circle itself, are thinking, if we were Donald Trump and we had suffered what we did to him and we were in power now, we know what we would do, revenge. So they project that onto Donald Trump, and they try to reach out now, whether it's the media settling defamation suits or talk that even CBS will settle with Donald Trump.

But I don't think that necessarily explains all of this vast change of heart, this new mindset. I think people, as they look back, they think we were in a coma. We were drugged. This was an aberration. Maybe it was the COVID lockdown. Maybe it was the George Floyd.

Maybe it was the hatred of Donald Trump. Maybe I don't know what it was, but it was a four-year aberration. And now they're coming to their senses and they're thinking, Joe Biden really was cognitively declined. A coup dismissed him. That was abnormal. The border should be closed. There really is two main sexes, not three.

looting and shoplifting have to be crimes or society will not exist. What happened in Afghanistan turning over $50 billion to terrorists, that's not normal. That's not the United States. Nor is putting, quote, daylight between us and Israel. So there's a sense now that Rip Van Winkle like we've woken up, and Donald Trump wasn't a monster. In fact, Donald Trump has common sense answers to all the things of the last four years. So we're looking back and we're saying, we were mad. And now there's a common sense corrective.

And we don't really care if it's Donald Trump or not. But we're going to go with the corrective and return America to common sense. Thank you. This is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. Thank you so much for tuning in today. Please subscribe to the Daily Signal for our next episode.