ICE Threats, Elite Leftist Radicals, NFL Wokery, and California’s “Stop Nick Shirley” Bill | VDH
6/2/20261 hr 22 min
Victor Davis Hanson comments on the rising hostility toward ICE agents after the arrest of Nicholas Matthew Scelfo for threatening an agent’s family, arguing authorities should make examples of such offenders while blue-state politics instead target citizen-journalism. Hanson portrays anti-ICE protests as an elitist class phenomenon that harms working-class communities and ties it to broader DEI-driven cultural and institutional decay, including politicized pro sports and coarsening public behavior. The episode highlights California’s AB 2624 (“Stop Nick Shirley Act”) as a retaliatory, constitutionally suspect effort to deter filming of nonprofit employees tied to illegal-immigrant services and alleged fraud exposure. Hanson also warns about tribalism, immigration-driven integration failures, UK policing distortions, and breakdowns in public order. PROMOTIONS: 👉Claim your liberty offer of up to $5,000 in free metals with allegiance gold by going to https://www.ProtectWithVictor.com 👉 #1 Water Filtration System.Recommended by Victor Davis Hanson: https://www.covepure.com/vdh 👉Protect women’s sports from biological reality denial at https://JoinADF.com/HANSON or Text HANSON to 83848 WHERE TO WATCH: 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest editions of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iOoN0xoOoSNvDFlpLLYGY?si=5a9f369acc874c6e 👉 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words/id1566731706 👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/VictorDavisHansonInHisOwnWords?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o 👉 Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsJack Fowler· Host0:00
[theme music] Well, hello, ladies, and hello, gentlemen, and welcome to Victor Davis Hanson, In His Own Words, on The Daily Signal Network. I'm Jack Fowler, the host. Lucky man, I could ask Victor the questions I believe you would want him to address and answer and share his wisdom on. Uh, we are recording on Saturday, May 30th, 2026, and this episode should be up on Tuesday, June 2nd. I think Tuesday is the second. Yeah, it is. And, um, Victor is the Martin and Neely Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Wayne and Marsha Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College, senior contributor at The Daily Signal, essayist, syndicated columnist, author of the forthcoming book, Counterrevolution. Go to Victor's website, The Blade of Perseus, and you'll find a link for that. You should order it. Uh, now, it comes out in September, but, um, get, get, uh, get your copy assured. Uh, we'll talk more about The Blade of Perseus in a bit. Victor, uh, we've got collective issues today, but the first one I, I think I'd like to poke you on is this, um, this punk that was arrested in New Jersey, uh, for threatening, uh, ICE agents. And man, oh man, what, what would it be like to be an ICE agent, uh, officer in America today? So we'll, we'll get your