Victor Davis Hanson: California Is Becoming a Warning for America
Sami Winc: Let’s turn to California, and California seems to be a petri dish of all those ideas that the Democrats have going. I’ll read a few of the things that are happening this week in California, and you can provide us with commentary. The first thing that I think is very interesting is that the federal Congress, the House, has passed a bill for the defense budget of $1.15 trillion.
- ▪Sami Winc: Let’s turn to California, and California seems to be a petri dish of all those ideas that the Democrats have going.
- ▪I’ll read a few of the things that are happening this week in California, and you can provide us with commentary.
- ▪The first thing that I think is very interesting is that the federal Congress, the House, has passed a bill for the defense budget of $1.15 trillion.
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Home – California Politics & News – Victor Davis Hanson: California Is Becoming a Warning for America opinion Victor Davis Hanson: California Is Becoming a Warning for America Victor Davis Hanson • July 27, 2026 Print (function(){var t=document.querySelector(".wp-block-kadence-dynamichtml"),s=document.currentScript.previousElementSibling;if(t&&s){if("prepend"==="before_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t);else if("prepend"==="after_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t.nextSibling);else if("prepend"==="prepend"||"prepend"==="inside_first_child")t.insertBefore(s,t.firstChild);else t.appendChild(s);}})(); Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Thursday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson.
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