his family has been there for six generations in the same house. he joins us tonight. victor davis hanson, it's an honor to have you on the set after all these years of talking to you by by remote. so i just -- let's stand back t really quickly and ask the obvious question. how did the greatest state go to what it is now? >> it was a perfect storm. we had $3 trillion come in for capitalization of facebook google and apple and it convinced millions of people in that area where the money was concentrated -- hollywood, the big universities along the coast, that they were not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology. they could afford the dream and have all of these restrictions, greater regulations, green utopian ideas and it was always going to affect other peopleri mostly in the interior, but not always. housing went up because of the regulations. small businesses fled. taxes. we had the highest basket of gasoline sales and income taxes in the nine states. >> tucker: that doesn't make