authors, lawmakers, philo philosophers, and the appeal for our perspective is this isn t a subscription service so it can t be censored by big tech, period. so it s always going to be there. you ve maybe seen a few minutes of some of these interviews here or there on our previous shows both netware going to show you a lot more, we are going to be focusing on just three people. also include country legend john rich, competitive swimmer riley gaines, who turned out to be enormously interesting and principled and tough, but first we speak to one of the clearest thinkers we know, victor davis hanson, frequently on our nighttime show, one of our favorite guests, and viewers are constantly asking us to hear more from victor davis hanson. so we re going to bring it to you now. in this first party tells us how he went from earning a phd to becoming a dirt farmer in california s central valley. really an interesting story. his story. and it begins here. i m in the same house, 15
central america to go in, the first thing they do in the class, they will say you are a, you don t speak spanish to a third-generation mexican-american kid. or they will have crime or you will not have advanced placement courses because he will have to return to the bilingual and the people who pay that price for these local communities in california, the american southwest, they are mostly mexican-american, and there progressive if i can be reductionist, along the trajectory of the italian americans, if i say today cuomo or giuliani, you can t tell by the italian name what their affiliation is. because they ve assimilated. there were catholic, southern european, they came from sicily, southern italy, it took longer, but basically until this wave where we gave up on assimilation and control borders, they were starting to mimic the patterns of italian americans. tucker: you think that s changing? absolutely. i mean, there s a wide open border today. it reverberates through our w
different classes. so it s a republican congressman from ohio is probably going to be more accessible than a bay area congressman, even though they re very different politics. shut the border and let the engine of assimilation, integration, intermarriage work. and i think in 20 years, this is why i m optimistic, long term very pessimistic we d have this experience where if your name s cuomo or giuliani, we can t predict your affinities. short term, we ve got to shut the border and get back to the melting pot and junk the salad bowl. mark: this issue of assimilation, i find that s where it s different. and that s what worries me 20, 30 years out. yeah. mark mark private institutions don t put a push one for english, two for spanish, that sort of thing. we have affirmative action plans in the government. they don t push assimilation. we have it at the state level too. but even more than that, we have