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Victor Davis Hanson: Blue States Are Betting Your Life on Illegal Truck Drivers

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Jack Fowler: Twenty-one states and D.C. sue Trump administration to protect illegal alien drivers from the feds. This is from RedState. 

So, 21 states and D.C. are effectively telling the Trump administration that they are more concerned about protecting the identities of illegal aliens than keeping American drivers safe on the roads. That’s the conclusion one can draw from stunning new lawsuits filed to keep the Department of Transportation from obtaining the identities of illegal aliens who have obtained commercial driver’s licenses. 

Two lawsuits filed on Thursday, that’s a week ago from the day this particular episode is airing. Two lawsuits filed challenge the federal demands for Commercial Driver’s License Information System, CDLIS, records containing driver names, dates of birth, license numbers, and Social Security numbers, etc. 

Victor, that’s my state of Connecticut, your state of California, and 19 others, are just cool and dandy with these lunatics on the road. Your thoughts, Victor? 

Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah, well, I mean, I’m not a good person to talk to because we just drove back on Friday, the 200 miles from Stanford to Selma, and I can tell you that it is very, very scary to see the professionalism of the truck driver decline to such a degree because, I mean, when that truck, truck is in the right … 

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Part of it is the infrastructure of California under [Gov. Gavin] Newsom is so ossified. He didn’t do anything to improve it, and it’s Third World-like.  

But when you see that truck driver go in the left lane, he doesn’t look at his rearview mirror to see who’s behind him. His theory is, “I’ve got 20 tons and nobody’s going to mess around with me.” And they just pull out, and then they get in the left lane, and they decide how many trucks they want to pass at 65 or 70. Forget the 55-mile........

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