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Victor Davis Hanson: A Reality Check for Americans Who Fled Trump

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript 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.

Sami Winc: Wired had a great story on expatriates, and we’re talking ordinary expatriates, not people like Rosie O’Donnell that are super rich. And these expatriates said their move was a mistake. So they left this country because of Donald Trump, and now they regretted being in their new country, and these were some of the reasons.  

They found the new countries had a lower standard of living. 

Victor Davis Hanson: You think? Don’t they read the statistics? 30,000 less income in Canada alone, 40 in …  

Sami Winc: Exactly. And things that were ordinary here, like a washing machine, were luxury goods there. 

Victor Davis Hanson: No. You mean little baby washing machines? 

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Sami Winc: Yeah. They didn’t like the fact that there was so much anti-Americanism around, so they were caricatured, and their accents were mocked. They were mocked and caricatured. And they felt like maybe they had overreacted to Donald Trump. 

Victor Davis Hanson: You think, you think, you think. 

I lived three years overseas almost, and I can remember when I was 20 and I went to Greece, and there was one supermarket, Marianotis’. And you had to go to these little 1920s-like things, and you pointed out what you wanted, and then they went, they brought them. They were very nice.  

And then I remember on our, two streets down, there was a little red light, and some people were going to a legal prostitute. She looked like she was about 55, and I would talk to her as I walked by to class.  

And then we had a hot water heater. It was about the size of a teapot. And everybody got angry because we had to turn it on. You could not leave it on all the time ’cause the cost. So you turned a little switch, and it took, like, 20 minutes, then somebody would take a bath, and then you…  

We had four of us in a room. And then to wash, we had to go down to this little laundromat, and the washer was, like, half of a U.S. normal washer. And then you had to have this machine, I forgot the name. It was not the derangulator or the …  

You were not allowed to put the wet stuff in the dryer ’cause they were afraid it would break the belts. So this thing squeezed it and brought all the … We had to pay for that. So I would go down, and it took all morning ’cause everybody used the laundromat. 

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