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Victor Davis Hanson: Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About World War II

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.

Jack Fowler: The interview Tucker Carlson had with Jacob Rees-Mogg, who’s a member of Parliament. I don’t know if he’s still a member of Parliament, but exceptionally smart man, articulate, and of course, Tucker got into World War II. Hitler, Hitler really didn’t want to go to war with England. He said it many times. 

Rees-Mogg came back with, “Well, he signed that piece of paper and gave it to Neville Chamberlain, so what Hitler said most of the time was lie.” But I think most people that watched these clips would’ve been embarrassed for Tucker Carlson and his continued desire to push this rewriting of World War II history and other historical incidents in the 20th century. 

Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah, I watched a lot of it. It was painful to watch because I used to know Tucker and I liked him. I still like him, but obviously something’s happened to him. I don’t know if they meant it to be that way, but what it was really saying, Jack, was here is the American aristocrat, wealthy, privileged kid who grew up in conservatism and represents the right side of the right. 

And here is the British aristocrat, very wealthy, who represents the right side. I don’t mean right as correct, but a strong Brexit guy, you know, an ultra-conservative. I’m sorry  about the imprecise terminology. So he’s an ultra-conservative, and so is Tucker. Uh, Rees-Mogg is the heir, I think his father was the editor of The Times, and he inherited an estate, and his wife is very wealthy. 

So, he’s probably worth $150 million in dollars. Tucker is the heir to the Miller Lux 19th-century land. At one time, it owned almost a million acres in the 19th century. Everywhere I go around here, you can see old Miller Lux ranches. On one side, and then, of course, I think it was his stepmother, but I may be imprecise, was the heir to the Swanson food fortune. 

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And he went to prep school in Europe, I think, for a while. So, they’re very similar in background. But when they actually talked, Jacob Rees-Mogg was very careful. He cited evidence. He didn’t try to interrupt. He didn’t chuckle and look at the camera. It was very professional, very kind of cold and sober, factual, never lost his temper, and Tucker was highly emotional, spewing out all sorts of misinformation that, what, 1,200 people at Eaton were killed in the war, and it was 200. 

Just factually incorrect, and he had to be corrected by Rees-Mogg. As far as the main issues of the debate, once again, Tucker is completely wrong. He says that that Britain did not have to fight World War II, A, that if Hitler had been allowed to win and keep all of his ill-gotten gains from the Russian border all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, Britain would have been better off because after the fall of France in late June of 1940, Hitler made a deal. 

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