Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s 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: Victor, you mentioned Tucker, and I saw this post this morning on X, and it’s “Tucker Carlson defends Graham Platner.” Quote, “Rather than respond to what his positions are, they’ve called him a Nazi because he had a tattoo that was not a swastika but was allegedly connected to the German military.”
Victor Davis Hanson: Wait, he said allegedly?
Fowler: Allegedly. “They’ve attacked the guy and his personal life. They don’t like him because he’s not sufficiently supportive of Israel.” That’s Tucker Carlson on Graham Platner. So, just thought I’d lay it out there.
Hanson: So, let me get this straight. The Totenkopf just means, in German, “death’s head.” Many militaries have it, but there is a particular way of portraying that death’s head. And yes, in the 18th century, Austrian and Hungarian hussars, those were the light cavalry, they wore a skull. But this particular typology is popular in European right-wing circles and in other white supremacist circles because it denotes the Totenkopf, I think it’s called the Verband.
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