George H.W. Bush's 1992 lesson carries Victor Davis Hanson's third quick start
After Iran and Mark Carney, the historian turns to jobs, growth and affordability, and his video drew in six hours several times what a Daily Signal upload usually gathers in a full day.
The Daily SignalStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 188,136 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (15,730).
Victor Davis Hanson: Are We on the Edge of an Economic Boom?
In three days, Victor Davis Hanson has gone from Tehran to Ottawa to the American grocery bill. His newest video for The Daily Signal, "Victor Davis Hanson: Are We on the Edge of an Economic Boom?", had close to 75,000 views six hours after it went up. That puts it on pace for about twelve times the channel's usual first day. It started more slowly than his Mark Carney video, as we reported here, but it is still well above the channel's normal level.
The question in the title is really about politics. The description says Republicans risk repeating George H.W. Bush's mistake of 1992 by letting Democrats describe a strengthening economy as a crisis, especially when it comes to affordability. That was the year Bush lost to Bill Clinton in a campaign remembered for a single line about the economy. To support the argument, the video points to a third-quarter growth estimate from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, a summer jobs report and the unemployment rate. Hanson is a classicist and military historian at Stanford's Hoover Institution, so reaching back three decades for a warning is typical of how he works.
The comments look ahead to the midterms. Many of them urge Republicans to turn out, and others debate whether the party's own leaders are trying hard enough to win.
The channel's nightly flagship, The Tony Kinnett Cast, is drawing an even bigger crowd. On the rest of the feed, newer videos about the Jack Smith investigation have so far gathered only a few thousand views.
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- Channel
- The Daily Signal
- Subscribers
- 1,200,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,493,690 (on a normal day: 558,493)
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 74,657 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 188,136
The numbers
This is another Hanson start that runs far ahead of the channel's normal first day, even if it trails the one before it.
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Which strategist is credited with the 1992 Clinton campaign line "It's the economy, stupid"?
James Carville, Bill Clinton's lead strategist in 1992, wrote the phrase to keep the campaign focused on the economy.
