Victor Davis Hanson: What More Can Musk Do?

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The Daily Signal

News, Government, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully brought home stranded astronauts after months of delay. Musk has surpassed Boeing and even NASA, yet political narratives overshadow his success. So what’s causing this unpopularity? Victor Davis Hanson breaks down this phenomenon on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ Go back two or three years ago and [Musk] was an iconic Renaissance figure, we were told, by the very people who are now calling him disloyal or purely or not completely an American. This is one of the strangest phenomenon of our time.” The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Elon Musk is in the news again. It should be a triumphant news accounts of what he's done.
0:35.8	This huge starship rocket, the largest and most
0:39.1	powerful rocket in history, launched successfully with its dragon capsule.
0:45.7	And it's wrang back the stranded astronauts that were supposed to be only their days.
0:50.7	And for a variety of reasons we can't get into, some of them political perhaps, they
0:54.8	didn't get a chance to return for months.
0:57.7	In other words, Elon Musk has developed the most successful space program in the history
1:03.7	of space travel.
1:05.1	He's superseded Boeing that couldn't pull it off.
1:07.9	He superseded NASA itself.
1:10.1	So this should be again again, a celebratory
1:11.8	moment. Instead, he is at the height of his own popularity. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal.
1:33.3	Elon Musk is in the news again.
1:35.3	It should be a triumphant news accounts of what he's done.
1:41.5	This huge starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket in history,
1:47.0	launched successfully with its dragon capsule and it's docked at the space station successfully
1:56.0	to drop off an international crew of four and to bring back the stranded astronauts that were supposed to be only their days, and for a variety of reasons we can't get into, some of them political, perhaps, they didn't get a chance to return for months. In other words, Elon Musk has developed the most successful space program in the history of space travel.
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