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| Subject: A Classicist Makes the Case for Trump Sat Jul 13, 2019 7:53 pm | |
| Victor Davis Hanson sees in the president shades of Achilles and Ajax. And maybe that's just what the country needs.
Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow in military history at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. The author of more than two dozen well-received books on topics ranging from the ancient world to the modern, Hanson lives in Selma, California, on a working farm that has been in his family for five generations. It’s an experience that’s given him strong views on subjects like illegal immigration, which has touched his life directly.
He opens his latest volume, The Case for Trump, in the year 2015, when Democratic and Republican strategists believed the country was becoming less industrialized and more digital, that new demographics—encouraged by open-border immigration proponents—would produce waves of new voters, and that the number of red-state voters was shrinking significantly. That meant gearing successful political pitches to the new political realities—globalism, open borders, identity politics, and other “woke” concerns. Then Donald Trump came down the escalator in his eponymous building, gave “the strangest presidential candidate’s announcement speech in memory,” and made “ready for the beginning of a nonending war with the press and civil strife within his party. He postured like Caesar easily crossing the forbidden Rubicon and forcing an end to the old politics as usual.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-classicist-makes-the-case-for-trump-victor-davis-hanson/?fbclid=IwAR0ZTlUXidQ6lF7zZ--e1pwPIKag_MjdXKkH8XHp4mJND4oyTpGqI-fJhss |
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