3/8: After the indictment: 3/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson
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🗓️ 11 June 2023
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3/8: After the indictment: 3/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson
https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Citizen-Progressive-Globalization-Destroying/dp/154164753X
In The Dying Citizen, Hanson outlines the historical forces that led to this crisis. The evisceration of the middle class over the last fifty years has made many Americans dependent on the federal government. Open borders have undermined the idea of allegiance to a particular place. Identity politics have eradicated our collective civic sense of self. And a top-heavy administrative state has endangered personal liberty, along with formal efforts to weaken the Constitution.
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS I in the World with Victor Davis Hanson. |
| 0:36.0 | Of the Hoover Institution, a classical scholar, |
| 0:38.5 | but he is also the author of the new book The Dying Citizen, |
| 0:42.2 | a progressive elites, tribalism and globalization are destroying the ideas of America. |
| 0:48.4 | We turn to the melting pot. |
| 0:50.9 | The 20th century, my education said, |
| 0:54.7 | America is superior, exceptional, because we are the great democratic experiment of the melting pot. |
| 1:02.0 | What did we mean by that, Victor, in the 20th century? |
| 1:05.9 | It was popularized by Teddy Roosevelt, |
| 1:08.5 | who railed against hyphenated Americans. |
| 1:10.5 | What it meant was that anybody who came to America had made a previous choice, |
| 1:16.3 | whether it was harsh or not, to give up their prior Lord of these identities, |
| 1:21.7 | and then they would absorb a new one, |
| 1:24.5 | and they would all be different colors and different religions, |
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