4/8: After the indictment: 4/8: 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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4/8: After the indictment: 4/8: 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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| 0:35.0 | I'm John Batser with Vickard Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution. |
| 0:38.0 | His book is The Dying Citizen. |
| 0:40.0 | Who administers the state? |
| 0:42.0 | Victor devotes a good deal of attention to the unelected. |
| 0:46.0 | Sometimes known as the administrative state. |
| 0:49.0 | It's also a way of thinking about people who are beyond correction |
| 0:55.0 | because they are empowered by the executive branch or the judiciary branch or sometimes by Congress. |
| 1:02.0 | Victor, the unelected are everywhere all around us. |
| 1:05.0 | You had so many examples, but the one I celebrate is the raisin industry. |
| 1:10.0 | You're 120 acre farm in the Central Valley. |
| 1:14.0 | As of 1983, you were farming raisins. |
| 1:17.0 | But did I know that there is something called the raisin administration committee? |
| 1:23.0 | What is that? And what does it mean about being the unelected? |
| 1:27.0 | It's a depression era relic to set prices for raisins. |
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