5/8: After the indictment: 5/8: 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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5/8: After the indictment: 5/8: 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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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.0 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:10.0 | With Victor Davis Hanson, Professor, Class Assist, and Hoover Institution, the author of |
| 0:16.7 | the new book The Dying Citizen, How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are |
| 0:21.2 | destroying the ideas of America. |
| 0:23.9 | The middle class, the citizen, a foundation for the success of the United States, around |
| 0:30.7 | and built upon and depending upon the Constitution of the United States. |
| 0:35.2 | Victor addresses in his book what he characterizes as evolutionary. |
| 0:40.2 | These are men and women in America, perhaps around the world, who find the Constitution |
| 0:44.8 | no longer useful. |
| 0:47.4 | Here we begin with the example that comes up now and again when the popular vote goes |
| 0:54.1 | to the loser in a presidential contest. |
| 0:57.2 | This is a critical aspect of the Constitution. |
| 1:00.0 | It was hammered out in the arguments in Philadelphia, the electoral college. |
| 1:04.4 | Why is the electoral college said to be inadequate? |
| 1:07.2 | What is it that the unelected one to do with it? |
| 1:11.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:12.8 | What came into that argument came in vote again in 2000 when George W. Bush lost the |
| 1:19.3 | popular vote. |
| 1:20.3 | He won Florida, which put him over the top, and people felt that he had been, if you remember, |
| 1:25.0 | the slogan selected rather than elected. |
| 1:28.0 | Then Donald Trump, it came back again in 2016. |
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