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6/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson (Author)

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🗓️ 25 March 2023

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6/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson (Author)

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

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0:04.5

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0:09.8

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0:35.1

I'm John Bapser speaking with Victor Davis-Hanson, his new book is the Dying Citizen.

0:40.1

America's success is built on the middle classes, and the middle classes success is built on

0:45.5

the constitution of our founders for more than 200 years providing adequate checks and balances.

0:52.4

In the constitution, however, is our pieces that are under review or under pressure by voices

1:00.6

here in the 21st century. Nullification. Andrew Jackson, we all learn this in grade school.

1:06.3

Andrew Jackson, 1832, the Civil War, 1857, 1861. Two instances of states, South Carolina with

1:13.9

Jackson and the Confederacy with the Dred Scott to the secession of late 60, early 61,

1:23.1

leading to the Civil War. And then there was the nullification or attempted nullification

1:27.7

during the 50s and 60s in the Civil Rights Stripe in the South. But now we've come to nullification

1:32.6

today. Victor, I can't find anywhere a serious argument for sanctuary cities now that they're

1:39.1

sagging under the overwhelming number of immigrants who are arriving. The sanctuary cities suddenly

1:45.2

want money from the central state. Are they rethinking this sanctuary virtue of these last years?

1:52.8

I think they are a little bit. There's 550 counties, state or municipal sanctuary cities,

2:00.3

and that's just a new feminism for nullification of federal immigration law, where it says that if

2:05.1

somebody is here illegally and commits a crime, we're not going to turn that person over to the

2:10.3

immigration services. But lately cases in San Francisco where people here on lawfully have

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