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HEALTH CRISIS IN THE PRESIDENCY: 7/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson

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🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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HEALTH CRISIS IN THE PRESIDENCY: 7/8: 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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I'm John Bachelor with Victor Davis Hanson.

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Professor Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution,

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a classicist.

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His new book is the dying citizen,, a classicist.

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His new book is the dying citizen, how progressive elites, tribalism, and globalization are

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destroying the idea of America.

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Once upon a time in the Roman Empire, there was a group of people very rich, very male, of

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the Aptomatase and their wives, all powerful, and the popularis, the people of Rome, were empowered but with limits, with severe limits.

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This is during the republic, replaced by the imperial system.

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Today what we have is a situation where the elites of the

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earth don't even gather in Washington. They gather at a Swiss village which I'm

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