This is CBSI in the world.

I'm John Batson with Victor Davis Hansen, Professor Victor Davis Hansen of the Hoover Institution, a classicist.

His new book is The Dying Citizen, How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are destroying the idea of America.

Once upon a time in the Roman Empire, there was a group of

people very rich, very male, of the Optomates and their wives, all powerful. And the

popularis, the people of Rome, were empowered but with limits, with severe limits. This is during the Republic, replaced by the imperial system.

Today, what we have is a situation where the elites of the earth don't even gather in Washington.

They gather at a Swiss village, which I'm told by people who have been there,

is not very attractive, called Davos.

And hence, Davos Man.

Victor, who is?

What is Davos Man?

And how does he or it or she rule?

These are people who feel that they're singular in their own particular countries,

and they're usually captains of industry, billionaires,

members of governments, celebrities, actors.

They all feel that their own particular country,

and they're mostly, to be frank frank in Europe and in the United States and

North America and to a lesser extent in Japan etc and they feel that because they

have been so blessed they have the singular wisdom that the way the world should be

run and the world is not being run that way on issues

as diverse as you know climate change abortion uh taxation size of government because they're not

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