S8 Ep586: 7. Author: Victor Davis Hanson. Title: *The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America*. The discussion shifts to globalization and the "Davos Man," an elite class that seeks to transcend nationa
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
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7. Author: Victor Davis Hanson. Title: *The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America*. The discussion shifts to globalization and the "Davos Man,"an elite class that seeks to transcend national sovereignty. These "anointed" individuals gather in places like Davos to push for global government, often using climate change as a crisis to justify singular government powers that override democratic consent. Hanson critiques the "citizen of the world" ideology as antithetical to national pride and traditional customs. He argues that these globalists favor erasing borders to mandate aggregate sameness, which historical precedents suggest can only be achieved through coercion and the use of force. (7)
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm John Batson with Victor Davis Hansen, Professor Victor Davis Hansen of the Hoover Institution, a classicist. |
| 0:12.0 | His new book is The Dying Citizen, How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are destroying the idea of America. |
| 0:19.0 | Once upon a time in the Roman Empire, there was a group of |
| 0:23.3 | people very rich, very male, of the Optomates and their wives, all powerful. And the |
| 0:29.9 | popularis, the people of Rome, were empowered but with limits, with severe limits. This is during the Republic, replaced by the imperial system. |
| 0:41.4 | Today, what we have is a situation where the elites of the earth don't even gather in Washington. |
| 0:48.0 | They gather at a Swiss village, which I'm told by people who have been there, |
| 0:51.6 | is not very attractive, called Davos. |
| 0:54.0 | And hence, Davos Man. |
| 0:56.4 | Victor, who is? |
| 0:58.3 | What is Davos Man? |
| 1:00.1 | And how does he or it or she rule? |
| 1:04.0 | These are people who feel that they're singular in their own particular countries, |
| 1:11.6 | and they're usually captains of industry, billionaires, |
| 1:15.6 | members of governments, celebrities, actors. |
| 1:20.6 | They all feel that their own particular country, |
| 1:24.6 | and they're mostly, to be frank frank in Europe and in the United States and |
| 1:29.8 | North America and to a lesser extent in Japan etc and they feel that because they |
| 1:37.2 | have been so blessed they have the singular wisdom that the way the world should be |
| 1:41.9 | run and the world is not being run that way on issues |
| 1:45.4 | as diverse as you know climate change abortion uh taxation size of government because they're not |
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