The Case for Trump: Victor Davis Hanson Makes The Closing Argument

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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With a little over three weeks to go before the election, we thought it would a good time to have a heart to heart discussion with our good friend Victor Davis Hanson. the Classics professor, the military historian, the farmer, the cultural observer, and the author of The Case For Trump, his best selling book that came out in 2017 and was re-issued earlier this year. It’s the most cogent case we’... Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the special podcast from Ricochet. I'm Peter Robinson and I'm about to have a
0:14.0	conversation with my old friend Victor Davis Hanson. If you think that Donald Trump
0:20.0	only wins the support of deplorables. Think again. Victor is a classicist, a
0:25.4	military historian, and the author of more than two dozen books including the
0:30.0	acclaimed, a war like no other, his account of the Peloponnesian Wars.
0:34.4	Victor's most recent book, The Case 4, Trump. A new revised edition of the book
0:41.2	appeared just this past March.
0:43.8	Victor, welcome.
0:45.2	You're, are you in Selma today?
0:47.7	Yes, I am on my, in my farm house.
0:50.3	So you are speaking to us from the house in which you grew up.
0:55.0	I grew up here.
0:57.0	This is a house of deplorables. It always was.
1:00.0	And I'm looking out the window at a beautiful almond orchard and beautiful
1:05.9	Selma, California two miles away.
1:08.0	All right. Victor, I'm going to quote, begin by quoting from this book and I'll do that often. The case for Trump,
1:15.8	announcing his candidacy more than four years ago, Trump seemed like Caesar,
1:20.9	crossing the forbidden Rubicon to bring an end to the old politics as usual.
1:27.6	Julia Caesar breaking the ancient norms to march on Rome itself ending years of civil strife and paralysis in Rome's governing
1:36.0	institutions and then having the city's elite turn on him arranging his assassination. No one is suggesting that Donald Trump will
1:46.1	meet his end in the Senate, but things did not go well for Julius Caesar. Do you
1:51.9	expect an unpleasant or disappointing or even tragic
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