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The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Victor Davis Hanson, Ben Beier, and Robert Norton

The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Hillsdale College

Education

4.8650 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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TOPICS: THE CASE FOR TRUMP now in paperback, Yves…

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0:00.0

From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

0:18.0

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

0:20.5

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another

0:22.5

edition of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. On this episode, we'll talk with Victor Davis Hanson,

0:28.7

author of The Case for Trump, now in paperback. Ben Beyer from Hillsdale's Education Department

0:34.0

will tell us about Eve Simone, and Robert Norton. General Counsel for Hillsdale

0:38.6

College will discuss an op-ed he wrote on the executive actions taken by Michigan's governor.

0:43.8

We're joined now by Dr. Victor Davis-Hanson, Distinguished Fellow of History here at Hillsdale College,

0:48.8

senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and also the author of The Case for Trump, now in paperback, fully revised and

0:56.7

updated. You can also find them on Twitter at VD. Hansen. Dr. Hansen, thanks for joining us.

1:03.0

Thank you for having me. So the original printing of the case for Trump was a little more

1:08.4

than a year ago. The paperback is just out. What more do you think that

1:12.7

you've learned about President Trump since the first printing? I don't think I, I mean, I think

1:21.0

we have a lot more examples and detailed, but the main outline of a year and a half ago when the manuscript was

1:29.6

submitted for publication, I think stay about the same. He's about at the polls where he was

1:36.2

and where I suggested he would be 45 to 47% positive with occasional dips. I thought he would

1:43.5

probably be impeached I didn't

1:46.5

think the hatred toward him would cease I thought his economic and foreign policy

1:52.3

record would be still strong of course I didn't anticipate the virus but pretty

1:58.0

much the reaction to him hasn't changed.

2:08.8

And most importantly, I suggested in the book that they had, I think I quoted the supposed remark of Talleyrand,

2:16.7

the minister, Napoleonic minister, among other people he served when he said they've learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

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