Victor Davis Hanson Decodes the Harris Campaign
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Guests: Victor Davis Hanson & Tevi Troy
Scot Bertram talks with Victor Davis Hanson, the Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, about efforts by Kamala Harris' campaign to keep her record out of public conversation and what he considers to be the keys to the presidential campaign. And presidential historian Tevi Troy discusses the historical relationship between American presidents and powerful CEOs as catalogued in his new book The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.1 | Even the best lobbyist doesn't necessarily have access to the president or the vice president or the members of the cabinet. |
| 0:31.2 | But CEOs can engage and they do engage in that level. |
| 0:34.6 | In fact, that's the message of the power of the money, that CEOs are the wildcard or the potential tiebreaker. This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:42.5 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:48.8 | That was Tebby Troy, author of the new book The Power and the Money, |
| 0:52.9 | the epic clashes betweeners-in-Chief |
| 0:55.4 | and Titans of Industry. We talk in depth with Tevi Troy about that book a little bit later on |
| 1:01.1 | in today's program. First, we're joined by Dr. Victor Davis-Hanson. He is Wayne and Marsha Busky |
| 1:06.8 | Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, |
| 1:11.6 | also the author of The Case for Trump, newly released in paperback with a new forward, |
| 1:17.5 | and also recently the end of everything. You can find his work at victorhansson.com. |
| 1:23.7 | Dr. Hansen, thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me again. |
| 1:26.5 | A pleasure to join you. |
| 1:29.1 | We talked today some high-level concepts and ideas about this presidential race. |
| 1:35.2 | As we talk today, it's just a little bit since the Kamala Harris interview on CNN, |
| 1:41.0 | her first interview since becoming the Democratic nominee. |
| 1:44.8 | And she said multiple times during this interview when asked about her flip-flops or change in |
| 1:50.4 | positions that she hasn't changed her values, but she has changed her positions. |
| 1:57.0 | What does that mean to you that someone can maintain can say that she maintains the values but |
| 2:03.0 | changes positions well i think it's an admission and the only way a lay person would interpret it is |
| 2:10.8 | that i've had to change my values for political expediency as they're reflected in my positions. So for the next 70 days, |
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