Victor Davis Hanson: How Trump Won
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Guests: Victor Davis Hanson & Steven Gow Calabresi
Host 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, who provides analysis and insight into the results of our recent Presidential election. And Steven Gow Calabresi, Henry R. Barber Professor of Law at Northwestern University and co-chairman of the Federalist Society, reviews the illustrious career of Edwin Meese and the birth of the originalist movement, as laid out in his new book The Meese Revolution: The Making of a Constitutional Moment.
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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. |
| 0:26.1 | One of the iconic moments of the campaign when he was the observer of McDonald's, an Indian American from India said something like, I'm not, I'm nobody. |
| 0:37.6 | And he said, you are somebody, you're not nobody. |
| 0:41.0 | And that was extemporary. |
| 0:43.0 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:45.4 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:51.8 | That was Dr. Victor Davis Hansen, Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow |
| 0:56.0 | in History at Hillsdale College, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, author of a number of books, |
| 1:02.0 | including the recently revised and re-released the case for Trump and the end of everything. |
| 1:07.9 | We talk with Victor Davis-Hanton today for some election analysis and insight. |
| 1:13.2 | Dr. Hansen, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:16.8 | Talking today about some analysis and insight following the 2024 election. And we talked |
| 1:24.4 | prior to the election numerous times about the shape of the race, Dr. Hansen, |
| 1:28.7 | after seeing what we saw and the results of November 5th, how did Trump do what he did? |
| 1:35.3 | This great comeback, one of the greatest comebacks in political history, which you already had hinted at |
| 1:40.9 | that for November 5th came to fruition when we got the results. |
| 1:44.6 | How did Donald Trump do it? |
| 1:46.0 | And how did he make himself more popular than he was just a couple of years ago? |
| 1:50.4 | Well, there was two things that were going on. |
| 1:53.5 | One was what he did and one was done to him. |
| 1:57.6 | The latter was pretty clear. |
| 1:59.8 | I think everybody agreed that there were two, three factors. |
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