Welcome back to the 10 Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Coming up on today's show, our old friend Victor Davis Hanson talks with the Manhattan Institute's VP for policy, Troy Seneca,

about Victor's new book on the presidency of Donald Trump to date, the case for Trump, it's called.

Victor is a longtime City Journal contributing editor and a fellow at the Hoover Institution,

and he's setting out to explain how and why, in his view, Donald J. Trump was elected president

and why his agenda so far has been successful. But before I forget, make sure you visit

the Manhattan Institute's homepage to learn more about the Civil Society Awards. Four nonprofits

will be awarded $25,000 each for their efforts in tackling problems in their communities.

Nominations are closing fast, so if you know of a philanthropic or volunteer group in your area that deserves recognition,

make sure you visit manhattan. institute, or I should say Manhattan-institute.org,

and find the Civil Society Awards icon on the home page. That's it for me.

A conversation between Victor Davis-. I'm Troy Seneca,

Vice President of Policy and Programs at the Manhattan Institute.

Whether you love him or you hate him, you have to admit this much about the election

and subsequent presidency of Donald Trump. It's been one long exercise in defying the odds

and upending conventional wisdom about American politics.

Whether it was overcoming a field of 16 rivals in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries,

stitching together a win in the electoral college at a time when most pundits had already

declared his candidacy a lost cause, were refusing to be bound by conventional notions of what, in matters of both

style and substance, is considered presidential. Donald Trump is an American president,

unlike any we've ever seen. And for our guest today, Victor Davis Hansen, that's not only a good

thing, it's an essential one at this moment in the country's history.

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