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These people are not Democrats who want to play within sidelines the parameters of normal politics.

It's not that they have a porous border. These people don't believe in the war.

It's not that they are deficit

spenders. They believe in modern monetary theory that there's no problem with printing money

and they think it's good. These people do, it's not that they've lost returns. They are

openly exciting to the Indianian. This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.

That was Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Also, Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History here at Hillsdale College.

His 2020 book, The Case for Trump, is now re-released in a 2024 edition with a new preface,

the premature obituary of Donald Trump.

We talk in-depth with Dr. Hansen about the book and the preface on today's program.

Dr. Hansen, thanks so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

So why did you feel the need to re-release the case for Trump, a book that was released in 2020 in front of that presidential election?

Four years later, what makes the case for Trump still relevant?

I wanted to explain to people how someone, say, on January 7th of 2020, was written off

as an inert ex-president that would have zero chance ever reintering the political

phrase. How in less than two years we made the most

amazing political comeback from Richard Nixon.

And that was partly because his primary rivals in the Republican Party turned out to be

less charismatic or less likable or less dynamic than he was.

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