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WHAT IS A DAVOS MAN?: 8/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson

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🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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WHAT IS A DAVOS MAN?: 8/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson

https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Citizen-Progressive-Globalization-Destroying/dp/154164753X

In The Dying Citizen, Hanson outlines the historical forces that led to this crisis. The evisceration of the middle class over the last fifty years has made many Americans dependent on the federal government. Open borders have undermined the idea of allegiance to a particular place. Identity politics have eradicated our collective civic sense of self. And a top-heavy administrative state has endangered personal liberty, along with formal efforts to weaken the Constitution.

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the CBS Island World. I'm John Dessu with Victor Davis Hanson, Professor, Classicists, Stanford University's Hoover Institution, the author of The Dying Citizen.

0:44.6

Victor wrote this book, as he says in a footnote, between 2018 and 2020, just as the pandemic

0:51.8

was striking and then he updated it as best he could in 21. We know a little

0:56.0

we know a deal more about the pandemic now. And Victor you are careful in your

1:00.7

epilogue to say as of 2021 the pandemic set back all of these

1:05.6

challenges the middle class borders certainly and leaning towards tribalism

1:12.1

certainly the unelected were empowered

1:14.7

during the pandemic. And then we come to the globalization, the

1:19.2

changing of the Constitution, the nullifying of pieces of the Constitution such as keeping public

1:25.4

order in cities during the troubles of the summer of 2020. I was in New York

1:30.6

that you're right next to Macy's I saw it I walked through it you

1:33.5

understand the disruption it was the pandemic that did this yes and then

1:38.8

the globalization today after the pandemic we We can't settle, we can say Wuhan and we don't have

1:45.9

everything. But Victor, how did the pandemic set the middle class back? Let's begin there.

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