The Dying Citizen How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

How progressive elites, tribalism and globalism are destroying the idea of America.

I don't think they're in such a good position. Iran is and nobody likes them.

And they know that Joe Biden may not order that, but there are forces in the Senate, the House, the American public that would demand that.

He's failing at a geometric, not arithmetic rate.

He's declined enormously. It's very tragic.

I think they feel that they have a serious problem and they have the solution to.

He's one trip away from oblivion. He really is.

I think that there's going to be pressure on him because he's going to get so embarrassing in the next 18 months that sometime in March or February, they'll do like LBJ did in 68. He's not going to run.

Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of The Dying Citizen.

How progressive elites, tribalism and globalization are destroying the idea of America.

I think it's kind of a wise move. It kind of removes him from the whole cycle drama going on with Tucker and Fox.

He's looking for alternative but equally effective media strategy.

He's trying to come across as somebody who has a completely new ideas on all of these problems. And one of them is the media. How do you deal with the media?

It's about an attack on traditional America and any resistance against this progressive project.

Victor is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He hosts his own podcast, The Victor Davis Hanson Show, and he is author of the great book The Dying Citizen, how progressive elites, tribalism and globalization are destroying the idea of America.

It's a great book. I've read it. My husband's read it. We give it to our neighbor. He read it and loved it. So you guys should check it out.

He is the author of several bestselling books, including his most recent The Dying Citizen, How Progressive Elites, Tribalism and Globalization are Destroying the Idea of America.

Joining me now is Victor Davis Hanson...author of the great, great book, The Dying Citizen.

Don't forget to buy his book, The Dying Citizen. It is wonderful and so educational.

Joining me now is Victor Davis Hanson...author of the great, great book, The Dying Citizen.

Don't forget to buy his book, The Dying Citizen. It is wonderful and so educational.

So I think we're starting to see that people have concluded that wokeness that was an abstraction on the national level is done two things. It's making life impossible to live, whether that on the national level means you can't afford out here in California, five dollar gas or your natural gas bill.

And it makes it possible to live. And with high inflation and high energy prices and an open border and a collapsing foreign policy, it looks like a complete systems collapse.

But they would. We didn't have suddenly, you know, the wall collapse on the border. We did that on the border. We did that with critical race theory.

And it won't work economically, culturally, politically, socially. It doesn't work. And the chaos is there for all of us to see it.

And I think if everybody will just kind of transcend that used to be that we were living in a monastery of our minds. A lot of people say, I don't watch the NBA anymore. I'm done with it. I don't watch network news. I'm done with it.

I think this whole woke revolution, Megan, is a top down phenomenon. It's an argument among wealthy elites or want to be wealthy elites or celebrities.

It doesn't bode well for any, but particularly as you say, and I wrote in the book that if you're a multiracial democracy, a very rare concept, there are no multiracial democracies in history that I can think of.

But when you have a consensual society and it's multiracial, it's dependent upon everybody's primary identity being American, an idea, and that your ethnic or racial or religious identity enriching the body politic, you know, food, fashion, music, culture, but not tampering with the core.

So I think a lot of ways. The first thing it is that one of the reasons that, you know, I travel a lot in the Middle East and I asked a lot of people and I said, why doesn't the Middle East work? And they said, because every, I hear it again and again, we hire our first cousin rather than somebody who's meritocratic, somebody that's in our tribe, somebody that is in our religion, but especially from, so if we start adjudicating who gets into which particular school or who becomes in the United pilot training program, or if the CEO of American airlines can't guarantee that when you take off, you'll have enough fuel.

It's a zero sum game, Megan, when you invest enormous amounts of capital and labor and time in a commissary system, where you're looking over your shoulder all the time or somebody without talent, a diversity, inclusion, and equity coordinators don't look at your syllabus and doesn't know anything about Virgil or Sophocles or in the old days, your chairman would say, you know, Victor, I think you're reading a little bit too many Euripides in that class. Why don't you put some Sophocles or Thucydides?

And you contrast citizens with pre-citizens, the book by the way is called The Dying Citizen, how progressive elites, tribalism and globalism are destroying the idea of America

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I think she had Black Privilege, Shook One and my new book Get Honest, The Dying Line.

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You know, Envy, you know, writing a book, you know, is a very vulnerable thing to do.

And this is my third one. So it never gets lost on me that people are out here kind of like, you know, reading your deepest darkest secrets.

Well, you also do it to help people, right? Because a lot of people think that they're only going through the things that they're going through. But then when they see that, damn, Charlemagne is going through this too.

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