The Case for Trump

Victor is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and he's also the author of The Case for Trump. The book is now being re-released with an updated look at the 2024 election. It's available for pre-order right now, and it's a must read. Again, The Case for Trump.

Joining me now, Victor Davis Hanson. Victor is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and he's also the author of The Case for Trump. The book is now being re-released with an updated look at the 2024 election. It's available for pre-order right now, and it's a must read. Again, The Case for Trump.

The Case for Trump.

VDH's back, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of the book, The Case for Trump, which has been updated and re-released very timely this month.

It's going to encourage other people. Jill Stein came out. Not that these people have a lot of constituents, but she said they were doing the same thing to her.

And even Cornell West, who despises Trump, he has been criticizing as much the DNC. He broke the ice and all of a sudden people are coming out and siding all the things the DNC is doing.

Everybody attacked JD Vance and the more you see him go on the media and battle with him or even a Tom Cotton. He's in that category and they really, they don't just repeat talking points. They try to analyze and when they do that, it really shows the poverty of the entire Democratic Party.

And I think that's what Kennedy and Vance are trying to explain to the American people. I think they're going to be pretty effective, especially it feeds into this, as I said earlier, this illusion that she's ever going to go out and talk to people.

He's been updated and re-released very timely this month.

VDH's back, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of the book, "The Case for Trump", which has been updated and re-released very timely this month.

Victor Davis Hansen, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of the book The Case for Trump, which has just been updated and rereleased in time for this election.

Joining me now to discuss it all, Victor Davis Hansen, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of the book The Case for Trump, which has just been updated and re-released in time for this election.

Victor Davis Hanson wrote a great book on Trump called The Case for Trump which which is the best thing I've read on that on that election cycle and he points out something that seemed relatively obvious to me at the time watching from the outside was that you know Clinton and her crew first of all I don't think people trusted Hillary at all because even though she had a lot of experience because when someone aims at power that egregiously for like six decades you really got to wonder what the hell's going on it's like why is it that important to you you know and you might think well of course being president would be that important but you know it's not that obvious because if you if you associate with people who are highly accomplished many of them would have to set aside the concerns they're already engaged in which are often large scale concerns to consider something like a political career and so if you're someone who has the chops to be president which should mean that you're good at a lot of things it isn't obvious that political power per se would dangle as the greatest possible opportunity right maybe you could be coerced or enticed into running for leadership because a lot of people come to you and say you know we really need someone like you which is the best way to become a leader by the way but other than that you know you're sort of about your own business whereas Clinton was she was making a b-line for the presidency certainly even while her husband was president and so and then of course her and her foolish and treacherous advisors I would say decided that it was perfectly good thing to sacrifice the American working class on the altar of their purported moral virtue and she sunk herself doing that and it was it was an act of true hubris and foolishness right because Trump didn't so much win that election has Clinton lost it because it was hers for the taking had she not been who she was I would say fundamentally and especially had she not stabbed the American working class in the back and of course they turned to Trump for odd reasons you know because it isn't obvious that this sort of brash flashy billionaire would or at least multi-millionaire would appeal to working class people they're not of the same economic class obviously but you know I had a wise working class guy I once worked for back in the 1970s he was a conservative not a socialist and I was at that time I was about 14 I was pretty entranced by socialist ideas and the socialist party in Alberta by Crovence had a pretty good small business platform and I said why the hell don't you vote for the socialist they have a lot better platform for your endeavor than the conservatives who are a party of big business and he said small business owners don't want to be small business owners they want to be big business owners and people vote through dreams not their reality and I thought oh my god that's so smart and you know and then I thought too with regards to Trump is that even though his wealth was unimaginably out of reach for the typical working class person I think people could look at Trump and think well there are conceivable universes in which I could be Donald Trump right or this is what I would do with that money yeah right right right right and then he also had this capacity to speak off the cuff and directly to people you know when I heard from people who were around Trump especially when he was talking to military personnel that he was actually very good at that and the same people who made that comment had been around other politicians who were often flumoxed and intimidated when they were talking to real servicemen you know because well first of all there was a cultural gap between them in second you know they felt morally intimidated in the face of people who'd actually put themselves on the line but Trump seemed to have that ability to talk directly to working class people and you know you have to be a certain kind of person to do that what one kind of person you have to be is someone who actually regards the working class and what they're capable of doing which is working with the degree of respect that's actually appropriate you know and I mean I've worked with lots of working class people and contractors and so forth and I have lots of working class jobs and you're an absolute bloody fool if you don't have respect for you know electricians and plumbers and carpenters and and people who keep everything going who are truly competent because that requires a high level of honesty and expertise and communicative ability and planning and and real knowledge and so Trump seemed to be able to deal with people like that maybe because he had so much experience on the on the construction yeah the irony of that is that Hillary Clinton tried to run actually she quite successfully ran a similar campaign towards the end of her duel with Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary she ran as the avatar of the white working class who might remember she had all these speeches about being the granddaughter of you know a worker in a lace factory and she seemed to really enjoy that role and in all the different personas that I've seen her try to play on the stump and she has many of them that was the one I thought she did best at but she reverted in 2016 to try and to sell herself as the most experienced insider which was a catastrophic strategic error in a year where there was an unprecedented level of distrust towards Washington the degree to which they were blind to that was kind of amazing to me and you know you brought up Hunter Thompson before he actually had a metaphor that really described how that happens he talked about how if you go hunting in normal times you can't get within a thousand yards of a bull out like it's sensitive to the smallest sound in the forest it will never let you get near it but when it's in heat you know you can drive right past it and you know it won't even know that you're there it's so focused on it's going you know it's goal of mating right and that's exactly what politicians who see the presidency are like they become blind to just about everything but power and they don't think strategically anymore and I think that happened to the democrats in 2016 they just were not paying attention to all the different signs that were so obvious to everybody yeah well you think with all their polling and all their hypothetical reliance on their idiot consultants that they would have been glued into some degree and of course Clinton also allied herself with the progressive front of the democrats and that certainly wasn't something in keeping with the basic sentiments of the working class that she also stuck a shiv in so she's certainly deserved to lose and whether we deserve to have Trump as president in consequence well that's a whole different question but at least he was a bull in the china shop speaking of whom what do you I kind of think Robert F. Kennedy is the same sort of force on the democrats side I mean what do you think of Kennedy yeah

His latest book: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Trump-Victor-Davis-Hanson/dp/1541673549

An updated version of his book, The Case for Trump comes on out.

We want people to read your book, even if they don't support Donald Trump, because your arguments and I've said this on the air when you're when you're not involved, you know that I think you are the one of the few columnists that are better than I am.

I want you to nail down in about a minute. What is the biggest thing? Why people should vote for Trump?

We wish you're welcome any time on this program, Professor. We wish you the best with the book The Case for Trump. Want everybody to check it out. Easy to get Amazon and all that.

Today, an updated version of his book, The Case for Trump, comes on out.

We want people to read your book, even if they don't support Donald Trump, because your arguments and I've said this on the air when you're not involved, that I think you are one of the few columnists that are better than I am.

I want you to nail down in about a minute. What is the biggest thing why people should vote for Trump?

Easy to get Amazon and all that.

Today an updated version of his book, The Case for Trump comes on out.

So we wish you the best with the book The Case for Trump. Want everybody to check it out.

Today an updated version of his book, The Case for Trump comes on out.

So the case for Trump, I want you to nail down in about a minute. What is the biggest thing? Why people should vote for?

We wish you the best with the book The Case for Trump. Want everybody to check it out. Easy to get Amazon and all that.

Today, an updated version of his book, The Case for Trump comes on out.

We want people to read your book, even if they don't support Donald Trump, because your arguments and I've said this on the air when you're when you're not involved.

I want you to nail down in about a minute. What is the biggest thing? Why people should vote for Trump?

I want you to be ruthless on. I'll come on and I'll talk to you about it. Yeah, but I want you to be ruthless when you come on and say it all.

The case for Trump. Want everybody to check it out. Easy to get Amazon and all that.