The Case for Trump
5th March 2019
Victor Davis Hanson does a guest appearance on the Powerline blog to discuss his new book.
I have never met Trump. I don’t know his close friends and aides. In lieu of any insider information, I wanted to offer a sort of Thucydidean account, neither rah-rah in support or unhinged in hatred, of why the country by 2016 was ready for an unlikely Manhattan billionaire populist candidate without either prior military or political experience.