The case for Trump /
Hanson, Victor Davis,
The case for Trump / Victor Davis Hanson. - First edition. - viii, 391 pages ; 25 cm
Includes index.
What and who created Trump? -- An establishment without answers -- Trump metaphysics -- The ordeal, triumph -- and ordeal -- of President Trump.
In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest, and a hostile media and Washington establishment to become president of the United States -- and an extremely successful president. Trump alone saw a political opportunity in defending the working people of America's interior whom the coastal elite of both parties had come to scorn, Hanson argues. And Trump alone had the instincts and energy to pursue this opening to victory, dismantle a corrupt old order, and bring long-overdue policy changes at home and abroad. We could not survive a series of presidencies as volatile as Trump's. But after decades of drift, America needs the outsider Trump to do what normal politicians would not and could not do.
9781541673540 1541673549
2018968200
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Presidents--Election--United States--2016.
Political culture--United States--21st century.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--2009-2017.
United States--Politics and government--2017-
Biographies.
The case for Trump / Victor Davis Hanson. - First edition. - viii, 391 pages ; 25 cm
Includes index.
What and who created Trump? -- An establishment without answers -- Trump metaphysics -- The ordeal, triumph -- and ordeal -- of President Trump.
In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest, and a hostile media and Washington establishment to become president of the United States -- and an extremely successful president. Trump alone saw a political opportunity in defending the working people of America's interior whom the coastal elite of both parties had come to scorn, Hanson argues. And Trump alone had the instincts and energy to pursue this opening to victory, dismantle a corrupt old order, and bring long-overdue policy changes at home and abroad. We could not survive a series of presidencies as volatile as Trump's. But after decades of drift, America needs the outsider Trump to do what normal politicians would not and could not do.
9781541673540 1541673549
2018968200
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Presidents--Election--United States--2016.
Political culture--United States--21st century.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--2009-2017.
United States--Politics and government--2017-
Biographies.