TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanson,Victor Davis
TI  - The case for Trump
SN  - 9781541673540
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Trump, Donald,
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Election
KW  - 2016
KW  - Political culture
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2009-2017
KW  - 2017-
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes index; What and who created Trump? -- An establishment without answers -- Trump metaphysics -- The ordeal, triumph -- and ordeal -- of President Trump
N2  - 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
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