In The Case for Trump, acclaimed 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 at that. Hanson sets
Trump in his broad political and social context to explain Trump's
and ongoing political appeal to a broad swath of American voters.
Growing anger at globalization, a stalled economy, immigration,
costly and unfruitful overseas interventions, perceived poor trade
deals, and political correctness meant by 2016 that if there were
not a loud Trump outsider, he would likely have had to be invented.
Trump and Trump alone saw a political opening in defending the
forgotten working classes of the interior, who were alienated not
only by Democrats but by elite republican candidates. (In 2012, one
Republican taxi driver explained his decision to sit out the
election altogether: "Geez, Romney came to Michigan wearing his
wing-tips with starched jeans!") And despite the apocalyptic
imaginings of both the Left and the Never Trump Right, one year
into his presidency Trump boasts an impressive record of
achievement of a kind rarely attained by an incoming president.
Trump has realized economic and foreign policy results not seen in
a generation, cutting through stasis and dismantling a corrupt old
order. Hanson is not naive about Trump's self-destructive behavior
(the relentless tweeting, the threats to fire Mueller and so on)
but ultimately sees him as a kind of tragic political hero,
something out a Sophocles play or an American Western. His
accomplishments are a direct result of his personal excesses--the
fact that he is not traditionally presidential has enabled him to
bring long-overdue changes in foreign and domestic policy. We could
not survive a series of presidencies as volatile as Trump's, Hanson
acknowledges. But "given the direction of the country over the last
16 years, half the population, the proverbial townspeople of the
western, wanted some outsider, even with a dubious past, to ride in
and do things that most normal politicians not only would not but
could not do -- before exiting stage left or riding off into the
sunset."
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