Trump is driving a political realignment and forcing reevaluations of deeply entrenched institutions, said Hanson.
“Henry Kissinger said in an Atlantic interview, every once in awhile, a guy like Trump comes along and shakes everything up, and makes us reexamine whether all these institutions — I guess he was talking about NAFTA and NATO and EU — are still doing what they were designed to do,” said Hanson. “Or maybe there’s no need for them, at least in their present iterations. I think he was very valuable.”
Hanson likened Trump to “chemotherapy” used to treat the “cancer” of America’s “permanent political class.”
“He’s sort of like chemotherapy,” stated Hanson. “Chemotherapy is a very toxic drug and it can kill the host — that’s us — but it’s not as bad as the cancer, and the cancer is this permanent political class of people who have contempt for people geographically … in between the two coasts, but also in class terms. I think he really hit something.”
Hanson also credited Trump with driving a a new national discourse on the status quo of both legal and illegal immigration and resulting demographic changes.
Thoughts:
1) That’s a very unfortunate choice of metaphor by VDH.
2) I’m afraid it’s going to take a lot more than Trump by himself to do that.
bkmk for later read
A fitting model, but while chemo isn’t funny, Trump sure as hell is:
He is EXTREMELY funny.
He’s the Manhattan elite who relates as well to taxi drivers, cops, etc. as he does to fellow billionaires.
“To walk with Kings, but never lose the common touch...”
My only qualms are Jared, Ivanka and his sudden love for H1B’s.
Listened to the whole interview and highly recommend it.
VDH is not only smart and very knowledgable in history, but has the calm and logical demeanor that can actually pull more people into the Trump camp. People like Hannity only appeal to the base, and they’re already Trump supporters. VDH can be persuasive to independents and even moderate Dems who are want nothing to do with the crazy socialist trend.
I believe Trump is the chemotherapy to get rid of this cancer - Cancer of Washington DC. The Cancer will fight back, but if we get a stronger dose of chemotherapy - that is Trump Supporters in the House and Senate - the Cancer will be eliminated.