\u201cWhatever the final assessment of Trump\u2019s second term, his achievement in recovering from ignominy and surviving the efforts of an entrenched establishment to destroy him will stand as the greatest political comeback in modern presidential history.\u201d So exults Hanson, a fellow at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution and a Trump booster from way back. Hanson is a classicist, which he signals by suggesting Trump is \u201ca classically tragic figure\u201d\u2014though he doesn\u2019t add that classically tragic figures are always so through their own hubris and arrogance, never by accident. Hanson also tosses in Latin tags\u2014primus inter pares, damnatio memoriae, bellum omnium contra omnes, and such\u2014for good measure. And he faults Democrats for ignoring Thucydides\u2019 dark warnings about Corcyra (Corfu)\u2014an author and place one suspects are unknown to Trump and his supporters as well. Along with glib references to Shakespeare and Nietzsche, though, Hanson belatedly allows that the MAGA base is made up of white men without college degrees, and so he recites an all-too-familiar litany of talking points and grievances. The only person to die on January 6, 2021, was MAGA acolyte Ashli Babbitt, shot \u201capparently for the probable misdemeanor of unlawfully entering the Capitol through a previously broken window.\u201d There were \u201cfar more violent earlier attacks\u2026such as the storming of the same Capitol on March 1, 1954, by armed Puerto Rican terrorists.\u201d Liberal academicians think it their charge \u201cto indoctrinate youth in progressive ideology, as part of a greater project to fundamentally alter the nature of the culture at large.\u201d Trump insults individuals, not \u201cthe citizen poor, minorities, women, or any particular racial or religious group as a whole.\u201d The Epstein files are \u201cso-called.\u201d And so on.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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