The Case for Trump Quotes

“Often the white elite signaled their disgust of the “white privilege” of the disintegrating middle class as a means of exempting their own quite genuine white privilege of insider contacts, professional degrees, wealth, inheritance, and influence.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“Barack Obama, for at least the first two years after his departure, had all but destroyed the traditional role of Democrats as a federal, state, and local majority party—and in its place had paved the way for a new neosocialist ascendency.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“officials were losing their jobs over their involvement in real collusion that as of yet lacked a special investigator or counsel.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“In Trump’s mind, the problem with federal agencies was not just that they overreached and were weaponized, but that their folds of bureaucracy led to incompetency.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“one can imagine what a candidate Trump would have done with the Wright-Obama connection had he been the 2008 Republican nominee.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“The larger themes of the new signature progressivism were identity politics, radical environmentalism, and redistributionism.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“Only about one in a thousand of DACA’s participants had joined the military.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“One-third of all American residents currently on welfare live in California, as do a quarter of the nation’s illegal aliens—a state where one in four was not born in the United States, but otherwise with just 12 percent of the population.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible… The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“agenda. These themes frame the formal plan of this book. The argument covers the three years since Trump announced his presidential bid in July 2015 to mid-2018, as he neared the end of the second year of his presidency. Part 1, the first three chapters”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“Out of spite, McCain had flipped on his earlier support of Obamacare just to cast the deciding vote that defeated Trump’s effort to repeal and replace it.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“Hillary apparently never appreciated that when she went after Trump’s sins of the flesh, it would quickly prove a losing proposition.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“close cooperation with Saudi Arabia against the Shiite Houthis in Yemen. Apparently, Trump figured that to demand cessations of these operations that others had started would call upon him the wrath of hawkish Republicans and fuel charges of isolationism”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“It may be now blasphemous to concede that much of the current division in the country was deliberately whipped up by Obama. Often in mellifluous tones and with near academic authority, he accentuated racial and cultural differences.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“third of all American residents currently on welfare live in California, as do a quarter of the nation’s illegal aliens—a state where one in four was not born in the United States, but otherwise with just 12 percent of the population. A second force multiplier is that reds”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“Although the United States remains a republic, administrative power creates within it a very different sort of government. The result is a state within the state—an administrative state within the Constitution’s United States.” The power of the deep state was twofold: it had the unlimited resources of government at its call in any fight against individuals. And it knew how government worked and could be manipulated far better than the citizens whom it supposedly for a brief time served.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic [sic], you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people—now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks—they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“So far Trump has proved to be one of the rare presidents who has attempted to do what he said he would. He has also not acted much differently in 2017–18 than he said he would during 2015–16. That continuum is why his critics understandably fear him, and why his hard-core supporters often seem to relish their terror.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump

“hue, his combed-over”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump