Trump was a chemotherapy designed to kill the cancer before it killed us!

Victor Davis Hanson receives the Edmund Burke award from The New Criterion. He shares something his colleague at the Hoover Institute, Tom Sowell, frequently says to him. When a majority of blacks own property, the current problems in black America will go away.

VDH reminds us that on 260 occasions UN Ambassador Samantha Powers asked the FISA court to unmask names of Americans, and those names then appeared in the press.

He also reminds us that Hillary Clinton told coal miners they were going to be put out of work. VDH was appalled. He thinks our current affluence and leisure creates people like Hillary Clinton who can call people deplorables and talk so utterly insensitively to people who go down under the earth to produce coal.

When VDH left his hometown of Selma, per capita income of $16,000, to go teach in Palo Alto, per capita income of $110,000 prior to Trump the divide was astounding: anger and depression in Selma. Now in Selma there are signs everywhere for employmment wanted: tilers, plumbers, blade workers, long haul truckers. Farmers used to tell VDH that they could not afford to pay minimum wage. Now they say they are looking to hire people at $16 per hour.

Conservatives have not won 51% of the popular vote since George H.W. Bush! You just don’t write off half the country and say they are losers of globalization.

Trump was a chemotherapy designed to kill the cancer one day before it killed us.