“States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.” PeopleThinkingWayStatesEventsAwfulDramaticConventionalStatus QuoWay Of ThinkingLax Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.” PeopleSchoolThreeSawsStupidDecadesBrokeRanGraduatesStupid PeopleAcademiaAcresGraduate School Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsIdeasUseGovernmentDifficultTermWealthAttitudeGroupsSubjectsParticularMassAngryPrivilegeIdeologyIf I CouldElitesRamificationsOverused Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“[People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.” PeopleMillionsClintonProgressive Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.” PeopleHomeAbleCommunityCasesWallTrumpElitesGated Communities Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free markets. But we're not sensitive to what that does to other people who don't have our privilege.” PeopleDoeJobsMorningWake UpUniversityPrivilegeSensitiveFree MarketColumnistsStanfordStanford UniversityOutsourced Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Racial inequality has gotten worse in the last years because any time you have a moribund economy, the people who historically have had more problems getting jobs have suffered. And that, I think, is triggering a lot of the animosity.” PeopleThinkingYearsProblemJobsLastsEconomyInequalityLast YearAnimosity Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement.” PeopleIfsMatterBlackWhitePoorMovementBlack Lives MatterSympatheticHispanicBlack Lives Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter movement]. The fact that you want to argue rather than find some common ground, I think, has gotten a lot worse in the last years.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsMatterFactsLastsBlackCommonMovementStudentsArguingLast YearBlack Lives MatterSympatheticCampusCommon GroundBlack Lives Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.” PeopleThinkingLateCongressHalls Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way we have been doing business for 50 years, and it may well be time to grant the French, Canadians, Germans, Turks, South Koreans, and a host of others their wishes for independence from us: polite friendship - but no alliances, no bases, no money, no trade concessions, and no more begging for the privilege of protecting them.” PeopleWayYearsWellsMayHas BeensHardAsksWishBasesIndependenceTradeSouthStartingPrivilegeGrantsHostPoliteAlliancesBeggingNo MoneyKoreanConcessionsIsolationismHard Questions Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New York, and Yemen - suggest to our terrorist enemies that it was wrong and unwise to kill reasonable and affable people, or did the easy killing imply that self-absorbed and pampered Lotus-eaters would not much care who or how many were butchered as long as it was within reasonable numbers and spread out over time?” PeopleLongSelfCarePastEasyNumbersEnemyNew YorkSeriesResponseKillingSpreadDecadesTerroristReasonableArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisLebanonUnwiseSelf AbsorbedLotusesYemenPamperedAffable Author:Victor Davis Hanson
