Victor Davis Hanson on Comey, Foreign Policy, and Life on a California Farm




The Federalist Radio Hour show

Summary: Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution. Hanson and Domenech discuss the breaking news of Donald Trump firing FBI Director James Comey. Hanson also shares insights on Trumps foreign policy, immigration, life on his California farm and the disappearance of agricultural communities. In some ways, Donald Trump has forced change on the Republican partys views on foreign policy. I think [Trump] is Jacksonian or hes nationalist in the sense that he has a tragic view of the world, Hanson said. Trump came along and said the world is a mess, its always going to be a mess, and Im going to create the conditions under which we are not threatened. Hanson described the ways life on a farm develops citizens and a pragmatic way of thinking about the world. Youre responsible for the ramifications of your own ideology, and a problem right now in this country is people always have money or influence to protect them from the consequences of their ideology.