Dr. Mark Moyar

Yeah, and of course it also ignores, largely ignores class privileges if every white male works on Wall Street and drives a Porsche and everyone else is impoverished and cursed. No, that's untrue. And obviously, this is one of the big reasons Donald Trump got elected, because Americans saw through this sort of political correct DEI ideology.

Yeah, and of course it also ignores, largely ignores class privileges if every white male works on Wall Street and drives a Porsche and everyone else is impoverished and cursed. No, that's untrue. And obviously, this is one of the big reasons Donald Trump got elected, because Americans saw through this sort of political correct DEI ideology.

And especially the working class realized that, in fact, people are disadvantaged for lots of different reasons, most of which are not covered by DEI.

And especially the working class realized that, in fact, people are disadvantaged for lots of different reasons, most of which are not covered by DEI.

Yeah, that's an excellent question. I think the closest parallel we have really is Andrew Jackson. And it's fascinating. We teach an American history course here at Hillsdale, and we have students read Andrew Jackson. And one of the things Jackson talks a lot about is how the bureaucracy, career government officials become corrupt. They become self-serving.

Yeah, that's an excellent question. I think the closest parallel we have really is Andrew Jackson. And it's fascinating. We teach an American history course here at Hillsdale, and we have students read Andrew Jackson. And one of the things Jackson talks a lot about is how the bureaucracy, career government officials become corrupt. They become self-serving.

And so he wanted to limit the amount of time they could serve. And so I think that's a point we've now returned to. It's not the only one. And obviously, government's much bigger now than it was in his day. But some of these problems are new. People have pointed out even Bill Clinton, when he came in 1993, recognized that you had bloated government and he cut hundreds of thousands.

And so he wanted to limit the amount of time they could serve. And so I think that's a point we've now returned to. It's not the only one. And obviously, government's much bigger now than it was in his day. But some of these problems are new. People have pointed out even Bill Clinton, when he came in 1993, recognized that you had bloated government and he cut hundreds of thousands.

of jobs and so the idea that it's fundamentally new is is i think largely mistaken i mean i do think you have very high level of distrust in the government but that's against something we've we've seen before i do think it's going to be a challenge to try to bring americans together in the the biden administration i think also the obama administrations were among the most divisive And you...

of jobs and so the idea that it's fundamentally new is is i think largely mistaken i mean i do think you have very high level of distrust in the government but that's against something we've we've seen before i do think it's going to be a challenge to try to bring americans together in the the biden administration i think also the obama administrations were among the most divisive And you...

Americans are now divided against each other. And then you have, when Trump comes in, the people who were doing sort of the most dividing now are crying foul and things are getting worse.

Americans are now divided against each other. And then you have, when Trump comes in, the people who were doing sort of the most dividing now are crying foul and things are getting worse.

So I do think we will need some period at some point where people will get along better and we don't have this phenomenon we have where people don't want to be friends with other people simply because they belong to the wrong political party.

So I do think we will need some period at some point where people will get along better and we don't have this phenomenon we have where people don't want to be friends with other people simply because they belong to the wrong political party.

Yeah, I think it's going to be tough. And I think the left, to a large degree, has kind of invited this on themselves because they've been, and when they've been in power, they have really been the ones, I think, who have tried to make politics the center of everything and to assume they know all and therefore anybody else must be evil in some way who doesn't.

Yeah, I think it's going to be tough. And I think the left, to a large degree, has kind of invited this on themselves because they've been, and when they've been in power, they have really been the ones, I think, who have tried to make politics the center of everything and to assume they know all and therefore anybody else must be evil in some way who doesn't.

And that has created great support for Donald Trump because he's been willing to push back on that. And you've got lots of other people now feel aggrieved because they have been the victim of this left-wing intolerance.

And that has created great support for Donald Trump because he's been willing to push back on that. And you've got lots of other people now feel aggrieved because they have been the victim of this left-wing intolerance.

Yeah, certainly you can see a lot of the Wilsonian concepts that basically you need this expertise, bureaucratic expertise, and they're going to solve everything because, of course, experts are very smart and they don't have any biases, which of course has been disproven time and again. I think one thing that could help move us past is if we move ahead with this

Yeah, certainly you can see a lot of the Wilsonian concepts that basically you need this expertise, bureaucratic expertise, and they're going to solve everything because, of course, experts are very smart and they don't have any biases, which of course has been disproven time and again. I think one thing that could help move us past is if we move ahead with this