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Over and over, Trump was betrayed by his inability to hold in check his own ego needs for the good of the nation
Many years ago, my friend Dr. David Luchins, a Touro professor of political science and former aide to Senator Daniel Moynihan, pointed out to me that the Republican Party was consistently hampered in national elections by the fact that many of its “natural” voters had given up on the political process and no longer voted.
It was the genius of Donald Trump, argues historian Victor Davis Hanson in his incisive The Case for Trump, to bring those voters back into electoral politics. By doing so, Trump managed to swing Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania into his column in 2016. During the battle for the 2016 Republican nomination, I thought that Trump was the only Republican who could lose to Hillary. But Hanson argues persuasively that he was the only one who could have beaten her by engaging disillusioned voters. (He adds for good measure that Clinton’s high n