{"id":12721,"date":"2020-11-13T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T22:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12721"},"modified":"2020-11-13T14:36:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T22:36:13","slug":"will-trump-ride-off-into-the-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/will-trump-ride-off-into-the-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump Ride Off Into the Sunset?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Patriot Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I once wrote that whenever Donald Trump exits office, he will likely leave as a \u201ctragic hero.\u201d Over two millennia ago, the Athenian tragedian Sophocles first described the archetype in his portraits of an angry and old but still fearsome Ajax, and heroic but stubborn and self-fixated Antigone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the iconic John Ford Western \u201cThe Searchers\u201d and in a host of other films from \u201cShane\u201d to \u201cHigh Noon,\u201d we have seen stories of these sorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legalistic but impotent town council, the idealistic but outgunned sodbusters or the incompetent posse in desperation turns to unconventional deliverance. They suddenly need a John Wayne as a scary Ethan Edwards, or a mysterious gunslinger like Shane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to call in such Manichean outsiders is to admit that the status quo of a sober establishment has failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Patriot Post I once wrote that whenever Donald Trump exits office, he will likely leave as a \u201ctragic hero.\u201d Over two millennia ago, the Athenian tragedian Sophocles first described the archetype in his portraits of an angry and old but still fearsome Ajax, and heroic but stubborn and self-fixated Antigone. 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