Dear Sir,<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Maybe if Trump wins, you can be one of his pet intellectuals, whom he will despise and humiliate.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n Kurt Lipschutz<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dear Angry Reader Lipschutz,<\/p>\n I voted against Trump in the primaries and am on record that he was not among the 5-10 candidates I would have preferred instead in the primaries. As a conservative, I believe his agenda is far preferable to Hillary\u2019s progressivism, and so prefer him over yet another 4 years of uninterrupted Obamism.<\/p>\n I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and am happy to commute to work at the Hoover Institution 3,000 miles away from Washington. I have never worked in politics and avoid Washington and New York as much as possible. I do not consult with campaigns, do not donate to candidates, do not sign presidential campaign endorsement petitions, am not married to a politico, and have no relatives involved in politics. My only official federal service was in 2007-8 to serve as a board member of the American Battlefield Monuments Commission (the position is unpaid) that oversees the management of cemeteries of our war dead overseas. In all cases, I visited military cemeteries abroad at my own expense.<\/p>\n To follow your curiosity, I suggest instead that you ask other people in the field of opinion journalism whether the same is true. Or inquire of those in opinion journalism who are Hillary supporters and NeverTrumpers specifically whether they are White House visitors, donate to campaigns, off the record consult with candidates, or are related to or married to campaign operatives, media networkers, or politicians. If you need further direction, consult the Podesta trove to calibrate the level of obsequiousness from Washington and New York journalists and editorialists, who either are self-described \u201chacks\u201d or vowed to run their work past Clinton auditors before publication.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know whether Trump despises those who fawn over him; but again, I suggest you turn your attention to fact rather than speculation, specifically to intellectuals and journalists who worship Obama, from the Nobel Laureate judges who gave him an unearned award to the Washington toady press corps whom he humiliates daily. Out of politeness I won\u2019t mention all the intellectual grandees who claimed Obama was a \u201cgod,\u201d said his pressed pants presaged his greatness, felt tingles in their legs when he spoke, and swore that he was the smartest man to ever enter the presidency\u2014and ask them whether they would say such embarrassing things again.<\/p>\n Sincerely, Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comment from an Angry Reader: Dear Sir, \u00a0Maybe if Trump wins, you can be one of his pet intellectuals, whom he will despise and humiliate. \u00a0Sincerely, Kurt Lipschutz Victor Davis Hanson’s Reply: Dear Angry Reader Lipschutz, I voted against Trump in the primaries and am on record that he was not among the 5-10 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s466Sb-9546","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10714,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10714-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9546,"position":0},"title":"11\/06\/2017 From An Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"11\/06\/2017 From An Angry Reader: Professor Davis, \u00a0 In your recent article \u201cThe Method to Trump\u2019s Madness\u201d, you claim Trump\u2019s insults are retaliation to those who have said things against him. 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I can only hope that you are not spared the results of your short-sightedness, and cheerleading for Donald Trump\u2014the word is apt, despite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9671,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9671-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9546,"position":2},"title":"From an Angry Reader: Re:\u2026","author":"Megan Ring","date":"December 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: Re: Obama's initiatives What a horrible president and yet, 57% approval rating! Wow! How is that possible! I think he did quite well considering that Republicans vowed on the first day not to work with him and never did! \u00a0Connie Knapp Victor Davis Hanson's Reply: Dear\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10322,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10322-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9546,"position":3},"title":"From an Angry Reader: Dr.\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: Dr. Hanson, Years ago, especially right after 9 \/ 11, I enjoyed your essays on NRO. One piece I especially liked was your column, in late 2001, titled (if memory serves), \"I'm Glad We're Not Fighting Us.\" Pardon my brusqueness, but what the hell has happened\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10677,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10677-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9546,"position":4},"title":"From An Angry Reader: You\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: You created this Frankenstein. \u00a0You have a lot to answer for. \u00a0G-d is looking down on you, and He is not smiling. \u00a0You all are in your 80s. That\u2019s the good thing in all this. Nobody lives forever and you all are a helluva lot closer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9517,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-9\/","url_meta":{"origin":9546,"position":5},"title":"Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment from a Reader: \"But even before the latest revelations from an eleven-year-old Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump crudely talked about women\u201d TRUMP DID NOT TALK CRUDELY ABOUT WOMEN ON THIS TAPE- HE TALKED ABOUT HIS RIGHT AS A CELEBRITY TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT WOMEN!!! 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