http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/10/trumps-policies-may-have-resonated-with-tocqueville-writes-bowdoins-yarbrough/ A repository for Bowdoin news archives Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.11 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/10/trumps-policies-may-have-resonated-with-tocqueville-writes-bowdoins-yarbrough/comment-page-1/#comment-120014 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:57:44 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=139472#comment-120014 Thanks to prof Yarbrough for the two passages on line both of which Rush spoke highly about on his show today.I wanted to read more as I am in the de Tocqueville “camp” and am one of the new conservatives and hope Trump moves the country to the right. Hillsdale college also publishes well researched articles on our history. Best to all, bob

]]> http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/10/trumps-policies-may-have-resonated-with-tocqueville-writes-bowdoins-yarbrough/comment-page-1/#comment-119954 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:56:34 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=139472#comment-119954 Trump “instinctively seized” on the basest elements of human nature to win the presidency. Monsieur de Tocqueville would be appalled by Trump and Professor Yarbrough knows it. Indeed, reading between the lines of her City Journal essay, my guess is Professor Yarbrough would agree that Trump is unfit to be president. Nevertheless, Professor Yarbrough has found a way to conflate a defense of traditional conservative principles with a defense of Donald Trump as president. She will be disappointed.

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