# The Case for Trump ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Ugx9DPJBL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Victor Davis Hanson]] - Full Title: The Case for Trump - Category: #books ## Highlights - irony of deporting illegal aliens. Or so New York Times columnist Bret Stephens seemed to imply when he wrote: “So-called real Americans are screwing up America. Maybe they should leave, so that we can replace them with new and better ones: newcomers who are more appreciative of what the United States has to offer, more ambitious for themselves and their children, ([Location 870](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07G74WLVN&location=870)) - and more willing to sacrifice for the future. In other words, just the kind of people we used to be—when ‘we’ had just come off the boat.” But after claiming that he was being ironic, Stephens concluded his column by confirming that he wasn’t really: “We’re a country of immigrants—by and for them, too. Americans who don’t get it should get out.” ([Location 873](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07G74WLVN&location=873))