Author: Austin Bednarz

Hanson’s statement against Donald Trump being prepared and his ability to run a country is correct, from a political level. Donald Trump, rather has been running the country well like a company, he has been prepared to speak directly and assertively with other world leaders, knowing what is best for our nations economy and being an overall effective leader while many are trying to go against him and impeach him from office.

Another medium of adversity Trump is facing is that of the deep state, that is made up of “the culture of permanent and Senior employees of the federal and state governments& Sierra ploys of the federal governments.” (179) This is the group of people that have been in the white house and in a position of political power for a long time. Many, for example, like Supreme Court judges hold terms for life, so them and their political opinions remain in office for a very long time. This causes difficulties when opposing political parties come in contact throughout politics. Is very hard to get things done and it is not very effective. As Hanson states the deep house has become “politically progressive,” (179) many of theses people Trump wanted to eliminate in order to clean the White House and rid it of these politically progressive members.

Trump’s involvement with media has always been “headliner news” as his statements and stances on certain political and social issues have always been of interest to the media. In this new aged technological political campaigning era that we are in, everything that the President does is broadcasted to the general public, either helping or hurting their case. The 2016 election was the first election where social media usage was a factor. Trump basically tweets anything that is on his mind, and this has both hurt and helped him in gaining traction for the Presidency. “All press is good press.” is a quote that Donald Trump has lived by as his name and how recognizable he is, has become has given him a spotlight to shine under for all of America and the World to watch. (200) While he does get the attention that he is looking for, Trump is under constant scrutiny and is always being torn up by the news outlets. This is an area that Trump is incompetent in, as there are many cases where his tweets, or his public demeanor have come back to hurt him.

Regardless of what Trump says there are news outlets that will have a stance on his opinion and deliver it to the people watching their news outlet. Political basis of the news outlets have also kept people voting for the same parties and there has not been much change in swing voters. This is due to confirmation basis, meaning that people only want to hear their parties side of the story and are unwilling to be convinced otherwise. This is hurting out country as people do not want to hear the other parties point of view, rather they want to hear what they already know and believe. (202)

Overall, Trump has been learning while he is in office, but his showings of changing through his actions over social media and news outlets show the American people that he is who he is and will not change. As far as our country goes, he has improved our economy to being the best it ever has and his effectiveness still holds strong as he is being faced with acts of impeachment.

What sexual identity, which has never shined brighter in the political spotlight, has taken over and allowed sex to be even more free. With periods in our country dominated by sex, drugs, and rock and roll, our nation is currently in a time where being open about who you love and who you can love is at the Forefront of discussion. With gay marriage being accepted, the whole gay pride movement has been in full force to allow everyone the freedom of loving who they want. This is an area that I believe is overlooked by Regnerus, ever since gay marriage has been legalized, the sex for gays has also dramatically decrease in price. Firstly, there has been many worries about diseases, but some birth control contraceptives are also in place to prevent sexually transmitted infections, which can eliminate or greatly reduce the probability of getting one of those diseases. Also, with gay marriage and “coming out” being widely accepted, gays no longer have to hide who they are. Apps like Tinder have been revamped and reskinned to give a dating app platform to gays, “Grinder.” This shows that our society is accepting of gays and wants them to get in on the cheap sex action.

The after effects of birth control and an increase in pornography use causes marriage to be cast to the side. As Regnerus states, “marriage (is) less urgent and more difficult to accomplish.” (194) this is a result of the new cheaper sex in our nation. With more and more people having multiple sexual partners, not having to worry about childbirth, has made settling down and starting a family less and less appealing. What sometimes happened was people would be in a relationship and then there would be an unexpected child born, and the couple would have what is called a “shotgun wedding.” This was mainly because having a child out of wedlock is frowned upon by many religions, so before the child is born the couple would get married and have the child while they were in wedlock, usually resulting in a poor marriage.
As many people look down upon getting married, there are also many benefits that are being overlooked, like paying less taxes, having a joint income, and a general uptick in morale. These previous benefits to getting married are now not even glanced at, has there has been a general decline in marriage in recent decades.

While looking through Cheap Sex by Mark Regnerus, one of the overarching points that he brings us is the fact that sex is actually very cheap. In terms of the birth control pill and contraceptives that girls take, in order to not become pregnant, the consequences of having sex have never been lower. Back in the day having sex was not just for love or lust, it was to make a baby and that happened often mainly because there were no prevention’s to the case. Nowadays with condoms, pills, and IED’s there are many ways to prevent childbirth, which is the main consequence of sex. Also with an uptick in pornography use, there’s a way to have a release of sexual build up with fully removing any possibility of having a child.

In the sixth chapter of The Case for Trump by Victor Davis Hanson, he talks about bureaucracies and their role in the American government.  This is the premise that state officials are making the calls in government, rather than the elected representatives of the people.  This is an almost corrupt way to look at government as the people of the country are not being represented and rather people with power make decisions that they will benefit form.  Many of them, Hanson talks about, will use their ability to influence the government to their advantage within their agendas.  This could be either through tax cuts to the wealthy or setting forth a political agenda that they idealize.

Another topic that Hanson talks about in the sixth chapter in the book is that there are incestuous relationships of the deep state, basically translating to power couples within the government.  Hanson talks about an example with progressive reporters in Washington talking behind closed doors about ways to aid the Obama campaign.  This “off the record” communication could have been used to display a kind of fake news that could influence readers to vote for one candidate or the other.  The reporters could collaborate and discuss topics that they could target to push forth their own political agenda.

Later in the chapter Hanson talks about how Trump’s drip on the media and how he uses it to gain involvement in the American society.  Hanson talks about Trumps background in being a national celebrity and his straight up comments that he makes on social media.  There are many implications that the media imposes on the American citizens and puts forth confirmation biases that are taken in by their viewers.  As Hanson states, there has been no other President that has had such an involvement in the media and on social media.  There are arguments for both sides whether this has helped Trump or hurt his appearance as our nations President.