President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2020. – Trump said Thursday that the United States is withdrawing from the Open Skies arms control treaty with Russia, accusing Moscow of breaking the terms. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

This election “is no longer about Donald Trump’s tweeting and whining,” conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson told Fox News host Tucker Carlson the other night. Nor is it about “a lockdown, the virus, the economy, [or] foreign policy. It’s an existential question, a Manichean choice between whether you want civilization or [whether] you feel it was inherently flawed with a cancer and we have to use radiation and chemotherapy to kill the host to kill the cancer… And I’m going to vote for civilization.”