2019

Ten Reasons Why Impeachment Is Illegitimate

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review There are at least ten reasons why the Democratic impeachment “inquiry” is a euphemism for an ongoing coup attempt. 1) Impeachment 24/7. The impeachment “inquiry,” supposedly prompted by the president’s Ukrainian call, is simply the most recent in a long series of “coups” that sought to overturn the 2016 election

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The Looming ‘1984’ Election

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review For a variety of reasons, the 2020 election is going to be a referendum beyond Donald Trump’s record and his Democratic opposition. The furor that Trump has incurred, and the radical antithesis to his agenda and first term, have redefined the looming election. It is becoming a stark choice

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The big winner in Ukraine scandal? Russia — just as it always wanted

The following article is from my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Vladimir Putin’s nightmare is a prosperous, rule-of-law Ukraine integrated into the affluent West on Russia’s border. Such a Ukrainian success story would trace back to its popular revolution on Maidan Square in February 2004. Might Ukraine not give the Russian people ideas

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Victor Davis Hanson: Socialism guarantees failure and suffering – So why do so many Americans support it?

Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail. Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal communism. Eastern Europe still suffers after decades of Soviet-imposed socialist chaos. Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea and Venezuelaare unfree, poor and failed states. Baathism — a synonym for pan-Arabic

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The Trump Doctrine: Deterrence without Intervention?

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign sought to overturn 75 years of bipartisan foreign policy orthodoxy, especially as it applied to the Middle East. From 1946 to 1989, the Cold War logic was to use both surrogates and U.S. expeditionary forces to stop the spread of Communist insurrections and coups —

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The Military-Intelligence Complex

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump’s agenda. The choice of the noun “Resistance,” of course, conjures up not mere “opposition,” but is meant to evoke the French “resistance” of World War II—in the

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Is California Becoming Premodern

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review More than 2 million Californians were recently left without power after the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric — which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year — preemptively shut down transmission lines in fear that they might spark fires during periods of high autumn winds. Consumers blame the

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Anatomy of 2020: Weighing Issues, Candidates, and the State of Our Union

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In the 20th century, no Congress brought impeachment proceedings against a first-term president facing a reelection. Both the Nixon and Clinton efforts were aimed at reelected presidents, perhaps on the theory that there was supposedly no other means of bringing them to account once they had been elected twice.

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Our Bankrupt Nomenklatura

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Donald Trump is now in the midst of another coup frenzy that has the Left accusing him of being crazy. But he already took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test. It was a simple cognitive exam and he aced it, as would most people. The Left, remember, had called in

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