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Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it. One of their favorite psychodramatic mottos was “Change it or Lose it,” even as protests focused on drugs, music, race, class, sex, fashion—and almost anything and everything. Sixties radicals… Continue reading This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One A canon of the Left has always been that “words matter.” But do they? Only sometimes, and selectively so. So when Trump, for example, insisted on calling the SARS-CoV-2 virus the “China virus”—in a manner of the 1918 “Spanish flu,” or the way the Left did in the… Continue reading Eeyore’s Cabinet: When Is Some Hatred, Some Racism OK?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Think about it: For about five years, anything candidate, president-elect, and President Trump said or did, the media, the Left, and progressive popular culture opposed in Pavlovian fashion. Anything that Trump touched was ridiculed or discredited—regardless of evidence, data, or cogency. The merits of a Trump policy, a Trump assessment, a… Continue reading The Lethal Wages of Trump Derangement Madness
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two There were a few more lies we lived with in our Kingdom of Untruth. The Satanic Andrew Cuomo Deification Over last summer and early fall 2020, Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo reached mythic media proportions. His ingratitude was enshrined as New York, “get-used-to-it, buddy” chutzpah. Yes,… Continue reading Eeyore’s Cabinet: Living in Our Kingdom of Lies
Victor Davis Hanson // The Liberty Web It has been more than three months since the Biden administration took office. What are your impressions of President Biden and his administration, and what kind of change do you see in the U.S. in the future? (You pointed out that Biden is proving to be the Biden… Continue reading A “Witch Hunt Trial” Is Underway in the U.S.