Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The election is finally shaping up to be not only liberal Democrat Harris versus conservative Republican Trump. Instead, it has become a larger contest between those who talk down to their fellow Americans and those who are increasingly sick and tired of being lectured. How smart is it, for example,… Continue reading Election 2024: Those Who Lecture Versus Those Tired of Being Lectured
Fifteen Ways to Destroy Democracy to “Save It”—Democrat-Style: Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson 7. Coups—the backroom nullification of voters. Over 14 million Democratic voters chose Joe Biden in 2024 to be the Democratic nominee. No other contender came close. Yet after a disastrous early debate on June 27, 2024 (unprecedented given that it preempted both the conventions and the nominations of the candidates), backroom Democratic… Continue reading Fifteen Ways to Destroy Democracy to “Save It”—Democrat-Style: Part Three
Fifteen Ways to Destroy Democracy to “Save It”—Democrat-Style: Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson 4. Lawfare. Imagine coordinating five local and state indictments and civil suits against a presidential candidate and ex-president to bankrupt his candidacy and person, silence his campaign with gag orders, and seek to incarcerate him to prevent him from winning the 2024 election. Note that the Biden White House had been in… Continue reading Fifteen Ways to Destroy Democracy to “Save It”—Democrat-Style: Part Two
The Strange, Mythological Campaign of Kamala Harris
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Increasingly, little if anything remains real about the Harris campaign. Take ideology and the issues.Read More It is now well known that Kamala Harris was rated as the most left-wing of all current senators, including Bernie Sanders—according to GovTrack, a non-partisan compiler of evaluators in Congress. The Voteview project found… Continue reading The Strange, Mythological Campaign of Kamala Harris
Fifteen Ways to Destroy Democracy to “Save It”—Democrat-Style: Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Does the current United States really allow the voice of the people to be heard in free and fair elections, with information from the government honestly and disinterestedly disseminated? Increasingly not. Did the Trump years, or, more specifically, Trump Derangement Syndrome, cause the paranoid Left to destroy democracy purportedly to save it?… Continue reading Fifteen Ways to Destroy Democracy to “Save It”—Democrat-Style: Part One
Try a Little Honesty About Israel
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Both the Harris-Walz presidential ticket and now lame-duck President Joe Biden keep insisting that they are Israel’s best friend. A snarly Biden recently bragged at a contentious press conference, “No administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none. And I think [Netanyahu] should remember that.” Yet the… Continue reading Try a Little Honesty About Israel
World War II. Conclusion: Why Does the Paleo-Right Now Hate Churchill and the Anglo-American Alliance in World War II? Part Ten
So as far as the Holocaust and the millions slaughtered by Nazism‚ well, as Cooper seems to toss off, the chaos of death sometimes got a bit out of hand and beyond the ability of well-meaning Wehrmacht officers to cope with. And so, we the Allies were wrong even to try the architects of the… Continue reading World War II. Conclusion: Why Does the Paleo-Right Now Hate Churchill and the Anglo-American Alliance in World War II? Part Ten
World War II. Churchill, the What Exactly? Part Nine
There was an ideological component of it. But then as time goes on, you read stories about, about Churchill going bankrupt and needing money, getting bailed out by people who shared his interests in terms of Zionism, but also his hostility, I think his hostility…. To put it this way, I think his hostility to… Continue reading World War II. Churchill, the What Exactly? Part Nine
We Are in Need of Renaissance People
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The songwriter, actor, country/western singer, musician, U.S. Army veteran, helicopter pilot, accomplished rugby player and boxer, Rhodes scholar, Pomona College and University of Oxford degreed, and summa cum laude literature graduate, Kris Kristofferson, recently died at 88. Americans may have known him best for writing smash hits like “Me and… Continue reading We Are in Need of Renaissance People
World War II. Churchill, Warmonger? Part Eight
And they were wiping these places out as gigantic, scaled terrorist attacks, the greatest scale of terrorist attacks you’ve ever seen in world history. Why would he do that? Because it was the only means that they had to continue fighting. At the time, they didn’t have the ability to reinvade Europe. And so, he… Continue reading World War II. Churchill, Warmonger? Part Eight