Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness
Amid plague, national lockdown, riot and arson, iconoclasm, recession, and the most contested voting in history, the country leaves 2020 with some scars that won’t heal.
Mail-in Voting: Election Day as we once knew it no longer really exists. It has been warped, trimmed, and made nearly irrelevant in the panic of the times. The prior, but now accelerating, changes and the “never let a good crisis go to waste” efforts during the COVID-19 lockdown rammed through vast changes in previous voting norms. If the Democrats win the two U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia, new federal voting mandates designed to supersede state laws will institutionalize the chaos.
During the slow-motion November election “process,” the last presidential debate that Donald Trump won mattered little. Some 50 million people had already voted—and 100 million would before Election Day. The Hunter Biden scandal? Even had the media covered it, the result of such new laws would have made it a late October sparkler rather than a fiery bombshell.
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Why is no one being punished for anything? The horrendous property damage in Oregon, in Minneapolis, the lying to judges and to Congress. Nothing happens. Does our country not have any rule of law or morals? Congress does not seem to care. Most of what Nancy P does seems morally Or ethically wrong. Ms. Harris seems to practice situation truth, which varies from day today.
Well written and well stated. Thanks for raising visibility into what’s really happening. Unfortunately, his words and conclusions are too right on. We must act today to reverse the course
Professors are excellent, guardians of history and culture. Sometimes never say die fighters are needed in times of crisis and historians must know that...don't they?
Brilliant analyses! Thank you.
Deliver.
Outstanding article, brilliant as usual. All empires experience a period of waxing and waning. On 3 November 2020, it became America’s time to start its waning phase, and to me it seems inexorable. Physics has always been a minor avocation for me. Life has been described as just applied physics of chemistry and biology, a pushback against entropy. Now there are scholarly articles on quantum biology. Very recent studies on epigenetic research show we may sustain life indefinitely. Empires, to date, don’t benefit from advances of genetics, epigenetic’s or phenotypes. For now at least, they come into existence, live and then die. To quote you: “human nature remains unchanged across time and distance”. It appears America is about to follow the path of all the great empires that have disappeared. To quote Trump: “very bad, very sad”.
I'm so depressed. But thank you for the clarity. Always appreciated.