Insurrection Chic

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Is Jeff Davis the Model? Who is the real, or fictional, inspiration for the new insurrectionary wing of the Democrat Party? The fictitious Hollywood insurrectionist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “James Mattoon Scott” (Burt Lancaster), who in the 1964 film Seven Days in May attempted to overthrow the presidency? Or perhaps […]

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Venezuela Is No Panama, and Trump Knows This

While many, Left and Right, believe the Trump administration’s decision to park the USS Gerald R. Ford off the coast of Venezuela is a precursor for war, Victor Davis Hanson argues that President Donald Trump’s America First base and recent U.S. history in the region may shine the light on an entirely different outcome. Share

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The Embarrassments of Ideology

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness   Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology. It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by white males. DEI makes no allowance for the class or wealth of the alleged victims or their supposed

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VDH UltraThe Lost Generation of the New Alt-Right, Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson It is not at all clear that Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Steve Bannon, or Marjorie Taylor Greene have much, if any, influence on the Jacksonian foreign policy of Donald Trump, which seeks to achieve and maintain deterrence by opportunistically striking at perceived threats to the U.S. without ensuring “forever wars” abroad. Trump’s

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VDH UltraThe Lost Generation of the New Alt-Right, Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Why suddenly in 2025 has a newer farther right, often overtly anti-Semitic cadre, appeared—as an “alternative,” well beyond the old populist “alternative right” of a past Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, or the Tea Party? Obvious answer: It did not “suddenly” appear. But more correctly, the “Groyper” movement was growing insidiously for years

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Reality Caught Up to ‘Climate Change’

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For decades, the monolithic and sacrosanct international climate change hierarchy went unquestioned. Western nations in particular spent trillions of dollars over the past half-century to subsidize expensive but erratic wind and solar energy while demonizing carbon fuels as toxic threats to the planet. Like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion dogma, climate

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