VDH UltraAngry Reader 08-23-2024
From An Angry Reader, Part One: You place the lying, phony, anti-Democracy Donald J Trump along with the maniacal J D Vance as the potential saviors of the US? Lies and more lies. And you have the hubris to claim that Kamala can’t get a word out of her mouth because she is so stupid. […]
Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic. Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic. That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter […]
From the First Day of DNC to the GOP Impeachment Report
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to examine the first day of the Democratic National Convention, Kamala’s economic policy, AOC’s buoyant appearance, why Iran dallies, Democrats side-step democracy, the GOP impeachment report, and can John Deere and Harley Davidson go woke.
VDH UltraA Not Angry Reader 08-21-2024
Victor, I cannot reconcile the facts surrounding the Biden surrender/Harris surge regarding the Democrat presidential candidate except to suspect this did not unfold per the desire of the party elites. Perhaps I am lacking factual understanding but here’s my perception of the facts: * The majority of the party recognized Biden could not beat Trump, […]
The Truth About Consequences: the No-Consequences Society Must Go
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they examine Kamala on street protests 2020-2024, Walz’s criminal lying, two scenarios about the Democratic National Convention, impact on Iran of the Shukr assassination, and universities needing to punish the criminal behavior of protestors and their accessories to the crimes.
VDH UltraPenetrating Kamala Harris’s Iron Dome?
Victor Davis Hanson The only way Harris–Walz will emerge from their fusion media Iron Dome is if they begin to trail four or so points in the polls. But since there may not be enough time in this bizarre, abbreviated campaign to allow them organically to melt down in their banality, the only way Trump […]
The Myriad Projections of the 2024 Campaign
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Projectionism Projection is a Freudian psychological term. It describes a particular defensive mechanism, when people, often unconsciously, attribute their own (usually undesirable) behaviors to others who do not have them. These mental gymnastics are intended to alleviate one’s own guilt or sense of inadequacy at the expense of another. Sound […]
Trump’s Poll Lead and Kamala’s Press Strategy
Join the weekend edition where Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about the Harris-Walz talk and Harris’s speech, the Israel ceasefire, the military parade in Kabul, a ruling against UCLA’s treatment of Jewish students, and a discussion of Edward Gibbons’ The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
VDH UltraThe Week That Was. Part Three: Can this Cabal Be Cracked?
Victor Davis Hanson Trump/Vance have less than 12 weeks to crack the Harris/Walz/DNC/media/donor/backroom cabal and expose the Democratic ticket as the first Biden administration on steroids. Can it be done? Debates? Trump is again now negotiating for debates. He must avoid the 2020 first debate performance when his disruption gained sympathy for a bewildered Biden […]
Pollsters, Campaign Ads, and Ghosts from Walz’s Past
Join Victor Hanson and cohost Sami Winc in the Friday news roundup: the incoherence of a never-Trumper, the pollsters on the impact of Kamala’s candidacy, Hunter’s foreign affairs revealed, a Kamala ad, and more this week on incidents purely Walz.
The Weird, Creepy, Surreal — and Dangerous — 2024 Campaign
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history. Here are ten unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we’ve entered this bizarro world: How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president […]
Unemployment, UNWRA, and Other Unforgettable Stories
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and his cohost Jack Fowler talk about unemployment in the US, more tortured tales of Tim Walz, the UNWRA staff participants in Oct. 7, analysis of the media, and riots in Britain and legal asymmetry.
VDH UltraThe Week That Was. Part Two: Recalling Coups, Conspiracies, and Cabals
Victor Davis Hanson Harris now says she will give one press conference before the conclusion of August. In other words, she admits that since the implosion of Biden and her immediate coronation, she has not spoken impromptu for more than a minute or two—the green zone, on-her-own maximum time her handlers have accorded her on […]
VDH UltraThe Week That Was. Part One: The Middle East Cauldron
Victor Davis Hanson Israel is certainly in dire straits. The U.S. for the first time since the Carter administration is now unapologetically anti-Israel. It leverages military aid to Israel to coerce concessions to Hamas and destabilize the Netanyahu government. Washington itself is rudderless, with a debilitated and evaporating president, a puerile and now mute vice […]
Legacies: Michael Brown, the Olympics, and Universities
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to explore ten years after Michael Brown’s death, Olympic history, topics Trump should stick to, who believes Kamala, inflation and the California insurance industry, Harvard’s anti-Semitism meets the legal system, and Jews and the Democratic party.
Our Three Silent Mice
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Biden President Biden was forced, unceremoniously and unwillingly, to abdicate from his impending reelection nomination. Since then, we have neither seen nor heard much from our sitting President. He has vanished, poof, gone. This is quite unusual if not alarming. Unlike prior to the June 27 debate, the left now […]
Hume’s Enlightenment v. Modern Gaslighting and Surveilling
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc explore David Hume’s life and role in the Scottish Enlightenment. They discuss the warning to Israel to hold back, Tulsi Gabbard trailed by TSA, Trump-Harris debate will happen, Harris-Walz “vibes-joy” campaign, Walz’s past works against him.
VDH UltraTen Questions for Kamala Harris: Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson 7. Given you have been critical of Donald Trump for addressing protesters on January 6 and have criticized as reckless his warning to them, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” you surely must have known that […]
Be Careful What You Vote For
In the Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Jamie Raskin’s call for invoking the 14th Amendment to take down Trump, the Harris choices, the Squad losing re-election bids, how the Left deals with debt, Biden’s absence from the scene, and California as Kamala’s offering to the country.
The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden won in 2020 on the premise that until the November election, he would pose as good ol’ Joe from Scranton and not scare voters. So Biden talked about “unity” and “competency.” He erased his prior wild primary pandering to left-wing voters about shutting down fracking and opening the […]