Ten 2020 Issues, Policies, Personalities — and Chance

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The nation has never seen an election like this. A mysterious virus from China has terrified the country, killed perhaps 180,000 Americans, and is now weaponized as a political asset to neuter the president. Half the country is still in de facto quarantine. Governments — national, state, and  local […]

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Hanson: Michelle Obama told Dems to ‘go high’ after her husband ‘tried to destroy a political campaign’

Yael Halon // Fox News Michelle Obama urged Democrats to take the high road at the virtual Democratic National Convention Monday night amid an ongoing investigation into her husband’s “corrupt” administration, Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Tuesday. “When she says ‘We go high when they go low,’ she’s talking right now when her husband’s administration has weaponized the IRS, the FBI, the DOJ,

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Trumpism—A Look Backward and Forward to November

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Perhaps 70 percent of Trumpism remains a hodgepodge of Reaganism: strong defense, realist foreign policy, deregulation, smaller government, big deficits, tax cuts, energy growth, and stars-and-stripes traditionalism. But it is the other unorthodox 30 percent that excited his base, terrified conservative apostates, and won Trump the 2016 election by

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Victor Davis Hanson: US Constitution and traditions are under attack by Democrats

Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News Democrats are waging war against traditions and the Constitution. Several of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates favored the abolishment of the Electoral College. Or, as once-confident candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren put it, “I plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College.” Furor over the Electoral

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Strategika Issue #65: The Status of the EU

The State of This Union is (Remarkably) Strong Please read a new essay by my colleague, Ralph Peters in Strategika. For years, I was a guest commentator on a business-news show whose host was surprisingly literate. We covered global affairs and shared useful exchanges. But this well-schooled, worldly man had a massive blind spot he shared

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Who or What Exactly Is Running Against Trump?

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness As we enter the final 90 days of the November presidential campaign, a few truths are crystalizing about the “Biden problem,” or the inability of a 77-year-old Joe Biden to conduct a “normal” campaign. Biden’s cognitive challenges are increasing geometrically, whether as a result of months of relative inactivity

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The Thin Veneer of American Civilization

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Nine months ago, New York was a thriving, though poorly governed, metropolis. It was coasting on the more or less good governance of its prior two mayors and on its ancestral role as the global nexus of finance and capital. The city is now something out of a postmodern

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Our Annual August Debate over the Bombs

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review This month marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, at Hiroshima on August 6, and Nagasaki on August 9. Each year, Americans argue about our supposed moral shortcomings for being the only nation to have used an atomic weapon in war. Given the current

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