Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Who has most peddled conspiracy allegations the last nine years—all of them false and nearly all of them influencing national elections and public policies? Once a target is constructed as Hitlerian, almost any means necessary to quash that perceived existential threat become justified. And we have seen a lot of… Continue reading A Decade of Conspiracists?
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What Should a President Trump Do? Part Five: The Budget (Continued)
Victor Davis Hanson Too many wealthy citizens only pay capital gains taxes at a reduced rate rather than income tax on their annual revenues. And too many of the one percent have the wherewithal to pay no tax, given the labyrinth of loopholes and deductions their brilliant but costly accountants mine. Yet, they are not… Continue reading What Should a President Trump Do? Part Five: The Budget (Continued)
Can We Let the Voters Decide—Not the FBI, CIA, DOJ, Lawyers, Prosecutors, and Judges?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Donald Trump seemed to have a lock on the 2016 Republican primary, the Democratic Party concluded that the people could not be counted on to do the “right thing” of electing the Democratic candidate in waiting Hillary Clinton. What followed were eight long years of extralegal efforts to neuter… Continue reading Can We Let the Voters Decide—Not the FBI, CIA, DOJ, Lawyers, Prosecutors, and Judges?
What Should a President Trump Do? Part Four: The Budget
Victor Davis Hanson The U.S. is broke. It owes over $35 trillion, mostly to American and Chinese bond and T-bill holders. The interest alone costs nearly $1 trillion, larger than the annual defense budget. The aggregate debt is now 123 percent of the annual GDP. Each American resident owes some bondholder about $103,000. How can… Continue reading What Should a President Trump Do? Part Four: The Budget
What Should a President Trump Do? Part Three: Abroad
Victor Davis Hanson Trump’s greatest challenge is to restore deterrence—blown up by Biden after Kabul, the Chinese balloon fiasco, the Gazan and Ukrainian wars, and his periodic Corn-Pop-like empty threats (i.e., “Don’t!”) when enemies successfully game Biden. Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Iran are existential enemies of the U.S. and the West in general. They… Continue reading What Should a President Trump Do? Part Three: Abroad
The Biden Titanic
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden’s escalating dementia and the long media-political conspiracy to hide his senility from the public are the least of the Democrats’ current problems. Biden’s track record as president may be more concerning than his cognitive decline. He has literally destroyed the U.S. border, deliberately allowing the entry of more… Continue reading The Biden Titanic
What Should a President Trump Do? Part Two: The Border (Continued)
Victor Davis Hanson Next, who of the long-residing illegal aliens would be eligible for legal-resident status, and from there choose or not choose to apply on their own for U.S. citizenship? Most would agree that this third category should include spouses of U.S. citizens; those with lengthy U.S. residence from childhood; and others with lengthy… Continue reading What Should a President Trump Do? Part Two: The Border (Continued)
Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union. . .
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank, and gained weight, he aged prematurely. Also like them, his disabilities never led to his abdication. By Brezhnev’s late sixties and early seventies, he was too… Continue reading Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union. . .
What Should a President Trump Do? Part One: The Border
Victor Davis Hanson One would expect Trump first to finish the wall as soon as possible, even if that entailed extending it to the Gulf and through difficult terrain, fixing weak spots in the existing wall, and fighting nonstop lawsuits, internal administrative-state obstructions, and mass leftwing hysteria. Logically, he would simultaneously stop catch-and-release and force… Continue reading What Should a President Trump Do? Part One: The Border
From a Not Angry Reader 07-09-2024
Subject: Proposed deal That was actually a pretty good deal you suggested. I’m afraid the trust level Putin holds for the west is near zero. No cease fire until an agreement is reached, according to Russia. Besides, given Russian superiority on the battlefield, I suspect they want Odessa. Some say Russian troops up to the… Continue reading From a Not Angry Reader 07-09-2024