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 […]

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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. Share This

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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

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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. Share This

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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

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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. Share This

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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

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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

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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. Share This

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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

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