On this episode, Jack Fowler and Victor Davis Hanson delve into the recent assassination attempts on Donald Trump, the Biden administration’s controversial proposal for Israel to cede land to Hezbollah, and the integrity of the Supreme Court amidst internal leaks. They discuss the broader implications of these events on national security, media bias, and political rhetoric.
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I don’t think these Leftists you’ve talked about are mentally ill, crazy. I think they are incredibly immature. They are overgrown adolescents. That’s why they are Leftists in the first place. Leftism/progressivism is just childishness expressed as a political philosophy.
Look at their behavior. They want to world to accommodate their wishes, and they throw tantrums when it doesn’t. And they refuse to take responsibility for their actions. No one is responsible for things they do, or decisions they make, “Someone Else” is. Who behaves like that? Children.
Of course, there are those commit violence, and that goes beyond mere immaturity. But the vast majority of them are just overgrown children. Their parents were overgrown children, going back to the Boomers.
Full disclosure-born in 1964, I’m a Boomer, by some reckoning. But by others, that was the first year of GenX. I prefer to claim that membership to Boomership.
Leave it to this administration to come up with a three-state solution for Israel.
My theory is that the assassin would have taken a shot at any Trump – good chance that Donald, Jr, Eric or President Trump’s granddaughter would have been playing Mar-a-Lago on almost any Sunday afternoon.
Another great episode, thanks! The only thing I would add to the assassination discussion is that (as you have taught us all) you must look at aligned interests, aka “Amicus meus, inimicus inimici mei.” Mayorkas has no incentive to protect Trump. If Trump wins, he’s (best case for him) out of a job or (best case for the nation) prosecuted for failing to enforce border law. If Harris wins, he will likely remain in place and may bring in 20M during the next administration. He has no incentive to protect Trump but a solid incentive to ally with or at least downplay every possible threat. This is a classic case of “Ovem lupo commitere.”
When is the funeral for the golf course assassin? He is scheduled for a suicide while in custody is he not?
Jack, I’m Catholic, too, but I’m an American, and I have no problem when we question Francis on things outside the scope of our faith. As Dennis Prager described him, Francis’ theology is Catholic but his politics are Left.
I’m not a fan of the doctrine of papal infallibility on matters of faith, either, for that matter.
Everyone (including myself) wants to blame “the Left”. But where are the adults in the room telling the immature babies NO?? If you want to see an immature idiot, just take a look at Speaker Johnson! I don’t know where he came from or how he even got nominated for that job but he is clearly in waaay over his head. If Republicans would take a stand on ANYTHING they just might garner some respect. As it is, there is no difference between the two parties.
there must be some reason why my comments are not posted
To put the first would-be assassin’s distance in perspective, here is the Marine Corps old KD (known distance) requalification course, fired “iron sight” (no telescope):
200 yds – timed fire (5 minutes each) 5 rounds sitting, 5 kneeling, 5 standing off-hand. Rapid fire – one minute standing to sitting, starting with 5 rounds locked and loaded, and switching to a second 5 rd clip.
300 yds – timed fire 5 minutes for 5 rounds sitting. Rapid fire – one minute standing to prone, starting with 5 rounds locked and loaded, and switching to a second 5 rd clip.
500 yds – timed fire – 10 minutes for 10 rounds prone.
To put it in even more perspective, our Range Officer held the world record (1973) at 1,000 yds, iron sight. 43 consecutive “V’s” (the V being inside the bull’s eye.
Thanks to Dr. Hanson for insights into comparisons between Donald Trump to the Austrian paper-hanger. How much these things contribute to inspiring would-be assassins we can only conjecture about.
It would be interesting to hear Dr. Hanson’s views on the vilification of Abraham Lincoln — at a time of a similar division in U.S. political and indeed moral views — and his assassination. (If only Lincoln’s bodyguards had been more alert…)