Victor Davis Hanson There is a well-recognized Left-wing syndrome when it comes to current and emeriti Republican presidents. They despise them and equate them with Hitler. Then, once out of office, they rehabilitate them as sober, judicious, and “good ol’ ” Republicans—in contrast with the current Republican and new replacement “Hitler.” When Ronald Reagan was […]
Victor Davis Hanson 5) Do ideologues try to destroy the ancient system of governance and create new replacements designed to give them power that they could not otherwise obtain through elections? Determine the following: Which group, party, or cabal is clamoring to make the following radical changes, despite lacking almost no public support for such
“The biggest controversy right now is a recent Supreme Court decision handed down that says you cannot create racially gerrymandered districts for the purpose of empowering people on the basis of their race.” Share This
Victor Davis Hanson 4) Does the government punish or spy on citizens and journalists as a form of political harassment or in an effort to suppress information in the private sphere on partisan grounds? In 2012, the Obama Attorney General, Eric Holder, ordered taps on 20 phone lines of Associated Press reporters to monitor their
Victor Davis Hanson 3) Does the government pick and choose which laws to enforce in order to punish enemies and reward friends, and advance the political narrative? Do officials lie under oath with impunity? Note further that all three intelligence heads under Barack Obama had lied under oath: CIA Director Brennan did twice to Congress,
Victor Davis Hanson 1) Does the government use the administrative state to advance its own political agendas and to punish its enemies? In 2013, a top IRS lawyer, Lois Lerner, confessed that she and other members of her team had wrongly denied non-profit status to various conservative groups in order to weaken conservative opposition to
Victor Davis Hanson 1) Does the government use its powers to interfere in elections and often unite with toadish private enterprises to ensure electoral victories? Barack Obama assembled the heads of the CIA and the FBI and the director of National Intelligence and ordered them to ignore their own bureaus’ assessments that there was no
Victor Davis Hanson explains the language of division, hate, and invective that is dividing our nation. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson Leftists now daily claim we are under a Trump “dictatorship” run by “fascists” and “Nazis”—and then when asked to give specific examples of Trump’s “fascism,” they grow mute. So how do you calibrate the slide from democracy guided by constitutional republican principles into autocracy? Note first that the first American dictator will
