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
Victor Davis Hanson Start with the premise that with few exceptions, the Europeans despise Trump but need the U.S. military to protect them from both Russia and any potential anti-Western nuclear power with ballistic missiles. They cannot square that circle. Their hearts want to subvert the Americans, but their heads tell them the end of
Victor Davis Hanson discusses the waxing right-wing policies and politics and the failing approval of left-wing leadership across the globe. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson China, in dire need of oil, and Russia, awash in oil that it cannot so easily sell, have some but not all similar agendas on the Iran War. They share an overriding directive: whatever is good for the U.S. is bad for them. So, they support Iran in the war, but both
Victor Davis Hanson Many once hard-core podcasters/internet influencers/politicos and MAGA loyalists have broken with Trump, ostensibly because they have termed the 60-day air campaign over Iran (13 fatalities) a “forever” or “endless” war. A core of influential MAGA apostates (for example, Steven Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Megan Kelly, Candace Owens, Joe Rogan, etc.)
Victor Davis Hanson argues that the Democratic Party that we once knew has died, and another has taken its place. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson Item: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) on that propaganda news that some Iranian ships claim that they broke through the American blockade, a move intended to bankrupt the terrorist regime, the senator in response posted on social media, “Awesome.” Item: Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist, remarked in an interview that while he