The leftwing media is shrieking about the impending “end of democracy” given the looming “Trump dictatorship” they fear. Characteristic of their scenarios is that they never follow up to cite extralegal actions Trump took while President. Let’s examine areas where dictatorial behavior might have appeared to confirm their charges and predictions: 1) Did Trump ever …
Victor Davis Hanson The Left cannot govern, but its unpopularity often proves no bar to its acquisition and retention of power. Due to the media collusion/disinformation melodramas, COVID-19, the lockdowns, the ensuing George Floyd riots, Trump Derangement Syndrome, and vast change in most states’ balloting laws, the Left came into power in 2021 and controlled …
Victor Davis Hanson A common theme in writing about the Middle East is the separation between Hamas and the population of Gaza. Polls are quoted that show prior to October 7 Hamas was increasingly unpopular, allegedly because it was corrupt and had hijacked billions of dollars of foreign and international aid to divert it to …
Victor Davis Hanson Much of the nation was shocked at what followed on campus after October 7. Professors on campuses throughout the United States were not shy in expressing their joy on hearing that Jews were murdered—“exhilarated” in the words of one Cornell professor. Some professors called for identifying and then following Jewish children, some …
Victor Davis Hanson The support for the Hamas murderers of October 7 and visceral hatred of Israel displayed by the likely majority of the campus student body and faculty of our most elite institutions have put into jeopardy the entire Democratic coalition. Who actually is screaming, “Beat the fu—ing Jew” at UCLA? Or barricading Jewish …
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Victor Davis Hanson Things at home and abroad are bleak. Israel, alone in the world, struggles to destroy Hamas for murdering the greatest number of Jews in one day since the Holocaust. Yet in every major American city and on most elite campuses, Middle Eastern students and their leftist woke friends damn Israel. And they …
From an Angry Reader: Thanks for the most ignorant piece of writing. Drawing all these comparisons doesn’t negate the fact that Israel is in fact an apartheid state established on the blood of expelled Palestinians. Being pro Palestinian ≠ antisemitism. Maybe you can study up on how Arabs are Semites too. Hala Abraham Dear Hala …
From an Angry Reader: Saw this piece of shit Hanson assmuncher posting a video about how we on the left are anti semitic. Why doesn’t this lying cumstain lowlife debate Norman Finklestein on the issue. lol…of course, we both know that will never happen because victor shitstain doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to engage with …
Victor Davis Hanson The U.S. What is the American interest in the Gazan war? It is clearly threefold. One, America seeks to protect the only constitutional government in the Middle East from its myriad of Iranian terrorist proxies. Our role then is to provide Israel with enough weapons to replenish its stocks and survive, share …
Victor Davis Hanson Russia Russia will not intervene to save Hamas or Hezbollah. It is broke, tied down in Ukraine, and despises Islam, as we saw when it flattened Chechnya. However, Putin also does all he can to weaken the U.S. So expect Russia to favor the terrorists, make it difficult for the IDF to …