Historian’s Corner

Victor Davis Hanson Tulsi Gabbard/Director of National Intelligence Here in no special order are a few of Trump’s most controversial appointments for high cabinet positions. Let’s start with Tulsi Gabbard, but with a warning: for each appointment, I will try to determine the existing bar for such a selection as established by either Barack Obama […]

Victor Davis Hanson Money Harris and her PACs supposedly outraised their Trump counterparts by about $1 billion and spent that huge sum in little over 100 days. Would that not ensure Trump was crushed under a landslide of ads and commercials? Not necessarily. What if the commercials for Harris were both more costly and worse?

Victor Davis Hanson Media Yes, the Left controls the Media. But the times they are changing. The biased news network triad of ABC, NBC, and CBS, along with PBS and the cable MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC news channels, may garner over 20 million nightly network viewers. Their anchors may be higher paid and more prestigious

Victor Davis Hanson Hillary Clinton. Prior to Kamala, Hillary was accused of running a singularly lousy and failed 2016 campaign as the nation’s first would-be shoo-in female president. Her effort was inept, marred by corruption and arrogance, and she was acknowledged to have blown an easy victory. Hillary resented deeply the idea that the upstart

Víctor Davis Hanson The Bidens (of course). Dr. Jill had never forgiven Kamala Harris for smearing her husband on the 2019 Democratic primary debate stage as a racist. Jill suspected that Kamala was aware of or complicit in the Obama/Pelosi/Schumer/Jeffries machinations to dispose of Joe in July 2024. As a result, Jill now enjoys the

Victor Davis Hanson 14. Assassination Porn. Threatening the life of a president in order to dehumanize him and lower the bar of his safety became a tactic of the Left. Donald Trump is not just the only president to have been impeached twice, tried as a private citizen, indicted by four local/state/federal prosecutors, and targeted

Victor Davis Hanson 13. Blowing up the Debates. In 2024, the Commission on Presidential Debates crashed because it could never assure the two parties that selecting the candidates on the stage, the moderators, the time, the place, and the rules were truly non-partisan as advertised. Do we remember the 2012 hijacking of the debate by

Victor Davis Hanson 11. Destroying the Senate Filibuster. The Senate filibuster, despite minor changes, has more or less been in effect for some 180 years. The idea was to slow down rush-to-judgment wild swings in the national mood and prevent near instantaneous resultant law-making—all in the manner that the Founders envisioned the key differences between

Victor Davis Hanson 9. Packing the Court. Did the Right ever wish to pack the 16-year-long liberal Warren Court? Did it ever seek to harass, demonize, or swarm the homes of the justices? What would happen to a Democrat-nominated justice who swung rightwing in the manner that lots of Republican-appointed justices went leftward and hard

Victor Davis Hanson 8. Destroying the Electoral College. Next, we come to an array of leftwing proposals designed to destroy the Constitution as we have known it, all for the short-term advantage of the Left. Vice presidential candidate, the buffoonish and so often untruthful Tim Walz just boasted, “The Electoral College needs to go.” And