Victor Davis Hanson Here are my top ten encounters of a strange kind over the last decade in what used to be the safest, most wonderful rural space in the world. 1. The Tragic Dead. Two years ago, I came upon a parked abandoned Volkswagen with a deceased person in it. This was a real tragedy …
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Victor Davis Hanson The second incident was last week. I heard a bullet whiz through the almond orchard’s lower limbs. It sounded like it traveled 3 feet off the ground, about 20 yards from me. I could see that it came from a parked car about ¼ mile away. Two men from a dry pond …
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Victor Davis Hanson For the first 50 years of my rural existence, I don’t think I encountered more than 10 trespassing cars parked in the orchards or vineyards (one a decade)—aside from the intoxicated drivers who left the main road, veered off the pavement, destroyed several trees or vines, and abandoned their automobiles or trucks …
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Victor Davis Hanson Given the radical shift to 70 percent of the electorate not voting on Election Day as the traditional ballot rejection rate dived by a magnitude, given the billions of dollars that will be pledged to stop Donald Trump, and given the use of lawfare to restrict his availability on the campaign trail, …
Victor Davis Hanson Nonetheless, here we are in mid-March 2024, some eight years after Trump entered the political scene and Trump has arisen from the political deceased. How many epitaphs have been written and will be written about Trump? And yet he is now leading an incumbent president in almost all the polls, with minorities …
Victor Davis Hanson Almost every effort the Left has employed to destroy Trump has not—at least yet—succeeded. And there remains only one Trump opponent left—Trump himself. Let me explain. In 2016, the Clinton campaign, the DNC, the Perkins Coie law firm, Fusion GPS, and Christopher Steele, all with help from the DOJ, CIA, and FBI, …
Victor Davis Hanson The final catalyst that led to our collective implosion was the election year 2020 and the accelerating Trump Derangement Syndrome. As the cities burned, unbelievable madness followed in efforts to ensure the incumbent president would not be reelected. Suddenly, congressional officials, mayors, and governors all refused to keep the peace by requesting …
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Victor Davis Hanson The third catalyst that fueled our sudden madness and melted down the country was the aftermath of the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. The eight-time felon was reportedly arrested after trying to pass counterfeit bills. He resisted arrest, was likely under the influence of recent (or very recent) fentanyl …
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Victor Davis Hanson Our nation’s change into something unrecognizable just four years ago had a few precursors and catalysts. The first was the Obama administration’s redefining of American norms. Before Obama, “racial relations” were largely defined as the historical 12 percent black/88 percent “non-black” dichotomy, in the context of dealing with the sins of southern …
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Victor Davis Hanson Presidents—Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden—have either been doubling the national debt in their four- or eight-year tenures or added several trillion to it. We all know that adding a trillion dollars in debt to what we collectively owe every 100 days is unsustainable. But then again, we all know that to stop the …
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