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VDH UltraThoughts on the Cultural Revolution in Our Midst. Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson When the Democrats lose the House in November, several FBI investigations will reveal things we can scarcely imagine. Investigators will hone in on what transpired under the last four FBI directors: McCabe (lied four times to federal investigators and oversaw fake FISA warrants); Comey (leaked confidential memos of private presidential conversations, feigned […]

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VDH UltraDoes Trump Grasp What the Left is Doing? Part One

Victor Davis Hanson A month ago, the news was “bombshells” from the January 6th committee. Three weeks ago, it was the “Raid,” or the FBI descent into the Trump home to take back “nuclear secrets.” As Merrick Garland fumbled about offering ever new reasons for the historic departure from 233 years of protocol, we then

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VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Raisins are dried grapes. For 100 years, Sun-Maid Raisins, the local co-op, insisted on dried Thompson seedless grapes, the green, seedless grapes you saw once in the store fresh (though in their natural smaller state, without being pumped up from the effects of gibberellic acid, stump and cane girdling, and weekly irrigation

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VDH UltraHow and Why Did Democrats Become Revolutionaries? Part Four

Victor Davis Hanson A final postscript to why the rich Left does the damage it does. Having money gives one rule over a family, lots of money over a community, lots more over a state, lots, lots more over a nation. The leftwing multibillionaire feels his life’s lucre was not an advertisement for capitalism, much

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VDH UltraHow and Why Did Democrats Become Revolutionaries? Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson But if we know how globalized wealth enriched sections of our economy, fueled the leftist takeover, and created would be philanthropic Napoleons intent on remaking the map, why did they use such wealth for such hard-core socialist agendas, so antithetical to how they earned their piles? Lots of reasons explain why cutthroat

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VDH UltraHow and Why Did Democrats Become Revolutionaries? Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson In sum, when thousands of atheists and agnostics have access to all the world’s delights with unchecked riches, they both indulge and yet feel terrible about their excess and indulgence. And so, they find causes to redeem their psyches that must satisfy just two criteria: one, the hard, rough consequences of their

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