Historian’s Corner

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

Victor Davis Hanson 7. Coups—the backroom nullification of voters. Over 14 million Democratic voters chose Joe Biden in 2024 to be the Democratic nominee. No other contender came close. Yet after a disastrous early debate on June 27, 2024 (unprecedented given that it preempted both the conventions and the nominations of the candidates), backroom Democratic

Victor Davis Hanson 4. Lawfare. Imagine coordinating five local and state indictments and civil suits against a presidential candidate and ex-president to bankrupt his candidacy and person, silence his campaign with gag orders, and seek to incarcerate him to prevent him from winning the 2024 election. Note that the Biden White House had been in

Victor Davis Hanson Does the current United States really allow the voice of the people to be heard in free and fair elections, with information from the government honestly and disinterestedly disseminated? Increasingly not. Did the Trump years, or, more specifically, Trump Derangement Syndrome, cause the paranoid Left to destroy democracy purportedly to save it?

So as far as the Holocaust and the millions slaughtered by Nazism‚ well, as Cooper seems to toss off, the chaos of death sometimes got a bit out of hand and beyond the ability of well-meaning Wehrmacht officers to cope with. And so, we the Allies were wrong even to try the architects of the

There was an ideological component of it. But then as time goes on, you read stories about, about Churchill going bankrupt and needing money, getting bailed out by people who shared his interests in terms of Zionism, but also his hostility, I think his hostility…. To put it this way, I think his hostility to