Victor Davis Hanson The obvious answer to all these disconnects, shockers, and paradoxes is not quite the whole answer: that Trump won in the greatest political comeback in U.S. history, that he might well be a Reaganesque president to Biden’s Carter, that his success will be his revenge and reveal to the country just how […]
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Victor Davis Hanson How do we explain that the world is turning upside down after November 5, 2024, and will continue following January 20, 2025? Symptoms? Take the media? The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and others suddenly did not endorse their usual left/Democratic presidential candidate this election. So, many of their writers are
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Victor Davis Hanson VDH Ultra Willis indicted Trump for the crime of asking the registrar to “find” (not invent) Trump votes that he claimed he knew existed, but were likely “missing”. Like Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, and Letitia James, Willis coordinated her writs with the White House. Remember that special counsel Jack Smith was appointed
Victor Davis Hanson VDH Ultra In our chronicle of key moments that might explain how Trump went from a departing approval rating of 34% to sweeping the Republican primaries and trouncing Kamala Harris, we now list a fifth turning point in his rebirth. Following the Mar-a-Lago FBI Swat raid, the Trump East Palestine, Ohio visit,
Victor Davis Hanson VDH Ultra There would be five civil and criminal suits and indictments lodged against Donald Trump. All of them shared at least three things in common: 1) none of them would have been gone forward had the accused not been Donald Trump; 2) none would have been filed had Donald Trump not
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate,
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Harvard President Claudine Gay’s tenure is on life-support. Why, then, would a woke black woman likely soon be asked to resign at one of the most leftwing institutions in America, especially when the Harvard Corporation board hired her precisely for her DEI credentials? Here are several reasons why ultimately she will have to go. If
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Victor Davis Hanson “You have to have good men.” Jürgen Prochnau as Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Ellenbrook in Das Boot “We’re not going to get rid of anybody! We’re going to stick together, just like it used to be! When you side with a man, you stay with him! And if you can’t do that, you’re like
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Victor Davis Hanson The Great Father-Son PTA Nights In this same town, at this same half-rural elementary school, there was not just an annual pinewood derby. There was also Fathers-and-Sons PTA night (and a Fathers-and-Daughters night that we were ineligible for, given my sister had died at one, and we three boys were it). What
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Victor Davis Hanspm The Great Pinewood Derby We got along because there were lots of civic occasions that cemented us together. One was the annual Cub Scouts “Pinewood Derby” race. Fourth to sixth graders bought pinewood derby kits for $2. They got a lot for their money: a block of light pine, some plastic wheels,
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