Victor Davis Hanson STEP THREE. Change voting and government rules when they are no longer useful. Claim any customs and traditions that are no longer advantageous are mere racist relics or the baleful legacy of old white men. When in the majority, demand the end of the racist filibuster. When in the minority save it […]
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Victor Davis Hanson What if you believed that the U.S. was in mortal danger because its elections continually led to the wrong results and policy choices? What if the “people” were just too ignorant of what was good for them and continually displayed such dangerous cluelessness in how they voted? How could you even work
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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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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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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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Victor Davis Hanson The current Left is certainly not the party of Harry Truman or JFK—or for that matter even of Bill Clinton. Neither ordered the FBI to raid the home of their predecessors. It is a revolutionary, a Jacobin party intent not just on winning elections and implementing more redistribution, bigger government, and higher
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Victor Davis Hanson First, tell the Chinese that Pelosi is flying to China and will be escorted there militarily. Two, inform the Chinese that there is a new policy of reciprocity. Anything China outlaws in relation to America, America will outlaw to China. Farmland? If Americans cannot buy it in China, Chinese will not buy
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Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Five. The Ukrainian war further whetted the Chinese beak. Our oil sanctions, thanks to huge Russian fuel purchases by India and China, are not working. Russia is now mercilessly grinding down the Ukrainians in a war of attrition. Europe is insidiously losing its enthusiasm for the war, as its winter
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Victor Davis Hanson “Gentlemen. If you’re going to take Vienna, take Vienna.” Attributed to Napoleon So supposedly Napoleon reminded his generals of the need to go full bore to finish any planned campaign—or suffer the wages of perceived weakness despite the ambition of the agenda. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was unclear whether she should have gone
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Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet As of now the real and only question about 2024 is twofold, can Trump get the Republican nomination, and if nominated could he beat any non-Biden candidate? The answer is clearly yes on both counts. But then again, the second part of the answer in the general election is yes
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