Victor Davis Hanson What best characterizes an Orwellian or Soviet society? The silent, collective acceptance of the truth that never can be spoken, and the lies of the apparat that everyone else knows are not true. Think of some of the astounding truths that we simply ignore. Hillary Clinton We have spoken about Clinton before, […]
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Victor Davis Hanson And then without a glitch, he said, “Leave the pickup key under the seat. I’ll find it. You go teach those classes. I’ll have it running in an hour and then you can get down here to check the crew and get back for the next class.” With my dad, it was
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Victor Davis Hanson Words Matter I omit for now the evil “great men” who changed history—the Hitlers, Maos, and Stalins—and who singularly explain a collective 100 million deaths. Instead, I want to focus on the good rescue work that exceptional men and women do, and why for anything to work you need talented and reliable
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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 Can the FBI be saved in its present form? Should it be disassembled, and its bureaus farmed out to other agencies? Should its headquarters be transferred to Kansas City, or maybe Fresno, Dayton, or Boise? Given its record of transgressions and lapses, would we miss its absence? Or are its Washington hierarchies
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Victor Davis Hanson Most think it likely that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will run against a probable candidate Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. If so, we can expect the following: 1) DeSantis will run on the Trump MAGA agenda. There will be no challenge on the major issues. There will be no Never Trump
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Victor Davis Hanson The party that once lectured America on its venerable Constitution and its affiliated protocols and demanded we live up to its ideals, now shuns them as reactionary. The Bill of Rights—not just the Second Amendment, but the First, Fourth and Fifth as well—are seen as obstacles to its own undeclared revolution. Likewise,
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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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Victor Davis Hanson Since the Left cannot win over 51 percent of the population to its border, energy, crime, economic, social, foreign, and race-based policies, it turns to its near monopoly over institutions—academia, the media, Big Tech, the administrative state, the corporate boardroom, K-12, entertainment and sports and the foundations—to wage a propaganda and cultural
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Victor Davis Hanson We are in the middle of a grand effort to create an equality-of-result, race-based, radical Jacobin society. It is by design entirely antithetical to the Founders’ constitutional republic. And the revolutionary agenda is overseen by an exempt bicoastal oligarchy. The enforced equality of result will, of course, be mandated by elites not
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