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 […]
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,
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
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
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
Victor Davis Hanson Let us first be clear. Do not believe that the midterms are lost, or even that the Democrats are on the “upswing.” Instead go back and read the Labor Day press and study the September polls of 1994 and 2010, when the supposed Republican tsunamis had “crested.” They had not. Both years
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
Victor Davis Hanson We lost two entire crops to unseasonable tropical storms and saved one from a deluge by “rolling all night long” with a crew of ten. (Even my 60-year-old dad was on his operated knees and my mom too.) When rain came in those days, health or age was no exemption from rolling.
Victor Davis Hanson The trays after picking then sat cooking for 8-12 days, depending on the heat and humidity, the quality of the picker, the height of the vine rows, and the nature of the soil (sandy meant quick drying, heavy loam not so much). Some perfectionist farmers then sent a crew to “turn” or
Victor Davis Hanson As I said, I was a good picker but a lousy farmer inspector. Whether I yelled at the offender depended on whether he was young, male, and a gang banger (yes, demand a good job), or old, tired, and trying (no, let him pass). At ten I once said to my grandfather