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Victor Davis Hanson What else should conservatives do to prevent another leftwing tsunami in 2024? 3. Match leftwing Super PACs like Vote Blue that focus on millions of smaller donors and outraise their conservative counterparts. The Left has the wealthy and the poor, but not the middle class. There are far more potential conservative American […]

Victor Davis Hanson In 2024, the Left will spend $4-5 billion on the presidential and congressional races, with another $4-5 billion in free advertising in propaganda from network news, PBS, NPR, and the Silicon Valley mob. The latter again will do their leftist best, from rigging the order of Google searches, to banning supposed “misinformation”

Victor Davis Hanson Conservative America has been growing ever angrier. But it still had remained inert and in somnolence about the ongoing woke revolution. But just lately that comatose dragon is beginning to awake—and with a roar. Conservatives usually do not boycott or embargo. They are too busy with work, family, church, and community. In

Victor Davis Hanson I bought new a 2021 Ram V6-EcoDiesel, four-wheel drive pickup. I like it a great deal. It has a lot of torque and horsepower, yet often achieves 31 miles per gallon on the freeway. The salesman said it was reliable and my research and word of mouth contacts sort of confirmed his

Victor Davis Hanson Theft, of course, characterized failed societies. In the last four years America has become a nation of thieves. No need to chart the spiraling crime rate. More interesting is the reaction to it and the effects on the dying citizens who play by the rules. Here are the symptoms of a thieving

Victor Davis Hanson Broken things are a sign of decay and decline. The proverbial Third-World hotel room, and I know it too well, is a mishmash of broken water fixtures and light switches, non-working alarm clocks, and blinds that don’t close—aside from inoperable air conditioners, refrigerators, and heaters. I once tried to turn on the

Victor Davis Hanson Another sign of decline is the weaponization and politicization of institutions. Decadent societies indict their former leaders upon leaving offices. Those in power sic federal agencies on their opponents. In turn, bureaucrats become agents of those in power, as if in private service—like laptop suppression, diary retrieval, performance-art raiding and arresting, or

Victor Davis Hanson When I drive in rural California and see the shacks, trailers, and compounds of 30-40 persons living in ad hoc shelters with Romex wire and water hoses attached to a small farmhouse, I conclude that this poverty is much more a third-world scene than I remember of Tunisia, Algeria, or Turkey. Or

Victor Davis Hanson We can calibrate the decline in the quality of American life by comparisons to both societies of the past and contemporary civilization elsewhere. And the result is not encouraging for Americans. I believe I may have visited 80 percent of the so-called first world countries in Europe and the Middle East, and

Victor Davis Hanson The FBI (Continued) How, then, do we alter the FBI to save it from itself? 1. Choice One: Move the entire headquarters to Kansas City or Laramie or Oklahoma City. There would be far less incestuous media/political/bureaucratic marriages, lobbying, and consulting, and far less opportunity for cocktail-hour networking, plotting, profiting, and cajoling.