Main Menu
Search
Main Menu

Election 2016

Mueller’s Problem Is Not Trumpers’ Zeal — but the Perception of Inequality under the Law

Leave a Comment /

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review What is disturbing about the Mueller investigation is not per se that a special counsel is looking into charges of wrongdoing known as “collusion,” but that he is indicting or leveraging suspects, amid a larger landscape of related perceived wrongdoers, who so far have not been subject to the …

Mueller’s Problem Is Not Trumpers’ Zeal — but the Perception of Inequality under the Law Read More »

Share This

The Real Russian Disaster

Leave a Comment /

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Donald Trump has said a lot of silly stuff about Russia, from joking about Vladimir Putin helping to find Hillary’s deleted emails, to naïve musings about the extent of Russian interference into Western democratic elections. But far more important than what he has said is what Trump has done. …

The Real Russian Disaster Read More »

Share This

Counterfeit Elitism

Leave a Comment /

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Those damn dairy farmers. Why do they insist on trying to govern? Or, put another way: Why are Republicans trusting Devin Nunes to be their oracle of truth!? A former dairy farmer who House intel staffers refer to as Secret Agent Man because he has no idea what’s going …

Counterfeit Elitism Read More »

Share This

A Year of Achievement: the case for the Trump presidency

Leave a Comment /

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review As President Trump finished his first full year in office, he could look back at an impressive record of achievement of a kind rarely attained by an incoming president — much less by one who arrived in office as a private-sector billionaire without either prior political office or military …

A Year of Achievement: the case for the Trump presidency Read More »

Share This

Trump’s Midterm Known Unknowns

Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review   ‘Shy’ Trump voters, a booming economy, consumer confidence, looming investigations, anti-Trump frenzy — all add up to uncertainty in the 2018 elections.   Conventional wisdom and media hopes are now combining to warn us of what is shaping up as a Trump wipeout in the 2018 midterms.   …

Trump’s Midterm Known Unknowns Read More »

Share This

Criticisms of Comey and Mueller Aren’t ‘Character Assassination’

Leave a Comment /

The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review   In his efforts to refute Charles Cooke’s recent exposé of Jennifer Rubin, I was surprised to see David Frum, in passing, attack my Hoover colleague, legal scholar Peter Berkowitz (a “Sean Hannity–style character assassination of James Comey and Special Counsel Robert …

Criticisms of Comey and Mueller Aren’t ‘Character Assassination’ Read More »

Share This

Is Trump an Island?

Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review   If Trump would let his deeds speak for themselves, he would quiet his enemies far more than he does with Twitter broadsides. No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . . And …

Is Trump an Island? Read More »

Share This

One Mueller-Investigation Coincidence Too Many

Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson//National Review   Stacking the deck with anti-Trump staffers is proving to be a really bad idea.   Special prosecutors, investigators, and counsels are usually a bad idea. They are admissions that constitutionally mandated institutions don’t work — and can be rescued only by supposed superhuman moralists, who are without the innate …

One Mueller-Investigation Coincidence Too Many Read More »

Share This

Trump’s Fate

Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson Originally published at the National Review. Read the original article here.  Plenty of people in ‘flyover’ country like not only Trump’s message — and actions — but also Trump, the loudmouth messenger. The political verdict seems out on Trump’s current political future. His supporters have won four special congressional elections. Yet, …

Trump’s Fate Read More »

Share This