By definition, progressives cannot be guilty of bias. By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online For a variety of historical and cultural reasons, most of those who work in the media are progressives. They believe that government must undertake to fix an array of social maladies, such as income inequality, perceived racial and gender […]
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If the ‘high IQs’ of the establishment have let America down, where is a voter to turn? By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Donald Trump seems to have offended almost every possible identity group. But the New York billionaire still also seems to appeal to the working classes (in part no doubt
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By Victor Davis Hanson // Defining Ideas If Donald Trump manages to curb most of his more outrageous outbursts by November, most Republicans who would have preferred that he did not receive the nomination will probably hold their noses and vote for him. How could that be when a profane Trump has boasted that he
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Facing a free-wheeling Trump, she is weighted down by tons of baggage. By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online This year was supposed to be Hillary Clinton’s “turn,” after her humiliating loss in 2008 to Barack Obama. She has paid her dues as secretary of state for Obama. And the apparent Republican presidential nominee,
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What do conservatives do when there is no conservative candidate? By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online I watched Donald Trump serially blast apart all my preferred candidates — Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz — as if for sport they were sent up in succession as clay pigeons. And now the November
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The predictions about Trump have been so wrong because none of the normal rules apply to him. By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Columnists assured us that Donald Trump’s campaign would implode after he cheaply besmirched war hero John McCain. They assured us again after he crudely dismissed Fox News’s star anchor
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There are many reasons to oppose Trump. But those aren’t the reasons being cited. By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Count the reasons to oppose Donald Trump’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for president. His conservative credentials are thin, recent, and often haphazard. His brash style will likely alienate more voters than it
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White elites are the main reason Donald Trump’s campaign hasn’t sputtered and failed. By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Why do the angry white poor and working class support the unlikely populist Donald Trump — a spoiled bully who made and lost fortunes in part by gaming the system, who seems to take
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President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary of State Clinton all had a hand in it. By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Deterrence is lost through lax foreign policy, an erosion of military readiness, and failed supreme command — often insidiously, over time, rather than dramatically, at once. The following random events over
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By Victor Davis Hanson // Works and Days by PJ Media Any fair reading of State Department and general federal government laws regarding the use of classified information by federal employees makes it is clear that Hillary Clinton violated the law—both by improperly setting up her own private server, and then by sending information through
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