At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year. Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars […]
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness To find an impossible peace between Ukraine and Russia we must understand the recent history of the war and the European and American roles in it. So, Americans should revisit some fundamental realities and questions from which to remember before going forward: Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine in 2022? Putin did start
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the venom only further marginalizes the left. In its too-long 50th anniversary spectacle, Saturday Night Live offered a skit in which marquee actor Tom Hanks did
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What is the long-term Democratic Party’s strategy to return to power? Americans may ask that only because so far, the Democrat agenda seems to entail polarizing and alienating as many voters as possible. They gleefully double down on their 2024 defeat. And they seem almost to grow ecstatic at ensuring
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE. “Musk has no right to cut USAID.” Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs. They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Its mandate
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Democratic Party is polling about 31 percent approval, a near-historic low. Despite enjoying a huge lead in fundraising, legacy media favoritism, and incumbency, in the 2024 election, Democrats lost the White House to Donald Trump. Ever since, they have offered nothing new, no novel agenda, no innovative policies—nothing other
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries. Both American and foreign critics blasted them variously as either counterproductive and suicidal or unfair, imperialistic, and xenophobic. Certainly, tariffs are widely hated by doctrinaire economists. They complain that tariffs burden consumers with
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The diversity, equity, and inclusion project, often seen as a major element of the so-called “woke” creed along with green fanaticism, keeps popping up as a possible subtext in a variety of recent tragedies. In the case of the Los Angeles fires, Mayor Karen Bass, who cut the fire department
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences? Mexico also recently balked at allowing a U.S. transport plane to land,
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