Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war. So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on September 29, 2023—and just eight days before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis—Biden’s… Continue reading How To Blow Up the Middle East War in Five Easy Steps
October September Surprises!
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover. Think of the last-minute bombshell disclosure, five days before the 2000 election, that… Continue reading October September Surprises!
Our So-called ‘Experts’ and their Silly Group-speak Letters
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One of the most preposterous recent trends has been the political use of supposed expert letters and declarations of support from so-called “authorities.” These pretentious testimonies of purported professionalism are different from the usual inane candidate endorsements from celebrities and politicos. Instead, they are used by politicians to impress and… Continue reading Our So-called ‘Experts’ and their Silly Group-speak Letters
The Biden-Harris World Is Afire
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Somehow the United States ended up this summer with no engaged president and an absent vice president who avoids the missing president and is frantically repudiating everything she co-owned the last three years. The world was already confused over how President Joe Biden was apparently declared by unnamed Democratic insiders… Continue reading The Biden-Harris World Is Afire
Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic. Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic. That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter… Continue reading Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’
The Weird, Creepy, Surreal — and Dangerous — 2024 Campaign
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history. Here are ten unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we’ve entered this bizarro world: How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president… Continue reading The Weird, Creepy, Surreal — and Dangerous — 2024 Campaign
The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden won in 2020 on the premise that until the November election, he would pose as good ol’ Joe from Scranton and not scare voters. So Biden talked about “unity” and “competency.” He erased his prior wild primary pandering to left-wing voters about shutting down fracking and opening the… Continue reading The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip
How Trump Can Win—or Lose—the Election
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Good News The good news for the Trump campaign is that the sure Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is a lifelong California hard leftist at a time when the state is emblematic of progressive nihilism. Her extremist advocacies as a San Francisco county and city attorney, state Attorney General, and… Continue reading How Trump Can Win—or Lose—the Election
The Biden Titanic
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden’s escalating dementia and the long media-political conspiracy to hide his senility from the public are the least of the Democrats’ current problems. Biden’s track record as president may be more concerning than his cognitive decline. He has literally destroyed the U.S. border, deliberately allowing the entry of more… Continue reading The Biden Titanic
Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union. . .
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank, and gained weight, he aged prematurely. Also like them, his disabilities never led to his abdication. By Brezhnev’s late sixties and early seventies, he was too… Continue reading Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union. . .