Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—who prefers to be known as AMLO for short—issued to the Biden administration blackmail demands that sounded more like existential threats. AMLO warned the U.S. that the current influx of some 10 million illegal aliens through the southern border will most… Continue reading With ‘Friends’ Like Mexico’s Obrador, Who Needs Enemies Like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un and the Ayatollahs?
Biden’s Border Blowup
Some 8 to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since Joe Biden took office. A demagogic candidate Biden, remember, in 2019 invited those massing at the southern border to “surge” into the United States without specifying they first needed legal sanction: “We immediately surge to… Continue reading Biden’s Border Blowup
Elite Heaven or Real Hell on Earth?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The horrific murder of Laken Riley by a repeated felony offender and illegal alien Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, was preventable—had federal immigration laws simply been enforced by the Biden administration. When called out in his recent State of the Union address, President Biden referenced the deceased Ms. Riley. But Biden… Continue reading Elite Heaven or Real Hell on Earth?
Russia! Russia! Forever: An Anatomy of a Left-wing Obsession
Collusion about Collusion The more candidate Trump in 2016 trolled the Clinton campaign (e.g., “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”), the more the irate left bought into hysterical conspiracy theories. Finally, the left became… Continue reading Russia! Russia! Forever: An Anatomy of a Left-wing Obsession
Delusions, Alternate Realities, and the Biden Consortium
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Hunter Biden has a train of a dozen lawyers defending him on felony indictments ranging from several counts of tax fraud to gun violations. From time to time, the contents of his laptop come up, both in these criminal trials and in civil suits. The information on the laptop is,… Continue reading Delusions, Alternate Realities, and the Biden Consortium
Do Leftists Now Believe Leftism Doesn’t Work?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness It is hard to destroy a naturally beautiful city like San Francisco, with ideal weather and stunning infrastructure inherited from far better earlier generations. Yet San Francisco continues its much-publicized and self-inflicted doom loop. The productive classes still flee the increasingly crime-ridden city and its self-induced pathologies. The city is… Continue reading Do Leftists Now Believe Leftism Doesn’t Work?
The Absurd Democrat Border Con
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In 2021, Joe Biden opened wide an inherited, secure southern border that had finally stopped mass illegal immigration. When he overturned Donald Trump’s efforts, a planned flood of over 8 million illegal immigrants entered the U.S. Almost all arrived without background checks, health screening, or vaccination certificates—but with massive needs… Continue reading The Absurd Democrat Border Con
Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What Excites Biden? Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters we now daily witness that are nearly destroying the country. When the ailing and non-compos-mentis president… Continue reading Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving?
How To Ensure a Big, Ugly War with Iran
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some 170 times. Ostensibly, these terrorist groups claim they are hitting US forces to coerce America into dropping its support of Israel and demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza war. In reality, these satellite terrorists are being… Continue reading How To Ensure a Big, Ugly War with Iran
2024—America’s Year of Living Dangerously
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Lame-duck presidencies, especially in the last six months of their final term, in general can offer opportunities for America’s enemies to take advantage of a perceived vacuum as one government transitions to the next. But these normal changeover months are especially dangerous when a perceived weak or appeasing lame-duck president… Continue reading 2024—America’s Year of Living Dangerously