Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Democratic Party is polling about 27 percent approval—and sinking. In 2024, it lost the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and both the popular vote and the Electoral College, 312-226. In 2024, Trump won over 46 percent of the Hispanic vote, including a majority of Hispanic men.… Continue reading From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Porn
A Decade of Conspiracists?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Who has most peddled conspiracy allegations the last nine years—all of them false and nearly all of them influencing national elections and public policies? Once a target is constructed as Hitlerian, almost any means necessary to quash that perceived existential threat become justified. And we have seen a lot of… Continue reading A Decade of Conspiracists?
The Anti-Democratic Democratic Left
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden has claimed that his opponents are assaulting democracy on the basis of the January 6, 2020, buffoonish riot. Aside from the fact that storming the Capitol Rotunda sometimes is apparently deemed permissible—as in the recent pro-Hamas takeover of it—or aside from the fact that disrupting a federal government… Continue reading The Anti-Democratic Democratic Left
Will Partisan Lawfare Destroy Trump?
Trump Derangement Syndrome became Orwellian with the recent ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court. It approved the erasure of Trump from the Republican primary ballot in Colorado, by invoking Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That ossified clause was intended to bar any ante-bellum federal officials who joined the Confederacy from again holding federal offices after… Continue reading Will Partisan Lawfare Destroy Trump?
Permissible and Impermissible Incendiary Speech?
United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit the airwaves to connect the recent assault on Paul Pelosi with “fascism” and “white nationalism.” She insists that both are now ubiquitous. And both prompt increasing politically motivated violence. (Ocasio-Cortez remains oblivious to the greatest sustained political violence in our recent history; the 120 days of Black Lives… Continue reading Permissible and Impermissible Incendiary Speech?
Equal Justice, They Said
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What once distinguished the United States from illiberal regimes following the Orwellian mantra “some are more equal than others” was the hallowed American idea of “equal justice under the law.” The phrase is engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court—an ideal that took centuries to achieve. Yet it… Continue reading Equal Justice, They Said
The Exasperated American
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness A large majority of Americans now have no confidence in Joe Biden and his administration, which often polls below 40 percent, with negatives nearing 60 percent. Despite the 15-month catastrophe of his regime, the level of his own unpopularity remains understandable but still remarkable. After all, in 2020 voters already… Continue reading The Exasperated American