Democracy

Who Has Been Busy Destroying Democracy?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Destroying democracy”—the latest theme of the left—can be defined in many different ways. How about attempting to destroy constitutional, ancient, and hallowed institutions simply to suit short-term political gains? So, who in 2020, and now once again, has boasted about packing the 156-year-old, nine-justice Supreme Court? Who talks frequently about […]

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Tocqueville’s Appraisal and Harris’ Speech

In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Sami Winc discusses the “New Way Forward” message, Oprah’s sense of “unfairness,” Democrats and abortion, Trump at the border, and Harris’ speech to the DNC. Don’t miss the middle segment where VDH explores the works of Alexis de Tocqueville and his admiration of American democracy. Share

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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

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Biden ‘Saves’ Democracy by Destroying it

When faced with the possible return of President Donald Trump, the current agenda of the Democratic Party is summed up simply as “We had to destroy democracy to save it.” The effort shares a common theme: any means necessary are justified to prevent the people from choosing their own president, given the fear that a

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The Republican Debate and Elections

VDH’s Friday News Roundup with cohost Sami Winc is all about the Wednesday night debate and our elections: debate performance, who wasn’t there, Democratic hopeful RFK Jr. finds large crowds in Iowa, and the Left’s general disdain for elections. Share This

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The Coup We Never Knew

Did someone or something seize control of the United States? What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border

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Political Deception and Its History

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore the long line of deception not just in current democratic politics, but also in antiquity and military history. Share This

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Class Warfare, An American Tradition

We are no more partisan today than we were at the nation’s founding. by Bruce S. Thornton // Defining Ideas  Are we more “polarized” and “partisan” than we were in the past? Political commentators think so. In a recentAtlantic profile, conservative pollster Frank Luntz attributed his cynicism about American politics to the unprecedented polarization of the American

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The Inequality Smokescreen

by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine  Desperate for a diversion from the disasters of Obamacare, the president has conjured up the old leftist “income inequality” cliché. His court-pundits complain that “the richest nation on earth is starting to resemble a banana republic,” according toThe New Republic, while Berkeley Professor Robert Reich has thundered against “casino

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