Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Cynically running out the clock has been the overarching principle of the entire abbreviated 105-day presidential campaign of Kamala Harris—ever since Joe Biden, at the 11th-hour, dropped out in July. Harris seems unwilling or unable to answer any impromptu question that she has not been previously prepped for. Her answers… Continue reading Can Harris’s Cynical, Run-out-the Clock Campaign Succeed?
An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After the September 10, 2024, presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the Harris campaign became giddy. And why not? Pre-debate conventional wisdom had assured the country that underdog Harris would shock the nation with her endless wash/rinse/spin word salads of repeated phrases and memorized sound bites. She supposedly… Continue reading An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus
A Forgettable Warped Debate
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The September 10th presidential debate went down as expected. Summed up, it was Sappy and the Blob pile on Grouchy. The smarmy and evasive Kamala Harris preened, posed, and proffered empty platitudes. The ABC moderators proved they were predictably and shamelessly biased. And an irate Donald Trump confirmed that he was… Continue reading A Forgettable Warped Debate
The Media Lies Add Up
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left-wing and its media. The 2016 presidential campaign will be long remembered for the false allegation that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to warp the election. Citing the bogus “Steele dossier,” loser Hillary Clinton and other Democrat… Continue reading The Media Lies Add Up
The Quiet Before the Storms in Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There are three current hot or cold wars: on the Ukrainian border, in the regions surrounding Israel, and in the strategic space between Taiwan and mainland China. All three conflicts could not only expand within their respective theaters but also escalate to draw in the United States. And all three… Continue reading The Quiet Before the Storms in Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan?
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
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
Harris Is Recycling the 2020 Democrat Campaign
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election through a successful tripartite subterfuge. One, Biden never really campaigned. His handlers rightly assumed that the more the public and the media saw a debilitated Biden in the flesh, the less they would want him as president. So, the Biden campaign used the… Continue reading Harris Is Recycling the 2020 Democrat Campaign
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?