Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness We have seen enough of the Biden-Trump race so far to predict what lies ahead over the next seven months of the campaign. Currently, the polls are about dead even. Trump, however, for now enjoys small leads in the majority of the fickle swing/purple states that will likely decide the… Continue reading Gaming The 2024 Campaign
Guilty!—But Not Really Guilty?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In 2011, then Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama, John Brennan, swore before Congress that drone-targeted assassination missions near the Pakistani border had not led to “a single collateral death.” That was an obvious lie with grave consequences, given that Brennan was sworn under oath and was one of the… Continue reading Guilty!—But Not Really Guilty?
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
American Paralysis and Decline
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.- A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the… Continue reading American Paralysis and Decline
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
Blue Laws for Red Citizens
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed $500 million. Trump awaits further civil and criminal liability in three other federal, state, and local indictments. There are eerie commonalities in all these five court cases… Continue reading Blue Laws for Red Citizens
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
Trump Has Reason to Rage — But Needs to Stay Calm and Get Even Rather than Mad
Donald Trump gave one of his best and most conciliatory speeches of his political career after his win in the recent Iowa primaries—that might explain why the media would not cover it. Later, to answer an ad hoc ambush reporter’s question whether he would hold grudges, he emphatically said he did not. Yet after his… Continue reading Trump Has Reason to Rage — But Needs to Stay Calm and Get Even Rather than Mad
Nikki Haley’s Strategies?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Nikki Haley just lost the New Hampshire primary by 11 percent. She had earlier come in third in the recent Iowa caucuses behind Ron DeSantis. But DeSantis, not she, dropped out of the race. He then endorsed front-runner Donald Trump. By contrast, Haley confidently announced that at last there… Continue reading Nikki Haley’s Strategies?
Lawfare Against Trump Is Running Out of Gas
We should dispense with the tired narrative that four conscientious state and federal prosecutors—independently and without contact with the Biden White House or the radical Democrats in Congress—all came to the same disinterested conclusions that Donald Trump should be indicted for various crimes and put on trial during the campaign season of 2024. The prosecutors… Continue reading Lawfare Against Trump Is Running Out of Gas