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Obama’s Utterly Hypocritical Response to Trump’s Criticisms of His Record

9 Comments / September 18, 2015

by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO – The Corner President Obama just said this about Donald Trump’s disparagement of the last seven years: “In the echo chamber that is presidential politics, everything is dark and everything is terrible.” Presidential candidates “don’t seem to offer many solutions for the disasters that they perceive, but they’re quick […]

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What Makes Donald Run?

25 Comments / September 1, 2015

He’s giving fed-up Republicans something other candidates are not. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Donald Trump has at least three things going for him. One, the mood of the country remains foul and fed-up — and volatile to the point that conventional wisdom is hardly reliable. Two, Trump has turned invective and narcissism

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How Illegal Immigration Finally Turned Off the Public

42 Comments / August 31, 2015

If there were not a Donald Trump, he would likely have had to have been invented. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Why did the illegal-immigration issue launch Donald Trump’s campaign? Why did his recent tense press conference exchange with Univision’s Jorge Ramos please even some of Trump’s liberal critics? What is it about

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Donald Trump and the Other Class Warfare

27 Comments / August 26, 2015

When democratic masses tire of being condescended to. by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The rise and continuing popularity of Donald Trump reminds us that “class warfare” is an eternal constant of democracies, for as Plato said, every city is in fact two cities, “one the city of the poor, the other of the

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Absurd—and Not-so-Absurd—Immigration

13 Comments / August 24, 2015

Trump’s plan of mass deportations en masse is unworkable, but that’s not an argument against weeding out criminals and those without work histories in the U.S. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media In the discussion of Donald Trump’s agenda for dealing with illegal immigration, lots of his proposals are said to be absurd. But

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How Long Will Trump’s Cathartic Candidacy for Fed-Up Conservatives Last?

41 Comments / August 14, 2015

by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The coarser and cruder Donald Trump becomes, and the more ill-informed on the issues he sounds, the more he coasts in the polls. Apparently, a few of his targets must be regarded as unsympathetically as their defamer. Trump is rightly mocked for cynically spreading quid pro quo money

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Donald Trump and the Fed-Up Crowd

48 Comments / July 27, 2015

Watching Trump’s rise, America’s middle class “fed-up crowd” is enjoying the comeuppance of an elite that never pays for the ramifications of its own ideology. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Donald Trump — a former liberal and benefactor of Democrats — is still surging. But his loud New York lingo, popular put-downs of

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