Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Governor Ronald Reagan, in his 1967 inaugural address, famously remarked, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction.” Reagan today might have expanded on his theme by declaring that civilization itself is both fragile and can lost by a generation that recklessly spends… Continue reading The Destructive Generation—Proving America’s Weakest Link
Fear Trump—or Bust?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As Trump continues to show leads in critical swing states, as various lawfare-inspired cases against him seem to the public to be more persecutions than prosecutions, and as Joe Biden appears daily more incoherent and lost, the left on spec has resorted to warning the nation about all the supposedly… Continue reading Fear Trump—or Bust?
The Biden Reelection Strategy
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden polls at or below 40 percent approval. Historically, such unpopularity has made it almost impossible for a president to be reelected. His age advances by the hour. His voice falters, his memory fades, and his gait is reduced to short steps, with his arms, winglike and in tandem,… Continue reading The Biden Reelection Strategy
The End of Old Left-wing Mythologies
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The current radical and often violent protests on mostly blue-state, supposedly elite campuses have exposed in toxic fashion what the left has become. And yet, in a paradoxical fashion, the campus insanity has offered the nation some moral clarity. What’s surprising is not that the demonstrators are violent and nihilist,… Continue reading The End of Old Left-wing Mythologies
Gaming The 2024 Campaign
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
Is The Great Illusion In Ruins?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In 2021, Joe Biden was elected after a bitterly fought campaign that deposed the incumbent Donald Trump. Democrats eventually captured, for a time, both the House and Senate, ensuring the most left-wing government in modern American history. Americans were then set to witness a great experiment. For the first time… Continue reading Is The Great Illusion In Ruins?
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