Who knows; the only mystery left is how much damage will the last gasp of 2016 bring? by Victor David Hanson // PJ Media Three things so far have saved Obama’s otherwise unfortunate tenure; all came over his own objections. One, after the 2010 midterm tsunami, the newly elected House Republicans put a lid on …
Hillary Clinton’s Freudian Slip by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media For nearly 40 years, Bill and Hillary Clinton have crafted joint power careers. But “in the end,” what have they become? What is left but their front foundation, their Soros-funded surrogates, and their lock-step loyalists — in other words, their “empire of dirt”? Share …
Plus some thoughts on Michael Walsh’s The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, and the damage inflicted upon American culture by the Frankfurt School. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media We don’t know yet what issue will end up driving the autumn phase of the 2016 election. In 2008 a hectoring Obama thought it would always be …
Here and abroad, the Obama administration damages whatever it touches. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The next president and Congress will inherit what President Obama left behind. Whether Democrat or Republican, the president will have no choice other than to try to undo much of what Obama has wrought. But can he …
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Hillary Clinton’s second race for the presidency is only about a quarter through, but she already seems to be causing general fatigue. The lurid revelations about the Clinton Foundation proved that it was not so much a charity as a huge laundering operation. Quid pro quo donations from the …
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 …
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 …
How Illegal Immigration Finally Turned Off the Public Read More »
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 …
Leftwingers’ taunts in 2008 and 2012 have come back to haunt them. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online In the jubilation of the Obama election victories of 2008 and 2012, the Left warned Republicans that the party of McCain and Romney was now “too old, too white, too male — and too few.” …
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 …