Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Donald Trump just visited the United Nations to offer a customary annual presidential address. Before he arrived, there were reports that UN staffers had joked about shutting down the escalator to chastise Trump for cutting out aid to some UN programs. Upon arrival, as if on cue, Trump was met… Continue reading The Crudity of the Obsessive-Compulsive Left
Can the Left Ever Stop Its Craziness?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness California Senator Alex Padilla recently crashed a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He deliberately wore no identification. He gave no advance warning that he would disrupt her briefing. Instead, Padilla barged forward to the podium, shouting about the deportation of illegal aliens. Immediately, Padilla got his media… Continue reading Can the Left Ever Stop Its Craziness?
The Rogue’s New Gallery of Left-Wing Scoundrels
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The entire career of race-baiter Al Sharpton was founded on falsehoods about the Tawana Brawley scam. Nearly everything the left told us about the Trayvon Martin fight was false. The “hands up, don’t shoot” Ferguson fable and the Covington Kids myth were quickly exposed. The Duke Lacrosse and Jussie Smollett… Continue reading The Rogue’s New Gallery of Left-Wing Scoundrels
Gavin Newsom and His Cruel Notion of ‘Cruel’
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Recently, Gov. Newsom weighed in on the Trump administration’s efforts to undo the last four years of border destruction, when an estimated 10-12 million illegal aliens entered the U.S. unlawfully—among them thousands with criminal records. Of the recent Los Angeles efforts of ICE to detain those who entered and reside… Continue reading Gavin Newsom and His Cruel Notion of ‘Cruel’
Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California
Firebombing on the Pacific Over 25,000 acres are ablaze in Los Angeles in the Pacific Palisades fire, a veritable living hell. Some 12,000-plus structures were incinerated. More than 250,000 souls have been evacuated and are in need of shelter. No one has really taken charge yet. And now even the woke culprits for the catastrophe… Continue reading Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California
How California’s Paradise Become Our Purgatory
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly. How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end… Continue reading How California’s Paradise Become Our Purgatory
DEI Cronyism and Woke Grifters
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows. Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of cronies and grifters mouthed party lines in hopes that their approved ideology would allow them to advance their careers and excuse their lawbreaking. The same… Continue reading DEI Cronyism and Woke Grifters
Joe Biden’s Race Against the Truth
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden has about 17 months left as an elected politician—if he is lucky. That projection guides most of the inexplicable and shameless behavior of the Department of Justice and Biden himself. View Biden as in a race against the truth. Will he be physically and mentally able to complete… Continue reading Joe Biden’s Race Against the Truth
The Biden Presidency Is Unsustainable
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Imagine if Gavin Newsom was currently Vice President amid the final meltdown of the Biden family consortium. Does anyone doubt that Biden would then either be forced to resign by Democratic politicos (for reasons in addition to his escalating dementia), or would be impeached and perhaps abdicate Nixon-style? The presence… Continue reading The Biden Presidency Is Unsustainable
The Absurdities of Our Age
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness A sign of a civilization in headlong decline is its embrace of absurdities. Unfortunately for the United States, we are witnessing an epidemic of nihilist nonsense. Here are a few examples: Reparations How could a dysfunctional state like California even contemplate $800 billion in reparations? The state currently faces a… Continue reading The Absurdities of Our Age