Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Over the decade of Donald Trump’s political career, the left—as exemplified by Democratic politicos, the media, academics, the Washington military hierarchy, and the permeant bureaucratic state—illustrated a level of furor, venom, and near madness unprecedented in modern American history. Yet stranger still about such visceral, indeed lunatic hatred, despite Trump’s […]
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Pardoner-in-Chief Joe Biden has now established two precedents in presidential history. First, he “pardoned” his own son Hunter. No prior president has ever tried that shameless act, which is an affront to the entire hallowed notion of “equality under the law.”. Second, he did so in a way that no
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In the last two weeks, Kamala Harris has been trying to revive her stagnant campaign by smearing Trump as being Hitlerian and a fascist. She claims Trump is planning to put his enemies in encampments. Yet in the modern era, it was not Trump who put large numbers of U.S.
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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to analyze Gretchen Whitmer’s mockery of Catholicism, polls and Trump momentum, Stanford policy corrections, Obama lectures black males, Walz’s new directive, and General Milley up to his old tricks. Share This
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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the Hunter gun verdict and justice that “works,” Paul Ryan’s revealing interview, hostages saved in Gaza and a US hostage deal, Biden’s polls tanking, and General Milley in the news again. Share This
Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: will Michelle Obama be the Democratic candidate, what is the meaning of Menendez’s crimes, is our Customs and Border Protection importing immigrants, does the UAW understand the cost of regulation, what is Mark Milley’s legacy as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Some truths are so staggering in their ramifications that Americans simply shrug and tune them out as if strangers in a strange land. Is their current bewilderment because modernist America is unrecognizable —a nonexistent border, downtown homeless juxtaposed to hipster professional elites, DEI racial essentialism, cities reverting to precivilizational wastelands,
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald’s, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors. But these businesses spread because they appealed to free-will consumer demand abroad. They were not imposed top down. The U.S. presence in Afghanistan collapsed in August 2021 amid the greatest
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection. In mid-December, a San Francisco-bound United Airlines Boeing 777-200 airliner, just a little over a minute after taking off from Maui, Hawaii, suddenly dived. It lost more than half its altitude and came within 800 feet of crashing into
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Despite being Black, he [Rep. Byron Donalds] supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy.” — Representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.) “Larry Elder [former candidate for governor of California] is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned.” — Erika Smith, Los Angeles Times columnist America is an increasingly
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