The legacy media continues to downplay recent bombing attempts and other violent incidents tied to illegal immigrants, arguing “Islamophobia” is overstated while antisemitism rises. Victor Davis Hanson criticizes the 1965 immigration shift toward family-based entry, saying the Left excuses illegality and anti-Americanism, and connects these trends to tribal politics. VDH and Jack mock a proposed… Continue reading Old Dominion Shooting Latest Reminder That the Third World Is Not Sending Its Best
Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The left is in its usual sanctimonious but schizophrenic mood. The media claims daily that the Trump administration has usurped power. It is supposedly destroying democracy. It tramples on the rule of law and thus has created a virtual dictatorship. Yet at the same time, Democrats high-five the most recent… Continue reading Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial?
The So-Called Trump-Ramaphosa ‘Ambush’
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Nothing highlights the poverty of the media-Democratic mind than its weary use of echo-chamber buzzwords. Once Pravda-like instructions are sent out from DNC operatives, mindless media anchors mouth them in lockstep as gospel. So, it was with the supposed “ambush” when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met Donald Trump. Trump… Continue reading The So-Called Trump-Ramaphosa ‘Ambush’
From One Fake Left-wing Hysteria to the Next
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream. For much of April, amid stock downturns, in the classical paranoid style, we were assured by the Wall Street Journal news reporters and the liberal press… Continue reading From One Fake Left-wing Hysteria to the Next
Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennan, and the European Ministers—Reveal It All
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the venom only further marginalizes the left. In its too-long 50th anniversary spectacle, Saturday Night Live offered a skit in which marquee actor Tom Hanks did… Continue reading Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennan, and the European Ministers—Reveal It All
Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine?
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… Continue reading Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine?
From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’—Why the 16 years of Vilification?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Who actually are the “garbage” people? Are they one and the same with Joe Biden’s “semi-fascists,” “chumps,” and “dregs of society?” Or Barack Obama’s “clingers?” Do they include Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables?” Are they FBI grandee Peter Strzok’s Walmart shoppers who “smell?” Over the last decade-and-a-half, Barack Obama, Hillary… Continue reading From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’—Why the 16 years of Vilification?
A Media Beyond Caricature
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness CBS’s iconic 60 Minutes has had plenty of scandals and embarrassments in its long 57-year history, most notably the fake-but-accurate Dan Rather mess. Yet never has it found itself in greater disrepute than in 2024. Donald Trump, for good reason, recently declined to join 60 Minutes for its traditional election-year in-depth interviews of the… Continue reading A Media Beyond Caricature
Can Harris’s Cynical, Run-out-the Clock Campaign Succeed?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Cynically running out the clock has been the overarching principle of the entire abbreviated 105-day presidential campaign of Kamala Harris—ever since Joe Biden, at the 11th-hour, dropped out in July. Harris seems unwilling or unable to answer any impromptu question that she has not been previously prepped for. Her answers… Continue reading Can Harris’s Cynical, Run-out-the Clock Campaign Succeed?
An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After the September 10, 2024, presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the Harris campaign became giddy. And why not? Pre-debate conventional wisdom had assured the country that underdog Harris would shock the nation with her endless wash/rinse/spin word salads of repeated phrases and memorized sound bites. She supposedly… Continue reading An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus