Iran’s fractured leadership can’t be trusted and President Donald Trump’s sequencing—destroying air defenses and nuclear/military infrastructure, then negotiating while imposing a costly blockade—puts time against Tehran and enables U.S. dictation rather than an Obama-style deal, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Hanson also discusses the upcoming… Continue reading Clarence Thomas Body Slams Progressivism
Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar: How Exactly Have Somalis Made Life in America Better?
From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Porn
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Democratic Party is polling about 27 percent approval—and sinking. In 2024, it lost the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and both the popular vote and the Electoral College, 312-226. In 2024, Trump won over 46 percent of the Hispanic vote, including a majority of Hispanic men.… Continue reading From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Porn
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?
Kamala’s Inane Talking Points
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As Vice President Kamala Harris slips in the polls, the Democratic National Committee/Harris Campaign/mainstream media fusion talking points become even more absurd. Claiming that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump were “weird” did not work—especially given the genuinely odd behavior of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and would-be First Gentleman Doug… Continue reading Kamala’s Inane Talking Points
The Strange, Mythological Campaign of Kamala Harris
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Increasingly, little if anything remains real about the Harris campaign. Take ideology and the issues.Read More It is now well known that Kamala Harris was rated as the most left-wing of all current senators, including Bernie Sanders—according to GovTrack, a non-partisan compiler of evaluators in Congress. The Voteview project found… Continue reading The Strange, Mythological Campaign of Kamala Harris
The Myriad Projections of the 2024 Campaign
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Projectionism Projection is a Freudian psychological term. It describes a particular defensive mechanism, when people, often unconsciously, attribute their own (usually undesirable) behaviors to others who do not have them. These mental gymnastics are intended to alleviate one’s own guilt or sense of inadequacy at the expense of another. Sound… Continue reading The Myriad Projections of the 2024 Campaign
Our Three Silent Mice
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Biden President Biden was forced, unceremoniously and unwillingly, to abdicate from his impending reelection nomination. Since then, we have neither seen nor heard much from our sitting President. He has vanished, poof, gone. This is quite unusual if not alarming. Unlike prior to the June 27 debate, the left now… Continue reading Our Three Silent Mice
The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden won in 2020 on the premise that until the November election, he would pose as good ol’ Joe from Scranton and not scare voters. So Biden talked about “unity” and “competency.” He erased his prior wild primary pandering to left-wing voters about shutting down fracking and opening the… Continue reading The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip