Wokeism

The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In the late 1850s, “Bleeding Kansas” was the term used to describe the escalating cycle of violence, when surrogates for the Union and soon-to-be Confederacy fought each other over whether Kansas would be admitted as a free or slave-owning state. As the assaults and killings increased, radicals set the agenda. […]

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What Made the Democratic Party Go Crazy?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The answer was not Trump alone. Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA movement “hijacked” the Republican Party. In characteristic projectionist fashion, the left is simply falsely attributing to their opposition the very hijacking that hit the Democratic Party. The

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Whither Kamala? On Second Thought, Who Cares?

Join Victor Davis Hanson and Co-host Jack Fowler as the discuss decentralizing the USDA, Kamala’s uncertain political future, the legacy of John Harris, the rise of the ‘climate right’, Gen Z going conservative, Sydney Sweeney and the backlash against woke ideology, and more. Share This

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The Cincinnati Cop-outs

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling several white adults in downtown Cincinnati. The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white male in he-said/he-said fashion. But that dispute soon turned into a virtual free-for-all. Numerous male and female black youths sucker-punched a middle-aged woman and

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The Graveyard of Progressive Misadventures

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Sometime after the election of Barack Obama in 2008, the American Left began exploring, then embracing, and finally enacting agendas that proved not only unhinged and unworkable but also fatal to the left-wing project itself. How did the party so alienate the middle classes when it once professed it was

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The World Woke Up

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo. The unthinkable has become the banal. Take illegal immigration—remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under Biden? Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”—a euphemism for mass amnesties.

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The Frightening Dream House of Zoran Mamdani

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After his first-place win in the New York City mayoral primaries, Zohran Mamdani is furiously denying everything that he once glibly thought was cutting-edge and cool. So, like a good postmodern relativist, Mamdani now claims he didn’t really mean that violence was merely a “construct.” I suppose Mamdani asked Jewish

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Iran and China as Paper Tigers

Join Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler as they cover global perceptions of Iranian theocracy, assessing Iranian military effectiveness including during the Iraq-Iran War, the leadership of Xi Jinping, racial politics within the Democratic Party, and more. Share This

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Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people. The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways. First, it serially lied to Americans about the cognitive decline and

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The Year 1940, War, and California Legislature or Asylum

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this weekend’s episode in which Victor explains the strategy of the German and Japanese armies as they waxed in WWII and then takes up some current news: Kristi Noem’s testimony, Venezuela in the illegal immigration game, Antifa again at University of Washington, and the NY Times

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