Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
For years, the left has advanced utter untruths for cheap partisan purposes that it knew at the time were all false. And now when caught, they just shrug and say they were lying all along.
Once it was known that the first COVID-19 case originated in or near a Chinese communist virology lab engineering gain-in-function deadly viruses—with help from Western agencies—the left went into full persecution mode.
They damned as incompetent, racist, and conspiratorial any who dared follow logic and evidence to point out that the Chinese government and its military were both culpable for the virus and lying.
A million Americans died of COVID. Millions more suffered long-term injuries. Still, the left-wing media and Biden administration demonized any who dared speak the truth about a lab origin of the deadly virus.
The lies were designed to protect the guilty who had helped fund the virus’s origins, such as Doctors Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins.
The Biden government also tried to use the lab theory to ridicule a supposedly pro-Trump “conspiracy.”
Western corporate interests deeply invested in China did not want their partner held responsible for veritably killing and maiming hundreds of millions worldwide.
Almost as soon as Joe Biden was inaugurated, the left knew that he was physically and mentally unable to serve as president.
Indeed, that was the point.
Biden’s role was designed as a waxen figurine for hard-left agendas that, without the “old Joe Biden from Scranton” pseudo-moderate veneer, could never have been advanced.
His handlers operated a nightmare administration: the destruction of deterrence abroad, two theater wars, 12 million illegal aliens, a weaponized justice system, hyperinflation, and $7 trillion more in debt.
By 2017, the public knew three truths about the so-called Christopher Steele dossier.
One, it was completely fallacious—fabricated by a has-been, ex-British spy Christopher Steele. He childishly had cobbled together lurid sex stories, James Bond spy fictions, and Russian-fed disinformation to destroy the Trump candidacy and later presidency.
Two, it was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign. She hid her checks behind the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm, and Fusion GSP paywalls.
Three, the FBI under James Comey hired Steele as an informant. It helped disseminate his concocted files and was also instrumental in trying to subvert the Trump campaign and later administration.
No sane person ever believed that Hunter Biden’s laptop was the work of “Russian disinformation.” Its contents a year before the 2020 election were verified by the FBI, but it kept mum about its confirmation.
The pornographic pictures, the evidence of prostitution and drug use, the electronic communications implicating Joe Biden in his family’s illicit shake-down operation of foreign governments—all were never challenged by anyone who was associated with the laptop’s contents.
Yet future Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, along with former interim CIA Director Mike Morrell, sought to fabricate a colossal lie to arm their candidate, Joe Biden, with plausible denial in the last presidential debate before the 2020 election.
They rounded up a rogue’s gallery of 51 now utterly discredited former intelligence authorities to lie to the nation that the laptop was likely fake.
All knew the FBI had verified the laptop. But they also knew that their titles would empower their lies that the Russians likely invented the laptop to aid the sinister Trump.
And the ruse worked like a charm.
In the debate, Biden cited their lies chapter and verse to claim the incriminating laptop was fake. A lying media damned Trump as a puppet of Vladimir Putin. Joe Biden, little more than a week later, won the 2020 election.
The Biden administration deliberately destroyed the southern border and welcomed 12 million illegal aliens. And then it lied that Biden had no power to stop the influx.
The media fabricated the excuse that “comprehensive immigration reform” was needed to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books.
Upon inauguration, Trump, in a matter of days, stopped what Biden had deliberately engineered for years.
Biden’s handlers wanted new millions of poor illegal aliens, dependent on social services, to swarm the borders.
They saw them as future voters and constituents to fuel their victim/victimizer Marxist binaries.
And they now quietly see their efforts as a huge success—knowing that it will be near impossible to find the millions of illegal aliens they welcomed in.
All these lies have divided the country and permanently damaged the U.S.
The perpetrators have neither apologized for their lies nor tried to either deny or substantiate them.
No one involved has ever been held legally accountable.
The legacy media permanently ruined its reputation and will likely never be seen as credible again.
The Biden administration, overseer of many of these lies, will be regarded as the most duplicitous and dishonest presidency in modern history.
“Malicious & Willful Intent” … to defraud the American people.
A clear violation of fiduciary responsibility. Yet, they skate free!
Professor, Fear of COVID could be seen by those who wore masks while they were alone in their cars and by those who gathered for eternal Spring Break. Political Science needs a special course on government by small fears.
Dr Hanson just always so clarifying to read your work. So grateful for all of the energy & grace you put into your words. The most awful result of the Biden presidency— most probably beginning in the Obama administration— I believe — is that the dishonesty has divided our country so badly it’s difficult to see light at the end of the tunnel. My prayer is that accountability is not abandoned by either the legacy media or all of the players involved. How awfully we have all been manipulated by these ostensible “leaders.”
The Lonely Lie
Once there was a lonely lie
That crawled off by itself to die.
But, before it even left the room,
Its offspring had begun to bloom.
Soon the truth had lost its place
And it quietly left in sad disgrace.
It’s crowded now in that small room
And honor there you can’t presume.
Brilliant, succinct and informative summary of the Biden administration. I haven’t heard of plans for a Biden Presidential Library (maybe a bookmobile would be more appropriate.) Nancy Pelosi implied Biden was worthy of a spot on Mount Rushmore; I don’t think it would look good, as he would be facing backward, trying to figure out where to go.
I can only pray that this country can recover in time – with honest, competent leadership.
One of the most disturbing aspects of all this is that truth and trust are two commodities without which a free society cannot function. Not truthfulness, i.e. that most people are truthful, but that The Truth is known and recognized, even by those who cannot abide by it. When truth is ignored or denied, as by the left which places it’s relative value far below power and control, trust is eroded. Without trust, representative government, market economics, and most personal relationships decline and eventually fail. As Tocqueville said, America is great because it is good. Liberty can only survive when self-government is the rule rather than the exception.
We must leave nothing to memory. We must hold all those accountable for their bad actions lest it will happen again.
yet still so many in this country blindly follow them…..that is the most baffling thing of all…
Victor,
Excellent points, but it is time to leave the Covid 19 fiasco in your rear-view mirror and move on toward protecting our nation from the next pandemic that is probably simmering in coastal Africa. The COVID fiasco was a failure in the federal government, the city government, our medical societies and care, research laboratories, and all the News. When the next one comes knocking at it no one will believe anything. The virus has found the weakness in humans that it will exploit to increase its R0 number; it is our hubris
Dr. Hanson is as always so clear and precise in the analysis. This article is so powerful in its clarity and truth it makes me cry for what these monsters were allowed to take from us which can never be recovered. Mourning for the bright city on the hill!
Uncovering these truths is needed to purge the system of its corruption. It will not be easy or fast but it must be pursued. Thank you, Victor.
Yes. Communists lie, which these people are at their core; it is a hallmark of their control playbook. This a good reason to dispute the current narrative, lab leak, too convenient and seems orchestrated. No novel virus has been proven, CCP computer model is not proof, easily manipulated false positive PCR tests, not diagnoses, are not proof, falsified hospital death reports are probable proof of a manufactured crisis. The flu did not take a holiday, people died but not more than usual overall. Unexplainable, not believable death spikes in NYC, and Bergamo Italy, April 2020. Hospital protocols, universally orchestrated, killed many as did the poison shots. No, likely a planned psych operation, fear campaign, fake pandemic. For what purpose.? Population control. Global order. Perhaps the Trump administration will release the pandemic planning documents?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn pretty much summed it up: “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying”
Thank you for being a “Voice” for regular Americans who are busy working all day and taking care of their families, leaving little time for following politics.
The bad actors could not have succeeded without a complicit corrupt “legacy” media.
Can you confirm that a million Americans died of COVID? COVID turned out to me a serious case of the flu but once the Fauxi like ‘experts’ gained control, tossing therapeutics out the window and forcing patients onto ventilators, prescribing remdesivir and locking elderly back into the infected care centers it is extremely questionable what exactly caused the death of so many. Then we had the Mrna jabs that have been linked to massive blood clots resulting in heart failures, possible carcenogin causing cancers and so much more.
One quick look at regions in India where they refused the jabs in exchange for mandatory therapeutics of Ivermectin resulting in very low numbers of deaths.
The actual COVID virus may have caused more deaths than a normal flu outbreak but it is impossible to determine how many were caused by government ‘precautions”.
All the lies mentioned are factual but the greatest lie perpetrated on the world was COVID by Fauci and the WHO.
I don’t think we will ever know how many died of COVID and how many of inappropriate medical interventions, or completely unrelated causes. The government made it much too lucrative for hospitals to code everything as COVID and to use dangerous, poorly tested or indeed frankly inappropriate medical interventions and to even increase reimbursement to those hospitals if the patient died. And the disaster that the mRNA “vaccines” have caused and will cause (death, infertility, cancer acceleration, novel autoimmune diseases) will not be elucidated in our life-times. Too many prominent people would have their reputations severely damaged should an honest accounting take place.
There should be a reckoning but I won’t see it before I die.
Joe Biden preemptively pardoned his family members and government officials before leaving office.
All of them, including Joe, should be investigated, charged, tried, and convicted to memorialize their crimes for the history books and for all the public to know.
Afterwards, Biden’s pardons can activate and keep them from being punished, but the American people and the world need to know the truth.