06\/06\/17<\/p>\n
Dear Mr Hanson<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n
I am an independent who voted for John McCain as a write in<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0Your op ed entitled Regime Change by Any Other Name is disappointing.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0POTUS has been involved in more demonstrable falsehoods than any President since Nixon<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0He undermines the warnings that President Regan gave us on Russia<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0How dare you compare him to Reagan and his foreign policy, Trump is a clueless neophyte.<\/i><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a0He attempted to delegitimize our Intelligence agencies when they reported that Russia attempted to influence the election in his favor , and called them Nazis<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0He accused his predecessor of a criminal act and previously of not being born in the US with no evidence<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0It appears that he obstructed justice , we shall find out . At worst he sold out his country.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0We who watched him in the NY area for decades know he is a con man , a cheat, and a lawbreaker as well as a womanizer.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0Everyone is against him ? Why do you think that is? Does a true leader heighten the divisions in our country or attempt to unite all of us?<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0Regime change? The Constitution provides for just that contingency.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0I regret that we could not have McCain for President.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0I regret that so called Evangelicals supported this morally bankrupt person for President.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0I regret that so called Conservatives carry water for this fake in exchange for a Supreme Court Justice , at any cost.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0Shame on you sir<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0Sincerely<\/i><\/p>\n
J. Dubniczki<\/i><\/p>\n\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson’s Reply:<\/h3>\n
Dear J. Dubniczki,<\/p>\n
Please calm down and take a breath! Life is far too short to scream it away.<\/p>\n
Neither you nor I know whether Trump \u201chas been involved in more demonstrable falsehoods since Nixon.\u201d Have you calibrated and collated them? Obama was forced to admit that his once truthful memoir was largely an impressionistic myth. Do you remember \u201cif you like your doctor, you can\u2026,\u201d etc.? And the commentaries of those such as Ben Rhodes and Jonathan Gruber who chuckled about the endemic deceptions they engaged in?<\/p>\n
How has Trump undermined Regan (sic)? Aside from the fact that the Russian Federation is not the Soviet Union, and aside from the additional fact Reagan once proposed de facto a negotiated nuclear disarmament with the Soviets, what evidence do you have that Trump is pro-Russian in deed? Did he dismantle missile defense in eastern Europe, or snooze while Crimea was swallowed up, or do nothing after Russian cyber-attacks, or lecture Romney about his anti-Russian obsessions, or promise to be \u201cflexible\u201d with Putin if he would cool it during the election? Again, please cite an example. Did Trump lift sanctions against the Russians? Did he slash our defense budget? Did he ignore the threat of North Korea?<\/p>\n
Also, please produce the Trump quote on the \u201cNazis.\u201d Again, what you assert is pure emotion and not reasoned analysis. Intelligence agencies likely spied illegally on Americans, unmasked identities, and leaked them to the press\u2014all that predated Trump. Collusion charges are being investigated; the head of the National Intelligence Agency and CIA have both admitted they saw no evidence of Russian-Trump collusion. We await the verdict of Mr. Mueller.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Of course, Trump is crude and uncouth; I wrote extensively about these character flaws during the nomination process, including his wacky birthism. But that conspiracy theory in part was fueled by Obama himself, who, for example, stated on his own book bio promo jacket that he was born in Kenya, not because he was, but because it sounded multiculturally hip and useful in selling his two-cultures fabulist memoir\u2014in the fashion that Barry Soetero did not resonate like Barack Obama. Trump humiliated himself in taking the bait and conflating Obama\u2019s manufactured sense of identity with some sort of proof that he was Kenyan.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Once an imperfect Trump was the only alternative to a more imperfect Hillary Clinton, a 51% conservative agenda was preferable to a radically progressive one. Ninety-two percent of Republicans tended to agree and knew Trump was a flawed messenger for an otherwise welcomed message on many issues.<\/p>\n
\u00a0It is quite shameful to say \u201che sold out his country\u201d when no investigation has found, after 6 months of intensive research, any evidence that Trump did so, and certainly not on the scale of the Clintons, who in tandem green-lighted a vast sale of 20% of North American uranium to Russian fronts for donations to the Clinton Foundation and Bill\u2019s lucrative speaking fees. Are you aware of that dubious behavior?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cEveryone is against\u201d him is the sort of groupthink boilerplate that characterizes your entire puerile vent. \u201cRegime change\u201d does not refer to constitutional remedies for high crimes and misdemeanors but in popular parlance denotes forced overthrow of a leader, in the fashion of Madonna\u2019s \u201cblow up the White House\u201d reference or the various tropes of assassination\/beheading chic we see in the popular media.<\/p>\n
I do not end with \u201cshame on you, sir,\u201d but rather feel for you, given you have become enslaved to your emotions and hate. Embitterment is a poor remedy for the tragedies that we all deal with in an imperfect world. I sincerely hope you find a cure for your malady, though it won\u2019t be found in transferring your general frustrations to the election of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Get well soon, sir,<\/p>\n
\u00a0Sincerely,<\/p>\n
Victor Hanson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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