Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
Somewhere between 10 and 12 million illegal aliens were invited into the United States by the Biden administration.
As far as logistics go, Biden could not flee Afghanistan without getting 13 Marines killed and abandoning to the terrorist Taliban $50 billion in munitions, a billion-dollar embassy, and a $300 million retrofitted huge airbase.
But Biden and his handlers proved far more logistically capable when their target was fellow Americans.
After all, they somehow managed to stop the congressionally approved continuance of the border wall, to subvert federal immigration law, to emasculate the border patrol, and to ensure that millions of people around the world could simply walk into the U.S. illegally, unaudited and with impunity.
But why did Biden or his puppeteers do something so anarchic, so injurious to their fellow Americans?
Why cost the nation hundreds of billions of dollars in massive new entitlements?
Why swamp the social services of our own poor citizens?
Why turn loose half a million criminal aliens and gang members to prey on our own weak and defenseless?
Was the idea to alter the demography in one fell swoop? To grow the dependent class, thereby expanding government?
Was it pure spite born of hatred of half the country?
Was it to ensure future constituencies, given that the Democratic agenda no longer appeals to most Americans?
Was it a globalist gambit to demonstrate borders are anachronistic?
Was it to fast-track new voters under the laxity of post-2020 early- and mail-in voting protocols?
Those who perpetrated the greatest ruse in American presidential history by staging the Biden presidency will never tell us what their ultimate agenda was.
They knowingly fixed the 2020 primaries to ensure a non-compos-Biden would be nominated. Under the cover of the COVID lockdowns, they kept him in his basement while operatives radically altered the voting laws in the key swing states.
For the next four years, they put their waxen effigy in a hermetically sealed cocoon—one of avoidance of the press, three-day workweeks, and four-hour workdays.
Yet Biden could still not read huge-font, teleprompted scripts. He could not finish a simple call for unity without snarling, screaming, and damning his opposition as “semi-fascists,” “ultra-MAGA,” and “garbage.”
Was the point to salvage the Democratic Party for one last hurrah before the Squad, and the Sanders socialists inevitably took over and destroyed it?
Was that the idea behind clearing the primary field and anointing a decrepit “good ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton” veneer?
Or was it more sinister still in the sense that a debilitated Biden facade was a godsend for the left? Did his pseudo-centrist cover ensure that his handlers—the Obama crowd, the DEI chauvinists, and the Sanders socialists—could enact from the shadows the most radical agenda since 1933?
Will anyone ever tell us why they endangered and nearly ruined the country with a zombie president?
Why did the left break every prior pretense of legality and of fair play in trying to wreck an entire legal system just to destroy Donald Trump?
Why did the so-called stewards of jurisprudence coordinate four local, state, and federal prosecutions to cook up 93 indictments—the vast majority of them ridiculous contortions that will never be charged against any other American?
What was behind the disastrous effort to de-ballot Trump in most of the blue states? To “save” democracy by destroying it?
Why did they twice impeach a president and then try him as a private citizen?
Why did SWAT teams swarm an ex-president’s home to carry off over 10,000 documents in order to find 102 classified files?
Why did the FBI bring their own pre-prepared classification labels? Why scatter photo files on the floor?
Had Trump destroyed subpoenaed evidence like Hillary Clinton’s emails?
Had Trump stored the files, Biden-style, at four different locations?
Had Trump earlier just flunked rather than aced the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, would special counsel Jack Smith—as did Robert Hur in the Biden file case—have dropped all the charges against Trump on the grounds he was “an elderly man with a poor memory?”
So, what was behind the four years of trying to blow up and discredit our legal and law enforcement system just to destroy Trump?
Was their goad his accent, his bombast, or his tan that so drove the elite left into insanity?
Were they convinced they could never beat him in another election?
Did they hate him because, in his first term, he had secured the border, grown the economy, and had no wars abroad?
Or was it an unstoppable fixation, a destructive addiction?
In sum, the more he mocked them, the more they sought to destroy him—and all the more they ensured he would be president again.
Thank you VDH.
Biden was the Left’s John Gill.
Look up “Patterns of Force” from the original “Star Trek” series.
Professor Hanson,
It’s simple. Go back and look at the period between 46 BCE and 28 BCE: murder and mayhem; most everyone being afraid; not safe to walk in the streets, etc. All the results of the war between two groups of nobility (optimates and populares) analogous to today’s elites, that had been fighting for primacy one way or another since 133 BCE. The result was far worse than one party rule. It brought in the rule of Octavianus, one of the foremost absolute dictators in Western history. This, I believe, is the aim of the Democratic leadership.
Thank you Victor! I love it when you create extended lists of the insane and traitorous actions of our “revered” Marxist brethren. You create a point by point checklist of offenses they have committed. Now the question remains – what is to be done to eliminate this insanity before they totally destroy our great country?
The left doesn’t like the current population and they wanted a new one.
Victor asks what motivates the Left’s sabotage of America. Simple: do the opposite of Trump — no matter the cost. That’s the platform. That’s the theology.
There is no grand plan. Just a permanent tantrum managed by faculty-lounge theorists and cable news interns. These people don’t form opinions. They receive them — uploaded nightly via NPR, the New York Times, and whatever’s trending on TikTok.
Trump secures the border? They tear it down. Trump grows the economy? They print money and blame billionaires. Trump says America First? They say “humanity first” and promptly fund everyone but Americans.
They didn’t reverse Trump’s policies because they were bad. They reversed them because he wasn’t supposed to win — and certainly not succeed.
This isn’t policy disagreement. It’s a reflexive gag response to competence with a Queens accent.
The Left has adopted the Costanza Method: “Do the opposite.” But instead of ending up successful like George, they’ve just wrecked the country and blamed the waiter.
That’s what happens when your political strategy is based on spite, not sense.
VDH, good column and very well argued!
I wish, and have wished since Bill Clinton’s Presidency, that the Democrat Party would die off and be left in the dustbin of their sordid history: support of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, refusal to put America first, etc, etc…..
May my wish come true, and soonest…..
VDH, I listen to you daily while being a delivery driver who is retired and aging also. Born in the same era as yourself, it is hard for me to watch those I met in school all those years ago ruin this country. My father didnt feel sorry for me, he just told me to hold my ground. He was born in 1918. Its been rough, but here we are still holding our ground. All of us together cannot change the world but we can at least be the ones who warned them for all these years. I am very vocal about a lot of this and it is nice to listen to another with so much more knowledge and wisdom.
By the way, im jealous that you had the chance to study history and war. Its alway been my dream to do so. And to teach it. Love all that you do, stay healthy my friend.
Mark in Las Vegas NV (The next California)
I have been watching the force of liberalism work to weaken America since 1964. The work is done through useful idiots who constantly weaken the country in the many ways and actions that you describe so well. Much damage has been done to every element of society, maybe too much to repair. But thanks to you and others like you, and to President Trump, common sense might be restored.
VDH,
I could add about thirty more, but please allow me to add one more, because the one I am adding I never did understand how they got away with it.
The infamous border “Whipping Incident.”
My goodness the Dems are completely mad.
Leftist utopia, the destruction of the US, and the establishment of political globalism.
That was fabulous. You left out the part where the FBI swooped in and took the data that was downloaded from the voting machines in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin – the four states that put Biden over the top early in the morning, then gave the Washington Post a “nothing to see here” story to tell. We would have evidence of the “steal” but the data seems to be unavailable.
Thank you for so concisely stating the atrocities. I didn’t see mentioned, how one of ‘Brandon’s last acts of treason, was trying to off-load the supplies to finish building The Wall. Were we close to the rise of the anti-christ? Thankful that God granted us a reprieve!
Victor, I don’t know how you’re able to generate this volume of writings & interviews, yet remain lucid. You have a wonderful mind, traversing time & space, and you have incredible stamina.
Yes, he’s president again, thank God, and he’s doing his best to rescue the country from its nose-dive into DEI hell.
Dr Hanson, Thank you so much for your timely and acute insights. You have a keen sense for distilling the truths of the big picture of American politics into manageable aliquots that every day Americans can appreciate. We are tired of being gaslit by the Left and made to feel crazy because they deny what we see what they have done to our formerly great country. It’s my sincere hope we can return to a sense of normalcy. It may take a generation or two.
David J Haralson DMD MD
Biden, Harris $ Mayorkas consequence of ‘OPEN border’ NONSENSICAL…have INNOCENT blood on their HANDS 🙌 ¡!
Professor Hanson – To your many questions, I think the best response might be “D – All the above”. For reasons of distaste, exclusivity, and sundry others, many of our elites exhibit almost an enmity toward the American hoi-polloi, and by implication, the United States. Some, among the elites, believe they are a kind of revolutionary vanguard, “who knows what’s best” for the rest of us. Your writing is so helpful to get everyone thinking about these things. As you’ve often pointed to, the Founders would have been both shocked at the success of their national enterprise and at the ingratitude of many who aspire to lead it.