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https://victorhanson.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hanson-Logo-1.png595200Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The year 2020 witnessed a long series of writs lodged against an America beset with plague, quarantine, recessions, riot and arson, and the most contested election since 1876. What was strange was not so much the anarchist Left’s efforts in the present to wipe away the past to recalibrate […]