Tag Archives: Victor Davis Hanson

“Another cultural achievement of Obama was to destroy the last vestiges of a Democratic workers’ party of Humphrey, JFK, or even Bill Clinton and to replace it with a pyramidal party of the poor dependent on government entitlements and reparations, and a small, rich, and hip elite at the top”

AMERICAN GREATNESS Obama Won by Victor Davis Hanson September 23, 2018 …Dividing the country by white and nonwhite made sense to the Obama Administration, because the divide promulgated the idea that Obama had been elected by a record non-white bloc … Continue reading

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“The charge that the border holding areas are akin to Nazi extermination camps does not resonate well with the public, even as Trump polls on illegal immigration better than do his critics”

AMERICAN GREATNESS Why This Immigration Psychodrama Will Also Pass by Victor Davis Hanson June 25th, 2018 A month from now there will be a new manufactured news story that Donald Trump is savage, represents an existential danger, or is unhinged. … Continue reading

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“Civilizations, empires, great powers can fall apart very fast” [VIDEO]

TRUTH REVOLT The Fight of Our Lives: New Documentary Examines the Threats Facing the West January 3, 2018 The Fight of Our Lives – Defeating the Ideological War Against the West is a hard-hitting new documentary film by Gloria Z. … Continue reading

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“For his Cabinet picks, Trump ignored Washington-establishment grandees, think-tank Ph.D.s, and academics in general. He owes no allegiance to the Republican pundits who despised him or to the big-name donors who chose not to invest in what they saw as a losing candidacy”

REAL CLEAR POLITICS The World Turned Upside Down by Victor Davis Hanson January 26, 2017 …Obama’s legacy is the near-destruction of the Democrats as a national party, leaving them in a virtual civil war while most of his own initiatives … Continue reading

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“Despite the mess around it, Israel is in its best geostrategic position in decades”

NATIONAL REVIEW The Resilience of Israel Victor Davis Hanson December 29, 2016 …Yet in all this mess, somehow Israel is in its best geostrategic position in decades. How? The answer is a combination of unintended consequences, deft diplomacy, political upheavals … Continue reading

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Memo to Kaepernick, Beyoncé and Hillary: “If you playact being shot by the police, cry “racist!” on Twitter, or denounce capitalism, you, too, can feel good about your capitalist’s privilege”

NATIONAL REVIEW The Virtue-Mongers by Victor Davis Hanson September 6, 2016 Wearing a mask of virtue is done not to save one’s soul for eternity but to still feel good about enjoying privilege…Not long ago the popular criticism of Beyoncé … Continue reading

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Hanson: “Countries, ancient and modern, that have tried to unite diverse tribes have usually fared poorly”

NATIONAL REVIEW America: History’s Exception by Victor Davis Hanson June 9, 2016 …The United States has always cherished its “melting pot” ethos of e pluribus unum — of blending diverse peoples into one through assimilation, integration, and intermarriage.  The history … Continue reading

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“Nothing is more surreal than to hear a multimillionaire African-American athlete or a Malibu-based movie star rail against #WhitePrivilege”

NATIONAL REVIEW White versus White America by Victor Davis Hanson April 12, 2016 …“White privilege” is now a catchword for advantages supposedly enjoyed by roughly 70 percent of the population. Forget for a moment the inexactness of the term “white” … Continue reading

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“Trump is crude and politically clueless, but no more so than the Clintons, Sanders — or Obama”

NATIONAL REVIEW Time to Calm Down about Trump by Victor David Hanson March 15, 2016 Donald J. Trump thus far has not shown that he has the level-headedness to be president. He has no political ideology and could just as … Continue reading

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“Once again the fault is with an ignorant “them” and their biases, not Obama’s own unimpressive record of governance”

PJ MEDIA Bitter Clingers 2.0 by Victor Davis Hanson December 29, 2015 …Barack Obama in the final stretch of his 2008 primary campaign explained away—off the record in an unguarded moment—his unpopularity in Pennsylvania. The problem then was a biased … Continue reading

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