If anti-communist Cubans by the millions were illegally crashing the southern border, would they be welcomed in as are those from Mexico and Central Americans?
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com. His columns appears Sundays in the Review-Journal.
There is an Orwellian moral to U.S.-Russian relations over the past 13 years. The American Left has appeased Russian autocrats.
Where does this entire mess leave America? In trouble.
As we head into the 2022 midterm elections, who will stop our descent into collective poverty, division and self-inflicted madness?
A skeptic might suggest terror over the impending midterms finally made the left face reality.
The Left masks its own revolutionary propensities by projecting them onto its opponents.
Never in history has such a mediocre, but self-important and ungracious generation owed so much, and yet expressed so little gratitude, to its now dead forebears.
The Left expects to lose power over the next two years.
The “woke” movement was giddy after Jan. 20, 2021. The Left controlled both houses of Congress. Joe Biden was drafted as the necessary veneer of 1980s Democratic normality to ram through an otherwise hard Left agenda.
In a recent online exchange, the YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s-hole of a city.”
Nobody knows what the ramifications will be.
The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.
“Noble lies” are rarely spun for anyone’s interests other than those of the liars themselves.
Start instead with the idea that what most Americans see as sheer ruin is not what the left-wing puppeteers see.