What explains the Democrat nihilism?
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.
“Destroying democracy” — the latest theme of the left — can be defined in many different ways. How about attempting to destroy constitutional, ancient and hallowed institutions simply to suit short-term political gains?
Falling apart under the weight of its own paradoxes and hypocrisies.
Our careerist left-wing elites seek to divide us by race and make it essential.
The damage caused by the Trump-Putin collusion lies.
We were living in an “emperor has no clothes” make-believe world for the past few years.
The glib candidate has canned answers for all of his past embarrassments.
It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the past many days in the Middle East.
Democrats currently lack sane and effective leaders. But that is no excuse to swoon over creepy gangbangers, spoiled-brat assassins, antisemitic burners of Jews and illegal aliens breaking the law and damning America.
No one knows why Biden did it, only that he did.
Some in the party now concede it must roust out its radicals. But Democrats will not.
Historically, tribalism erodes a multiracial democracy.
The more Trump mocked them, the more they sought to destroy him.
Enraged Democrats still offer no substantial alternatives to the Trump agenda.