Eighty years ago, Germany’s former conquerors rejected wrecking the defeated nation as too harsh. Now Germany is pastoralizing, disarming, deindustrializing — and destroying — itself.
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.
In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35 and 40 percent.
The White House has only fueled speculations and occasional conspiracy theories.
But by the time Harris lost the election, voters had tuned out a nagging and patronizing Obama — and his stale, now-dated hope-and-changey boilerplate speeches.
Voters want novel approaches to reform a government that they not only no longer trust but also now deeply fear.
A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education — once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility.
The country no longer must apologize incessantly for its past or present but can move on — content that it need not be perfect to be better than all the alternatives.
Trump must remind Americans only by periodically deterring enemies can he prevent endless wars.
For months it was widely reported, albeit grudgingly, that there were large defections in Hispanic and African American voters from Harris.
The election will not be decided on these empty talking points or fake media-generated narratives.
Hectoring the electorate on its supposed ignorance or moral shortcomings has become a Harris campaign trademark.
Rather than admitting their own role in igniting the Middle East, Biden and Harris now blame the victims of their own incendiary foreign policy.
But why did Biden-Harris so foolishly ignite the Middle East?
At the end of the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton’s team leaked news of her purchased bogus “Steele Dossier” as supposed proof of Trump-Russian “collusion.”
Kamala Harris seems unwilling or unable to answer any impromptu question that she has not been previously prepped for.