How sad that the Left despises a man who built real things, yet worshiped a leftist fraud who bilked a million investors.
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.
If so, he’s not acting like it.
It would be hard to imagine any planned agenda to destroy America that would have been as injurious as what we already suffered the past two years.
We know the script of the 2024 election from the past two elections.
For the GOP, either different leaders or different strategies — or both — are necessary to ensure different results.
Democratic opposition to a flawed and impaired Biden running again in 2024 will recede. Republican loyalty to the unpredictable Trump could fade.
The hard-left architects of the past two years neither offer a defense of their failing agendas, nor agree to change them.
The party of old left-wing progressives has become one of rich regressives.
The Clinton-FBI Russian-collusion hoax was a small part of the progressive effort to warp the 2016 election result.
The demanding foreigners pump what we ourselves have in plentitude but will not fully produce.
Why is the supposed party of youth dominated by such frail and forgetful elderly?
So we are in a great experiment in which regressive progressivism discounts all the institutions and the methodologies of the past.
The Left became unhinged when red-state governors decided to spread welcoming chores among affluent blue-state communities.
When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. Most survived. But hundreds of thousands did not. American deaths now number well more than 1 million.
Over the past five years, it was the Left who talked openly of tearing apart the American system of governance.