Sunday, June 11, 2023

The Existential Lies They Asked Us to Believe

The Existential Lies They Asked Us to Believe. 

Victor Davis Hanson

There is a narrative that half the country is paranoid, prone to conspiracy theories, and generally nuts, in the off-the-grid, January 6th sense.

But in some sense why not, given the lies that have been promulgated?

Here I do not mean the usual political serious and even life-changing untruths such as gas was more expensive when Joe Biden entered office than it was after his inauguration, or that Afghanistan was a great success, or that Ukraine was/is on the verge of a great victory over Russia, or that “five” people died violently due to the MAGA crowd violence on January 6, or that the nonexistent border is “secure.” I mean even more explicit, shameless lies that transcend politics and change the popular culture. 


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Ossified Americana

 

Ossified Americana 

Victor Davis Hanson Here are a few institutions that have quite outlived their age. Tribal Graduations Consider 40 percent of California’s population now identifies as Latino, predominately Mexican American. Fifty percent of current BAs in the California State University system this year were awarded to self-described Latinos. That paradox brings up the question, why are …


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Signs of Decay


Signs of Decay, Fears of Decline. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson We can calibrate the decline in the quality of American life by comparisons to both societies of the past and contemporary civilization elsewhere. And the result is not encouraging for Americans. I believe I may have visited 80 percent of the so-called first world countries in Europe and the Middle East, and …



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Is the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up?

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Is the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up?

Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness

Conservatives and traditionalists are often exasperated at the ongoing woke cultural revolution in their midst.

How can America be turned upside down, as it is, when there is little public support for the things happening around us?

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

John Durham exposes the whole anti-Trump caper

 ROGER KIMBALL: 

John Durham exposes the whole anti-Trump caper.

The moral is that democracy is all well and good, but only so long as the voters select a candidate we approve of. Somehow, Donald Trump was elected without the permission — indeed, over the strenuous objections — of the permanent bureaucracy. The whole Trump-Russia narrative was concocted to correct that mistake.

At the end of the day, the Durham report contains few real revelations. Anyone who has been paying attention already knew most of what he details. But it does dot some I’s and cross some T’s. And what will happen now? People will pore over the the report and shake their heads and cluck their tongues. James Comey will be busy cashing his royalty checks and nattering on about his “higher loyalty.” Barack Obama will continue to enjoy his palatial residence on Martha’s Vineyard. Perhaps Joe Biden will be pushed into an adult nursery somewhere so that Michelle Obama can continue the legacy.

Will “those responsible” be “held accountable?” If you think the answer is yes, then I have a nice bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you.

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 Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ after Trump raid.

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