Filed under: Afghanistan, Democrat Corruption, Economy, History, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Progressives, Taxes, The United States | Tags: "Trumpism", national security, Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson spoke in May, at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center in Washington D.C. on “Trumpism.” Where did it come from, where is it going and what has it accomplished? This election was a strange phenomenon, when a political neophyte with no experience in politics at all, won the election over a long term politician, wife of a president, who clearly was owed the opportunity to become the first woman president.
It was impossible. That is surely the source of the Trump Derangement Syndrome. But Democrats operate on talking points, devised and focus group tested words. Surely you have noticed that suddenly all Democrats seem to be speaking the same exact words. It’s an old propaganda technique, if a lie is repeated often enough, people will start to believe it. They’re not getting the response they want fast enough, and yesterday they were trying a new one. Trump is crazy. Mentally deranged. For which he should be encouraged to resign if not be impeached. Let’s see if that one has any staying power. Dr. Hanson’s speech is a fine remedy. Enjoy.
Filed under: Capitalism, Domestic Policy, Economy, Education, Energy, Immigration, Politics, Taxes | Tags: California Gone Wrong, Lousy Governance, Victor Davis Hanson
Dr. Hanson speaks of the wealthiest state, the Golden State, and where has California gone wrong? California was supposed to be the answer or the guide to a better future for the rest of the world, with the best climate, the best universities, the most beautiful state with lovely beaches, redwood forests, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, bountiful farmlands and citrus groves — what happened? This is the San Mateo County “Progress Seminar 2017” held in May. Hanson is a renowned historian, emeritus professor of Classics at Cal State University at Fresno, fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, 5th generation Central Valley farmer, and author of at least two dozen books. If you’re not from California, why should you care?
Though he talks about what is going wrong in California, it is also what is going on in perhaps lesser ways in the rest of the country. The cities of so many dreams have become unaffordable, business is leaving for more welcoming states, a heavy tax burden, water problems, energy problems, a coastal elite and impoverished Central Valley. Hanson has retained all of his worlds, which inform his scholarship and views on modern life and the long span of history since the days of ancient Greece.
Filed under: Capitalism, Domestic Policy, Economy, Election 2016, Foreign Policy, History, Humor, Media Bias, National Security, Politics, Regulation, The United States | Tags: Leftist Idiocy, The 2016 Election 's Myths, Victor Davis Hanson
This is a speech Victor Davis Hanson gave at the David Horowitz Restoration Weekend shortly after the election in 2016 and elaborates on all the myths surrounding the election. So it’s all past history, but good to revisit because it helps to explain where we are now and why.
Democrats are always ready with talking points, insults, accusations, and false claims. They believe firmly that they are entitled to be in charge. As David Horowitz has said “Inside every Progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.” They are always ready for battle, and Republicans, unfortunately, just can’t bring themselves to stop being polite.
Victor Hanson skewers most of the Democrats’ accusations and talking points, and I enjoyed it thoroughly, and I think you will too.
Filed under: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Domestic Policy, Economics, Education, Environment, Foreign Policy, Free Markets, Freedom, History, Immigration, Law, Middle East, Military, National Security, Politics, The United States | Tags: Free Markets / Free People, The Decline and Fall of Liberalism, Victor Davis Hanson
Filed under: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Domestic Policy, Economy, Education, Free Markets, Freedom, History, Immigration, Law, Progressives, Unemployment | Tags: Restoration Weekend, The Mythology of the Election, Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson was a featured speaker at David Horowitz’ Restoration Weekend, talking about the election and all the myths and misunderstandings and meanness and media excess. It’s a fascinating talk, and I hope you can find time.
Filed under: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Cool Site of the Day, Crime, Domestic Policy, Economics, Economy, Free Markets, Freedom, Health Care, Immigration, Law, Politics | Tags: Disengagement, The Alienated American, Victor Davis Hanson
A new column from Victor Davis Hanson at Defining Ideas, a publication of the Hoover Institution, titled “The Alienated American,” is especially pertinent:
Many Americans increasingly seem psychologically, if not materially, disengaged from their own country. A few vote with their feet and move to quieter enclaves in the American rural West or to no-income-tax states in the South and hinterlands. More withdraw with their minds, by shutting out most of the noise emanating from American popular culture, politics, and the media.
I spent my vacation in September in small towns in southern Michigan, and a few days of October traveling to a number of communities in rural California, as well as talking to a variety of people on my farm. In all these venues, I kept meeting the same sort of detached American. Though these men and women came from varying class and ethnic backgrounds, they were united by a sense of malaise. Let me sum up what I think is the new Americanus alienatus.
The American stranger embraces a pessimistic view of this country, rather than the therapeutic view shared by most Americans. Given the nation’s cultural and financial profligacy, he assumes things are going to get worse. Or at least he accepts that they cannot go on as they are. The medicine (that will fall on him to administer) will be as catastrophic as the lethal disease (which he thinks was caused mostly by others).
Stereotyped as a “deplorable” “clinger” and “everyday American,” the stranger certainly has no wish to dispute the new politically correct orthodoxies of open borders, Black Lives Matter, the euphemisms that mask radical Islamic terrorism, record deficits, unsustainable entitlements, and chaos abroad. All of that, he believes, is now the concern of the members of the coastal establishment, whose incestuous lives are glimpsed in the latest WikiLeaks trove.
Filed under: Capitalism, Communism, Foreign Policy, Free Markets, Freedom, History, Military, National Security, The United States | Tags: Communist China, South Korea, Victor Davis Hanson
Here’s military historian Victor Davis Hanson to explain, briefly. War is not the worst of things.
