When Normality Became Abnormal

American Greatness ^ | June 16, 2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

[gattaca]

Donald Trump is many things. But one thing he is not is a defender of the 2009-2016 status quo and accepted progressive convention. Since 2017, everything has been in flux. Lots of past conventional assumptions of the Obama-Clinton-Romney-Bush generation were as unquestioned as they were suspect. No longer.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Read this and tell me again how you want somebody else in 2020.

[sparklite2]

Best President in American history.

[Shark24]

Boy, Victor has really come around since 2016. He’s always been a brilliant writer but this is really good.

[sparklite2]

He’s never done a mea culpa for his part
in the NRO pre-election hate fest, but at
least he’s on board now.

[miss marmelstein]

I guess Kevin Williamson, David French and Bill Kristol will soon be calling Victor Davis Hanson nothing more than a drug-addicted, white, loser-farmer who deserves to die!

[Nicojones]

Outstanding article! VDH is a national treasure.

[Billthedrill]

Nice piece. Most Americans weren't all that concerned when 0bama's boasts of "transforming America" were made; what we didn't suspect, happened: rigid enforcement of new cultural norms and state suppression of dissent. We offered real toleration and were met with insensate hatred. That's only a satisfactory transformation for those who hatred makes happy.

The current normal correctives were denounced as abnormal—as if living in a sovereign state with secure borders, assuming that the law was enforced equally among all Americans, demanding that citizenship was something more than mere residence, and remembering that successful Americans, not their government, built their own businesses and lives is now somehow aberrant or perverse.

Espousal of those simple concepts will get most of us thrown off campus in these "enlightened" days. And Trump is all that is keeping the more abusive of these fools alive. They'll miss him when he's gone.

[sockmonkey]

Isn’t the President pushing the rest of the world to Sodom? It’s worked so well here.

President Trump has said that his administration would lead an effort to decriminalize homosexuality around the world.

[Albion Wilde]

The choices are... starker now. The strategy is not, as in 2008 and 2012, to offer a moderate slow-down of progressivism, but rather a complete repudiation of it... a collision between Trump, the proverbial bull, and the administrative state as a... china shop.

[YogicCowboy]

I would be more favorably impressed by his perspicacity if he had understood this as and when those patriots did who did not hesitate to support Donald Trump’s candidacy.

[simpson96]

*bump*