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Trump's total culture war
Jewish World Review ^ | September 19, 2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/19/2019 9:04:12 AM PDT by billorites

Donald Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf.

As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at Trump. For most of his time in office, Trump, his family, his friends and his businesses have been investigated, probed, dissected and constantly attacked.

In 2016 and early 2017, Barack Obama appointees in the FBI, CIA and Department of Justice tried to subvert the Trump campaign, interfere with his transition and, ultimately, abort his presidency. Now, congressional Democrats promise impeachment before the 2020 election.

The usual reason for such hatred is said to be Trump's unorthodox and combative take-no-prisoners style. Critics detest his crude and unfettered assertions, his lack of prior military or political experience, his attacks on the so-called bipartisan administrative state, and his intent to roll back the entire Obama-era effort of "fundamentally transforming" the country leftward.

Certainly, Trump's agenda of closing the border, using tariffs to overturn a half-century of Chinese mercantilism, and pulling back from optional overseas military interventions variously offends both Democrats and establishment Republicans.

Trump periodically and mercurially fires his top officials. He apparently does not care whether the departed write damning memoirs or join his opposition. He will soon appoint his fourth national security adviser within just three years.

(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020issues; culturewar; trump45; vdh

1 posted on 09/19/2019 9:04:12 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

agree. Its a beautiful thing to see.


2 posted on 09/19/2019 9:23:44 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: billorites

Awesome read.


3 posted on 09/19/2019 9:25:46 AM PDT by victim soul (victim soul)
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To: billorites

winning


4 posted on 09/19/2019 9:27:17 AM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: billorites
"In a way, the left-wing Democratic presidential candidates understand Trump best." Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0919/hanson091919.php3#2Y8DKKAD2tk0MS40.99

Strongest observation of all! Couple that observation with the impact of November 2018's victory over Hillary, and one perceives the intensity of the Progressives' resistance to all things Trump.

Even the Progressive movement, as powerful as it has been in taking over much of the government and education authorities in America's power structure, there is yet another power which wields greater authority!

There are wonders which are best approached applying America's founding generation's perception of an overruling Divine Providence.

" To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest." - Benjamin Franklin

5 posted on 09/19/2019 9:57:25 AM PDT by loveliberty2 (`)
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To: billorites

bump


6 posted on 09/19/2019 11:36:33 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: billorites

Learned nothing new from the article.


7 posted on 09/19/2019 11:44:18 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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