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Trump's Total Culture War
Real Clear Politics ^ | September 19, 2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/22/2019 10:46:45 AM PDT by artichokegrower

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.

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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.


And the perpetrators should be arrested, tried and imprisoned.

1 posted on 09/22/2019 10:46:45 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Trump is herding, not leading.


2 posted on 09/22/2019 10:49:03 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: artichokegrower

Negative. They should be hanged.


3 posted on 09/22/2019 10:57:52 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Perhaps becuz we have a republic and not a dictatorship


4 posted on 09/22/2019 10:59:19 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: artichokegrower
And the perpetrators should be arrested, tried and imprisoned.

Which baffles the living crap out of me on why he doesn't. He has the power to get rid of all of them. If he is waiting until next year to do this, it's a gutsy move, but if a lion attacks you 3 or 4 times, you don't let it live. Declassify all of it. Barr has proven he is deep state.....or bloody ass incompetent!

5 posted on 09/22/2019 11:05:48 AM PDT by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: artichokegrower

What really sets them against President Trump so viciously is his determination to stop the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).

The Democrats were looking forward to one party rule.


6 posted on 09/22/2019 11:08:14 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: artichokegrower
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.

The power structure is a value destroyer and value usurper. Trump is a value creator and value producer. He wants to destroy parasitic moochers and looters. Of course they they want to destroy him first.

7 posted on 09/22/2019 11:08:42 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: aumrl

We HAD a Republic before BOTH parties flushed the Constitution on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.

What’s going on now is the struggle to re-establish the rule of law and the Republic.

Obama was never eligible.
They ALL knew.


8 posted on 09/22/2019 11:10:10 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: aumrl

Becuz we say becuz instead of because.


9 posted on 09/22/2019 11:10:44 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Culture has to come first. You will never have a democracy in many third world countries because they don’t the culture for democracy. Our culture will determine whether or not we ultimately survive as a free people. We have lost that war almost completely to the Left. Almost... The rebound is coming.


10 posted on 09/22/2019 11:13:51 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: artichokegrower
Trump hatred is bipartisan in the sense that the elites of both parties share it, a deep, consuming hatred that is hotter than the sun. And which pales to insignificance in the face of a visceral hatred directed back at them by the people who they hold in such contempt, and that turns out to be bipartisan as well. Political Correctness and SJW bullying is loathed to a degree unmatched except in overt wartime and if Trump makes the election about PC, he wins the election and the kulturkampf as well.
11 posted on 09/22/2019 11:15:26 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: artichokegrower

Does Victor Davis Hanson ever go on enemy media? He is really good and it is a shame to just have him preaching to the choir.


12 posted on 09/22/2019 11:41:24 AM PDT by willk (A bias news media is not a free press.)
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Trump has so enraged his Democratic adversaries that the candidates to replace him have moved farther to the left than any primary field in memory. They loathe Trump, but in their abject hatred he has goaded the various Democratic candidates into revealing their support for the crazy Green New Deal, reparations for slavery, relaxed immigration policies and trillions of dollars in new free stuff.

In a way, the left-wing Democratic presidential candidates understand Trump best. If he wins his one-man crusade to stop the progressive project, they are finished, and their own party will make the necessary adjustments and then sheepishly drift back toward the center.

Bingo!!

13 posted on 09/22/2019 11:54:10 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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To: artichokegrower
"Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegations of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove." - "A Plea for Liberty: An Argument Against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation," edited by Thomas Mackay (1849 - 1912), Chapter 1, final paragraph" - EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON

14 posted on 09/22/2019 11:57:10 AM PDT by loveliberty2 (`)
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To: willk
Does Victor Davis Hanson ever go on enemy media? He is really good and it is a shame to just have him preaching to the choir.
He, like Mark Levin was a never-Trumper in the beginning.

VDH was mild compared to the viciousness of Levin.

And BTW, all the viciousness of the (so called) right only validated and fueled the viciousness of the left. You would think intelligent men like Levin would know NOT to publicly do that. Apparently not.

15 posted on 09/22/2019 12:17:15 PM PDT by lewislynn (STOP SUPPORTING CHINA! DO IT NOW!)
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If he is waiting until next year to do this, it's a gutsy move

Gutsiest move I ever saw, Maverick.

16 posted on 09/22/2019 12:37:23 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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VDH is mistaken -- President Trump just started fighting back in the war against our culture. Thanks artichokegrower.

17 posted on 09/22/2019 12:40:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

“Trump is herding, not leading.”

Perhaps, but when dealing with the masses the two are often synonymous.


18 posted on 09/22/2019 12:44:36 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Bommer
Which baffles the living crap out of me on why he doesn't. He has the power to get rid of all of them. If he is waiting until next year to do this, it's a gutsy move, but if a lion attacks you 3 or 4 times, you don't let it live. Declassify all of it. Barr has proven he is deep state.....or bloody ass incompetent!

I think he is waiting until next year. I think he knows exactly what they are going to do and has a plan for all of it. He's giving the dems 4 years to throw whatever they're going to throw at him KNOWING that none of it is true and so he won't back down. He's engendering sympathy and support from moderates and conservatives and exposing the left as being insane. He's going to win in a landslide and then....oh wow...then....hold on to your hats. He's going nuclear.

19 posted on 09/22/2019 12:45:42 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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20 posted on 09/22/2019 12:46:14 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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