Victor Davis Hanson: Seven Days in February

National Review ^ | February 20, 2017 | Victor Davis Hanson

[EveningStar]

Trumps’ critics, left and right, aim to bring about the cataclysm they predicted.

A 1964 political melodrama, Seven Days in May, envisioned a futuristic (1970s) failed military cabal that sought to sideline the president of the United States over his proposed nuclear-disarmament treaty with the Soviets.

Something far less dramatic but perhaps as disturbing as Hollywood fiction played out this February...

Currently, the political and media opponents of Donald Trump are seeking to subvert his presidency in a manner unprecedented in the recent history of American politics. The so-called resistance among EPA federal employees is trying to disrupt Trump administration reform; immigration activists promise to flood the judiciary to render executive orders inoperative.

Intelligence agencies had earlier leaked fake news briefings about the purported escapades of President-elect Trump in Moscow — stories that were quickly exposed as politically driven concoctions. Nearly one-third of House Democrats boycotted the Inauguration. Celebrities such as Ashley Judd and Madonna shouted obscenities to crowds of protesters; Madonna voiced her dreams of Trump’s death by saying she’d been thinking a lot about blowing up the White House.

But all that pushback was merely the clownish preliminary to the full-fledged assault in mid February.

Career intelligence officers leaked their own transcripts of a phone call that National Security Advisor–designate Michael Flynn had made to a Russian official.

The media charge against Flynn was that he had nefariously talked to higher-ups in Russia before he took office. Obama-administration officials did much the same, before Inauguration Day 2009, and spoke with Syrian, Iranian, and Russian counterparts. But they faced no interference from the outgoing Bush administration...

[Nailbiter]

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[Jacquerie]

Thank you.

[Travis McGee]

No, not mine.

[Dustoff45]

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[thirst4truth]

The socialist/communists governments are about force. They promise equality to all, doled out by them, but if you resist their happy government, they force it, every time.

America will be a hard nut for them to crack. We have been schooled on and have lived with liberty and freedom, we are not going to give that up to the elites without a fight. I guess they did not think we would fight back. Unfortunately they will win eventually, I hope it is not too awful for my grandchildren.

[arthurus]

crack. We have been schooled on and have lived with liberty and freedom

That schooling has been nonexistent for two full generations. The graduates of the public school system don't think they are living in freedom and liberty. They think the government is supposed to take care of them. They have not learned to reason or the concept of cause-and-effect. They know no history. They only know Us and Them and we are not Us.

[kvanbrunt2]

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[Cobra64]

Almost two cases of 5.56. Mucho 9mm and .45.

[kvanbrunt2]

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[semaj]

“How many cases of 5.56 do you have?>>. i have 1K of 7.62 sks are cheaper. with about 50 stirpper clips.”

The correct answer is: “Not enough.”

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[Chgogal]

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