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Victor Davis Hanson - Election 2020

Posted on 11/07/2020 6:04:57 PM PST by Jamestown1630

This interview of Victor Davis Hanson with John Anderson of Australia, is very long - but it's very thoughtful and enlightening, if you have the time to watch.

Hanson is one of our greatest thinkers and observers of the US political, historical and social scene:

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6idYZ25Qq6w


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Society
KEYWORDS: 2020election; afterelectionday; election2020; vdh; vdhinterview
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To: wardaddy; Jamestown1630

“Hanson is a great thinker”

I’ll pass. I agree with what Paul Gottfried and the Chronicles crowd have said about VDH for years. VDH is a sloppy historian and a neocon hack. Even people who know his specialty, ancient Greece, say he gets away with all sorts of errors because the majority of us don’t know any better and just accept what he says at face value.


21 posted on 01/22/2021 12:12:27 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate the Democrats from their Communist occupation)
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To: Pelham

I don’t know anything about his specialties or his expertise in them, but I’ve found his commentary on current events and social issues thoughtful and compelling.


22 posted on 01/22/2021 12:16:52 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630; wardaddy; Ohioan

VDH is a lot like Mondale speechwriter Charles Krauthammer. Although I don’t know that Hanson ever tried to defeat Ronald Reagan the way that Krauthammer did.

Anyway both of them came from the liberal wing that flies under the name neoconservative, and many freepers find that soothing. Bushism. They at least aren’t leftists, but they will take pot shots at conservatives who want nothing to do with the liberal pieties that neocons love to embrace. Other than his recognizing the disaster that illegal immigration wrought on California I don’t find VDH interesting.

Dennis Prager is another of this same camp. I knew Dennis when he still corrected callers who kept insisting that he was a conservative. He’d tell them no, he’s a Gene McCarthy RFK Scoop Jackson liberal. Which he really still is. They just started calling themselves neoconservatives during Reagan. Rush and Hannity helped popularize the confusion, not knowing there was any difference.

The great Clyde Wilson nicely summed up what happened to the conservative camp during the ‘80s, which is how we arrived where we are today:

“The offensives of radicalism have driven vast herds of liberals across the border into our territories. These refugees now speak in our name, but the language they speak is the same one they always spoke. We have grown familiar with it, have learned to tolerate it, but it is tolerable only by contrast to the harsh syllables of the barbarians over the border. It contains no words for the things that we value. Our estate has been taken over by an impostor, just as we were about to inherit.”


23 posted on 01/22/2021 1:11:55 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate the Democrats from their Communist occupation)
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To: Pelham

If you scratch VDH and Prager, who else? Please surprise me with a conservative who isn’t already dead or smoking a pipe in a tweed suit.


24 posted on 01/22/2021 1:26:08 PM PST by aspasia
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To: aspasia

Paul Gottfried. Pat Buchanan. Chilton Williamson. Clyde Wilson. Tom Fleming. Peter Brimelow.


25 posted on 01/22/2021 1:44:03 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate the Democrats from their Communist occupation)
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To: Pelham

bump


26 posted on 01/22/2021 1:47:06 PM PST by Ohioan
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To: Pelham
And Patrick Reardon, no doubt. But what's the point? These are all good people that help your cause.

The purist is a gnostic. They are interesting when they are going in the right direction.

27 posted on 01/22/2021 2:01:15 PM PST by aspasia
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To: aspasia

I’ve never heard of Patrick Reardon.

VDH etc may be going in your direction, and you’re welcome to them.


28 posted on 01/22/2021 2:05:58 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate the Democrats from their Communist occupation)
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I've never heard of Patrick Reardon

Ah, you get the point.

This reminds me of the silly Calvinist John Piper going after Trump.

Too often the dogmatist is only interested in himself.

29 posted on 01/22/2021 2:09:56 PM PST by aspasia
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To: aspasia

“Ah, you get the point.”

No, and I wasn’t looking for one. You seem to be holding a dialogue with yourself that doesn’t require my attention.


30 posted on 01/22/2021 7:02:45 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate the Democrats from their Communist occupation)
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To: Pelham

So much for being a gentleman.


31 posted on 01/22/2021 7:31:41 PM PST by aspasia
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To: wardaddy

Exactly, wardaddy. Too much NR has seeped into his thinking at critical points, unfortunately. Trump’s tweets weren’t relevant to the 2020 election fraud story.


32 posted on 01/22/2021 7:39:10 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: dougherty

Why shouldn’t one? Decent chap. Not a Savior, but a decent man.


33 posted on 01/22/2021 7:44:10 PM PST by aspasia
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