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Is the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up?
American Greatness ^ | 31 May, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/01/2023 4:40:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Conservatives often slept through the woke revolution only to awaken to a country their apathy allowed to transform into one they no longer recognize. Can they finally breathe fire?

Conservatives and traditionalists are often exasperated at the ongoing woke cultural revolution in their midst.

How can America be turned upside down, as it is, when there is little public support for the things happening around us?

They don’t see much backing for the current wide-open borders and unchecked illegal immigration, yet it continues.

Conservatives feel that most Americans reject the trend of biological men dominating female sporting events.

They fear American jurisprudence has become now vastly weaponized and warped.

Certainly, Donald Trump will be more likely indicted by a politicized New York City prosecutor for supposedly overvaluing his net worth over a decade ago than would be a current violent street criminal clubbing a subway commuter.

In 2020 torching a federal courthouse or massing at the White House grounds, in efforts to get at the president, earned either few arrests and little or no jail time. In 2021, if one entered the Capitol and illegally paraded around like a buffoon, he could get a five-year prison sentence.

Traditionalists feel that sky-high energy prices, out-of-control urban crime, a depressed economy, high interest rates, and a politicized FBI, CIA, Justice Department, and Pentagon are all needlessly self-created messes.

How then did these extremist policies that have little popular support become institutionalized?

Conservatives, by their nature and unlike the Left, are more inclined to accept existing institutions rather than to radically alter or destroy them.

They were asleep at the wheel in 2020, when left-wing-funded lawsuits radically transformed Election Day in many states into a mere construct. Some 70 percent of the electorate in key precincts voted by mail or early...

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


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson; wokeism
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To: EandH Dad
Love your tag line. I woke up really grumpy this morning. lol
21 posted on 06/01/2023 5:07:40 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: imabadboy99

Folks, i don’t know how many times I can say this and I hope it falls on the right ears to make it happen, but the KEY to winning in 2024 is Hispanic outreach on Hispanic / spanish language American tv and radio stations. Ads, town halls, etc. Trump doing a town hall on these stations like when he went to Mexico in 2016 would be effective and he has to talk about the TRANNY LGBT crap they are pushing in the schools. This is the KEY to winning the Hispanic community. They will not tolerate this crap being pushed on their kids. But we have to show them that it is the Democrats that are doing it. The Democrats will deny it when Hispanics ask. We have to go directly to them and show them, preferably in spanish.


22 posted on 06/01/2023 5:10:47 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: imabadboy99

Make supporting a Democrat in the Hispanic community = to drinking a Bud Light. This is the key.


23 posted on 06/01/2023 5:12:13 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: imabadboy99

Excellent observations!


24 posted on 06/01/2023 5:14:09 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: MtnClimber
There are few true conservatives among the lawmakers with an (R) after their names in the state legislatures, governors, and Congress.

That's the real problem.

25 posted on 06/01/2023 5:15:57 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: buckalfa
Possibly,yet is the specter of Desantis splitting the Republican party

Fixed it.

26 posted on 06/01/2023 5:25:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber

Unfortunately the “Dragon” still retains this quaint, naive notion that voting will change anything.


27 posted on 06/01/2023 5:30:31 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: MtnClimber

“Some 70 percent of the electorate in key precincts voted by mail or early...”

This is what happened in my (used to be) conservative district. My conservative neighbors don’t trust the mail except when it comes to their ballots. The polling place used to be full on election days, now I walk in and out, no line.


28 posted on 06/01/2023 5:31:25 AM PDT by Varda
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To: MtnClimber
TO BE FAIR, WE WEREN’T ASLEEP. WE HAVE JOBS AND FAMILIES AND MOST OF US ARE WORKING OVERTIME TO PAY THE TAX-HUNGRY STATE.....
29 posted on 06/01/2023 5:33:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: MtnClimber

No. Next question.


30 posted on 06/01/2023 5:34:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

Yep..... you stated boldly the excuse conservatives always whine when faced with inaction


31 posted on 06/01/2023 5:34:49 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: MtnClimber

Probably just stretching and yawning before rolling over to go back to sleep...


32 posted on 06/01/2023 5:36:39 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: spincaster

Do you not find it telling that just one man is your only hope, one who has been marginalized though lack of cooperation all the way to the White House? You deceive yourself.


33 posted on 06/01/2023 5:37:10 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Night Hides Not

Actually, its the conservative attacks on conservatives that destroys all hope.


34 posted on 06/01/2023 5:38:26 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: buckalfa

Go cast another vote for your neo-con Senator who has destroyed this nation far worse than Trump has, you ingrate.


35 posted on 06/01/2023 5:41:23 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: MtnClimber

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36 posted on 06/01/2023 5:44:22 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: MtnClimber
On the eighth day, God made a fighter lawyer. /s
37 posted on 06/01/2023 5:46:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Soros on assisting the Nazis with the Holocaust: "That's when my character was made.")
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To: spincaster

If your not behind Trump saving our country, you may as well vote Democrat.


All hail the fuhrer! /s


38 posted on 06/01/2023 5:47:10 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: spincaster

Nobody is going to save this country from what’s coming.


39 posted on 06/01/2023 5:50:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

It is too late. We would have to undo all 45 of the communist goals for the peaceful take-down of the United States. All 45 goals were met. You arrived in time to see “end game”.


40 posted on 06/01/2023 6:11:41 AM PDT by GingisK
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