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What the Left Has Left for America
American Greatness ^ | 25 Jun, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/26/2023 3:50:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber

What the Left now fears most is the revolutionary model it has bequeathed to America—and what might happen if its monstrous creation falls into politically incorrect hands.

The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000.

The antecedents to its current madness were once previewed in the old party’s extremist wing of campus radicals of the 1960s and 1970s. They were accentuated by Black Lives Matter and Antifa during the Obama years, forged during the COVID lockdown and George Floyd riots, and polished during the era of Trump derangement syndrome.

On almost every issue, Democrats have repudiated their prior reverence for the Supreme Court.

They distrust individual liberty and free expression.

They now worship the money and clout of corporate America.

Racial ecumenicalism and integration are seen as passé.

There is little need for borders to protect vulnerable American workers, given the advantages of inviting in millions of poor illegal immigrants without audits.

Democrats have transmogrified into a Soviet-style socialist binary of rich and poor, run by an elite nomenklatura that dictates its orders to its foot soldiers of the underclass. An entire new left-wing vocabulary—clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, dregs, chumps, ultra-MAGA, semi-fascists—has come to express their hatred of the middle class.

On the Supreme Court

The Left has adopted Franklin Roosevelt’s once infamous (but now sanctified) 1937 approach to destroying the autonomy of the Supreme Court by threatening to pack it.

Note how any means necessary are justified in their attacks. Swarm the conservative justices’ private homes to leverage future opinions, with the assurance that an ethically bankrupt Justice Department will never enforce existing laws prohibiting such intimidation of the justices.

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


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: Lurker

Most people including the vast majority of people on this very forum suck at solutions.

We are all very good at blathering and bitching when it makes no difference what we say.


21 posted on 06/26/2023 7:36:12 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You’re right.


22 posted on 06/26/2023 7:42:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black dem thugs, white liberal 'elites', & sexual weirdos - democrat's team against the rest of us)
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To: MtnClimber

The Fabian society was formed after the democrat party was formed dots connected.

The things meetings bring


23 posted on 06/26/2023 7:45:57 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: rlmorel
"Most people including the vast majority of people on this very forum suck at solutions."

We are all very good at blathering and bitching when it makes no difference what we say.

24 posted on 06/26/2023 8:04:46 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, who state things as fact, but really have no idea nor reality!)
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To: Grampa Dave

I probably wasn’t clear, but just to make sure-I include my blathering self in that declaration!


25 posted on 06/26/2023 10:47:09 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: rlmorel

So did I!


26 posted on 06/26/2023 11:40:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, stating things as fact, and have no idea nor reality re solutions!!)
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To: Tell It Right

I can’t really disagree with that thought.

However I believe that teaching students is secondary. The primary role of VDH is historian. Historians recount wars and their causes.


27 posted on 06/26/2023 12:23:04 PM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: ClearCase_guy

The Demonrat elite spent a lifetime studying every detail of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, not to prevent a reoccurrence, but to copy them.


28 posted on 06/26/2023 4:09:16 PM PDT by Reeses
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