Victor Davis Hanson: American Exceptionalism, The message of Tuesday’s verdict

NRO ^ | November 5, 2004 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Tolik]

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[paudio]

I like to think that the 'exceptionalism' may be applied to the Western Europe. They're the only one that become secular and leaves all cultural heritage behind them... Perhaps because they're the earliest one that experienced modernity. Others, such as America, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and so on, can embrace modernity while at the same time maintain their religiosity.

[Angry Enough]

Another dead hit. Go, Victor.

[Tax-chick]

later

[Max Combined]

Right on!

[G.Mason]

"Now is not the time for the Democrats to harp about "a divided county," but to ensure that next time Hollywood, MoveOn.org, rock stars, and billionaire currency speculators do not headline their campaign, though venom and money they may bring.

Perhaps someone in the Democratic party will tally up a Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry and conclude that there is a pattern here that leads to political suicide."

With some respect to Victor Hanson, even I was not that naive in grade school.

May the "Dimocrat dinosaur" continue it's slide into the tar pits of obscurity.

[Mia T]

absolutely brilliant

ping

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES
(the self-anointed 'intelligentsia' and 'intelligence' are mutually exclusive constructs)

[CaraM]

Excellent Summation. This is a keeper.

[OXENinFLA]

"Their differences were the stuff of legalistic nit-pickers who might have equally parsed Mussolini's fascism from Hitler's Nazism or claimed that Mao's Marxism so differed from Stalin's Communism that the two could never have teamed up in Korea with yet a third wild-card totalitarian."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The election probably indicates the end of the Democrat Party as we've come to know it. In four years, perhaps a few more, the Dems will sport a bright new hyphenated name, containing the words "green" or "children and families," or some such rot. Finally marginalized to 15 percent of the voting population, they will disappear.

[gobucks]

Now is not the time for the Democrats to harp about "a divided county," but to ensure that next time Hollywood, MoveOn.org, rock stars, and billionaire currency speculators do not headline their campaign, though venom and money they may bring.

Please, let's limit the advice to the enemy, Ok? The bottom line is the dems threw an incredible amount of money in the RIGHT direction. It was PERFECTLY spent. We need to cheer them on to CONTINUE to do just this, not discourage them.

For pete's sake, doesn't anyone remember Operation Fortitude?

[gobucks]

"Autocracy is their illness, and democracy, not American apologies, is their cure."

Well, yep. A big yep.

And democracy was imposed by the end of an ink pen in every country that practices it, including ours, let's remember that! (the ink was, and is, ahem, very rich in lead).

[goldstategop]

Kudos to Victor Davis Hanson! The American people know true intelligence when they see it and it doesn't come from the mushy, addle-minded nonsense of the professoriate and Michael Moore Hate America wackos. Americans do not like being lectured to and told they can't do things right or their beliefs are wrong. Our approach is very much correct and will make the world a better place. Its matters not if the UN, the Eurotrash, Arab dictators and terrorists and America's liberal cognoscenti join up in arms against it. No country on Earth has embraced more fervently the idea that freedom is God's gift to humanity than America. And that is why this country is the last best hope of reason, peace, goodwill and justice on Earth.

[Tolik]

Not so fast. They still have big hopes that Hilary can turn the tide in 2008. I'd wait with pronouncements that Dems party is dead until they trounced in 2008.

[The Great Yazoo]

Two multimillionaire lawyers from the East Coast were not populists in the manner of a Richard Gephardt, and it was the epitome of arrogance to pretend that they were.

Kerry probably lost the election the day he chose Edwards as his veep as opposed to Dick Gephardt. Gephardt probably would have carried Missouri and may have made a difference in Ohio. Edwards really helped nowhere.

Kerry probably feared Gephardt, because Gephardt's private sector labor union political base makes him somewhat independent of the effete northeastern liberal establishment and its lapdogs, the mainstreet media.

[AmericanVictory]

Europe is creating its own reduction of significance, one of enormous size, by its blindness. Eurosocialism will decline in the face of revived American-style constitutionalism.

[firewalk]

thanks for the pings

the fact is that the Left was united, well-funded, and ran the most vitriolic campaign in the democratic party's history — and still lost, taking all branches of power with it.

That last line should be a wake up call to the Democrats.
They haven't been listening to the people.
Fine by me...there's 33(?) Senate seats coming up in the 2006 election year. If democrats continue to ignore the voters, they'll lose more seats.

[PhilipFreneau]

This is by far the best analysis I have read on the election.

[CaptRon]

America saw the election-eve face of bin Laden, heard his pathetic rant — and shrugged that he, not it, was going down.

I love this line.