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Victor Davis Hanson writes history in real time. His analysis is factual and irrefutable.

The Democrats could learn a lot by reading his post-mortem of the 2016 election.

1 posted on 11/12/2016 9:16:45 AM PST by Semper911
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To: Semper911

I will read this and in general I respect Hanson, but wasn’t he a never-Trump?


2 posted on 11/12/2016 9:19:27 AM PST by samtheman (Voted Trump)
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To: Semper911

Two thumbs up for VDH!


3 posted on 11/12/2016 9:20:43 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic ( “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”)
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To: Semper911

Wasn’t VDH anti-Trump?


4 posted on 11/12/2016 9:21:34 AM PST by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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Your call!

Did Hanson get on the Trump Train before it pulled out and reached maximum speed?

“In the end, the #NeverTrump movement fizzled, and most of the party rightly saw, after putting aside the matter of his character, that Trump’s agenda was conservative in almost every area—immigration, energy, gun rights, taxes and regulation, abortion, health care, and military spending. In areas of doubt—foreign policy and entitlements—voters reasoned that sober and judicious Republican advisors would surround and enlighten Trump.

As a result, Republican voters, along with working class Democrats and Independents voted into power a Republican President, Republican Congress, and, in essence, a Republican judiciary. Trump’s cunning and energy, and his unique appeal to the disaffected white working class, did not destroy the Republican down ballot, but more likely saved it. Senators and Representatives followed in Trump’s wake, as did state legislatures and executive officers. Any Republican senatorial candidate who voted for him won election; any who did not, lost. Trump got a greater percentage of Latinos, blacks, and non-minority women than did Romney, and proved to be medicine rather than poison for Republican candidates. With hindsight, it is hard to fathom how any other Republican candidate might have defeated Clinton Inc.—or how, again with hindsight, the Party could be in a stronger, more unified position.”


5 posted on 11/12/2016 9:23:10 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for you/us without you!!!!")
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To: Semper911

too wordy- she lost because the last 8 years have been hell- because immorality was being thrown down our throats and people got sick and tired of it, because of a blatant attack by the msm on the right- people got sick and tired of that too- and because the left nominated an as yet convicted felon who feels she is above the law-

The left threw their blatant disregard for law and order in our faces- arrogantly thinking that because they had the msm on their side that none would ever hold them accountable for it-

Well they found out that the American people DID hold them accountable for it! (Since our feckless GOP wouldn’t!)


9 posted on 11/12/2016 9:27:39 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Semper911

This man is one of America’s better essayists.


11 posted on 11/12/2016 9:28:18 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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Wasn't he against Trump? I may be wrong but I seem to remember he didn't care for Trump and didn't bump him against the alternative.

I have loved his work for a long time but I seem to recall deciding to stop following him.

12 posted on 11/12/2016 9:29:56 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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In the aftermath of defeat, where goes the Democratic Party?

It is now a municipal party. It has no real power over the federal government or state houses.

A municipal party.

A party to manage cities.

Love VDH.

14 posted on 11/12/2016 9:31:14 AM PST by cicero2k
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To: Semper911

exactly right.

bookmark. bookmark. bookmark.


16 posted on 11/12/2016 9:34:37 AM PST by dadfly
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To: Semper911

and just for the record- these riots are the left throwing a hissy fit because they were repudiated at the polls- they can’t indulge in their lawlessness unimpeded any longer- and their immorality, if trump does the right thing, may be coming to an end- and they sense that- they are bawling openly that they ‘might not be able to commit infanticide any longer’ and they are throwing a fit-

When trump is sworn in- all hell is going to break loose throughout the US- What we’re seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg- unhinged evil controlled liberals will go absolutely mental- prepare for it- especially those who live in liberal cities (although the democrats MAY at some point, eventually, realize their idiotic rioting is destroying liberal towns and cities, and move their riots into republican counties- so just be aware of that- Donald Trump has inherited a racial divide so intense that it will likely exceed the riots of the 60’s and 70’s- our current dear leader made sure that he was going to leave a tsunami of destruction behind when he left office


17 posted on 11/12/2016 9:35:58 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Semper911

he Bible, in its original languages, is the revealed Word of YHWH, the Ain Sof, the Creator of the Universe. The entire Word established the boundary conditions for all significant events in the Universe from beginning to end.

Everyone has free will until they bump up against a boundary condition that involves them. Then YHWH will “harden your heart” and you are stuck with your decision. In Quantum Mechanics it is called “spontaneous symmetry breaking” that collapses a superposition of states into one observed state.

We are very near the end of the Bible. The Revelation 12:1-2 great sign in the heavens will happen September 23-24, 2017. There is strong evidence that the matching verses, 12:5-6 mean that the people who believe in the Messiah’s First Coming, and his imminent return, will be “caught up to God and His Throne” and that the people who believe in the Promise, but missed Him the first time will be protected for 1260 days, from all Hell breaking out on Earth.

If you study the Word, you will find out that “nations” are very important to YHWH, and trying to unite all people in one government/religion, is despised by YHWH. It started with the Tower of Babel, so when the EU made their headquarters to look like a painting of the Tower of Babel, you know they are in trouble.

The United States of America was founded as a nation “ruled by God”, which is what Israel means. Many of the founders thought of it as a “New Israel”. Jonathan Cahn, has explored this extensively, and the events surrounding the 9/11 attack on the USA are compelling, and seem to identify the USA with the Ten Tribes of Israel that were dispersed by the Assyrians.

It is undeniable that decedents of Judah, Benjamin, and remnants of Levi and the ten other tribes that went into the Babylonian Captivity, are moving back into the original Promised Land (The Modern State of Israel). But only YHWH knows where the rest of those Ten Tribes ended up.

So that brings us to what can be happening here in the United States of America in the last year of the Age of Grace, the Church Age, the period between the First and Second Coming, or the two days between the final dispersion of the Jews and their regathering in Israel. It doesn’t matter what you call it. It is here, now.

As the Word says will happen in the Last Days, almost all the organized churches have fallen away from the original Gospel, to one degree or another. That means that there are a lot of Lost Sheep out there to be gathered in before the final harvest.

So what has YHWH done? Well, in the rest of the world He is gathering them in the old fashion way, but allowing Lucifer to persecute the Hell out of the Christians. This really spreads the faith, as it did in the Days of the Apostles.

With the United States, all fat, dump and happy from His material blessing, and now under the governmental control of the Luciferian New World Order, and their fly attracting leaders, He needed a different approach.

His answer appears to be one Donald John (voice crying in the wilderness, get it?) Trump who appears to be a melding of Samson, Cyrus and Nehemiah.

Read Judges 13-16 and then look at the characteristics Donald Trump shares with Samson: Doesn’t drink, ever; has really wild hair; is really harsh if you treat him badly or unfairly; ran around with a lot of foreign women.

You can read Isaiah 45 (FORTY FIVE! get it) to find out about Cyrus, a gentile who was God’s Instrument in punishing the Babylonians, and returning Judah back to Jerusalem.

Of course, Nehemiah was the one whom King Artaxerxes, sent back to Jerusalem to actually BUILD THE WALL (get it?) and after that to bust up the corrupt establishment and restore the Law of Moses to the land. Read the whole book of Nehemiah and think of how it could be paralleled in the first few months of a Trump Administration.

Next stop is the inauguration which will take place when Donald J. Trump is 70 years, 7 months, and 7 days old in the Hebrew year 5777! You can’t make this stuff up because God already did!

So, I think that if we all listen closely to what the Holy Spirit is telling each us Members of the Body of Christ to do, which may include working hard and praying for Donald Trump, then I think we get a Nehemiah period before we are harvested and the Luciferian New World Order folks get their wish to be rid of us, and to have the world all to themselves.


19 posted on 11/12/2016 9:37:16 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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Beyond that, even Trump’s admitted crudity was seen by many as evidence of a street-fighting spirit sorely lacking in Republican candidates that had lost too magnanimously in 1992, 2008, and 2016 to vicious Democratic hit machines. Whatever Trump was, he would not lose nobly, but perhaps pull down the rotten walls of the Philistines with him.

Yup. And the media getting the vapors over it was seen as about as hypocritical as you can get.

20 posted on 11/12/2016 9:37:33 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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Let us never forget the philosophical foundation document of our liberties, and the solemn assertions of its closing paragraph:
"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." (Declaration of Independence--Author, Thomas Jefferson) Signed by brave and courageous men who risked death for their act on behalf of our liberty

22 posted on 11/12/2016 9:38:01 AM PST by loveliberty2
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“Barack Obama entered office in 2009 with both houses of Congress, two likely Supreme Court picks, and the good will of the nation. By 2010 he had lost the House; by 2012, the Senate.”

One factual error: Obama lost the Senate in 2014, not 2012.


23 posted on 11/12/2016 9:38:58 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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This election was about Americans vs Traitors. All those asshats taking shots at Trump after he won the nomination.....their careers are over.


24 posted on 11/12/2016 9:39:13 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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language warning... send this to your liberal friends......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs


25 posted on 11/12/2016 9:40:10 AM PST by Walkingfeather
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When the LSM tells you what is happening in the world/country/society, you can be sure that is exactly what is NOT happening in the world/country/society, but instead it is what they WANT to be happening in the w/c/s.


26 posted on 11/12/2016 9:40:24 AM PST by uncitizen (Ding Dong The LSM is Dead!)
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A good read. Unfortunately the senate has too many dems and squishy republicans to be useful


27 posted on 11/12/2016 9:43:31 AM PST by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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Don’t have any general dislike for Hanson. He seems to be enjoyed by many folks here. My memory was jogged by an article appearing on the forum on 11/03/2016 titled: Has Clinton Topped Nixon?

I wasn’t appreciative of the comparison of the two. This was based on my belief the media has twisted Nixon into some demon now viewed by many to be lower than the Devil himself.

Based on that I wrote a response to Hanson’s comments.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3488562/posts?page=40#40


28 posted on 11/12/2016 9:43:54 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The morning and the evening were the election day. People voted. The Lord saw, and it was good.)
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The Democrats could learn a lot by reading his post-mortem of the 2016 election.

Sure, but are they capable of doing so?

Also, I take issue with his diagnosis that the party appeals to just 40% of the electorate now.

I thinks it's closer to 35%, and that's where it tops out.

CA...

29 posted on 11/12/2016 9:44:12 AM PST by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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