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Victor Davis Hanson: Fear Trump—or Bust?
American Greatness ^ | 27 May, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/27/2024 5:20:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Trumpophobia (fright over Trump) is cresting with his polls.

As Trump continues to show leads in critical swing states, as various lawfare-inspired cases against him seem to the public to be more persecutions than prosecutions, and as Joe Biden appears daily more incoherent and lost, the left on spec has resorted to warning the nation about all the supposedly catastrophic consequences of a future Trump presidency.

Ironically, the left seems oblivious to the reality that one reason Trump leads Biden in the polls is precisely because voters can compare the four-year record of the prior Trump presidency to Biden’s last 40 months.

Recently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that Trump will conspire with oil executives to spike gasoline prices. But even after Biden drained the strategic petroleum reserve before the 2022 midterms and is now again doing the same as the 2024 election approaches, gas prices have averaged only one-third cheaper than under Trump.

Trump tried to top off the reserve but was blocked by Democrats in Congress. Nevertheless, he left Biden a nearly full reservoir of 638 million barrels (about 90 percent full), which Biden has now drained by some 270 million barrels to the present 51 percent full—and the levels are falling further as voting nears.

We are warned that 77-year-old Trump looks haggard after his long hours in court. He seems sleepy, we are told. He has aged terribly, the media tell us. But polls show that concern over Biden’s dementia greatly outweighs normal worry over septuagenarian candidate Trump.

Why would any sane pro-Biden handler bring up Trump’s supposed gait or occasional forgotten word when that only reminds the public of the contrast with Biden, whose speeches seem delivered in something other than English and whose transcripts must be heavily edited to airbrush away his incoherence?

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; trumpophobia; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: DownInFlames

Just curious... how old is your daughter, and does she have a family?

The young female PhDs and professionals I work around are like this. Nearly all are unmarried, 25-35, and/or have no children. They can repeat the Yahoo/The View/Jimmy Kimmel tripe and yuck it up about how awful Trump is, but couldn’t give more than 1-2 sentences of factual discourse on any given political topic.

The primary fear instilled in them by the Left is that Trump will take away their “right” to murder their unborn. The ghastly fear of getting pregnant and having a child seems to control everything else they do.


21 posted on 05/27/2024 6:44:11 AM PDT by Señor Presidente (Tyranny deserves insurrection)
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To: DownInFlames

Does she know what she is voting for?


22 posted on 05/27/2024 6:45:09 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Señor Presidente; DownInFlames
Señor Presidente wrote:

"The young female PhDs and professionals I work around are like this. Nearly all are unmarried, 25-35, and/or have no children. They can repeat the Yahoo/The View/Jimmy Kimmel tripe and yuck it up about how awful Trump is, but couldn’t give more than 1-2 sentences of factual discourse on any given political topic."

"The primary fear instilled in them by the Left is that Trump will take away their “right” to murder their unborn. The ghastly fear of getting pregnant and having a child seems to control everything else they do."

BTTT

23 posted on 05/27/2024 6:50:48 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: vaskypilot

bttt


24 posted on 05/27/2024 6:52:48 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Reeses

Not just public figure democrats. All democrats as far as I’m concerned.


25 posted on 05/27/2024 6:53:03 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: OHPatriot
Will 95 MILLION votes for Trump be enough????

Trump gets 95 million, Biden gets 100 million.

Trump gets 160 million, Biden gets 180 million.

See how it works? 🤔

26 posted on 05/27/2024 6:53:46 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: jeffc; Henchster

Me too also. I usually agree 100% with VDH. But I didn’t understand his “...gas prices have averaged only one-third cheaper than under Trump.” Maybe VDH’s experience is based on some Commiefornia regulation that raised prices more in the Trump years to make Trump look bad.


27 posted on 05/27/2024 7:02:15 AM PDT by Tell It Right (A1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DownInFlames

“My oldest daughter, who has a doctorate from Yale, is terrified of Trump.”

Then why didn’t Trump do just that during his 4 years in power, or at least try to do that?

Also how does one become a ‘dictator’ when the 90% plus of the federal workforce opposes and hates you? I’d be FAR MORE WORRIED about a Democrat dictatorship if I were her, because there are 3 MILLION or so federal workers ready to support that.


28 posted on 05/27/2024 7:11:28 AM PDT by BobL
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To: DownInFlames

Many of those same young people are 100% convinced that GloBull Warming is going to kill all of us, too.


29 posted on 05/27/2024 7:14:03 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: DownInFlames

Students at all levels are not taught, they are indoctrinated. By the time they are adults, many are no longer able to think critically and discernment is foreign to them.

We are living in a dysfunctional society where normal, straight thinking people are surrounded.


30 posted on 05/27/2024 7:15:11 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MtnClimber
the left-wing media warns America that a President Trump would do exactly what they have been doing by emulating their weaponization of the courts, the bureaucracy, and the Congress.

Yep! Tagline is still accurate.

31 posted on 05/27/2024 7:19:48 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: MtnClimber

I think people are looking at their grocery bill to decide how to vote (the old “people vote with their wallets”).

Inflation is eating us alive, no matter how the admin tries to spin it - that grocery bill is right in front of people’s faces now, and it hurts. Cost of everything ≈ 30% higher, and people know it.


32 posted on 05/27/2024 7:24:18 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Liz; bert
How in God’s name can he handle our safety and security?

You guys really have to quit the "Biden this, Biden that" addiction.

Biden (the actual, corporeal, "biological Biden") doesn't "handle" anything. He's never made a decision, a policy, a rule; and he has never taken a single consequential action beyond asking for brown sugar on his oatmeal.

What you keep calling "Biden" is a committee.

This is not unusual in history, a feeble or incompetent Emperor pushed aside for rule by a group of conniving underlings.

Our system was supposed to prevent this, but we are in an advanced state of decay, near the end of the 1788-2016 era, so things like this are expected.

Fighting "Biden" is punching air, fighting a ghost.

If voting, if American politics, has any future it's time to focus on who is running the government and what they are up to.

Pro tip: It's not "Joe Biden".

33 posted on 05/27/2024 7:26:48 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: DownInFlames

Being swamped in 7x24x365 anti Trump propaganda while being immersed in a coercive, cult like, left wing culture would warp anyone’s perception. Your daughter is brainwashed and needs to be deprogrammed. Not long ago there was an article about a college gal who was deprogrammed with a happy ending.


34 posted on 05/27/2024 7:26:57 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

Trump is doing a good job at being the happy warrior. He comes across really good on TV.


35 posted on 05/27/2024 7:28:06 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

I think most people believe what their screens tell them to believe.


36 posted on 05/27/2024 7:54:01 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Señor Presidente
The primary fear . . . is that Trump will take away their “right” to murder their unborn. The ghastly fear of getting pregnant and having a child seems to control everything else they do.

37 posted on 05/27/2024 7:57:41 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I refer to them as, TV TARDS


38 posted on 05/27/2024 8:07:39 AM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: DeplorablePaul

I suppose a happy ending would work to deprogram most people.


39 posted on 05/27/2024 8:31:31 AM PDT by webheart
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To: MtnClimber
"the left always projects its sins onto its opponents."

The Democrats' accusations are always confessions.

The wise are aware of this.

"desperate Democrats are scrambling to find some bizarre way to depose both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris"

The Democrats are cornered rats.

They will stop at NOTHING.

If Biden and Harris had functioning brains, they would be very afraid.

You can be sure that the Democrats already have a plan for dumping Biden and Harris and nominating someone electable. They will not depend only on voter fraud.

At the very least, they will make Biden and Harris "an offer they can't refuse."

Prepare for the worst. The Party of Hate and Evil will do whatever it must.

40 posted on 05/27/2024 8:32:15 AM PDT by Savage Beast (If they'll do it to him, they'll do it to you.)
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