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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: Robert DeLong

The rich love Biden.


61 posted on 05/27/2024 10:26:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jim Noble

Ditto that!


62 posted on 05/27/2024 10:30:30 AM PDT by Osage Orange (ooooOO)
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To: Jim Noble
I was taught like you were.

E.g., as a medical student on pediatrics, I overruled, during the night, the professor's dangerously inaccurate diagnosis on a 6-year-old boy, made during evening rounds, and proved that the child had acute glomerulonephritis, and, upon discovering my diagnosis the next morning, the professor was delighted. He bragged about his medical student's outhinking him. There were "visiting firemen" from other medical schools. He bragged to them.

63 posted on 05/27/2024 10:31:01 AM PDT by Savage Beast (If they'll do it to him, they'll do it to you.)
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To: Thommas

Will 95 MILLION votes for Trump be enough????
Trump gets 95 million, Biden gets 100 million.

Trump gets 160 million, Biden gets 180 million.
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In other words, more than the known voting-aged population of the US.


64 posted on 05/27/2024 10:31:58 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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To: Liz
"Well, admittedly they’re trying like heck to “woke” the military. But if lamebrain Biden’s disaster at West Point is any indication, the cadets and the brass aint buying it."

That is enough to brighten my entire day!

65 posted on 05/27/2024 10:32:38 AM PDT by Savage Beast (If they'll do it to him, they'll do it to you.)
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To: Liz
".......remind them 24/7 they are stuck with a woeful idiot."

Yes, but prepare for the worst. They'll dump Biden if they can figure out how. And they might.

66 posted on 05/27/2024 10:34:57 AM PDT by Savage Beast (If they'll do it to him, they'll do it to you.)
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To: Savage Beast

The left “Dumps Biden? “

That I like.


67 posted on 05/27/2024 10:39:39 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: Savage Beast

Glad to hear the woeful tale of Biden at West Point is a cheerer-upper.


68 posted on 05/27/2024 10:42:02 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: MtnClimber

Libtards simply don’t understand how stupid they sound when Trump has already been President


69 posted on 05/27/2024 10:43:29 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: dfwgator

Yes they do, for he is enriching them, and only them. But that is not a winning recipe.


70 posted on 05/27/2024 11:08:12 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Liz

Agree


71 posted on 05/27/2024 12:14:48 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Liz
They wont ever vote for Trump.......but the next best thing is to convince them to stay home on election day

You would think democrats would show more pride than to show their faces on election day. Can't they see the mess Biden has made of the country and the world?

72 posted on 05/27/2024 1:37:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (Trump's deplorables welcome the Bronx clowns to the family... )
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To: FLT-bird
I think the Left is most worried Trump will do lasting damage to the federal institutions they have worked for decades to derange and weaponize against any opposition to the Democrat party or Woke Gaia Worshiping ideology.

I think you're right...

73 posted on 05/27/2024 2:19:55 PM PDT by GOPJ (Trump's deplorables welcome the Bronx clowns to the family... )
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