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Victor Davis Hanson: A Decade of Conspiracists?
American Greatness ^ | 22 Jul, 2024 | By Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/22/2024 5:38:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Can we cease the charge of Trump the fascist since it has not only been proven false but has revealed far more about the authoritarian and conspiratorial nature of the accusers than their target?

Who has most peddled conspiracy allegations the last nine years—all of them false and nearly all of them influencing national elections and public policies?

Once a target is constructed as Hitlerian, almost any means necessary to quash that perceived existential threat become justified. And we have seen a lot of them in the last nine years.

Russian collusion did not work. Christopher Steele was a fraud. Robert Mueller came up empty.

The Alfa Bank ping caper was a myth.

The Russian laptop disinformation was a lie and ruined the reputations of the “51 former intelligence authorities” who sanctioned it.

The first Trump impeachment was a strictly partisan vote, activated when Trump lost the House and Mueller had come up empty.

Only ten Republicans impeached Trump a second time; the Senate again acquitted then-private citizen Trump.

January 6 was a buffoonish riot. In magnitude and lethality, it marked only a fraction of the destruction in lives and property of the green-lit Antifa-BLM-organized 120-day “summer of love” of rioting, violence, and arson of 2020.

The post facto militarization of Washington into an armed camp, the presence of FBI informants on Capitol grounds, the decision not to beef up security forces, the weird effort to suppress videos of the riot and congressional testimonies and evidence, the promotion and canonization of the reckless officer Byrd who lethally shot an unarmed Ashli Babbitt, and the use of solitary confinement for the arrested, long detentions without trials, and inordinately harsh prison sentences (in comparison to the nearly 14,000 arrested in 2020 who were mostly released) will remain controversial until freedom of information...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 07/22/2024 5:38:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left seems unashamed that they live in hoaxes and lies.


2 posted on 07/22/2024 5:38:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 07/22/2024 5:38:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

This one. He nailed it.


4 posted on 07/22/2024 5:44:55 AM PDT by dforest
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To: MtnClimber

Remember ruby ridge, waco, Vince foster, Watergate, etc etc etc...it’s what made gen x so skeptical.


5 posted on 07/22/2024 5:50:27 AM PDT by struggle
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To: All

J6’ers are in solitary confinement, long detentions without trials, and get
inordinately harsh prison terms for daring to speak out about election fraud.

Yet illegal aliens who murder, rape, assault, and rob innocent Americans
go unpunished (nearly 14,000 arrested in 2020 were mostly released).


6 posted on 07/22/2024 5:51:39 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: MtnClimber

INCREDIBLE PIECE.

And the FINAL CONCLUSION is quite clear: The “New Tone” that Bush Jr. declared in January, 2001, was CLEARLY interpreted as a sign of weakness and, literally, ANYTHING GOES in DC, as long as it’s against Republicans.


7 posted on 07/22/2024 6:00:16 AM PDT by BobL
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

For some nine years, we have been bombarded with hysterical warnings that Donald Trump is a Hitlerian figure who is a fascist who would destroy democracy to justify calls for extremist action. Yet in his four years, he certainly did not weaponize the government against his enemies in the same fashion as in past administrations. Lois Lerner, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, James Clapper, and a host of others either lied under oath, feigned amnesia under oath, or took the Fifth Amendment any time scrutiny arose over their politicized and extra-legal behavior.

A long but rewarding VDH article about who really is the party of conspiracists. Worth your time!

FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR

Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall

American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness

His website: Victor Davis Hanson

Please let me know if you want on or off this new VDH ping list.

As a reminder, Professor Hanson has asked that we do not post the full article of his writings. Thank you for following the link to finish his article.

Content created by the Center for American Greatness, Inc. is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a significant audience.

8 posted on 07/22/2024 6:00:51 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber
VDH lists it out, but leaves open the questiin: how do we stop it?

I think the key lies in statements earlier from this year, often from the same players involved in what VDH lists, expressing a concern about what they call "retribution". That is fear of justice speaking--note, I don't say guilt, because those people don't feel any guilt for what they have done and what they continue to do.

"They" put a fine point on their message on July 13th, 2024. Like pharoah, they may have named their own doom. But for now, we should be concerned about fixing this nation. But whoever is AG needs to be a "wartime consigliere".

9 posted on 07/22/2024 6:02:58 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

The left seems unashamed

You can’t shame a fool or an idiot it’s all the left are infested with.


10 posted on 07/22/2024 6:59:31 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber

VDH - an absolute American treasure . . .


11 posted on 07/22/2024 7:03:37 AM PDT by MCSETots ( )
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To: MtnClimber

They/the libs/and their media have basically had America in a soft coup with Americans in their ongoing “Get Trump!” B$!


12 posted on 07/22/2024 7:08:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not fit to serve as President. He must resign!)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


13 posted on 07/22/2024 7:29:45 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: texas booster

VDH didn’t tell us one thing we don’t already know. Whatever...


14 posted on 07/22/2024 8:14:01 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: MtnClimber

Victor Defeatist Handwringer has never ever laid a glove on the GOP Establishment in his entire pathetic controlled opposition career.

In his Mr Magoo world, everything is always the fault of the Democrats, the Left, the Media, the Universities, the Muslims,

But never the backstabbing, phony lying GOP thespians, who lip sync and play air fiddle to “ah respect your small town values” while America burns.

Does he think the 2020 election was stolen? Does he think J6 was a Fedsurrection? Does he think the Deep State tried to kill Trump last week? Don’t expect this stooge to give a definitive answer on any of these questions.

Show me a person who thinks VDH is a brilliant thinker, and I’ll show you a weak man who probably got the jab and wore the mask to calm down the frightened women in their lives.


15 posted on 07/22/2024 8:14:55 AM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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16 posted on 07/22/2024 8:53:08 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: struggle

The blazingly **fake** birth certificate forgery. ....Silence even from the conservatives. ( Shame on Rush Limbaugh).

Let’s not forget the blown-up car of the boyfriend of the Governor’s daughter.

The mysterious suicides, accidental deaths, and drive-by murders of key witnesses.


17 posted on 07/22/2024 11:46:26 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: struggle

The list is so long, it’s hard to list them all:

odd suicides,
accidental deaths,
drownings
unexpected heart attacks, ( pillow over the face of course)
unsolved drive-by murders
Unsolved car-explosions ( boyfriend of a governor’s daughter)


18 posted on 07/22/2024 11:53:37 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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