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Victor Davis Hanson: The Weird, Creepy, Surreal – and Dangerous – 2024 Campaign - 10 unanswered questions on how and why we've entered this bizarro world.
Front Page Magazine ^ | 19 Aug, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/19/2024 7:09:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history.

Here are 10 unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we’ve entered this bizarro world:

1. How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six months? Why can’t she enact her proposed solutions to these problems (which she helped create) right now?

2. Would the media prefer to help her win but lose further credibility themselves by failing to ask why she has disowned her last three decades of leftist agendas, or to reclaim some of their reputations and thereby risk her losing?

3. Does the left appreciate the new campaign and election protocols it has now established?

That is to say:

Cancel by fiat their virtual nominee four months before the election when he sinks in the polls?

Nullify the outcome of a year of primaries and the will of 14 million voters?

Threaten a sitting president with removal by the 25th Amendment process unless he steps aside as his party nominee?

Anoint a replacement nominee before the convention and without a single primary — and then prevent any rival candidates from challenging her?

4. After the precedents of 2020 and 2024, is the future orthodox protocol for any Democratic nominee now to avoid all interviews and extempore speaking, and stick to teleprompted speeches and scripted responses only?

Is the fear that a transparent progressive messenger with an overt and honest left-wing message will double down on it and thus guarantee defeat?

5. For the next 80 days, has the chameleon-like Harris now become a temporary MAGA candidate, as she expropriates former President Donald Trump’s positions from border security to no taxes on tips?....

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kamala; vdh; vicepresident; victordavishanson

1 posted on 08/19/2024 7:09:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: texas booster

Another VDH ping


2 posted on 08/19/2024 7:09:51 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

All good questions the Left sees no reason to answer.


3 posted on 08/19/2024 7:19:09 AM PDT by tcox4575
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To: tcox4575; 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

And that shooting Trump in many leftist quarters would subsequently earn the unhinged killer eternal fame, applause, and immortality?

And that if there are such anticipated rewards and perceived opportunities, then we may well see more attempts on candidate Trump’s life?

A look at 10 surreal events in our 2024 (non)election season by Prof Hanson.

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.

4 posted on 08/19/2024 7:31:55 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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5 posted on 08/19/2024 7:33:32 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: MtnClimber
5. For the next 80 days, has the chameleon-like Harris now become a temporary MAGA candidate, as she expropriates former President Donald Trump’s positions from border security to no taxes on tips? Does the media care to ask the new 80-day MAGA Harris why she has renounced many of her once emphatic beliefs?

One of my favorite lines from the article!

The new 80-day MAGA Harris line I will use in public.

6 posted on 08/19/2024 7:35:11 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber
Rhetorical questions. Asked for effect, not for actual answers.

Nicely played.

7 posted on 08/19/2024 7:35:45 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: texas booster

That was a great line. When I was editing to get to the 300 word limit, I was hoping I would not have to edit that out of the post.


8 posted on 08/19/2024 7:41:41 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
"2. Would the media prefer to help her win but lose further credibility themselves by failing to ask why she has disowned her last three decades of leftist agendas, or to reclaim some of their reputations and thereby risk her losing?"

The Enemedia and Commiekamala have no credibility to lose; they all are lying, murdering traitors.

9 posted on 08/19/2024 7:46:11 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: MtnClimber
And that shooting Trump in many leftist quarters would subsequently earn the unhinged killer eternal fame, applause, and immortality?

Like John Dean, and yet the left wants to pretend that the motive to shoot Trump is unknown. Oh, and did you know that CNN had John Hinkley on one day? They did.

10 posted on 08/19/2024 7:57:44 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

Excellent article. Awesome irrefutable reasoning.


11 posted on 08/19/2024 8:06:52 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Taxman

ping


12 posted on 08/19/2024 9:35:07 AM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: MtnClimber

Great comments at the linked site!


13 posted on 08/19/2024 8:00:15 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: MtnClimber

Best comment calls the cackling one “Kamaleo”.

Great mash-up of her name with chameleon.


14 posted on 08/19/2024 8:02:18 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman
Best comment calls the cackling one “Kamaleo”.

Commie-La is mine.

15 posted on 08/20/2024 8:05:34 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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