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Are the Years of Madness Ending?
American Greatness ^ | Dec 16 2024 | victor davis hanson

Posted on 12/16/2024 2:52:19 AM PST by texas booster

The welcomed counterrevolution is one of restoration. No one knows quite what is ahead, but all know that it is at least better already than the current nightmare.

Never in U.S. history has a president-elect been welcomed as the real president before his January 20 inauguration. And never has the incumbent president so willingly surrendered his last two months in office and all but abdicated—to the relief of his nation and the rest of the world.

One reason so many are welcoming Trump’s return is the universally desperate hope that his election spelled an end to a collective madness at home and its ripples abroad during the last four years. And why not?

Nations overseas had never quite witnessed anything like the lethal August 2021 American flight from Afghanistan. That utter humiliation and impotence of the U.S. military likely signaled to Russia there would be no consequences if it invaded Ukraine—and it did; to Iran that it could now unleash Hamas and Hezbollah on Israel—and it did; and to China that it could daily threaten Taiwan and send a spy balloon across the United States with impunity—and it did.

The result was the current global chaos perhaps not seen since the late 1930s when a confused United States was similarly a bystander to the rise of bellicose regimes and wars. The Biden administration shrugged that the Red Sea, the Black Sea, the South China Sea, the Straits of Hormuz, and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea all became dangerous to the U.S. Navy and unsafe to world shipping.

A disparate group of nuclear and near-nuclear powers—Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran—are either at war with Western allies or threatening war with them.

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Their confidence was predicated on the assumption that the U.S. after 2020 was engaged in a Maoist-like cultural revolution that warred on its own security, energy, military, universities, and social unity—and would continue with a second Biden term.

The Biden-era cultural revolution has done great damage to the United States. The U.S. border was systematically and deliberately destroyed to allow some 10-12 million illegal entrants to pour into the U.S. without legality or background checks. Never has an outgoing administration spitefully sold taxpayer-purchased border wall material for pennies on the dollar—rather than see it used for the purposes for which it was purchased.

Never had the U.S. experienced such an immigrant surge. And never had more than 50 million, and over 15 percent of the resident American population been foreign-born.

Why did Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas erase the border? What madness and hate drove them to dismantle federal immigration law? Was it sheer nihilism? Or a desperate but calculated effort to alter American demography for political purposes?

1 posted on 12/16/2024 2:52:19 AM PST by texas booster
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Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Summed up, the welcomed counterrevolution is one of restoration—to dream again that nothing is impossible, and the dreary age of stasis, envy, cynicism, and nihilism is ending, replaced again by a world without limits. No one knows quite what is ahead, but all know that it is at least better already than the current nightmare.

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2 posted on 12/16/2024 2:54:01 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Never had the U.S. Treasury borrowed so much money so quickly and owed $37 in national debt—and been so intent on borrowing continuously nearly $2 trillion a year in annual deficits.

Please note that the Biden administration will borrow $1 trillion during this new fiscal year - and President Trump hasn't even taken office!

3 posted on 12/16/2024 2:56:21 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

It isn’t over yet.

The subversive elements behind Biden are still walking free.


4 posted on 12/16/2024 3:02:48 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: texas booster

All of this is part of the illegal Kenyen pResiden, Broke Insane Obummer, and his attempt to “transform America”. Treason at the highest level!


5 posted on 12/16/2024 3:03:13 AM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: NFHale

No, the madness will not end so long as those “in power” think that it is the system that did the damage. It is individuals. Get rid of them and the problem will go away for a generation or two.

Name them. Shame them. Shun them.


6 posted on 12/16/2024 3:04:11 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: bobbo666

And arrest them where warranted, and I think that list is long


7 posted on 12/16/2024 3:10:45 AM PST by blitz128
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To: texas booster

Thank the gods for getting Trump elected!
You can see the other countries leaders responding to a real man and leader. Imagine what they think of Biden and Harris!

Biden is a pedophile and committed incest with his daughter. He stole the 2020 election. He is a traitor and taken bribes since he was in congress. He brought in all kind of FREAKS when men dress as ugly women and we were told that it is normal!

The democrats are socialists and communists and will destroy this country if not punished. Trump cannot say he does not want to lock up Bidens son or the Clintonsor Pelosi or McConnell. Stop being nice and enforce the laws we have now!

Everything Biden and the democrats did was to weaken and undermine the United States. The old media is very corrupt and has been for decades. The companies broadcast licenses must be revoked as punishment.

The owning of great numbers of radio and tv stations limited. No more 6 media companies controlling 90% of what we see and hear but dozens or hundreds. We are seeing this now with internet media companies forming and taking viewership away as far as news is concerned.


8 posted on 12/16/2024 3:11:20 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: bobbo666

Agree completely


9 posted on 12/16/2024 3:20:43 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: texas booster

“Why did Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas erase the border? What madness and hate drove them to dismantle federal immigration law? Was it sheer nihilism? Or a desperate but calculated effort to alter American demography for political purposes?”

I think the simple and true answer is, “White people bad.” If they couldn’t wipe out the Untermensch whites in camps, then they would wipe them out by making them a permanent and ever shrinking minority. I’m hoping the self-destructive craziness is over. Last night I watched a group of talking heads discuss this subject. They pointed out that the answer to every problem brought up by the Democrats came down to being solved by things like putting Tampons in men’s restrooms and the people said, “No.”


10 posted on 12/16/2024 3:31:42 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: minnesota_bound

This just about wraps it up:
<><>Biden is a pedophile
<><>he committed incest with his daughter
<><>he stole the 2020 election from Trump
<><>he is an outright traitor
<><>he’s taken bribes as an elected official
<><>he corrupted congress for fifty years
<><>He flaunted FREAKS in govt and gave them our tax dollars
<><>he told us men dressed as women was normal
<><>he corrupted justice, keeping his crackhead son out of jail
<><>he made the Biden Crime Family rich
<><>he lied about his no-account wife’s origins.


11 posted on 12/16/2024 3:33:17 AM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
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To: texas booster

I say this as a political observer, not an aspiring prophet or evangelist: There will be no restoration without bringing the country back to Christ.


12 posted on 12/16/2024 3:41:00 AM PST by dangus
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To: texas booster

Muesli Brains might have disappeared for the last couple of months but this did not stop the deep-state from sabotaging everything it can until the morning of Inauguration. Including as giving employee unions perks (like staying home) to starting a war with Russia.

And Biden will pardon himself for the last 12 years would be a good bet.


13 posted on 12/16/2024 3:52:50 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: texas booster

You think it’s going to end? ROFLMAO!

That was just the warmup act!


14 posted on 12/16/2024 4:16:43 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the son of man, who has no salvation.")
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To: texas booster

Another GREAT article by VDH. Thanks for posting. BUMP!


15 posted on 12/16/2024 4:17:39 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: texas booster

I just hope we don’t get nuked in the next month or so. The drones worry me.


16 posted on 12/16/2024 4:22:42 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: texas booster
never has the incumbent president so willingly surrendered his last two months in office

The vindictive little weasel Biden is doing anything BUT willingly surrendering, rather he (or those who pull his strings) are going scorched earth on the way out of office.

From petty things like selling southern border wall parts to more consequential things like pardoning everyone in sight, to manipulating the bureaucracy to embed favored deep state actors in government to flooding cash grants out to envirowackos.

No, the people controlling our White House right now are certainly not surrendering - they're doing everything they can to waste Trump's time undoing their last minute power spree - if he can.

17 posted on 12/16/2024 4:29:31 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: texas booster

The answer is no.

Not until the die hards are dead will America be free of the Progressive cancer knawing at it’s innards


18 posted on 12/16/2024 4:34:18 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: NFHale

Buden’s just a stooge.

It’s the people who installed him who pose the threat.

We’ve won a battle, not the war.

Not yet.


19 posted on 12/16/2024 4:44:21 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Highest Authority

Correct, and if anyone thinks they’re done, I’ve got news for them.
These Communists are driven. I don’t think they’re real smart, but they are in lockstep, and too dumb to quit.
Look for them to double down on stupidity, and try some very drastic measures, going forward.
We’re under 40 days to inauguration, and they are hell-bent to prevent it.


20 posted on 12/16/2024 4:52:11 AM PST by Fireone (Americans have had enough. (build the gallows))
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