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Victor Davis Hanson: The Left's Addiction to Drama
The Daily Signal YT Channel ^ | Feb 13 2025 | victor davis hanson

Posted on 02/13/2025 7:55:30 PM PST by texas booster

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the French foreign minister after the French Revolution, once remarked, “They have forgotten nothing and they've learned nothing.” Meaning, the same thing is going to happen again and again.

That's applicable to today's angry, almost addicted Left, argues Victor Davis Hanson in this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

“We have suffered now from almost a decade of Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, five criminal and civil suits, 91 indictments, efforts to get [Donald Trump] off the ballot. I could go on and on in a nauseating fashion, but they all have had two results.

“One, the people are now bored and weary with all of these psychodramas and melodramas. And two, they're starting to see them as substitutes for substantive criticism or substantive discussion …


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson
“Pete Hegseth is going to be confirmed. He weathered all of the invective. It's clear the Left failed to stop him. There was no discussion in those ad hominem attacks on really critical questions for all of our security concerns. Are we short artillery shells? Is the traditional triad of submarine-based, missile-based, and airplane-based nuclear deterrent, does it still work? ...

“Are we short Javelins? Should we be looking more at drones after the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine? None of that came up. It was, ‘Were you drinking? Did you have adultery, adultery, adultery?’”

1 posted on 02/13/2025 7:55:30 PM PST by texas booster
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

“They have forgotten nothing and they've learned nothing.”

Short YT video about the drama of the left, from 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

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2 posted on 02/13/2025 7:57:03 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

BTTT


3 posted on 02/13/2025 8:04:15 PM PST by nopardons
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To: texas booster

As usual, excellent work from VDH. Thank you for posting it.


4 posted on 02/13/2025 8:16:26 PM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: texas booster

That’s a great look at the Dem’s confirmation questioning.


5 posted on 02/13/2025 8:23:01 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: texas booster

VDH is a mastermind of clarity


6 posted on 02/13/2025 8:39:51 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: texas booster

At the end, democrats are simple minded creatures of emotion, not thinking.


7 posted on 02/13/2025 8:41:26 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: texas booster

I never dreamed any political party could turn themselves into such impudent c**ts, but here we are.


8 posted on 02/13/2025 8:45:29 PM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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To: texas booster

Leftism is a mental illness.


9 posted on 02/14/2025 6:34:38 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: doorgunner69
At the end, democrats are simple minded creatures of emotion, not thinking.

Bingo! Precisely! Democrat/Communists are ruled by emotion ... reality has but a limited, often temporary place in their world (and not just in their "political" world). Thinking can lead to independent thoughts ... and this cannot be tolerated in their totalitiarian ideology.

10 posted on 02/14/2025 6:39:26 AM PST by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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