Victor Davis Hanson: Seven Days in February

National Review ^ | February 20, 2017 | Victor Davis Hanson

[EveningStar]

Trumps’ critics, left and right, aim to bring about the cataclysm they predicted.

A 1964 political melodrama, Seven Days in May, envisioned a futuristic (1970s) failed military cabal that sought to sideline the president of the United States over his proposed nuclear-disarmament treaty with the Soviets.

Something far less dramatic but perhaps as disturbing as Hollywood fiction played out this February...

Currently, the political and media opponents of Donald Trump are seeking to subvert his presidency in a manner unprecedented in the recent history of American politics. The so-called resistance among EPA federal employees is trying to disrupt Trump administration reform; immigration activists promise to flood the judiciary to render executive orders inoperative.

Intelligence agencies had earlier leaked fake news briefings about the purported escapades of President-elect Trump in Moscow — stories that were quickly exposed as politically driven concoctions. Nearly one-third of House Democrats boycotted the Inauguration. Celebrities such as Ashley Judd and Madonna shouted obscenities to crowds of protesters; Madonna voiced her dreams of Trump’s death by saying she’d been thinking a lot about blowing up the White House.

But all that pushback was merely the clownish preliminary to the full-fledged assault in mid February.

Career intelligence officers leaked their own transcripts of a phone call that National Security Advisor–designate Michael Flynn had made to a Russian official.

The media charge against Flynn was that he had nefariously talked to higher-ups in Russia before he took office. Obama-administration officials did much the same, before Inauguration Day 2009, and spoke with Syrian, Iranian, and Russian counterparts. But they faced no interference from the outgoing Bush administration...

[EveningStar]

Long but worthwhile article by VDH.

[faithhopecharity]

so a judge decides how the people’s tax funds must be spent?
sorry but that’s a Legislative function, not judical!

[dp0622]

If anything happens to Trump or they somehow miraculously topple him, their blood will make the streets run red.

The people are NOT on the msm’s and hollywood’s side.

[sport]

We will show them how to make the grass grow green.

[John S Mosby]

Michael Ledeen reported on obamaumao’s blatant personal foreign policy— in 2008 before he was elected. He was already illegally making inroads and feelers. Nobody leaked that from intel, did they?

here: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/02/obamas-secret-communications-with-mullahs-undermined-american-foreign-policy.php

[marktwain]

VDH is an excellent writer.

[dp0622]

If it comes to that.

They think 60 plus million people are going to say “oh well, i guess there was a coup. Time to go to work.”

And I definitely think a large number of those that voted for hillary want no part of this nonsense.

86 percent consistently accept Trump is the president.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

VDH is the best.

[Travis McGee]

Most important essay I’ve read all week. If CW2 breaks out, if Trump is assassinated or “impeached” by globalist stooges like $oro$ McCain, and all hell breaks loose, this essay “Seven Days in February” will be mandatory study.

[sport]

When everyone else hits it, I will be right along side of them.

[TTFlyer]

It’s just a shot away.

[dp0622]

Me too.

I’d rather it not happen, I’m not gonna lie.

But since the country would not be worth living in anyway if it did happen and we did nothing, I would have no choice. None of us would.

[arthurus]

The hysterical opposition is pure frustration that he managed to thwart what the left thought was the final stage in the Revolution where they would be permanently in power and all obstacles would be swept away, obstacles like uncontrolled elections and Constitutional provisions. They thought they were right at the edge of a Communist system wherein the elite has its dachas and control 0f all material and social assets and the rest of the population is an undifferentiated mass of work units to be increased and moved about and decreased at will. They would be able to finally neutralize and sweep away any hint of opposition to their .5% Utopia.

[arthurus]

so a judge decides how the people’s tax funds must be spent? sorry but that’s a Legislative function, not judical!

So long as the society goes along with these usurpations they will continue and grow.

[Cobra64]

How many cases of 5.56 do you have?

[Cobra64]

That can’t be. He is a native Californian.

[faithhopecharity]

right. agreed...

[dp0622]

ARE YOU KIDDING?!?!

I saw that at the bottom of a FReeper’s post for years and thought it was a Bible verse.

Finally looked it up.

City slicker in lib NYC here.

But I have friends in two nearby states to meet up with in case the SHTF who are more than prepared, and there is a “no call necessary” invitation.

I’ve handled Glocks and M4s enough to not kill anyone on the wrong side!

As for gun ownership, it’s illegal here so the ones that fell into the East River I no longer have.

[WashingtonSource]

Outstanding VDH analysis — as usual.