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Victor Davis Hanson: What the Left Did to Our Country
American Greatness ^ | 4 Sep, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/04/2023 4:44:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Will their upheaval succeed?

In the last 20 years, the Left has boasted that it has gained control of most of America institutions of power and influence—the corporate boardroom, media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the administrative state, academia, foundations, social media, entertainment, professional sports, and Hollywood.

With such support, between 2009-17, Barack Obama was empowered to transform the Democratic Party from its middle-class roots and class concerns into the party of the bicoastal rich and subsidized poor—obsessions with big money, race, a new intolerant green religion, and dividing the country into a binary of oppressors and oppressed.

The Obamas entered the presidency spouting the usual leftwing boilerplate (“spread the wealth,” “just downright mean country,” “get in their face,” “first time I’ve been proud of my country”) as upper-middle-class, former community activists, hurt that their genius and talents had not yet been sufficiently monetized.

After getting elected through temporarily pivoting to racial ecumenicalism and pseudo-calls for unity, they reverted to form and governed by dividing the country. And then the two left the White House as soon-to-be mansion living, mega-rich elites, cashing in on the fears they had inculcated over the prior eight years.

To push through the accompanying unpopular agendas of an open border, mandatory wind and solar energy, racial essentialism, and the weaponization of the state, Obama had begun demonizing his opponents and the country in general: America was an unexceptional place. Cops were racist. “Clingers” of the Midwest were hopelessly ignorant and prejudiced. Only fundamental socialist transformation could salvage a historically oppressive, immoral, and racist nation.

The people finally rebelled at such preposterousness. Obama lost his party some 1,400 local and state offices during his tenure, along with both houses of Congress. His presidency was characterized by his own polarizing mediocrity. His one legacy was Obamacare...

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To: FreedomPoster

Republicans with killer instincts do not and cannot exist, since the entire purpose of the GOP is to prevent the emergence of a right wing movement.


21 posted on 09/04/2023 5:32:13 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They don't think you know but I know that you do.)
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To: MtnClimber

What’s not to understand here? “The Elite” of the world want a large, powerful, secure country where they can enjoy their wealth in Peace. There is nothing new under the sun. They have chosen what was once “America.” Get over it.


22 posted on 09/04/2023 5:41:26 AM PDT by wastoute (Anyone who believes PsyOps are not involved has never met a PsyOps Officer.)
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To: MtnClimber
VDH is not too bad but he gets a lot wrong.

The lie that the Rats were once as a party virtuous, middle class, hardworking, morally the same as GOP except more pro-labor, BUT have been hijacked only recently by commies, is a lie.

The rats have ALWAYS been the lying, unchurched, licentious, perverse, phony religious, phony sanctimonious, hypocritical, supremely envious, divisive, thieving, bribing, rule-breaking, abusive, narcissistic, genocidal, racist, communists that you see now.

They abused the blacks both as slaves and later as free persons. Abused native Americans, religious minorities, and women, and now, lately, children.

Were Republicans perfect? No, but the Rats have ALWAYS been on the wrong or evil side of any issue, as consistently as if governed by some physical law.

Have been since the time of Old Hickory.

23 posted on 09/04/2023 5:44:14 AM PDT by caddie (We must all become Trump, starting now!)
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To: MtnClimber

The people finally rebelled at such preposterousness. Obama lost his party some 1,400 local and state offices during his tenure, along with both houses of Congress. His presidency was characterized by his own polarizing mediocrity. His one legacy was Obamacare...
AND THEN THEY STOLE A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, now wriiten in stone they can do anything and get away with it


24 posted on 09/04/2023 5:46:00 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: srmanuel

“I think the USA will suffer some type of catastrophic defeat”
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I believe that if we look to history, you will be proven correct:
Ancient Israel was much like the USA: they were blessed by God, but warned NOT to descend into wickedness. But they mocked God repeatedly, and were destroyed.

Our current troubles are SYMPTOMS, not causes. The root cause of our problems, is pushing God out of our schools, homes, government and our churches.


25 posted on 09/04/2023 5:46:55 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Obadiah

Actually, the House passed bills eliminating Obamacare 51 times.

Mitch lacked the 60 votes necessary to pass the bill in the Senate.

So, your ignorance is being displayed as bias


26 posted on 09/04/2023 5:47:43 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: Qwapisking

This is just a guess, but maybe it’s because they want to do things that a motivated, well-armed population would never allow.


27 posted on 09/04/2023 5:52:39 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: InkStone

I heard a similar statement on a podcast a couple of weeks ago from Eli Crane, former Navy Seal and 1st term congressman from Arizona, he was asked if he was hopeful the country could be turned around.

His answer struck a nerve with me, he said and I’m paraphrasing, he was always hopeful but not confident at all that the country was suffering a Spiritual Problem.

We can no longer tell right from wrong, it’s simply wrong to destroy your borders, it’s simply wrong to claim your sex can be chosen, we are now debating that men can compete in competitive sports with women because we can’t be certain what are men or women.

I am not the most informed religious person, but I am a firm believer as a Christian and I do agree with your comparison that the USA is akin to ancient Israel and will ultimately be destroyed.

What comes after that will be a very interesting time to be alive, I’m not sure I will be, but I would like to be and see how it all turns out.


28 posted on 09/04/2023 5:55:39 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: MtnClimber
"The people finally rebelled at such preposterousness."

Pray that the rebellion will emancipate the American People from the shackles and madness of decadence and empower them to take back control of the USA

29 posted on 09/04/2023 6:05:43 AM PDT by Savage Beast (There is no limit to the heights to which we can rise. To be your best is the secret of happiness.)
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To: bert

yup


30 posted on 09/04/2023 6:06:39 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: Obadiah
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell had the House and Senate under Trump and they refused to defund Obamacare as they ardently pledged. They also refused to fund the border wall. Those are facts. So, absolutely, Obama was the gay Communist who lit the fire, but it clearly was the Republican uniparty who stood by and let the country burn.

Not exactly correct. Defunding Obamacare passed through the House, McConnell had it passed through the Senate. It got within one vote. That vote was the liar John McCain, who had repeatedly vowed to repeal Obamacare, but at the last minute changed his vote, despite promises to the the contrary, and killed the defunding.

Hard to pass legislation when the votes are near even, and you have senators like John McCain who betray their constituents and the party by promising one thing and delivering the opposite.

McConnel has done some good things, such as pushing through Trump's supreme court picks, and keeping Merrick Garland out of the Supreme Court.

Paul Ryan was a clear deep state disaster. Completely unprincipled.

31 posted on 09/04/2023 6:07:03 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: bert

Ask the guy that got 18 years!


32 posted on 09/04/2023 6:11:06 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: bert
The left and part of the right, the demonicrats and most of the republicans becoming the deep state did it. Polis bought the election in Colorado while Chirs Chirsty paid $175,000 in an attack add on Tom Tancredo the conservative running for governor. The news media runs the propaganda networks to get us to believe what the deep state wants. We are set up by the deep state.
33 posted on 09/04/2023 6:12:24 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: bert

The Left didn’t do it

The apathetic and lazy Right did not resist
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Two sides of the same coin!


34 posted on 09/04/2023 6:17:58 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: caddie

Should be at the top of the free republic page to remind everyone what we’re dealing with!


35 posted on 09/04/2023 6:20:12 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: SauronOfMordor

For much less effort and funding than would be needed to actually create a new party, you could create a MAGA “shadow organization” to recruit and run people in primaries, and to take control of local party organizations.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Can you provide the details and the leadership, or suggest someone who could and would?


36 posted on 09/04/2023 6:23:36 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: MtnClimber

Makes me and the Mrs want to downsize and move to a <10,000 person town with our same values and beliefs.....say, the Ozarks.


37 posted on 09/04/2023 6:29:34 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Das dicke Ende kommt noc!)
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To: MtnClimber

Too early in the day to read such things. Too true, hurts too much.


38 posted on 09/04/2023 6:34:48 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Qwapisking

“ and why do they also want to disarm all Americans? anybody?”

Not ALL Americans, just the white Christian right thinking Americans who don’t feel they need an iron-gloved government to protect them from their neighbors.
IOW, those that SHOULD be armed.


39 posted on 09/04/2023 6:35:15 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

The races were getting along fine before Obama stoked the hatred.


40 posted on 09/04/2023 6:38:22 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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