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Victor Davis Hanson: Russia! Russia! Forever: An Anatomy of a Left-wing Obsession
American Greatness ^ | 26 Feb, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/26/2024 6:33:34 AM PST by MtnClimber

As this year’s election nears, expect Russia! Russia! fantasies to heat up again to mask a failing administration and its indefensible record.

Collusion about Collusion

The more candidate Trump in 2016 trolled the Clinton campaign (e.g., “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”), the more the irate left bought into hysterical conspiracy theories.

Finally, the left became completely unhinged after the 2016 victory. An Obama-era Pentagon lawyer published an essay exploring the chance for a military coup. Retired lieutenant colonels called for a Pentagon intervention. Retired four-stars could not decide whether he was Hitler-like, Mussolini, or the architect of Auschwitz. Celebrities competed to find the most savage image of eliminating Trump—whether by combustion, incineration, decapitation, lethal shooting, or stabbing.

Since then, the press has run with lurid stories about Trump, from having syphilis sores on his hands to “proof” of him beating up Melania. But amid the unhinged hatred, nothing has quite reached the absurdity of the Russia! Russia! obsessions.

In 2016, the country went through crackpot leftist charges of Russian collusion that helped to destroy the lives of innocents like Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Carter Page, and George Papadopoulos. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s lawyers (gushed over by pundits as the “dream team/all-stars/hunter-killer team”), despite all the pre-investigational hype and hagiography, spent 22 months and $40 million to find no evidence that the Russians swung the election to Trump.

But in that sordid process, we learned the following: that a felonious FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was convicted of doctoring a court document to mislead a FISA court in efforts to surveille an innocent man; that the FBI director James Comey recorded and leaked via a third party

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: theukraine; vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 02/26/2024 6:33:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

How many people has the deep state harmed to cause problems for Trump?


2 posted on 02/26/2024 6:33:45 AM PST 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: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 02/26/2024 6:34:11 AM PST 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

Tue Democrats are so out of line.


4 posted on 02/26/2024 6:35:36 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell,)
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To: MtnClimber

Cross reference this with the NBC “story” posting by clowns in action plant Dilanian... about Smirnov. Hanson is right on the money on this ridiculous continuing bullcrap lies. An op many believe is run by the chi-coms anyway.

Russia and chi-coms want.... joeybags or his next replacement, working for obamaumao’s embed Alinsky operatives.


5 posted on 02/26/2024 6:37:50 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: MtnClimber

So I guess this makes VDH a putinista too.


6 posted on 02/26/2024 6:42:09 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber

And telling women, ‘Abortion, abortion, abortion!’

And telling parents, ‘Free college, free college, free college!’

And telling... well, you get the idea.


7 posted on 02/26/2024 6:47:52 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: MtnClimber
When will the end times come?

There shall be wars and rumors of wars, and long time Bama fans will fully endorse an Auburn coach for senate, and the Democrats who cheerlead Russia against Reagan will hate Russia with a passion?

How can this be?

Simple, Russia will quit being communist.

8 posted on 02/26/2024 6:47:53 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

China all but owns the U.S. so far but the democrats and media don’t want want to talk about it the money is to good to give up.


9 posted on 02/26/2024 6:49:23 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: John S Mosby

The chicoms want Oguano’s 4th term.


10 posted on 02/26/2024 6:56:51 AM PST 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

I voted yesterday in the primary.

Not one single Russian interfered with me casting my vote.

There was, however, a report on FR of an 8-person panel with TDS on CNN yesterday morning delivering their collective wisdom, whoever these doofuses are, that one should not vote for the person for whom I voted. Is that propaganda “election interference”?

Fortunately, I did not actually see CNN yesterday, because I have no TV and have not watched any TV news since Obama days, when it became blatantly obvious that the media is completely controlled by the Marxist communist Democrat Party and the secret militarized international intelligence apparatus of the junta in DC.


11 posted on 02/26/2024 7:11:39 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: MtnClimber

VDH nails it once again.

If you look at the headlines at RCP each day, the articles on Russia and Ukraine and the view of the left, shows that they plan a repeat of “Russian election interference” for this fall.

Also, I saw this headline this morning. LOL!

“Trump’s CPAC Speech Showed Signs of Cognitive Decline by Chauncey DeVega, Salon”

I’m not going to link to it since it is the same drivel we have heard before but it shows the left is replaying all the cards they have used against Trump and conservatives in the past.


12 posted on 02/26/2024 7:21:02 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: RWGinger; 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

As this year’s election nears, expect the Russia! Russia! fantasies to heat up again to mask a failing administration and its indefensible record of a lethally open border, inflation, crime waves, foreign policy implosions, crackpot energy agendas, the weaponization of our institutions, and deteriorating race relations.

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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13 posted on 02/26/2024 7:32:27 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber

The three Rs: Russia, Racism, Reproduction.


14 posted on 02/26/2024 7:34:16 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: MtnClimber

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15 posted on 02/26/2024 8:36:33 AM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: MtnClimber

VDH, always on point.


16 posted on 02/26/2024 9:07:50 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: MtnClimber

In 2017 when DJT had the option to open an investigation of Hillary’s crimes, he passed up the option? He did this after many, many rallies where the chant was ‘lock her up’??????? Will he be as passive if he happens to beat the fraud odds in November?


17 posted on 02/28/2024 9:10:09 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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