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Victor Davis Hanson: The Weird, Creepy, Surreal—and Dangerous—2024 Campaign
American Greatness ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/15/2024 5:09:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber

This warped election violates every prior precedent and is not just creepy but dangerous—even before the campaign was supposed to formally begin.

The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history.

Here are ten unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we’ve entered this bizarro world:

1. How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six months? Why can’t she enact her proposed solutions to these problems (which she helped create) right now?

2. Would the media prefer to help her win but lose further credibility themselves by failing to ask why she has disowned her last three decades of leftist agendas, or to reclaim some of their reputations and thereby risk her losing?

3. Does the left appreciate the new campaign and election protocols it has now established?

That is to say:

Cancel by fiat their virtual nominee four months before the election when he sinks in the polls?

Nullify the outcome of a year of primaries and the will of 14 million voters?

Threaten a sitting president with removal by the 25th Amendment process unless he steps aside as his party nominee?

Anoint a replacement nominee before the convention and without a single primary—and then prevent any rival candidates from challenging her?

4. After the precedents of 2020 and 2024, is the future orthodox protocol for any Democratic nominee now to avoid all interviews and ex tempore speaking, and stick to teleprompted speeches and scripted responses only?

Is the fear that a transparent progressive messenger with an overt and honest left-wing message will double down on it and thus guarantee defeat?

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024campaign; 25thamendment; harriswalz; kamalaharris; kamalatruth; twentyfifthamendment; vdh; victordavishanson; weird
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1 posted on 08/15/2024 5:09:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
I am not so sure we have entered bizarro world. It seems like Clown World.


2 posted on 08/15/2024 5:09:16 AM PDT 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 08/15/2024 5:09:48 AM PDT 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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You conservatives are so unreasonable.

Harris is very, very busy demonstrating her “Democratic leadership:”
<><>she’s furiously trying to “distance” herself from policies she partnered with Biden
<><>she’s frantically disavowing far-left strategies she once heartily embraced
<><>she’s run amok disavowing her running mate’s checkered past,
<><>she’s at her wit’s end keeping her lady killer hubby out of no-tell motels
<><>she’s going ballistic as her need for voter fraud skyrockets.


4 posted on 08/15/2024 5:16:18 AM PDT by Liz ( )
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To: MtnClimber

What we are seeing is the USA rapidly approaching the status of a failed state.


5 posted on 08/15/2024 5:20:07 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: MtnClimber; E. Pluribus Unum

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4258521/posts?page=8#8


6 posted on 08/15/2024 5:22:33 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

The Democrats have adopted the same procedure that communists have used to choose their leader through out history. The leader is chosen by the party behind closed door and then a fake election is run to confirm the selection. Notice that there are no complaints from Dem voters that they were cut out of the selection process.


7 posted on 08/15/2024 5:22:50 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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Not another Democrat First? Will wonders never cease?

<><>Democrats anointed and beatified Harris as Biden’s replacement in no time flat
<><>Harris got the nod before the convention without a single primary
<><>not one rank and file Dem was given the chance to vote
<><>any rival candidates thinking of challenging her are warned not to even try.


8 posted on 08/15/2024 5:24:29 AM PDT by Liz ( )
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To: DeplorablePaul

“Saving our Democracy” by keeping it locked in a back room.


9 posted on 08/15/2024 5:25:26 AM PDT 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

2020 and 2024 were the Deep State flexing its muscles and asserting its rule over our nation.

It was the Deep State the released Covid to derail Trump’s magnificent economy, foreign policy and strength in the face of impeachments, Russia Gate, etc.

It was the Deep State that engineered the change in election laws, allowing vote by mail, ballot harvesting and early voting.

It was the Deep State that selected Biden, sheltered him during the campaign and protected him from what his son had admitted on his fabled laptop.

It was the Deep State that dethroned Biden in favor of long-time hard-left communists Harris/Walz. The same Deep State is keeping them sheltered, protected and whitewashed.

If Harris/Walz win in November, the Deep State will have asserted itself as the true ruler of the United States in no unequivocal terms.

Few will have the courage to oppose them going forward. Those that do will be destroyed, imprisoned or bankrupted.

This is happening not just in the US, but all across Western nations. Canada is full communist. The UK has abandoned all appearance of freedom for its citizens. France staged an election to destroy the rising freedom-minded voices and the Deep State came out on top.


10 posted on 08/15/2024 5:25:44 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: MtnClimber

At least in the old days, you could smoke.


11 posted on 08/15/2024 5:28:17 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

Just wait for the Brat Fed Price Controls on Groceries.

Kommiela-nomics.


12 posted on 08/15/2024 5:28:28 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: MtnClimber

Some individuals are weird, creepy, surreal, dangerous and evil. Some are in the democrat party. We shouldn’t elect them to represent us.


13 posted on 08/15/2024 5:30:57 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Maybe today’s backrooms are vape-filled.


14 posted on 08/15/2024 5:31:20 AM PDT 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

Great and disturbing column by Dr. Hanson. I listened to Sean Parnell last night; ex-Army Ranger, Afghan war vet and congressional candidate who obviously knows a lot about weapons and explosives. He noted that the murderer Crooks was able to put together explosive devices that he could remotely detonate, a task that he said would not be possible for most trained soldiers. But where is the curiosity from the damned “press”, where are the FBI and SS press briefings? And in addition, what happened to the Heritage Foundation’s findings that Crooks’ home was visited multiple times before the shooting by someone from a DC location near the FBI? Why was Crooks’ home scrubbed to look like a pristine laboratory before the police got there after the shooting and by whom? What is the status of Crooks’ three foreign bank accounts? Where the hell are the congressional Republicans, especially in the Senate “led” by McConnell and the compromised Lindsay Graham?


15 posted on 08/15/2024 5:31:47 AM PDT by laconic ( )
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To: TTFlyer

Hmmm...maybe I’ll leave the US if kakamala is installed.
But where to go?


16 posted on 08/15/2024 5:34:09 AM PDT by Leep (Walz oozes weird. And not the good kind of weird.)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


17 posted on 08/15/2024 5:35:03 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: laconic

All good questions. And there are at least 100 more. But if we expect to get answers from TPTB, it will not happen. It possibly COULD happen if PDJT were to be inaugurated, but probably not then, either. All docs, videos, audios, will have been destroyed by then.


18 posted on 08/15/2024 5:35:06 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: Liz

Here is a very good column that speaks to that.

Our Totalizing Government’s “Whole of Society” Rule

Jacob Siegel explains why you should know this term and how this new model of governance has undermined privacy, democratic rule, civil liberties, and free speech.

https://aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p/our-totalizing-governments-whole


19 posted on 08/15/2024 5:36:48 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

Vape but not tobacco.


20 posted on 08/15/2024 5:37:02 AM PDT by Leep (Walz oozes weird. And not the good kind of weird.)
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