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The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda
American Greatness ^ | 7 Apr, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/07/2025 5:44:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The left rages against Trump but offers no real alternatives on debt, trade, or immigration—just noise, while results quietly pile up.

Two strange phenomena now characterize the political landscape.

One, opposition to the Trump administration’s initiatives has reached a near-unprecedented fever pitch.

The frenzy is manifested in strange ways. At the bottom end, there is an epidemic of street terrorism, including the keying of Teslas, bullying their owners, firebombing dealerships, or vandalizing charging stations.

All that is mostly the logical but dirty reification of those in the media and the Democrats who brand Elon Musk as a foreign-born counterfeit citizen and a disloyal un-American foreigner, thus deserving to be “taken down,” in the words of Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Or is he to be ostracized as an “ass-h*le” in the invective of Sen. Mark Kelly and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz? The latter cheered a downturn in Tesla stock prices, contrary to the interests of his own state’s public portfolio.

Sometimes, the impotent Democrat Congress issues kickboxing/ninja videos of its feistier female representatives. At other moments, senators race to the bottom, echoing each other’s pottymouth expressions of “sh*t.”

Rep. Al Green could neither disrupt nor end Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress by shaking his cane and screaming epithets. Nor, as he damned Trump on the floor of the Senate for 25 hours in a filibuster to nowhere, could Sen. Cory Booker offer a single word that might offer his supposedly better way to address crushing debt and deficits.

Two, there is a second common denominator to all this frenzy and fury: there is so far no alternate agenda on trade deficits, budget deficits, and debt.

That is, no one on the left—or, for that matter, the libertarian right or the now inert Republican establishment—can outline an alternate pathway

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: r; victordavishanson

1 posted on 04/07/2025 5:44:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Those on the far left want to destroy Western Civilization so I know their plan would be to continue with Biden’s policies.


2 posted on 04/07/2025 5:44:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 04/07/2025 5:45:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster
Excellent summary statement by VDH:

But if there is no alternate agenda, no constructive criticism, then why would anyone listen to those who either helped to get us into this mess or have no clue about its solutions?

4 posted on 04/07/2025 5:51:58 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

For politicians, there’s no money or power in solving problems.


5 posted on 04/07/2025 5:53:45 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: MtnClimber

They have no choice but to rage against it...if Trump is successful, the Dems won’t be in control of the WH for yrs to come, the country be damned


6 posted on 04/07/2025 5:54:04 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: MtnClimber

Those who can, do. Those who cannot do, teach (sometimes badly).

Those who cannot do, or teach (however badly), criticize.

Criticism is cheap, especially if it is done with no knowledge about the subject.


7 posted on 04/07/2025 5:56:56 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Divergence is not at all the same thing as diversity.)
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To: kosciusko51

Profound statement.

In fact, many politicians serve because of problems they or their predecessors created, and on which they endlessly and hypocritically campaign to fix.

Elected by people who need written instructions on how to open and use shampoo

Rinse lather repeat


8 posted on 04/07/2025 6:05:34 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: MtnClimber

Excellent points by Victor Davis Hanson.

The Left does not offer solutions, only destruction.


9 posted on 04/07/2025 6:08:42 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: MtnClimber

Hanson is a national treasure.

I can’t help but wonder when the morons who are still voting for democrats are going to WTFU and realize that it isn’t just the stew that’s burning- it’s the entire house.

I don’t know if 4 years is long enough to repair the damage the democrats have done for DECADES.


10 posted on 04/07/2025 6:26:03 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: marktwain

That’s because the left is nihilistic.


11 posted on 04/07/2025 7:25:31 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber
Noticing how Dr. Hanson oftentimes uses terms that are rarely used but should be known like William Buckley used to I'm going to post

The VDH Word of the Day! Today's word is:

reification

noun

1.The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.

2.The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.

3.Process that makes out of a non-computable/addressable object a computable/addressable one.

12 posted on 04/07/2025 7:58:06 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Stabbings are an Islamic expression of love for their host countries. It's in the fine print.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Example of #2:

“Forgive the reification but I’m late for work - your money’s on the dresser.”


13 posted on 04/07/2025 8:03:53 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer
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