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Who Are the Real Kings?
American Greatness ^ | 23 Oct, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/23/2025 4:58:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Democrats cry “No Kings” while wielding royal power—raiding rivals, silencing dissent, and crowning heirs without a single vote.

So-called King, Donald Trump, ran in two contested Republican primaries.

He ran three times in a general election.

He was elected twice, and his party recently won a Republican Congress.

In contrast, in 2020, Joe Biden did not run a typical campaign.

He avoided the public, staying ensconced in his basement. He outsourced his campaign to Democratic politicos, donors, and a sycophantic media.

No red state ever sought to remove Joe Biden or Kamala Harris from their 2024 ballots. In contrast, twenty-five blue states attempted to take Trump off their ballots.

In 2021, Joe Biden’s DOJ and FBI raided then-former-President Trump’s home. They found only 102 classified documents among some 14,000 seized, but nevertheless indicted him.

There was no such SWAT raid on Biden’s multiple repositories of illegally removed classified documents.

All were in less secure places than at Mar-a-Lago. Biden removed them over the course of three decades with impunity. At the time, unlike Trump, he had no presidential prerogatives to declassify them.

Special counsel Robert Hur found Biden culpable for the removal of these files but declined to prosecute, claiming that he was too enfeebled to stand trial.

In 2024, the same backroom donors and politicos who had conspired to ensure Biden was the 2020 nominee now, against his wishes, in coup-like fashion, removed him from his own reelection ticket.

Within 48 hours and without a delegate vote, they crowned Kamala Harris as the presumed nominee. Queen Harris had not received a single delegate vote in her disastrous 2020 primary run.

Donald Trump, in 2020, did not sic his Department of Justice on his rival, Joe Biden.

Nor during his presidency did his Department of Justice indict any

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1 posted on 10/23/2025 4:58:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I bet that no dead voters cast a vote for Donald Trump either.


2 posted on 10/23/2025 4:59:09 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 10/23/2025 5:00:32 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: MtnClimber

All the leftist judges sure act like kings.


4 posted on 10/23/2025 5:03:03 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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5 posted on 10/23/2025 5:05:15 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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6 posted on 10/23/2025 5:06:32 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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7 posted on 10/23/2025 5:06:53 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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8 posted on 10/23/2025 5:07:33 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

GREAT article by VDH. Thanks for posting, Names and details.


9 posted on 10/23/2025 5:08:18 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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10 posted on 10/23/2025 5:11:06 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Did Burger King marry Dairy Queen?


11 posted on 10/23/2025 5:16:49 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats have gone insane Trump will live in their tiny mind until the day they die.


12 posted on 10/23/2025 5:32:06 AM PDT by Vaduz
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It’s not the “Kings” Americans are worried about. It’s the far-left “Queens” grooming America’s children for sicko sex lives.


13 posted on 10/23/2025 5:38:57 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Little Booby Garcia, the Peruvian homo gunslinger is going to get a lot of Americans killed.)
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To: MtnClimber

Just more brain dead democrap projection.


14 posted on 10/23/2025 6:10:19 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: PGalt; texas booster

Agreed. VDH always does a great job of putting today’s fake issue from the Dims in context by contrasting it by the past decade or two of what the Dims themselves have done.


15 posted on 10/23/2025 6:17:24 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
He [Trump] was elected twice

Three times actually, Vic.

16 posted on 10/23/2025 6:20:04 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Joe Biden, in a mere four years in office, pardoned roughly 4,245 people—the vast majority through autopen signatures and without the full knowledge of Biden himself. Under the Obama and Biden administrations, admitted left-wing government lawbreakers and White House allies were never prosecuted for felonious behavior.

A very interesting discussion about the real kings in the USA, who are never accountable for anything they do.

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17 posted on 10/23/2025 7:26:01 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber

Brilliantly good article, I have bookmarked it for reference. What a gem this man is.


18 posted on 10/23/2025 7:31:16 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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19 posted on 10/23/2025 8:03:00 AM PDT by MacNaughton
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The voters every time there is an election.


20 posted on 10/23/2025 10:58:53 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US;-))
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