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VDH UltraFifteen Ways to Destroy Democracy to “Save It”—Democrat-Style: Part...

Victor Davis Hanson 13. Blowing up the Debates. In 2024, the Commission on Presidential Debates crashed because it could never assure the two parties that selecting the candidates on the stage, the...

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VDH UltraFifteen Ways to Destroy Democracy to “Save It”—Democrat-Style: Part...

Victor Davis Hanson 14. Assassination Porn. Threatening the life of a president in order to dehumanize him and lower the bar of his safety became a tactic of the Left. Donald Trump is not just the only...

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VDH UltraWho on the Left Was Privately Delighted by the Harris Defeat? Part One

Víctor Davis Hanson The Bidens (of course). Dr. Jill had never forgiven Kamala Harris for smearing her husband on the 2019 Democratic primary debate stage as a racist. Jill suspected that Kamala was...

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VDH UltraWho on the Left Was Privately Delighted by the Harris Defeat? Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Hillary Clinton. Prior to Kamala, Hillary was accused of running a singularly lousy and failed 2016 campaign as the nation’s first would-be shoo-in female president. Her effort was...

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VDH UltraHow the Republican David Beat the Democrat Goliath. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Media Yes, the Left controls the Media. But the times they are changing. The biased news network triad of ABC, NBC, and CBS, along with PBS and the cable MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC news...

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VDH UltraHow the Republican David Beat the Democrat Goliath. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Money Harris and her PACs supposedly outraised their Trump counterparts by about $1 billion and spent that huge sum in little over 100 days. Would that not ensure Trump was crushed...

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VDH UltraA Few of Trump’s Controversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Tulsi Gabbard/Director of National Intelligence Here in no special order are a few of Trump’s most controversial appointments for high cabinet positions. Let’s start with Tulsi...

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Mar-a-Lago Raid,...

Victor Davis Hanson From special counsel Robert Hur, the twin Biden special prosecutor to the Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, the nation would learn of the sloppy storage of the Biden documents and their...

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Letitia James...

Victor Davis Hanson About six weeks after the Mar-a-Lago raid, it was the turn of the New York Attorney General Letitia James to continue the lawfare. On September 21, she filed a civil suit against...

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: Visiting and...

As a reminder of the themes of this present Ultra series, we are reviewing in chronological order key, iconic events that fueled both the political recovery of Donald Trump and encapsulated and were...

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VDH UltraTrump’s First Two Weeks: Pardonomania, Part Three

Now we come to Dr. Anthony Fauci. For some 38 years, he ran the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as his private fiefdom. Given the revolving-door tenures of the directors...

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VDH UltraThe Left Goes from Madness to Irrelevance, Part One

Various polls show historical lows of public support for the Democratic Party, ranging from 31 to 41 percent approval. Yet at the same time during a recent Democrat leadership conference, various...

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VDH UltraThe Left Goes from Madness to Irrelevance, Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson In their limited self-reflection, the Left keeps looking for reasons why they have lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court—and both the Electoral College...

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VDH UltraThe Left Goes from Madness to Irrelevance, Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson Democrats mostly see Americans merely as a conglomeration of separate tribes: blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, gays, women, transsexuals, and upscale bicoastal whites. In their...

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VDH UltraUkrainian Bitter Realities and Visions of a Peace Deal? Part One

Victor Davis Hanson There are lots of hysterias, lies, and untruths about the Ukrainian envisioned “peace” and “settlement.” Here are a few: 1) The Donbas and Crimea misinformation. It was never the...

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VDH UltraUkrainian Bitter Realities and Visions of Peace? Part Two

3) A War to the Last Ukrainian? The U.S. political dynamics of war and peace have been utterly reversed. Supposedly hawkish and bloodthirsty Republicans have never supported the leftwing desire to...

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VDH UltraUkrainian Bitter Realities and Visions of a Peace Deal? Part Three

6) Why did Putin go into Ukraine in 2014 and 2022? We have mentioned the role of the Obama hot-mic appeasement and Putin’s later invasion. We still do not know the U.S. role in the Ukrainian street...

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VDH UltraMissing Those Good Old Alternatives to Trump? Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Given the leftwing hysterical responses to all of Trump’s thirty-day-old initiatives, let us remember what just a few months ago were the alternatives. 1) War. The Biden...

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VDH UltraMissing Those Good Old Alternatives to Trump? Part Two

3) Pentagon. The military was declared not to be chronically short by 30-50,000 recruits each year—simply by readjusting the required manpower levels downward. Do we remember the monthly sound-off of a...

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VDH UltraUkraine Peace—So Far Away and Still So Close

Victor Davis Hanson After the recent dustup with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the White House, Volodymyr Zelenskyy should have taken a lesson from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Like...

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