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What's At Stake in 2020?
Victor Davis Hanson succinctly lays out the stakes for 2020. Choose thoughtfully and wisely.
Victor Davis Hanson succinctly lays out the stakes for 2020. Choose thoughtfully and wisely.
What's At Stake in 2020?
The choices are starker now. GOP strategy is not, as it was in 2008 and 2012, to offer a moderate slow-down of progressivism, but rather a complete repudiation of it.
The choices are starker now. GOP strategy is not, as it was in 2008 and 2012, to offer a moderate slow-down of progressivism, but rather a complete repudiation of it.
What's At Stake in 2020?
One way is to see this as a collision between Trump, the proverbial bull, and the administrative state as a targeted precious china shop—with all the inevitable nihilistic mix-up of horns, hooves, and flying porcelain shards.
One way is to see this as a collision between Trump, the proverbial bull, and the administrative state as a targeted precious china shop—with all the inevitable nihilistic mix-up of horns, hooves, and flying porcelain shards.
What's At Stake in 2020?
But quite another is to conclude that what we, as recently as twenty years ago, used to think was abjectly abnormal had become not just “normal,” but so orthodoxly normal that even suggesting it was not was judged to be heretical and deserving of censure.
But quite another is to conclude that what we, as recently as twenty years ago, used to think was abjectly abnormal had become not just “normal,” but so orthodoxly normal that even suggesting it was not was judged to be heretical and deserving of censure.
What's At Stake in 2020?
Trump's normal correctives are denounced as abnormal—as if living in a sovereign state with secure borders, desiring law be enforced equally among all Americans, and saying that citizenship is more than mere residence, is now somehow aberrant or perverse.
Trump's normal correctives are denounced as abnormal—as if living in a sovereign state with secure borders, desiring law be enforced equally among all Americans, and saying that citizenship is more than mere residence, is now somehow aberrant or perverse.
What's At Stake in 2020?
Weaponizing the IRS, unleashing the FBI to spy on political enemies and to plot the removal of an elected president, allying DoJ with the DNC, and reducing FISA courts to rubber stamps for pursuing administration enemies had become the new normal.
Weaponizing the IRS, unleashing the FBI to spy on political enemies and to plot the removal of an elected president, allying DoJ with the DNC, and reducing FISA courts to rubber stamps for pursuing administration enemies had become the new normal.
What's At Stake in 2020?
Trump’s political problem, then, may be that the aberrations of Obama years were of such magnitude that normalcy is now seen as sacrilege.
Let us hope that most Americans still prefer Trump's abnormal remedy to Obama's normal pathology.
The End
Trump’s political problem, then, may be that the aberrations of Obama years were of such magnitude that normalcy is now seen as sacrilege.
Let us hope that most Americans still prefer Trump's abnormal remedy to Obama's normal pathology.
The End
