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Victor Davis Hanson: From Conspiracy Theories to Conspiracies
American Greatness ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/29/2018 5:23:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Not all conspiracy theorists are unhinged paranoids—even when they insist there was a loosely organized if not sometimes incoherent effort to destroy Donald Trump’s candidacy beyond the bounds of “normal” politics and later a renewed and unprecedented endeavor to abort his presidency.

After all, did anyone believe that in the year 2017 the losing side in an American election would immediately dub itself the “Resistance”—channeling the World War II nomenclature of the guerrilla campaign against the Nazi occupation of France? Or that the defeated candidate Hillary Clinton would formally embrace the imagery of liberationist patriots fighting a Nazi-like Trump’s occupation of the United States?

*snip*

Everyone should be keen to distinguish conspiracies from conspiracy theories. The above are real events, not the tales told by the paranoid.

In contrast, unhinged conspiracy theorists, for example, might obsess yet again over the machinations of multibillionaire and leftist globalist bogeyman George Soros, and float wild yarns that he would fly to Davos to assure the global elite that he considers Trump “a danger to the world,” while reassuring them that the American president was “a purely temporary phenomenon that will disappear in 2020—or even sooner.” . . .

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


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2016election; andrewmccabe; christopherwray; conspiracy; coup; election2016; fbi; jamescomey; perjury; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rodrosenstein; steeledossier; vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 01/29/2018 5:23:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Thanks, Rooster. A dreadful recounting of all the left has been up to in 2017.


2 posted on 01/29/2018 5:34:05 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: RoosterRedux

“We have seen FBI Director James Comey confess that he deliberately leaked, likely illegally, confidential notes of a meeting with president Trump to the media, with the expressed intent of creating a “scandal” requiring a “special counsel”—a gambit that worked to perfection when Comey’s close friend, former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed.”

This was a long time ago. I wonder why more hasn’t come of this. It unfolded publicly and is undeniable. Why hasn’t the passage of time and the ability to assemble more information related to a pretty simple fact pattern caused more to people to believe that Comey’s leak was “likely illegal?” Or that something should be done about it?


3 posted on 01/29/2018 5:50:54 AM PST by Rumierules
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To: RoosterRedux

I guess Chuck Harder and those like him back in the 90’s were just a bit before their time.


4 posted on 01/29/2018 5:56:00 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: RoosterRedux

If Hollywood grandees had promised to do to Barack Obama what they boast doing to Donald Trump, the entire industry would have been discredited—or given the Obama investigatory treatment.

FYI, The majority of the Entertainment industry is ripe for picking in real IRS audits. They have their very own special way of accounting.


5 posted on 01/29/2018 5:57:10 AM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: RoosterRedux

The Q Anon stuff seems pretty crazy.
But the recounting of actual events by VDH also seems pretty crazy.
We live in interesting times and I sure hope February is a mind-boggling month of revelations.


6 posted on 01/29/2018 6:04:34 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
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To: ClearCase_guy

If Q is half right, then the government is in deep trouble


7 posted on 01/29/2018 6:20:53 AM PST by redgolum
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To: RoosterRedux

8 posted on 01/29/2018 6:21:48 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: miss marmelstein

9 posted on 01/29/2018 6:22:40 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RoosterRedux

We are in a civil war. The shooting just hasn’t started yet.


10 posted on 01/29/2018 6:43:57 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: miss marmelstein

The rats are pushing this country to the brink of civil war. I think it’s the only plan they have left. The coming midterms are just as important as the election of president Trump. We need to get our people to the polls again. America can’t afford to lose.


11 posted on 01/29/2018 6:46:47 AM PST by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: miss marmelstein

The rats are pushing this country to the brink of civil war. I think it’s the only plan they have left. The coming midterms are just as important as the election of president Trump. We need to get our people to the polls again. America can’t afford to lose.


12 posted on 01/29/2018 6:46:48 AM PST by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: Peeps47

I know, I know. It is very sad and depressing. The people who are pushing this haven’t studied the American civil war. If they had, they wouldn’t be doing this.


13 posted on 01/29/2018 6:49:17 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

They are creating an environment where violence is the only option. If we can’t change things through elections we will be left with two choices. We will either fight or we will surrender to the corrupt left. I know which one I would choose. I pray president Trump can put out irrefutable evidence that puts all the treasonous criminals in prison for life.


14 posted on 01/29/2018 7:10:27 AM PST by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: Rumierules
This was a long time ago. I wonder why more hasn’t come of this.

It becomes even more interesting given the revelations this morning about Rod Rosenstein, the man who appointed Mueller.

15 posted on 01/29/2018 8:58:55 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: RoosterRedux; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

VDH ping


16 posted on 01/29/2018 8:01:32 PM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Yow. Thanks for posting.

Everyone should be keen to distinguish conspiracies from conspiracy theories. The above are real events, not the tales told by the paranoid.

Bookmarked this one. Put together like that, it's a little overwhelming, and every bit of it is true.

17 posted on 01/29/2018 8:10:28 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Keep your powder dry.

18 posted on 01/30/2018 7:49:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Rumierules

As Victor Davis Hanson points out - Comey’s stunt was ONE of hundreds of attacks on President Trump by the Deep State.


19 posted on 01/30/2018 11:20:38 AM PST by GOPJ (Republicans care about Americans. Democrats care about illegals, corrupt elites, and criminals.)
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