Posted on 10/05/2021 4:07:00 PM PDT by lasereye
TUCKER CARLSON: Why did you leave National Review?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Because there were certain issues that would pop up occasionally, and I could predict what the answer was going to be. The Covington kids. I just sensed that before we knew anything, people would come and condemn them.
TUCKER CARLSON: People at NR condemned the Covington kids?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I think there were certain people in the Republican movement, or establishment, who felt it is their duty to internally police their own, and that's kind of a virtue signal to the left.
We are just part of your class, we share the same values as you do, and we keep our crazies. And they are not empirical.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: They're having Officer Sicknik lie in state, but I want to know where is the evidence is that he was killed? He wasn't killed, he died of a stroke
TUCKER CARLSON: NR wasn't on that?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: No. No. An "armed insurrection." There were no weapons found on the people they arrested.
So these issues, I would get angry about, and I would try to convey that anger, but I think a lot of them felt it was their duty as Republican establishmentarians to tell the world they didn't approve of Donald Trump's tweets or his crudity.
My message was always: But, it's good for the middle class.
TUCKER CARLSON: What issues did they think were important?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I don't know, I think there's an image that a lot of Republicans have, both in politics and they sort of represent a sober and judicious way of looking at the world, and we are the adults in the room.
I thought they would be champions of the middle class, but I don't think they were.
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Bailed on NR when they tossed Mark Steyn under the bus; I didn’t demand 100% agreement with me from them on every issue (that’s not going to happen with anybody), but it was clear that after Buckley’s death they had lost both direction and a spine.
True enough -- even the election results showed that Trump gained a lot of votes from 2016 to 2020. So of course, it would be foolish to argue that he lost votes overall.
But if you don't know any people who generally voted Republican, but were turned off by Trump's demeanor and so voted for Biden, then you need to get out more. I knew a lot of those people - especially women who seemed to value demeanor over policy. It might be stupid, it might be irrational, and it might not make any sense to someone like you. But it absolutely did happen.
Was there fraud in the election? Of course -- any election with that many absentee ballots is inherently untrustworthy. But if you don't think there are tens of millions of minorities, leftits, millenials, feminists, teachers/government employees, etc., etc. etc. who just loved getting a chance to vote against Trump...again, you need to get out more.
We don't do ourselves any favors by lying to ourselves about how prevalent leftist sentiment has become among our fellow citizens.
Only at the Trump inauguration. They were much happier when Biden came in.
Good for Victor. He’s ten times the man any of those geldings are over at NR.
I just call them “Kapos”
VDH now has a site of his own called www.victorhanson.com
Very nice and I really enjoy it. Let’s support him. He is one of the only clear talking conservative voices around.
LOL...perfect.
Thanks for the heads up about the VDH site.
I used to read NR. Thay were always sort of elitists, snobbish and self centered.
There writings were very similar to the snobbish, elitists, self centered leftists, just with conservative slant.
Mrs Beasley! Lol
Yeah, VDH nailed it. They just weren’t who he/many of us thought they were. They decided that maintaining their membership in good standing in “the Club” was more important than the policies and actions that will determine the future of the country.
They had their club. They had all their seminars and internships and cruises, and they didn’t like new people coming along and spoiling what they thought they had. If you’re on the inside with them, you’d instinctively reject outsiders as well. You had to be on the outside and not a fully paid up club member to want things to be different.
That “Never Trump” cover of NR was putrid. WFB left his magazine to toxic children.
“...who seemed to value demeanor over policy.”
Should’ve seen THAT coming. How many dead, formerly-beaten wives has the Earth witnessed?
Battered wife stays with the guy who has the homicidal Jekyl & Hyde thing going on, because the OTHER guy who’d actually protect her and treat her right is frequently uncouth.
Yeah, my mother subscribed to the JBS newsletters when I was in high school. I mocked them back then. Yet, as you say, much of it was prophetic and continues to be. Wish I could take back the mocking.
The only one of the people on that putrid cover to publicly do a mea culpa is Glenn Beck, correct?
Katie Pavlich?
Brent Bozell?
Any of them?
>But if you don’t know any people who generally voted Republican, but were turned off by Trump’s demeanor and so voted for Biden, then you need to get out more. I knew a lot of those people - especially women who seemed to value demeanor over policy. It might be stupid, it might be irrational, and it might not make any sense to someone like you. But it absolutely did happen.
A reason why Hillary lost was because she was unlikeable, was it not? Biden came off as the genial grandfatherly type.
I think Beck was it. That cover enlightened a lot of people just who & what the uniparty was all about.
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