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Victor Davis Hanson: Progressives Bearing Gifts
American Greatness ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/12/2019 3:07:03 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Trump in 2020 might have controversially slurred his future Democratic rival as a socialist, radical late-term abortion advocate, open borders chauvinist, a Medicare destroyer who wished to make it free for everyone, or wacko environmentalist intent on banning gas and diesel engines.

Now he won’t have to smear anyone: the Democrats have largely done that to themselves. Policy-wise the 2020 choice will be between Trump’s mostly doctrinaire conservatism, spiced with populist trade and immigration agendas, and what is a now a new Democrat orthodoxy of Bernie Sanders’ adolescent socialism and incoherent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Neverland something or other.

Trump legitimately will be able to say of a 2020 opponent, “Candidate X wants over the next 10 years to junk your present car, to scrap your combine, to stop your jet travel, to ban your cruise ship, to take away your lawn mower and snow blower, to outlaw your snowmobiles and jet skis, to shut down the fracking industry, the heavy equipment manufacturing sector (I doubt there will be a replacement battery-powered Cat D-11), the pipeline and rail business, and to make every homeowner an indebted remodeler, refitting his house while for all his green trouble and expense he still will be paying more for solar and wind-generated electricity.

Trump can legitimately also say to an independent or swing voter, “You may not like my tweets, but you will really won’t like infanticide, a 70 percent income tax, a diluted Medicare for everyone including those who have never paid a dime into the system, open borders, and guaranteed incomes for all.”

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1 posted on 02/12/2019 3:07:03 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

“Candidate X wants over the next 10 years to junk your present car...

I will be in my Challenger driving as fast as it goes with feds on my heels before I would let them touch/take it.

I only wish gasoline automobiles existed during the writing of the Constitution so the founding fathers could have driven up in their muscle cars and written the protection in as an amendment.

Though I don’t see Washington in a muscle car. Maybe a Porsche.

I see Ben in a muscle car. He was kind of a kid at heart.

Jefferson probably would have already gone for a hybrid.


2 posted on 02/12/2019 3:21:35 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: RoosterRedux

The breadth and depth of their insanity only makes sense when you consider that they are protected by the media, have always been, and have no idea that they can, at some point, go too far.


3 posted on 02/12/2019 3:28:44 AM PST by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a botch!)
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To: TalBlack

People may not have heard about all the Green Deal details, but most have heard about infanticide and killing cows.


4 posted on 02/12/2019 3:50:16 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: dp0622

Imagining the founders in muscle cars....too funny! ;)


5 posted on 02/12/2019 4:03:27 AM PST by June2
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To: dp0622

Washington in a muscle car you say?

https://youtu.be/BqpJvey-7-s


6 posted on 02/12/2019 4:17:43 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: June2

See the vid.


7 posted on 02/12/2019 4:18:30 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: RoosterRedux

incoherent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Neverland something or other.

LOL!!


8 posted on 02/12/2019 4:21:54 AM PST by samtheman (How can there be so many brain damaged Americans?)
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To: FreedomPoster

Good one


9 posted on 02/12/2019 4:23:54 AM PST by samtheman (How can there be so many brain damaged Americans?)
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To: FreedomPoster

LOL!


10 posted on 02/12/2019 4:29:08 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: RoosterRedux

When VDH writes it is not blogging it is NEWS and ACTIVISM!


11 posted on 02/12/2019 4:34:35 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: RoosterRedux
"Trump legitimately will be able to say of a 2020 opponent, “Candidate X wants over the next 10 years to junk your present car, to scrap your combine, to stop your jet travel, to ban your cruise ship, to take away your lawn mower and snow blower, to outlaw your snowmobiles and jet skis, to shut down the fracking industry, the heavy equipment manufacturing sector (I doubt there will be a replacement battery-powered Cat D-11), the pipeline and rail business, and to make every homeowner an indebted remodeler, refitting his house while for all his green trouble and expense he still will be paying more for solar and wind-generated electricity."

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Donald, yes .... you use this language when rolling over those Dems. in 2020.

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And thank you, RoosterRedux, for posting Mr. Hanson's excellence. He is a national treasure, and those who know that are getting there.

12 posted on 02/12/2019 4:34:41 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: RoosterRedux

When VDH writes it is not blogging it is NEWS and ACTIVISM!


13 posted on 02/12/2019 4:35:10 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: RoosterRedux
Damn, twice now I have to correct VDH, who is usually excellent. The ones who have prevented Trump from increased success and who are his most damaging and ardent opponents are not democrats but are REPUBLICANS.
14 posted on 02/12/2019 4:36:31 AM PST by Badboo (Why it is important)
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To: dp0622

I agree on Ben; plus he’d want a car that’s a babe magnet. He was quite a player.


15 posted on 02/12/2019 4:47:25 AM PST by stremba
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To: Chickensoup; Admin Moderator
You are correct, of course. But when I have posted VDH articles from American Greatness, the mods told me to post it in "Bloggers" not "News"...

So I do as they ask and then privately ask them to move it to "News" because it is VDH.

Please tell the mods of your concern. I know they do the best they can, but a change in procedure would be nice.

16 posted on 02/12/2019 5:08:19 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Cattle are an absolute necessity for a healthy grasslands.


17 posted on 02/12/2019 5:12:23 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: samtheman

agree


18 posted on 02/12/2019 5:15:08 AM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record)
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To: RoosterRedux

It is a grey area between bloggers and news.

Some of the more interesting news and analysis come from “bloggers”.


19 posted on 02/12/2019 5:17:39 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: dp0622

“...Though I don’t see Washington in a muscle car. Maybe a Porsche....”

Oh, Hell, no.

He’d be in a 1969 Shelby GT500 KR. Or a Boss 429.

It’s AMERICAN...


20 posted on 02/12/2019 5:23:51 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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