Victor Davis Hanson
"Nothing seems to destroy him—not the raid on his home, not 93 lawfare indictments, not efforts to strike him from state ballots, not two impeachments, not even two assassination attempts. Instead, all that only made him stronger—and thus more hated."
"The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.
"Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy.
"Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor.
"Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation.
"Take foreign policy.
"Democrat senators trashed the recent Trump-Putin Alaskan summit as a failure. Then they became depressed when, just days later, an entourage of European leaders and President Zelensky of Ukraine suddenly flew to the White House.
"The Euros praised Trump for offering some sort of negotiated pathway to peace after over three years of war and some 1.5 million dead, wounded, missing, and captured on both sides—on Europe’s doorstep.
"So why did Democrats object to such negotiations by Trump?
"Was the reason that no such thing occurred during the Biden administration, when Putin invaded Ukraine, after his earlier invasions during the Obama era?
"What is the left’s alternate plan? The old Biden idea of supplying Ukraine with enough money and arms to keep fighting and dying, but with no path to either victory or a negotiated peace?
"Would they prefer a fourth, fifth, or sixth year of war, or an additional one million casualties?
"The more Trump pressed almost all NATO members to pay their promised two percent of GDP on defense, the more Democrats grew irate over Trump’s overseas influence.
"NATO members now want to raise defense spending to five percent of GDP and gush that Trump is “Daddy.”
"Democrats steamed at that, since Europeans are supposed to hate Trump, not admire him for rebooting NATO.
"Would they prefer the old, disarmed NATO?
"Under the Biden administration, over 10 million illegal aliens flooded the country, sometimes 10,000 a day at the southern border.
"More than half a million criminals swarmed in.
"Yet now there is essentially zero illegal immigration and over 100,000 criminal aliens deported. A million who entered illegally have voluntarily gone home.
"Yet the left has fought the enforcement of immigration law tooth and nail.
"Do they believe that it is lawful and moral to break immigration law but immoral and illegal to enforce it?
"What is their solution?" . . . More...
