Monday, March 25, 2019

Did Trump Really Do All That? By Victor Davis Hanson

Did Trump Really Do All That? By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: With all due respect, I don’t think we “all” know that this started with Trump, however crass he can be. Rather, we know all too well the political landscape a decade before Trump. Do we recall the recent deranged talk of 2004-8 from the Democratic Party, the popular culture, and the media—or the relative passivity of the wounded Bush administration in response to such venom? Why, after all, did Alfred A. Knopf publish the novel Checkpoint, a boring and tired rant about fantasizing the assassination of then-President Bush? Who created the particular landscape that encouraged filmmaker Gabriel Range to offer up “Death of a President”that trafficked in the same fantasies of a Bush assassination? Why would the Guardian publish an op-ed by “satirist” Charles Brooker’s dreaming of the need for another John Wilkes Booth or Lee Harvey Oswald to repeat their needed work—a theme in part that actor Johnny Depp has recently channeled against Trump. (I love it when a brilliant person neatly dissects the huge pile of BS with facts. People now think Hanson is a Trump lover, but he most certainly is not. He's just a totally factual man of great intelligence, pointing out the realities in front of us. --Del)

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