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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON – WRONG AND MORE WRONG

Sunday, July 6th, 2025

 

Wrong and more wrong: How America’s ‘experts’ burned their last shreds of credibility

By Victor Davis Hanson   July 5, 2025

From the economy to the border to climate and beyond, the degreed classes are repeatedly proven wrong — yet arrogantly refuse to learn from their past flawed predictions, Victor Davis Hanson writes.Getty Images

 

The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes.

Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance that the United States was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary, spiral.

Most economists lectured that trade deficits did not really matter.

Or they insisted that the cures to reduce them were worse than the $1.1 trillion deficit itself.

They reminded us that free, rather than fair, trade alone ensured prosperity.

So, the result of Trump’s foolhardy tariff talk would be an impending recession.

America would soon suffer rising joblessness, inflation — or rather a return to stagflation — and likely little, if any, increase in tariff revenue as trade volume declined.

Instead, recent data show increases in tariff revenue.

Personal real income and savings were up.

Job creation exceeded prognoses.

There was no surge in inflation.

The supposedly “crashed” stock market reached historic highs.

Common-sense Americans might not have been surprised: The prior stock market frenzy was predicated on what was, in theory, supposed to have happened rather than what was likely to occur.

After all, if tariffs were so toxic and surpluses irrelevant, why did our affluent European and Asian trading rivals insist on both surpluses and protective tariffs?

Most Americans recalled that the mere threat of tariffs and Trump’s jawboning had led to several trillion dollars in promised foreign investment and at least some plans to relocate manufacturing and assembly back to the United States.

Would that change in direction not lead to business optimism and eventually more jobs?

Would countries purposely running up huge surpluses through asymmetrical trade practices not have far more to lose in negotiations than those suffering gargantuan deficits?

Were Trump’s art-of-the-deal threats of prohibitive tariffs not mere starting points in negotiations that would eventually lead to likely agreements more favorable to the United States than in the past, and moderate rather than punitive tariffs?

Would not the value of the huge American consumer market mean that our trade partners, who were racking up substantial surpluses, would agree they could afford modest tariffs and trim their substantial profit margins rather than suicidally price themselves out of a lucrative market entirely?

Illegal immigration: wrong again

Economists and bureaucrats were equally wrong on the border.

We were told for four years that only “comprehensive immigration reform” would stop illegal immigration.

Most Americans differed: They knew firsthand we had more than enough immigration laws, but had elected as President Joe Biden, who deliberately destroyed borders and had no intention of enforcing existing laws.

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TARIFFS – THE RETURN OF POWER

Saturday, April 5th, 2025

 

The Reckoning Begins: Trump’s Tariffs and the Return of Power

They called it a trade war. Trump called it leverage. Now the clueless class is about to learn what economic warfare really looks like.
By Sara Carter Staff   April 5, 2025

We were cruising at 32,000 feet when the conversation caught my ear. Two men in their 60s, wearing golf shirts and sneakers—no laptops, no earbuds—just confidently exchanging opinions somewhere over Georgia, halfway through their Bloody Marys.

“I don’t get it,” one said. “Trump’s going to slap tariffs on everything again? That’s just going to drive up prices.”

The other nodded, with the certainty of someone who’d never been challenged. “It’s the same thing all over—tax the American consumer and pretend it’s tough on China.”

They didn’t whisper. They weren’t unsure. They were loud, certain, and completely wrong.

I didn’t say a word. But I wanted to. Not because I crave debate—but because I’m tired of watching this country get gaslit by a class of people who stopped thinking critically the minute CNN started thinking for them.

This is where The Reckoning begins.
Not in the headlines. Not in Washington. But at 32,000 feet, in a casual conversation that revealed just how badly the American people have been lied to.

Because tariffs aren’t taxes.
They’re tools.
They’re leverage.
They’re how you say no to a global system built to exploit us—and yes, to the American worker we nearly lost.

Tariffs: The Tool the Left Pretends Not to Understand

Here’s the truth no one at the cocktail parties wants to say out loud: tariffs are not taxes on Americans. That’s a lie told by people who either don’t understand economics—or don’t care who’s getting steamrolled, as long as their stock portfolio stays padded.

A tariff is a penalty. It’s a strategic toll on products that come into this country under unfair terms. It’s how we say, “You want access to our markets? Then play fair. Otherwise, pay up.”

Think of it like this: If someone’s dumping cheap steel into your town and undercutting every local business, what do you do? You don’t say “Let the free market sort it out” while your factories shut down and your neighbors lose their jobs. You block the dump truck. You protect your own. You draw a line.

That’s what President Trump is doing. And it’s working.

They Called It a Trade War—But It Was a Wake-Up Call

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MIRANDA DEVINE’S NEW BOOK – THE BIG GUY

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

 

Miranda Devine’s  newly published book – THE BIG GUY 

The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America Hardcover – September 24, 2024

by Miranda Devine (Author)
 

The New York Post columnist, Fox News contributor, and national bestselling author of Laptop from Hell returns with the explosive, definitive account of the Biden family scandals.

It’s rare that a campaign season has anything like an IRS whistleblower and a California US attorney saying they were blocked from pursuing charges, foreign wire transfers of millions of dollars going to several members of politician’s family, suspicious slap-on-the-wrist plea deals, mounds of incrimination texts, a previously unacknowledged child with a stripper, and multiple congressional investigations. It’s unprecedented to have them all tied to one politician like Joe Biden.

The federal government and the mainstream media have been selling the narrative for years that Hunter Biden is a good son with addiction problems who has suffered enough. But what if the Biden family has been involved in sketchy financial dealings and coverups that get bigger every passing year?

Miranda Devine goes deep into the dark underbelly of American politics, where it’s okay to break the law as long as you follow the rest of the elite’s rules. With a surgeon’s precision she dissects the shady dealings of the Biden family in China and Eastern Europe, exposing the cover-up within the government and media. With meticulous research and insider sources, Devine uncovers the shocking truth about Joe Biden’s involvement in his son Hunter’s business dealings and the extent of their corruption.

Many have argued that intelligence agents and social media companies tilted the 2020 election in Biden’s favor by hiding the contents of Hunter’s laptop. Devine goes beyond their coverage to “silence the truth” and in The Big Guy finally reveals the corruption within the Biden family and the government.

 

 

 

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CREATIVE DESTRUCTION AND TRUMP

Wednesday, January 17th, 2024

 

 

Trump Victory May Forecast Creative Destruction

Chaos may lead to renewal

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“Creative destruction,” the term coined by Joseph Schumpeter to describe the power of capitalism to create something greater from the destruction of something lesser, is an optimistic forecast of the outcome of Monday’s vote in the Iowa Caucuses.

Former President Donald Trump resoundingly won the contest, setting himself up for a triumphant return as the GOP nominee who will confront whomever the Democrats nominate this year, whether it is an ailing and unpopular President Joe Biden or a late-game substitute.

Within the Republican contest, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whom I favored, couldn’t overcome the wellspring of support for Trump that came from unfair, undemocratic prosecutions by the Biden administration and local hick prosecutors in New York City and Atlanta. Those prosecutors and officials in Colorado, Maine and elsewhere who have sought illegally and outrageously to deny voters the option of voting for Trump—supposedly in the name of democracy—helped propel his ascent.

Trump still faces former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, but the former president seems likely to prevail. Haley is a happy warrior like Trump, but will be cast as a globalist, neoconservative, establishment Republican for the simple reason that she is one. Few on the Right beyond the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Chamber of Commerce long for uncontrolled immigration, exporting manufacturing to Asia, or funding the defense of wealthy European moochers.

But Iowa was about more than the prosecutions. Trump is right on policy and right on the image of America, which appealed to Iowa voters. They want the Three Fat Years of economic growth that Trump and his economic team achieved before China inflicted the COVID-19 pandemic on the world. Through those years, Trump had ended the decade of economic malaise that created the populist wave that brought him to power. He made everyone willing to work hard better off—especially minorities.

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DEMOCRAT BILLIONAIRE – TRUMP WAS RIGHT

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023

Long-time Dem billionaire does an about-face on Trump, admits the left has been blinded by TDS

October 17, 2023 | Tom Tillison
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PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Tuesday, August 29th, 2023

 

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PRESIDENT  DONALD J. TRUMP’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS LIST:
GOVERNMENT            ECONOMY        NATIONAL SECURITY 
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VIDEO – TRUMP RALLY JULY 1, 2023

Sunday, July 2nd, 2023

 

VIDEO      TRUMP RALLY IN PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA  JULY 1,  2023  
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VIDEO DEEP FBI INVOLVEMENT IN JANUARY 6

Thursday, April 13th, 2023

 

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Newly Revealed Docs: Deep FBI Involvement In J6

Larry O’Connor  |  Posted:  April 11, 2023
Larry’s guest is Julie Kelly of American Greatness.
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VIDEO – VICTOR DAVIS HANSON – TOP-DOWN ANARCHY

Monday, February 20th, 2023

 

Victor Davis Hanson, the best of the best.  A must watch video !  Nancy
February 14, 2023

Victor Davis Hanson: The Chinese Spy Balloon, Orwellian Newspeak, and the Top-Down Revolution Engulfing America

American Thought Leaders

AMERICAN THOUGHT LEADERS

JAN JEKIELEK

“I’m just bewildered that these two evil regimes are so asymmetrically treated as we saw with the balloon … Had Russia done that, we would have shot that down the moment it got near the Aleutians,” says Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist, military historian, and author of a number of best-selling books, including most recently “The Dying Citizen.”

In this broad-ranging interview, we discuss the Chinese spy balloon, Orwellian newspeak, and the woke revolution he sees gripping America.

“When they were trapped about the balloon, the new Soviet talking point came: ‘Balloons came in during Trump. Trump ignored them. Trump ignored balloons.’ And that talking point, it was sort of like the old Roman maxim that a lie travels around the world before the truth can catch up. And that’s how they operate.”

Unlike the protests of the 1960s, this current woke revolution “was staged from the top,” Hanson says. “The left was not marching on the Pentagon. The left was not marching on the campus administrator. The left was not marching on Anaconda Copper or I.T.T. as they had been. They were inside the boardroom. They were inside the president’s office. They were inside the FBI. They were inside the CIA. They were inside the Pentagon.”

Ultimately, we are witnessing the unraveling of Western civilization, Hanson says.

“It’s actually an attack on meritocracy, and the whole empirical system of hiring the most qualified better person for the stability and success of society … Where this ultimately goes … it means that, as you see in Cuba or Venezuela or Colombia, very successful societies start to break down and they can’t deliver the essentials of life because they have a commissariat, a commissar system of ideology trumping empiricism,” Hanson says.

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VIDEO – MONOPOLY- WHO OWNS THE WORLD

Saturday, October 30th, 2021
VIDEO – MONOPOLY – WHO OWNS THE WORLD?  

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • A handful of mega corporations — private investment companies — dominate every aspect of our lives; everything we eat, drink, wear or use in one way or another. These investment firms are so enormous, they control the money flow worldwide
  • While there appear to be hundreds of competing brands on the market, like Russian nesting dolls, larger parent companies own multiple smaller brands. In reality, all packaged food brands, for example, are owned by a dozen or so larger parent companies
  • These parent companies, in turn, are owned by shareholders, and the largest shareholders are the same in all of them: Vanguard and Blackrock
  • No matter what industry you look at, the top shareholders, and therefore decision makers, are the same: Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and/or Berkshire Hathaway. In virtually every major company, you find these names among the top 10 institutional investors
  • These major investment firms are in turn owned by their own set of shareholders. One of the most amazing things about this scheme is that the institutional investors also own each other. They’re all shareholders in each other’s companies. At the very top are Vanguard and Blackrock. Blackrock’s largest shareholder is Vanguard, which does not disclose the identity of its shareholders due to its unique structure

Until recently, it appeared economic competition had been driving the rise and fall of small and large companies across the U.S. Supposedly, PepsiCo is Coca Cola’s competitor, Apple and Android vie for your loyalty and drug companies battle for your health care dollars. However, all of that turns out to be an illusion.

Since the mid-1970s, two corporations — Vanguard and Blackrock — have gobbled up most companies in the world, effectively destroying the competitive market on which America’s strength has rested, leaving only false appearances behind.

Indeed, the global economy may be the greatest illusionary trick ever pulled over the eyes of people around the world. To understand what’s really going on, watch Tim Gielen’s hour-long documentary, “MONOPOLY: Who Owns the World?” above.

 

 

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