Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
In 2021, Joe Biden was elected after a bitterly fought campaign that deposed the incumbent Donald Trump. Democrats eventually captured, for a time, both the House and Senate, ensuring the most left-wing government in modern American history.
Americans were then set to witness a great experiment. For the first time in their lives, a truly radical socialist program would supposedly fundamentally transform the way America dealt with the border, immigration, the economy, race relations, foreign policy, energy, law enforcement, crime, education, and social questions such as religion, gender, abortion, and schooling.
In a sense, we were all to be lab rats of sorts, to be experimented on by the radical left and their various critical theories. Now in the last year of the Biden term, we can see the results of that experiment—and the unfortunate disasters that followed.
But first, how was such a radical move to the left even possible in a center-right America?
The Democratic nominee, Biden, had earlier united the left, but only through a Faustian deal. The handlers of a nearly non compos mentis Biden had ushered all his 2020 primary rivals out of the primary races in unison.
But in exchange for their exits that ensured Biden the nomination, the left took over his general campaign—in which Biden was virtually relegated to his basement—and then set his agenda.
Who was running things?
The mysterious architects of White House ideology included, inter alia, the omnipresent, now-Washington-DC-dwelling Obamas, the old socialist gadfly Bernie Sanders, the fossilized tribunes of the black and Latino congressional caucuses, the DEI firebrand Squad, and the neo-socialist scold Elizabeth Warren.
As a result, for one of the few times in American history, the hard left now had undreamt of power. And it was enhanced by a chorus in our compliant media, academia, corporations, the administrative state, foundations, entertainment, and popular culture.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that hackers linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have infiltrated America’s critical infrastructure and are biding their time as they wait for the right moment to strike a “devastating blow.”
“A few years ago, we might have said China represents the most significant long-term threat,” he said. “That’s no longer the best way to describe the danger.”
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) assessed last year that the Chinese regime was busy building the capacity to deter American intervention in a looming crisis between China and Taiwan by 2027. But that timeline has been accelerated, Mr. Wray said, noting that some of the effects of the enormous CCP-backed hacking enterprise are already being felt today.
An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as Volt Typhoon has burrowed into numerous U.S. companies in various critical sectors including telecommunications, energy, and water, with 23 pipeline operators targeted, Mr. Wray said. With a hacking program that is larger than every other major nation combined, China is developing the ability to physically attack critical U.S. infrastructure at a time of its choosing, he warned.
“Its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic,” he said.
When friends ask me why I am voting for President Donald Trump, I tell them I’m not voting for a personality, but for policies I believe are best for our country.
• I’m voting for tax policies that keep businesses competitive globally and sustain employment growth and economic opportunity.
• I’m voting for judges who do not legislate from the bench.
• I’m voting for properly funded and trained police departments that protect all citizens regardless of color.
• I’m voting for an accountable and functional Veterans Administration.
• I’m voting for fair trade policies.
• I’m voting for logical immigration laws consistent with international best practices.
• I’m voting for peace through strength.
• I’m voting for all NATO nations to pay their share of the burden.
• I’m voting for peace in the Middle East and the protection of Israel
• I’m voting for the continued growth of natural gas through fracking and its positive impact on CO2 emissions.
• I’m voting for sensible abortion laws that protect life in late-term situations.
• I’m voting for the Electoral College, so California and New York do not control the election.
• I’m voting for a market-based health plan that promotes competition, protects pre-existing conditions and reduces cost.
I’m sorry my friends can’t get past hating a president with a disturbing personality but also with sound policies.
Henry Rissier, Silverthorne
A documentary on Gen. Mike Flynn, former President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor, will pop in late April featuring in-depth interviews with Flynn, Tucker Carlson, and more.
The documentary, Flynn: Deliver the Truth Whatever the Cost, will appear on various platforms in late April.
The documentary’s trailer, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News ahead of its public release, includes a snippet of a Flynn interview for the film and viewers can hear Carlson — the former Fox News host who now runs the Tucker Carlson Network where he produces major shows and conducts massive interviews — making it clear that when Trump hired Flynn he was the “most dangerous” person to the deep state. That, Carlson says in the trailer, is because Flynn “knew exactly how the system worked, he knew exactly what the intel world had been up to, and he understood its funding.”
Flynn, of course, joined Trump’s White House as the top official on national security matters — the National Security Advisor — after the billionaire shocked the world when he won the 2016 presidential election. Flynn was the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for two years during former President Barack Obama’s administration.
He was a U.S. Army Lieutenant General, and when Obama pushed him out of his administration he gravitated to Trump who was then running for president on the campaign trail and began speaking out loudly
against Democrats’ policies.
Flynn’s book in 2016, the Field of Fight, was critical reading to understand the major national security issues of the day in the battle against radical Islamic terrorism. In that period, of course, the Islamic State — or ISIS — had taken over significant territory in the Middle East and Flynn was one of the few officials in the national security arena who would tell Obama he was wrong and that ISIS could be defeated. Of course, Trump went on to swiftly and quickly destroy ISIS.
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When he entered the White House and joined Trump’s administration, Flynn was under assault from the outset by deep-state actors. Flynn was actually the first casualty of what would become many deep-state-inflicted attacks on Trump’s presidency. When Flynn went down at the beginning of Trump’s presidency, in February 2017, many who were aligned with the America First movement that Trump led believed things would only go downhill.
“There’s a moment I just felt like I was drowning,” Flynn says in the trailer. “So I’m in there with all these other political appointees. They’re all supposed to go in there and tell what they believe to be the truth. What they did was they took my assessment and they wanted me to change it. I was like, ‘I’m not changing it.’”
The interest in the Flynn documentary is already exploding online. For weeks now, it has been the number one DVD bestseller on Amazon — before the filmmakers did any major promotion or interviews — ahead of Hollywood blockbusters such as Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom or Oppenheimer. Flynn, a Scott Wiper production, is produced by Aquidneck Island Productions, LLC. The executive producers are Flynn and Victor Mellor.
Flynn will join Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel at 10 a.m. Eastern this weekend for his first interview about the documentary.
Flynn will also be doing a live tour beginning in April promoting the film, and details for that and for preordering it are available on the film’s website.
In another teaser for the documentary, Flynn talks about if he has any regrets and says he does not.
“Is there any regrets you have in life?” Flynn asks. “I should sit here and say, ‘yeah, I got a lot of them. I got a lot of regrets.’ But when I look back on my life and I understand the lives that were lost, I mean, I’m sitting here with you and I can tell my story.”
“There was deep corruption, and Flynn was the first person I knew personally who was the recipient of that — I mean, how can you take out General Flynn?” Carlson says in another documentary clip obtained by Breitbart News. “He spent his life in the U.S. Army, he ascended to the top levels, how can you take him out? Is the system really so corrupt that you can take that guy out and destroy his life and try to send him to prison? That was hard for me to believe.”
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