The Truths Behind Our Current Political Turmoil By Victor Davis Hanson

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   The Truths Behind Our Current Political Turmoil
By Victor Davis Hanson

September 27, 2018 6:30 AM

Reading between the lines to understand the overwhelming cycle of sensational news.

Are there any guiding principles that can make sense of the sensational news that now overwhelms the senses seemingly every hour?

What is common to blaring headlines about the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearings, an anti-Trump “resistance” buried deep in the permanent bureaucracy, and the improper behavior by top officials of the Obama administration, FBI, and Department of Justice?

There are a few subtexts to all these spectacles, scandals, and melodramas.

First, those in power had never imagined that Donald Trump either could or should win the 2016 election.

That reality emboldened federal employees to take risks and step over the line in efforts to ensure that Trump would be humiliated at the polls. Officials assumed that incoming President Hillary Clinton would either overlook or reward their zealotry.

FBI kingpins such as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok either broke the law or made a mockery of the FBI’s ethical guidelines. They acted as if Clinton would win, or should have won, the election.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/political-turmoil-media-bias-trump-presidency/

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More critically, our nation has become increasingly effete and sanctimonious.
Our tolerance of homosexuality, a behavior destructive of the family which is
the foundation of culture/society as well as illegal immigration, a behavior
destructive of the unity within the nation/state, clearly indicate this.
The Ancients were hard men w/relatively short lives who were self-motivated
to leave their mark on culture/society.
We, in contrast, are increasingly effeminate and pious w/long lives, yet not
interested in leaving any meaningful legacy for future generation and history.
Those we tolerate, as so called leaders, are testament to that reality.
 

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VDH speaks of the "Deep State."