The Wages of Trump Fixation..Victor Davis Hanson

[mystery-ak]

The Wages of Trump Fixation

The strange case of a reborn Max Boot and the folly of impeachment.
Victor Davis Hanson
- November 17th, 2019

Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in fact, impeach Trump: “If even the great historian Victor Davis Hanson can’t make a single convincing argument against impeachment, I am forced to conclude that no such argument exists.”

In fact, I made 10 such arguments, all of which Boot attempted, but has failed, to refute. In this context, Boot’s intellectual erosion as a historian and analyst is a valuable warning of stage-four Trump Derangement Syndrome. I offer that diagnosis with regret given I once knew and liked Boot. But his commentary over the last three years has become sadly unhinged.

Most recently Boot declared—and then quickly retracted it only in embarrassment after popular outrage—that chief ISIS mass-murdering psychopathic Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not kill himself in cowardly fashion as Trump had described: “The assertion that Baghdadi died as a coward was, in any case, contradicted by the fact that rather than be captured, he blew himself up.”

When Baghdadi was cornered by American forces, he chose to murder three innocent children rather than surrender—consistent with his entire venomous career of ordering the beheading, burning, and mutilating of innocent captives from a safe distance. The murder of defenseless children is cowardly.

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[PeteS in CA]

Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in fact, impeach Trump: “If even the great historian Victor Davis Hanson can’t make a single convincing argument against impeachment, I am forced to conclude that no such argument exists.”

Since when was it anyone's duty/obligation to show why Trump should not be impeached. It's the Dems' duty - they'll have the aid of the MSM and influential Never-Trumpers - to show why Trump should be impeached. To date they have not, thus Boot's inversion of the burden of proof.

[Cyber Liberty]

Excellent analysis by VDH!

[skeeter]

All the talk of civil war is growing tiresome, but war is what happens when two sides have utterly no grounds for talking out differences. And thats where we are right now - the administrative state & its clients (like Max Boot) and the rest of us exist in entirely different universes and couldn't perceive reality more differently.

[Bigun]

Excellent analysis by VDH!

  As is usual.

[XenaLee]

All the talk of civil war is growing tiresome, but war is what happens when two sides have utterly no grounds for talking out differences. And thats where we are right now - the administrative state & its clients (like Max Boot) and the rest of us exist in entirely different universes and couldn't perceive reality more differently.

Those of us that have been paying attention have been saying for years (decades?) that there will probably be another American civil war.   The election of Trump, which has elicited the dropping of all pretenses and the masks by the radical left, has only solidified that speculation.   It is a more possible reality now than it has been since CWI.   The left no longer thinks they need to pretend to not be radical any more.   That makes them even more dangerous.   It also makes it more imperative that they be put "in check" by US Constitution adhering patriots.   It's just a matter now of when, not if.

[Bigun]

Those of us that have been paying attention have been saying for years (decades?) that there will probably be another American civil war.   The election of Trump, which has elicited the dropping of all pretenses and the masks by the radical left, has only solidified that speculation.   It is a more possible reality now than it has been since CWI.   The left no longer thinks they need to pretend to not be radical any more.   That makes them even more dangerous.   It also makes it more imperative that they be put "in check" by US Constitution adhering patriots.   It's just a matter now of when, not if.

All correct @XenaLee except I object to referring to the war between the states as a CW. It was not according to any definition of that term.

[Fishrrman]

Victor Davis Hanson stomps Boot into the dirt...