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Online rangerrebew

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Victor Davis Hanson: Who is ‘destroying democracy in darkness?’
« on: August 23, 2024, 06:32:29 am »

Victor Davis Hanson: Who is ‘destroying democracy in darkness?’
Story by Victor Davis Hanson, Tribune Content Agency • 11h

 
The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic.

Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that former President Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic.

That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two presidential candidacies, his presidency, and now his third and final run for the White House.
 
A near decade ago, we witnessed the 2015-2016 Hillary Clinton/Democratic National Committee/FBI-assisted effort to plant the false accusation of Trump-Russian collusion to warp the 2016 election.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/victor-davis-hanson-who-is-destroying-democracy-in-darkness/ar-AA1pgZIV?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=a72d01d626ee4ce789ef6618daaf638d&ei=101
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Victor Davis Hanson: Who is ‘destroying democracy in darkness?’
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2024, 11:04:16 am »
VDH is usually more careful with words.  The Democrats haven't claimed Trump was a threat to the republic, they claimed he was a threat to "our democracy".  "Our democracy" and the republic are not coextensive notions.
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And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was all about.

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Re: Victor Davis Hanson: Who is ‘destroying democracy in darkness?’
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2024, 05:53:50 pm »
David wrote:
"The Democrats haven't claimed Trump was a threat to the republic, they claimed he was a threat to "our democracy".  "Our democracy" and the republic are not coextensive notions."

Hmmmm...
"Our democracy".
Kinda reminds me of another term:
"Our thing".
(as in, "cosa nostra"...)
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