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Victor Davis Hanson - The Left Should Be Happy with Biden
2022-07-23
[Blade of Perseus] The Left should be ecstatic that Joe Biden has given them everything they wanted.

The Left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old money by printing lots of new money. Those richer who have it, lose the value of their money; those poorer who don’t have any money, suddenly do.

When combined with low interest rates, inflation roars even louder. Not since Jimmy Carter has a Democrat been so insistent on inflating the money supply.

For decades, the Left has amplified former Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s 2008 dream that the government must spike fuel costs up to European levels. That was seen as the best way to force unsophisticated Americans to quit burning gas and transition to renewable energy. Biden took that sermon seriously.

He canceled federal energy leases. He shut down ANWR. He canceled pipelines and warned the oil industry its days were numbered. Biden has done more than any other Democrat to ensure fossil fuels were unaffordable, forcing America’s supposedly unthinking consumers to drive less or consider ditching their gas-engine cars altogether.

The hard American Left always wanted unlimited illegal immigration. Biden agreed and destroyed the southern border as we knew it.

The result is that in less than two years, nearly 3 million illegal aliens have surged into the United States. Nearly all of them arrived unvaccinated, untested, and unaudited at a time of a COVID pandemic.

Biden worries little that record numbers of Americans are dying from drugs that now pour across the border. Cartels became richer and more powerful than ever under his watch, while child traffickers were freed from worries.

Biden did more than any prior Democrat to ensure massive illegal immigration as part of the leftist dream of flipping red states blue by changing the demography.

The Left rails about imperialism, neo-colonialism, and military expenditure. Joe Biden without warning simply yanked all troops from Afghanistan. He abandoned a $1 billion new embassy, a $300 million refitted U.S. air base, and $80 billion worth of sophisticated arms and equipment.

In other words, Biden did more than any other prior Democrat to ensure the United States was humbled abroad, and its expeditionary forces taught a lesson about the evils of foreign interventions.

The Left fetishizes race. It enshrined the idea of "good" racial discrimination: to stop racial bias, one must be racially biased.

Biden was the first president to promise in advance that his vice-presidential running mate had to be both black and female. For his cabinet picks, Biden ignored most criteria of prior experience or specific expertise, but instead ensured that his administration was "diverse."

No prior Democratic president has been so beholden to identity politics or so consistently used de facto racial, gender, and sexual identity quotas in his presidential appointees.

The Left for years has railed about the criminal justice system. It believes punishment does not really deter crime, which is instead a result of racism and a toxic capitalist system.

Biden agrees. Federal attorneys mimic the so-called George Soros city and county prosecutors who enforce the law largely according to ideological directives.

No prior president has managed to weaponize the Pentagon, the FBI, or the CIA in ways that have transitioned them from traditional institutions to woke avatars of social revolution.

No prior Democratic president has so attacked conservatives, a strict-constructionist Supreme Court, and the Republican Party.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Erudition about the past is no guarantee of insight about the future.

At best, it gives a false sense of security.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-23 11:51  

#7  its expeditionary forces taught a lesson about the evils of foreign interventions.

Well, foreign interventions ARE evil. We don't need any expeditionary forces. We defend the borders of other countries but cannot defend our own borders.
Posted by: Tiny Jeater6933   2022-07-23 11:50  

#6  Yes, a little short on the...finding of workable solutions. Perhaps it is the waters, or lack thereof. Some guys are finders. Some guys are fixers. I enjoy reading most of his stuff.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-07-23 11:37  

#5  So. Other people are figuring out that Hanson is just a whiner. About time...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-23 11:14  

#4  It does amuse me to see the words "The Left" and "happy" in the same sentence. This will never happen.
Posted by: Tom   2022-07-23 11:11  

#3  well put EC
Posted by: Chris   2022-07-23 10:38  

#2  If by "richer" VDH is referring to the Middle Class then he is making a valid point. The Middle Class does not have the ability to "buy a Congress Critter" to protect their wealth like the Truly Rich do.
Posted by: magpie   2022-07-23 09:28  

#1  "The Left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old money by printing lots of new money. Those richer who have it, lose the value of their money; those poorer who don’t have any money, suddenly do."

I expect more from a guy like VDH. This is a silly statement.

The poorer don't have any more money with inflation, they know it because they aren't stupid.

And the richer know very well how to protect themselves against inflation. They don't keep their assets in cash.
Posted by: European Conservative   2022-07-23 07:40  

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