Corona Meltdowns
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/6/2020 5:03:54 AM
As the coronavirus outbreak begins to reach its zenith, it remains unclear whether the measures taken to stem its tide will prove sufficient, insufficient, or an overreaction. What is certain, however, is that a number of individuals and entities have behaved shamefully and demonstrated no capacity for leadership or usefulness in this moment.
Nancy Pelosi: Gone are the mythologies that Nancy Pelosi was a pragmatic liberal voice of reason among the otherwise polarizing American Left, honed after years of paying her dues to the Democratic Party, as the mother of five dutifully ascended the party’s cursus honorum.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Truth Czar 4/6/2020 5:13:53 AM (No. 370097)
There is anecdotal evidence that Fauci is not a hack.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 4/6/2020 5:34:46 AM (No. 370104)
One of THE best reads of today. VDH’s portrait of Nancy Pelosi is a Must Read by itself.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 4/6/2020 5:47:31 AM (No. 370114)
VDH is a national treasure.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Aud 4/6/2020 5:47:42 AM (No. 370115)
This has to be one of VDH’s best essays, and he seems to have been steamed-up when he wrote it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 4/6/2020 6:35:00 AM (No. 370128)
Spot on, sir!
Glad I read this.
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FTA "Such a crazy juxtaposition is not just politics or hypocrisy—it’s insanity."
This is the danger of the media's daily staging of The Emperor's New Clothes. We can poke fun at Joe Biden who will become a footnote to history for the 218th time soon enough but Nancy Pelosi has had a free ride in DC for decades and especially since becoming Speaker the first time. They ask her softball questions, they don't challenge her obvious and frequent contradictions and magical thinking, they don't stop her from giving 2 minute answers full of gibberish.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Krause 4/6/2020 8:36:32 AM (No. 370213)
I believe the left media is the worst of the 3. Pelosi and Biden are losing any mental acuity they've had. They're old so there is reason for this. The media is outright shameful, and their TV people are shameless.. Their vendetta against Trump deletes any journalism qualities they may have had. They make a mockery of the profession. They can never be taken seriously again.
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Please send this to any liberal you know and dare them to read it! The truth may set them free.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
RCFLyer98 4/6/2020 9:14:47 AM (No. 370257)
I try to never miss a piece written by VDH or Clarice Feldman. National treasures, both!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/6/2020 9:32:37 AM (No. 370271)
FTA - "For now, the media, Pelosi, and Biden, along with the Left in general, wish to perpetuate a sense of viral Armageddon to make it politically impossible for Trump to initiate a graduated plan of returning America to work. Their hope is for a summer and fall of continued lockdown, a near depression rather than a mere recession, and enough public furor to end Trump in November—while hoping that a sudden post-election end to the lockdown will allow the natural recovery of Trump’s booming economy on their watch in 2021."
Any questions as to the dims' and msms' strategy? And why no dim should ever be elected to any office ever again and why the msm must be destroyed?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/6/2020 10:20:40 AM (No. 370321)
I'm glad I didn't skip this great 8:00 Class by Professor Hanson. FTA: ''It is difficult to find one thing Pelosi has said or done that has not made the country worse off since the virus officially hit our shores in late January.'' I think it is Nasty Nancy and the schizophrenic American media who are in extremis!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/6/2020 10:43:42 AM (No. 370354)
We.... well, I have always opined that liberalism was a mental disease... whether it was an inability to process facts and observable reality or stubbornness about ignoring anyone who wasn't in your club.
The fact of a Pelosi and a Biden, that they are unbeatable within their own party, seems to argue that... Yes. It is. At this stage, I think that they MUST nominate Biden. And that they won't replace Pelosi... even though that could do that by Friday. The stark realization is that those two are the best the Donks have.
And if you talked with a Liberal, you'd hear that.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/6/2020 10:47:20 AM (No. 370359)
Once this “epidemic” took hold in the public, government, from the President to dog catcher, jumped in to essentially shut down and ask an increasingly hysterical public to join or die a horrible death.
The hysteria continues with such acts as Texas and Florida instituting borders checks, while TP remains in short supply. Elsewhere, medical staff is reportedly laid off for lack of business. Hospital ships sent to two of our hotspot big cities lie essentially empty.
We will Re-discover what we have allowed the next “emergency” down the road...in spades.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/6/2020 10:47:59 AM (No. 370361)
This is an exceptionally good essay even by the usual standards of brilliance for which VDH is known. Thanks OP. This virus will be known for bringing out the best and worst in people. As we witness every day, Donald Trump has shown superior leadership and no matter what the dems concoct as their version of the truth he is guaranteed another four years of the presidency.
Pelosi has reached the climax in her long and mediocre career and I hesitate to use the word "climax" to avoid unnerving visuals but her recent decline began in the Obama years when she was extremely frustrated by his failures after steamrolling the country with Zerocare and prompting her to carry that big wooden hammer and thoroughly embarrass herself by flippantly defending his one-thousand page recipe for disaster. The subsequent loss of the majority in Congress and the further humiliation shared through the cluster**** known as the Clinton Campaign has obviously driven old Nan over the edge. She held it somewhat together right up until she was forced by political pressure to allow Jabba and Schiffhead to seal her doom through the Ukraine fiasco. VDH gives us an optimistic boost at the end and I agree, the end of the virus crisis will drive America back to the top of the world faster than one can say, "President Trump wins again."
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jeffkinnh 4/6/2020 10:54:09 AM (No. 370369)
Nasty Pelousy, the media, Uncle Joe and peripherally Andy Cuomo; the liberal "leadership" all spiraling to disaster and unconcerned about anyone but themselves and their agenda. The dems are casting about in desperation to save themselves from electoral disaster. It's like they booked passage on the Titanic with full knowledge it would hit an iceberg and sink. They keep trying to swap chairs on the deck but all of them have the same view of the cold, dark, silent, and deep ocean lapping at their feet. We also have "useful idiot" bit players like the dem governors who tried to block the use of hydroxychloroquine until it was approved by the FDA and endorsed by doctors and they had to scurry away in humiliation. How many people might THEY have killed by withholding needed medication? We have de Blasio near to weeping over the mess he and Andy created and which is now unfixable. This collection of fools is a dangerous disgrace to our Country and are carrying out their insanity at a time of national crisis.
It is a dystopian mess that ANYONE would support these incompetent, lunatic losers.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
starboard 4/6/2020 10:56:10 AM (No. 370372)
Nancy Pilosi has an ugly spirit and an evil conscience.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/6/2020 11:03:38 AM (No. 370382)
All media outlets are reporting that the real S will HTF this week and next. President Trump is going along, whether he believes it or not. He has to.
If it happens, we'll know that all of this hysteria and economic destruction may have been necessary. If not, we'll know that it wasn't. I know which way my money is going.
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NotaBene 4/6/2020 1:18:15 PM (No. 370596)
The Presidential press conferences are must watch TV. The journalists are Wise Guys being swatted left and right. As for the octogenarian denture lady, she is going for a new impeachment just like the prescient Trish Regan said. On this Holy Week, thank God for sending us President Trump.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 4/6/2020 2:07:10 PM (No. 370661)
Here is what Nutty, Nasty Nan was doing "for the Wuhan flu pandemic" a month after Trump had shut down travel from China. Down in Chinatown, in SanFran tellling everyone that "it is perfectly safe to be here" and fighting against that evil Trump character......OOPS. Video just hangs on Nancy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCzoXhNM6c
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bobmadison 4/6/2020 3:40:45 PM (No. 370734)
The 2020 Battle Cry - "REMEMBER in NOVEMBER."
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