Victor Davis Hanson says Trump must
evoke Abraham Lincoln's July 4 address
in 1861 amid current unrest
Fox News,
by
Charles Creitz
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/4/2020 11:16:57 AM
Hoover Institution senior fellow and author Victor Davis Hanson told the "Ingraham Angle" Friday that President Trump must respond to America's current unrest with a firm statement along the lines of Abraham Lincoln's message to Congress on July 4, 1861. "In 1861, Lincoln gave a Fourth of July address to Congress, and it [the situation in America] was divisive, much more divisive than it is now," Hanson explained. "He wanted unity but it's very hard to have unity when a small proportion of the states don't want unity. So what Lincoln did was he said, basically, 'I have bent over backwards, I'm going to protect federal property.'
Reply 1 - Posted by:
poliposter 7/4/2020 11:25:58 AM (No. 466691)
A big part of the problem is the the main news producers are churning out story after story about civil unrest leaving us to feel that we are in the minority when the opposite is true.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Finally50 7/4/2020 11:28:23 AM (No. 466694)
That is pretty much what I heard the president say last night at Mount Rushmore.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/4/2020 12:09:22 PM (No. 466747)
Indeed, VDH. I believe we heard this message last night loud and clear.
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FTA: We have corporate CEOs, we have retired generals, we have university presidents, who know better but either out of weakness or timidity or fear, they are allowing people to change our customs, our traditions, our icons, and our reverence.
There is a method behind the neverending churn, short and long term. The short term is to set the stage for Trump's dismissal from the Presidency, a mandate to "return to normalcy" such as last seen during the Bush-Obama years. The numbers supporting Trump need to collapse a bit further, but there are weeks yet until Labor Day, when things begin to quicken politically. By then Trump will either be the victim of electorate "fatigue" or building strength. If PDT's numbers go south, watch a well-heeled third-party "moderate conservative" emerge as a challenger, like some Western Senator, a businessman with a reputation for fixing things, like an Olympics. As George Wallace and Ross Perot showed, a third choice makes for an interesting election. This challenger, however, will not be a "racist" governor or a nutcase. He will have been vetted once by the American people, and supported by scores of NeverTrumpers/GOPe boosters, maybe even endorsed by a former U.S. President.
A third-party candidate can win states...as Wallace did in '68. It's all about the Electoral College...not the popular vote. And there are folks willing to crawl over broken glass to get rid of Trump. Given a choice between #3 and Biden...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/4/2020 12:32:38 PM (No. 466778)
I would be willing to trust VDH again if he would stop writing for NRO. After that fury filled issue that included angry spew from him which he has never apologized for, I cannot give him any credibility. His fury at us because we didn't listen to the pundits and choose Cruz instead of Trump is still ringing in my ears.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 7/4/2020 12:43:17 PM (No. 466794)
It’s truly ironic how those on the streets invoking the name of slavery to tear down our institutions are trying to do so in order to establish a new form of slavery. Socialism and Marxism are slavery. Let’s call a spade a spade. Republicans are and always have been the anti slavery party. Nothing has changed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 7/4/2020 1:25:44 PM (No. 466864)
Trump can stop all this nonsense in a heartbeat. 1 ) Announce that VP Pence is stepping down for the good of the Nation, and has accepted the position of ( ***** ) in his Administration 2) Announce that the new VP for his second term, if reelected, is Sen.Tim Scott. What is BLM and the Leftists going to do then, scream Uncle Tom, when Biden also chooses a Black individual for the post of VP also ).
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MA Radical 7/4/2020 1:59:43 PM (No. 466917)
Re #7. As much as I love Tim Scott, all that would do is legitimize this whole BLM BS.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/4/2020 2:02:39 PM (No. 466922)
A few months earlier in March 1861 Lincoln gave his first inaugural address which has this nugget: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." If you can't trust Honest Abe who can you trust?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
czechlist 7/4/2020 4:31:06 PM (No. 467045)
#6
Pandering isn't leadership. The VP has to have the experience to be POTUS. Scott isn't there yet.
I think the Trump campaign will use it against Biden if he chooses a "woman of color" rather than the best person qualified.
I thought Ferraro (84) and Quayle (88, 92) were an insult to intelligent voters
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