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Archives for March 2019

Victor Davis Hanson Offers ‘The Case for Trump’

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When Donald Trump joined the 2016 presidential race, many Americans did not take him seriously.  Even after he won primaries and secured the nomination, millions assumed he had no chance of actually becoming president.

But he did.

And almost four years after Trump launched his White House bid, most of his critics are still dumbfounded as to how he ever gained any traction, much less won a major party nomination and a general election.

Trump foes chalk up his political success to everything from Russian election meddling to James Comey to the Electoral College to women voting as their husbands tell them.  But Hoover Institution scholar and author Victor Davis Hanson says the real reasons for Trump’s victory are much simpler and he believes Trump is in decent position for re-election.

Hanson is the author of “The Case for Trump.”

Listen to the full podcast as Prof. Hanson explains why the working class in Middle America went for the Manhattan billionaire, what’s real and what’s fiction about the so-called Deep State, and why the Democrats running for president might be the best advertisement Trump could possibly have for 2020.

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No More Mueller Indictments? Trump Embraces Kraft, Why 2020 Dems Are Weird

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome the news that the Mueller probe will likely end soon with no further indictments.  They wonder why President Trump is so insistent upon inviting New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to the White House with his team and whether he would be smarter to keep a distance after Kraft’s arrest for solicitation.  And they have fun with a recent column wondering why so many of the Democrats running for president seem really weird.

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Koppel Calls Out Media, Trump Keeps Bashing McCain, Biden-Abrams 2020?

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America applaud former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel’s critique of the media and appreciate that at least one veteran journalist has the courage to speak out on liberal bias in the news. They also take President Trump to task for attacking the late Sen. John McCain in a series of immature tweets and public statements. And they predict former Vice President Joe Biden won’t endear himself to progressives if reports are true that he’s planning to name former Georgia Rep. Stacey Abrams his running mate in 2020.

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Clyburn Likens Trump to Hitler, CNN Awarded for Parkland Spectacle, ‘Husband from Hell’

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America blast House Majority Whip James Clyburn after the congressman likens President Trump to Adolf Hitler and says the Trump family is the greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime. They’re also aghast as CNN receives a Cronkite award for their disastrous Parkland Town Hall from 2018. And they wonder what is going on as George Conway, husband of White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway, engages in a very public Twitter spat with President Trump.

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AOC vs. New York Polls, Covering Up Beto’s Crimes, DeBlasio’s Dismal Turnout

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are glad to see New Yorkers souring on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez despite her glowing media coverage and roll their eyes at her explanation for her dip in popularity.  They also question the journalistic integrity at Reuters after reporter Joseph Menn held on to a story about Beto O’Rourke’ being a member of the hacker group “The Cult of the Dead Cow” until after his loss to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.  And they argue that long shot candidates like New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who attracted a measly six supporters to his last event, should quit crowding the field and let more experienced and recognizable candidates fight it out.

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NEA Helps Push Transgender Agenda on Kindergartners

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One of the most powerful forces in public education is actively promoting transgenderism to children as young as kindergartners.

Earlier this month, National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen Garcia joined Sarah McBride of the Human Right Campaign in reading “I Am Jazz” to a kindergarten class at Ashlawn Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia.  The  NEA is the largest teachers’ union in the nation.  The Human Right Campaign is the largest LGBT lobby in the U.S.

According to the Washington Post, he event took place in conjunction with the NEA’s Read Across America Day.

McBride, who was born a biological male but now identifies as female, read lines from the book, such as ““I have a girl brain but a boy body. This is called transgender. I was born this way.”

Cathy Ruse, director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, says it was “completely outrageous” to read such a book to a kindergarten class.  But she says there’s more than what the Washington Post reported.

“The parents were not fully notified and they were not asked permission to have their kids in this event,” said Ruse, noting that notice of the event only went to parents in English, whereas many of the families in that neighborhood do not speak English as their first language.

Listen to the full podcast to hear Ruse explain the significance of the National Education Association promoting this issue to young kids, why she believes activists are trying to smother any dissent on these issues, and what she sees as the proper way to approach any students struggling with their sex or gender.

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Bennet Blasts Court Packing, Libs vs. 2nd Amendment, Chelsea Blamed for Mosque Massacre

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are glad to see not all Democrats have lost their minds after Colorado Sen.  Michael Bennet begs 2020 candidates not to campaign on expanding the Supreme Court. They also hammer Beto O’Rourke and other liberals for using the New Zealand mosque massacre to push a ban on the AR-15.  And they defend Chelsea Clinton after progressives accuse her of facilitating the New Zealand massacre with her critique of Rep. Ilhan Omar.

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DeSantis Rising

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In November, Ron DeSantis was in the midst of a national political drama, as Florida officials conducted a recount to determine whether his slim victory would hold up.  Now, just two months into the job, DeSantis is piling up a flurry of accomplishments and winning praise from across the political spectrum.

“He eventually won by 32,000 votes or 0.4 percent of the vote.  He kind of went off the radar. but what this man has been doing off the radar is just amazing in terms of what he’s trying to do and what he’s accomplished and he’s getting kudos on both sides for being so energetic and so successful,” said syndicated columnist and National Review Contributing Editor Deroy Murdock.

Since taking office in January, DeSantis has replaced three Florida Supreme Court justices who were term-limited by age and worked to remove burdensome government mandates to get licensed for certain jobs.  He also accepted the resignations of two elections officials at the center of last year’s vote-counting mess.  DeSantis also removed Broward County Cheriff Scott Israel over his performance before, during, and after the school shooting in Parkland.

The governor has also gone to bat for hurricane survivors to the federal government.  He’s also ended Common Core education policies and thrilled partisans of all stripes in replacing the members of an important water commission in hopes of cleaning up the environment.

DeSantis served in the U.S. House of Representatives before winning the governor’s office over Democrat Andrew Gillum.  Murdock says that’s not an easy shift to navigate.

“I’ve seen very few people make that transition from Congress to becoming an executive as effectively and as swiftly as he has.  It’s really quite stunning,” said Murdock.

Murdock believes DeSantis ultimately won the election because of his support for school choice, a position that won him 18 percent of the vote from black women who want more options for their kids.  Not only did that help DeSantis, but Murdock thinks it’s a road map for other GOP candidates.

“If he can keep this us, it’s a model for other Republicans to go out in the black community, push school choice which is very important.  Just ask black parents, ‘You tend to vote Democrat.  How are those Democrat-run schools doing?  how’s your Democrat school board doing?  Are your kids learning anything?” said Murdock.

Listen to the full podcast to hear how DeSantis is not only soaring above 60 percent approval in the state, how well he is doing among voters usually repelled by the GOP, and whether the popularity of DeSantis can help President Trump in 2020.

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New Zealand Terrorism, AOC’s Illogical Response, Schultz vs. Washington Reality

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America recoil at the mass murder of 49 Muslims in New Zealand, the radical manifesto that came with it, and the aggravating tendency of politicians and activists to claim instantly that an attack vindicates their existing political positions.  They also slam Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for mocking the idea of “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of these horrible events and then claiming she really said it to attack the NRA for carnage in New Zealand. And they have fun with Howard Schultz suggesting he would not sign any legislation as president that did not have bipartisan support or nominate any Supreme Court justice who couldn’t get two-thirds support in the Senate.

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Beto Mania, Social Media and Depression, Warren Waffles on Capitalism

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America argue that Beto O’Rourke running for president is actually a good thing because it will either show media infatuation can get you elected or burst O’Rourke’s hype bubble. They are also concerned by the alarming rise in mental health disorders in teens that is linked to social media use. And they also give Elizabeth Warren a molecule of credit for defending capitalism, only to watch her then say markets don’t work for health care or education.

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