Victor Davis Hanson: Why the American Republic Has Survived for 250 Years
Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc discuss on this special July 4th edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” why the U.S. republic has endured for 250 years.
They cite secondary advantages—vast resources, continental unity, and ocean buffers—but emphasize the Constitution’s mixed government, intricate checks and balances, and the Bill of Rights for its continued survival.
Victor notes the amendment process is intentionally difficult, requiring supermajorities in Congress and the states.
The American Revolution is contrasted with the French Revolution as a limited political break that preserved British Enlightenment traditions, religious tolerance, and avoided radical cultural rupture.
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Happy 250th birthday to the greatest country the world has ever known! 🇺🇸
The greatness of the United States is a testament to the grit, determination, and spirit of the American people—and we’re just getting started.
Here’s to the next 250 years, America!
– DKP 🇺🇸
.@POTUS: Yet as we approach this magnificent anniversary, we see our American identity under a renewed attack. A generation after we fought and won the Cold War against the menace of Communism, there is now a resurgence of the Communist menace in our land—including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life.
These are not mere political disagreements, like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American Liberty. It is the Greatest Threat to our Country including World War One, World War Two, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11.
Because Communism is the enemy of Free People everywhere. It is the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it is the Enemy of July 4th, 1776.
Even while the Radicals and Extremists attack our incredible history at every turn, they are SILENT on the miserable history of Communism itself. Their system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried—it killed 100 million people in the last century.
Communism is the exact opposite of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—it is death, tyranny and the pursuit of evil.
The Godless Communist morality states that anything is justified to bring about the inhuman visions they propose. They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights.
It is an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder. Such doctrines can be given no quarter in a Democracy, because the first thing they do when they get into power is turn around, and destroy it—just as Communists have done in other countries all over the world.
Very simply, Communism represents the worst ideas and abuses in history by the worst people—the American Founding represents the best ideas and traditions in history by the best people.
You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a Communist, or you can be a Patriot. You cannot be both.
As for those who would peddle Marxist lies about our heritage—who tell our children that we live on stolen land, or that our heroes were oppressors—they are doing something much worse than slandering our past. They are attacking our future. They are trying to tear down the American Character, to destroy the people who declared Independence, crossed the Delaware, settled the West, and conquered the skies. But we will never let that happen.
Our American Ancestors did not shed their blood at Concord and Trenton, Gettysburg and Shiloh, Midway and Normandy, just so that a band of thieves and radicals could come in and loot and pillage the nation our heroes died to win, build, and save.
So on the eve of this 250th anniversary of American Liberty, we resolve and swear for all to hear that the Citizens of the United States of America will vanquish Communism from our shores, and send it into exile once and for all. America will never be a Communist country!
I can’t let this go unchallenged.
That young man was, in my opinion and based on the video below, the clear victim of an assault.
The video shows, for reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, the officer steaming directly into the victim.
The officer made no effort to prevent the attack or apprehend the men who had just administered the violence.
What I see in the video is the officer using speed and aggression at the moment of peak danger and confusion against the victim.
The victim then controls himself the moment he realises it is now a police officer attacking him and not one of the multiple men who were attacking him a fraction of a second earlier.
In my opinion Birmingham Police should drop the charges against this young man and ask the officer why she went for the victim on the ground and not the attackers!
Weeks after proposing a nearly million-dollar cut to Veterans’ services, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu held a Somali flag-raising ceremony at City Hall
Propping up Somalis while diminishing our veterans.
Disgusting traitor
HOLY SHIT
A 13-year-old boy in Maryland was just found guilty of R*PING two different 6-YEAR-OLD GIRLS.
The judge adopted @MarylandDJS recommendations and sentenced him to PROBATION with an ankle monitor.
NO JAILTIME
The boy was then RELEASED back to the same home where some of the r*pes occurred.
The victims are still living in the community.
HOW IS THIS JUSTICE???
SCOOP: Kelly Sartin, a paraprofessional at @PCschools535 in Illinois, made a post online expressing how "unfortunate" it was that Air Force One didn't crash with Trump on board.
This person is paid with YOUR taxes to help teach your kids.
Would you trust her around your children?
Disgusting
Post Office in the City of San Rafael, California flies the American flag upside down
This needs to be fixed ASAP and whoever is responsible for it must be fired @USPS
This was, believe it or not, a Take Two, but it was also one of the best visits I've had w/@adamtaggart in years. There's no counting out the American consumer (at least in the aggregate) but boy are there mounting pressures at the bottom 90% of that K. Share your thoughts freely
How many HIV/AIDS workers from USAID were fake aid workers involved in intelligence or covert political work, rather than medical relief? How much of this explains why USAID refused to comply with DOGE audits? How much of this explains why such a dismal % of aid ever arrived?
USAID gave its fake HIV/AIDS workers secret code phrases like “I have a headache” to alert USAID if the fake aid workers thought counter-intelligence agents discovered the truth that the USAID-funded AIDS prevention workshops were a secret front.
USAID had 64 years and $2 trillion to end world hunger.
The Left is acting like all they needed was 1 more year.
By ending USAID the funding for Communism and was drastically cut.
Less Communism did more to end world hunger than anything USAID did during its entire existence.
This is a classic meme.
But it's not the entire picture:
1) Most of the grift and graft happens at the NGO level with overpaid liberal midwits outsourcing to outsourcers, just so they can go to Davos and present themselves at cocktail parties.
2) None of these people have moved the needle in decades.
3) It's patently dishonest to blame Elon for the deaths of people in Liberia or anywhere else as a result of demanding accountability for how we spend the tax dollars of hardworking Americans.
4) If the solution is so simple, MacKenzie Scott, Laurene Powell Jobs (friend of Ghislaine Maxwell), or Nancy Walton (owner of a $300 million mega yacht) could snap their fingers and solve the problem.
This entire anti-Elon, media driven narrative is so obtuse and contrived. Anyone who buys into this is intellectually captured.
Foreign aid creates dependency and props up failure. Real progress comes from property rights, rule of law, trade, entrepreneurship, and stable governance, not blank checks.
Stop repeating the same failed experiment and expecting different results.
MacKenzie Scott has donated over $26 billion to nonprofits.
Around $1 billion of that ($786M confirmed but many donation amounts aren't disclosed) has funded 226 organizations focused either fully or partly on "gender identity."
This funds children's access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible and often sterilizing surgeries.
She is directly funding the largest medical scandal against children we've ever seen.
Meanwhile, the entire movement opposing sex and gender pseudoscience engulfing science, medicine, and culture runs on maybe ~$10M annually. Hard to say exactly, but it's minuscule in comparison.
We are so out-funded it's laughable.
If you're extremely wealthy, consider donating to competent organizations help combat the behemoth we're up against.
No organization turns donation money into real policy change more efficiently than the Manhattan Institute (@ManhattanInst).
(Disclosure: I work there. But it's true)
The fight against pediatric gender "medicine" and sex pseudoscience is far from over.