The Coup We Never Knew

Guest Post by Victor Davis Hanson

Did someone or something seize control of the United States?

What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased?

Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe $30 trillion in debt is no big deal?

When did clean-burning, cheap, and abundant natural gas become the equivalent of dirty coal? How did prized natural gas that had granted America’s wishes of energy self-sufficiency, reduced pollution, and inexpensive electricity become almost overnight a pariah fuel whose extraction was a war against nature? Which lawmakers, which laws, and which votes of the people declared natural gas development and pipelines near criminal?

Was it not against federal law to swarm the homes of Supreme Court justices, to picket and to intimidate their households in efforts to affect their rulings? How then with impunity did bullies surround the homes of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas – furious over a court decision on abortion? How could these mobs so easily throng our justices’ homes, with placards declaring “Off with their d–s”?

Since when did Americans create a government Ministry of Truth? And on whose orders did the FBI contract private news organizations to censor stories it did not like and writers whom it feared?

How did we wake up one morning to new customs of impeaching a president over a phone call? Of the speaker of the House tearing up the State of the Union address on national television? Of barring congressional members from serving on their assigned congressional committees?

When did we assume the FBI had the right to subvert the campaign of a candidate it disliked? Was it legal suddenly for one presidential candidate to hire a foreign ex-spy to subvert the campaign of her rival?

Was some state or federal law passed that allowed biological males to compete in female sports? Did Congress enact such a law? Did the Supreme Court guarantee that biological male students could shower in gym locker rooms with biological women? Were women ever asked to redefine the very sports they had championed?

When did the government pass a law depriving Americans of their freedom during a pandemic? In America can health officials simply cancel rental contracts or declare loan payments in suspension? How could it become illegal for mom-and-pop stores to sell flowers or shoes during quarantine but not so for Walmart or Target?

Since when did the people decide that 70 percent of voters would not cast their ballots on Election Day? Was this revolutionary change the subject of a national debate, a heated congressional session, or the votes of dozens of state legislatures?

What happened to Election Night returns? Did the fact that Americans created more electronic ballots and computerized tallies make it take so much longer to tabulate the votes?

When did the nation abruptly decide that theft is not a crime, and assault is not a felony? How can thieves walk out with bags of stolen goods, without the wrath of angry shoppers, much less fear of the law?

Was there ever a national debate about the terrifying flight from Afghanistan? Who planned it and why?

What happened to the once-trusted FBI? Why almost overnight did its directors decide to mislead Congress, to deceive judges with concocted tales from fake dossiers and with doctored writs? Did Congress pass a law that our federal leaders in the FBI or CIA could lie with impunity under oath?

Who redefined our military and with whose consent? Who proclaimed that our chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could call his Chinese Communist counterpart to warn him that America’s president was supposedly unstable? Was it always true that retired generals routinely labeled their commander-in-chief as a near Nazi, a Mussolini, an adherent of the tools of Auschwitz?

Were Americans ever asked whether their universities could discriminate against their sons and daughters based on their race? How did it become physically dangerous to speak the truth on campus? Whose idea was it to reboot racial segregation and bias as “theme houses,” “safe spaces,” and “diversity”? How did that happen in America?

How did a virus cancel the Constitution? Did the lockdowns rob us of our sanity? Or was it the woke hysteria that ignited our collective madness?

We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare of a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup, we never knew.

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lamont cranston
lamont cranston

Nice screed, but no wake up call will happen. Personally, I’ve no use for VDH, as he never misses an opportunity to trash everything that’s Southern.

Sabyre
Sabyre

I’m not familiar with his work, but I felt this was overall a good line of questioning regarding at least the last decade or two.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

He is a guest on multiple shows every day. He has his articles reposted here weekly at least. I believe he is an official columnist at American Greatness and perhaps other places. He is a Professor and farms in the Central Valley of California.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

California, you say? Well, his stock just went down a point. He’s still more relevant than PCR by a wide margin in my book though.

I didn’t know of his South trashing either, but that’s like water off a duck’s back to me anyway.

No one is perfect.

Anonymous
Anonymous

VDH is, as usual (seeing as how you’re unfamiliar with him), a dollar short and a decade late.
There’s nothing wrong with his observations or conclusions other than that millions of Americans came to the same obvious conclusions a decade, or decades, before him.
Still, for some inscrutable reason, he has been afforded a reputation as “insightful” by some people.
In the thesaurus, under antonyms for ‘insightful’, you’ll find his picture.
Also, if you pause the movie Die Hard in the seconds after Bruce Willis shouts “Welcome to the party, pal!” You can see VDH’s cameo next to the cop car.

Steve Z.
Steve Z.

….now multiply the above story somewhere between 10X to 1,000X and we get a better understanding of how fucked up this country has become.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Be gentle. VDH is just now becoming aware.

anon a moos
anon a moos

The picture headline = fucking vultures lower than any earthly parasite.

WilliamtheResolute
WilliamtheResolute

I know the answer to all of the above…it started centuries ago and it’s all based on magic money…the Khazarian Jews Rothschild’s plan is finally coming to fruition…you are sheep and cattle in their eyes.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The answer is mass compliance. Why, oh why, will people not see that, and retrieve their power from the handful of miscreants ending humanity?

Anonymous
Anonymous

I think you meant “noncompliance”.

C.A.L.
C.A.L.

They choose not to see.
Too many are wilfully blind or choose to remain ignorant.
Going along to get along is just an easier road than being responsible and, God forbid, held accountable.
They don’t want to fight because they don’t know how.
They want someone to ‘save’ them.
They want someone else to do the work.
It is a pervasive attitude throughout the west.
Those good times built on the backs of hard men really did produce weak men.

Marky
Marky

So the answer is yes?

Anonymous
Anonymous

We all witnessed what happens to protesters who demand redress of grievances .
The Obama Deception DEEP STATE WEAPONIZED DOJ forms a Committee Of like minded pathetic parasites that whipped up a guilty verdict then set out to control , fabricate and twist every incidental issue all their political enemies ever had lock them up under the control of a filthy lesbian assistant warden that violated every rule in the book regarding treatment of incarcerated people !
All this while a year before every city in America was looted and burned by BLM SOROS FUNDED OPERATIVES OVER A CRIMINAL SO DOPED UP HE DIED IN POLICE CUSTODY
Idiot congress assholes take a knee for this career piece of shit and send cops to jail .
What’s happened you ask?
A bunch of treasonous pathetic leftist parasites have managed to weasel their way into every government operations systems elected Appointed and hired
They are treasonous CCP leftist operatives out for the complete destruction of the United States and it’s citizens especially the white majority!
The Big Club wants us broke broken sick or dead preferably dead
This is a WEF/NWO UN AGENDA and it’s manifested in all levels local state and federal ! They are in control, well funded , organized and will use every power at their disposal to destroy us !
They especially like the “JUST DOING MY JOB LAW ENFORCEMENT”
We get to find our own demise and any complaints are used to attack us

The Duke of New York
The Duke of New York

Check the Omnibus line item list, it’s clearly stated that payment of $475 Billion in interest on loans to the US government is included in that $1.7 Trillion.

Nearly one third of that budget is going to interest on money that was printed out of thin air.

Someone must be very happy about that but it sure isn’t me.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It’s not just paying off a credit card.
It’s paying off a credit card with a HIGHER INTEREST credit card.

bidenTouchesKids
bidenTouchesKids

Americans denied due process, access to legal and tortured in a gulag in DC. American media and LGBT perverts pushing for pedophilia to be enforced by the state just like their perversion that they love to play out in public. Drag queens screaming it won’t suck itself and suck that d while exposing their genitals to children is celebrated. Calls for imprisonment and death to anyone that’s conservative or for speech the left don’t agree with.

Where are the protests? Where is the march on DC to demand the release of political prisoners? Where is the public outrage or usage of the 2a to remove tyranny?

If we want to find fault, we only need look in the mirror. The people were asleep at the wheel and still are.

Marky
Marky

An article of questions. Is this considered Journalism nowadays? Not helpful

Lee Harvey Griswald
Lee Harvey Griswald

I’m no fan of VDH’s, but you may want to look up “rhetorical question”.

It ain’t perfect, but this is one of his better pieces. Mostly he seems to believe the shit he’s been teaching, whether for real or to keep his job/retirement alive.

mark
mark

AN UPDATE TO THE BRUNSON CASE

Just one day before the SCOTUS Conference in the Brunson Brothers case (scheduled for tomorrow January 6th). A new filing has been added to the case.

It’s an “Amicus” Brief, which basically means “Friend of the Court”.

An amicus brief is a type of document that is filed in a court case by someone who is not a party to the case. The person who files the amicus brief is called an “amicus,” which means “friend” in Latin.

The purpose of an amicus brief is to provide the court with additional information or arguments that may help the court make a decision in the case. The amicus is not trying to win the case, but is just trying to help the court understand the issues better.

Usually, the parties in a court case are the people or organizations who are directly involved in the dispute. They are called the “plaintiffs” and the “defendants.” The plaintiffs are the people or organizations who are bringing the case to court, and the defendants are the people or organizations who are being sued.

An amicus brief can be filed by anyone who is interested in the case and wants to provide information or arguments to the court. This could be an individual, a group, or an organization. For example, an amicus brief could be filed by a group that is concerned about a particular issue that is being discussed in the case, such as the environment or civil rights.

To file an amicus brief, the amicus must first ask the court for permission. The amicus must show that they have something valuable to add to the case, and that they will not be unfairly helping one side or the other.

Once the court grants permission for the amicus brief to be filed, the amicus can submit the brief to the court. The brief should include the amicus’s name, a summary of the case, and the information or arguments that the amicus wants to provide to the court.

Amicus briefs are commonly filed in cases that involve important or complex issues, or cases that have the potential to impact a large number of people. They can be an important way for people and organizations to have their voices heard and to help shape the law.

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https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-380/251021/20221228220520289_NCS51%20Amicus%20Brief_2022-12-28.pdf

mark
mark

Oh yea…if by ‘divine intervention’ and 5 lawyers in black dresses ruled in favor of this case…The Meat Puppet Biden & the Farce VP would be out of office and the leader of the House would become President.

Appears McCarthy is not on that list.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-380/243739/20221027152243533_20221027-152110-95757954-00007015.pdf

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

You have to get the Court’s permission to file an Amicus brief..not always granted…I have filed them on occasion.

mark
mark

pyrrhus,

I did not know that…interesting.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Different Mark Op Maybe?

To file an amicus brief, the amicus must first ask the court for permission.

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“For example, an amicus brief could be filed by a group that is concerned about a particular issue that is being discussed in the case, such as the environment or civil rights.

To file an amicus brief, the amicus must first ask the court for permission. The amicus must show that they have something valuable to add to the case, and that they will not be unfairly helping one side or the other.”

Uncola

It appears V.D.H. is navigating the Kubler-Ross “Five Stages of Grief” (i.e. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance) and perhaps the above article signifies the “depression” stage.

Surely, Victor, it won’t be long now. Keep going.

It Is What It Is

grace country pastor

The “coup we never knew”? I gotta believe everyone here has seen this coming for decades.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

But VDH and many other published “conservatives” either didn’t see them coming, or refused to acknowledge the possibility…

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

VDH suddenly awakens to the complete disaster caused by the civic nationalism he has promoted…Better late than never…

Wildfire Watcher
Wildfire Watcher

Government got it in their heads that they own you. Fortunately, they are so screwed up and inept, they will have to plow through the compliant fools who voted for them first, and those useful idiots are already suffering a world of hurt. I don’t think the central planners can logistically accomplish total domination. The victims are piling up and blocking access to you and me.

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