The Remaking of America

Article subtitle: 
Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault
Article author: 
Victor Davis Hanson
Article publisher: 
American Greatness
Article date: 
9 August 2023
Article category: 
Our American Future
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Article Body: 

We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as far-reaching and dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and 1860s or the 1930s. Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault, including the very processes by which we govern ourselves, and the manner in which we live.

The Revolution began under the Obama administration that sought to divide Americans into oppressed and oppressors, and then substitute race for class victimization. It was empowered by the bicoastal wealth accrued from globalization, and honed during the COVID lockdown, quarantine-fed economic downturn, and the George Floyd riots and their aftermath...

Here are 10 upheavals that the Left has successfully wrought...

Free expression. In large swatches of American society—particularly the corporation, the media, the government, the public schools, and the university—it is suddenly dangerous to speak freely...

The Weaponization of Justice... in the last decade the Left has viewed the Department of Justice as a political extension of the party - whose unchecked power must properly be directed to hurt enemies and help friends...

The Attack on the Supreme Court...

The Media-Democratic Fusion. If one were to listen during the last few years to NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, PBS, MSNBC, or CNN, or read the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, or the Los Angeles Times, then one would have believed the following...

The Destruction of Common Law. By defunding the police in major cities, and by showering leftwing district attorney candidates with millions of dollars in campaign funding, the Left systematically eroded the law as we know it in our major cities...

The Erosion of the Military...

Race, Not Class. Racial inequality and lack of parity are due to “whiteness.”...