What the Left Has Given Us in 14 Months

Article subtitle: 
The Nihilism of the Left
Article author: 
Victor Davis Hanson
Article publisher: 
American Greatness
Article date: 
8 April 2022
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body: 

... The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent American history when the hard Left has operated all the levers of federal government.... And the result is a disaster that is uniting Americans in their revulsion of elitists whose crazy ideas are tearing apart the fabric of the country....

How did the extreme Left manage its rare takeover of the country between 2018 and 2020? Certainly, Obama’s election helped accelerate the woke movement and energized identity politics. One could also argue over the political opportunities in 2020 following the devastation of COVID-19.... It was a rare occasion to leverage agendas that otherwise had no public support in ordinary times....

In the chaos of 2020, both laws and customs were altered or scrapped—changing the very way we vote. Over 102 million ballots were either mailed in or cast during so-called “early voting”—strangely resulting in far lower rejection rates in most states than in past “normal” years of predominantly in-person voting on Election Day. Indeed, in just one year, Election Day went from an American institution to an afterthought....

So Americans ended up with a neo-socialist government. It is proving as disastrous as it is bitterly instructive—reminding this generation of Americans what the Left does when it grasps power....

A wide-open border followed. We may see 3 million illegal aliens cross at the southern border during the first 18 months of the Biden Administration. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been allotted to reward those illegally entering America...

In a sane world, Biden would have been impeached for deliberately destroying the very federal laws he swore to uphold....

The Left in about a year has negated American gas and oil independence....

The Biden Administration’s profligate multitrillion-dollar budget, inflation of the currency, de facto zero interest rates, destructive subsidies that undermined labor participation, and incompetence at addressing the supply-chain and clogged port crises will all by midyear likely achieve a 10 percent annualized inflation rate...

Americans had tuned out many of our major institutions that are now openly hostile to American exceptionalism. In their nihilism, leftists seek to destroy the very organizations they absorbed....