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The Return Of Donald J Trump | Victor Davis Hanson

300 H and H

300 H and H

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John Anderson
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Victor Davis Hanson unpacks Donald Trump's comeback after January 6th, mounting criminal charges and multiple impeachments, and how this compares to Biden. Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, columnist, and farmer. He has been a commentator on contemporary politics for the National Review and The Washington Times and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
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Let's have none of the ambiguity from establishment conservatives. Trump must win this. There's no changing horses. Besides, his will is iron.
 
300 H and H said:
2:59 min.


John Anderson
535K subscribers
Victor Davis Hanson unpacks Donald Trump's comeback after January 6th, mounting criminal charges and multiple impeachments, and how this compares to Biden. Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, columnist, and farmer. He has been a commentator on contemporary politics for the National Review and The Washington Times and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
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Let's have none of the ambiguity from establishment conservatives. Trump must win this. There's no changing horses. Besides, his will is iron.
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Your error is to presume there are "establishment conservatives"

If they are members of the establishment then they are more like these ultimate RINOs: Mitt Romney (Nev), Lindsey Graham (S.Carolina), Olympia Snow (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
 
Melensdad said:
Your error is to presume there are "establishment conservatives"

If they are members of the establishment then they are more like these ultimate RINOs: Mitt Romney (Nev), Lindsey Graham (S.Carolina), Olympia Snow (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
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Tell me why Chuck Grassley is on that list please. Joni Ernst would have been my guess from Iowa.
 
Patriot said:
The whole establishment problem stems from unlimited terms. Term limits would do more than anything to shift power back to the people.
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Chuck Grassley has been Cogress since 1973. Head of the Judiciary as well. He has done a good job for the most part.
The voters in my State have given him this chance. He has not let us down.
So not sure I can agree completely with term limits.
The biggest reason I don't is that term limits help the unelected officials who do what they want if there is a big turnover in Congress ever few years. The swamp gets stronger over time. Even without term limits this is a problem.
 
300 H and H said:
Chuck Grassley has been Cogress since 1973. Head of the Judiciary as well. He has done a good job for the most part.
The voters in my State have given him this chance. He has not let us down.
So not sure I can agree completely with term limits.
The biggest reason I don't is that term limits help the unelected officials who do what they want if there is a big turnover in Congress ever few years. The swamp gets stronger over time. Even without term limits this is a problem.
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You may want to check his actual voting record. He is a globalist RINO.

In terms of breaking with the GOP he has the 7th highest number of "joins" to split with his party and support Democratic sponsored bills.

He is generally considered one of the 'war hawks' in the GOP and has broken with the GOP majority to support foreign air more than most in the GOP

He voted for Biden's TRILLION DOLLAR 'infrastructure' bill that literally gave billions out to various NGO charities that helps bring in illegals, that pours billions into liberal democratic NGO charities to support liberal policies, etc etc. The only other Iowan to support that bill was US Rep (D) Cindy Axne

Democrats generally consider him one of the main bridges to slipping through they bad 'bipartisan' bills, there are plenty of articles where partisan leftist Democrats heap praise on Grassley (Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is one of Grassley's biggest liberal fanboys)

www.govtrack.us

Sen. Charles “Chuck” Grassley [R-IA]’s 2022 legislative statistics.

Was most present in votes compared to All Senators, and other 2022 legislative statistics
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Ranked 13th most politically left compared to Senate Republicans​

Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.​
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For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 117th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Grassley’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.​
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Compare to all Senate Republicans (24th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (70th percentile); All Senators (62nd percentile).​
 
300 H and H said:
Chuck Grassley has been Cogress since 1973. Head of the Judiciary as well. He has done a good job for the most part.
The voters in my State have given him this chance. He has not let us down.
So not sure I can agree completely with term limits.
The biggest reason I don't is that term limits help the unelected officials who do what they want if there is a big turnover in Congress ever few years. The swamp gets stronger over time. Even without term limits this is a problem.
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I'm not saying that there are not good elected representatives who have served for decades. Maybe Grassley is one of the good ones, but if he is he would be an exception to the rule IMHO.
I hear you on how a lot of turnover of elected officials shifts power to unelected bureaucrats because of the latter's relative continuity. That is no doubt true, but it points to a larger problem, which is too much government. We can do both: enact term limits AND slim down the size of government. In addition, maybe there should be government worker service limits as well in order to prevent and limit the unelected shadow government's power.
 
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