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There has never been a great article in the NY Post. Yellow journalism at best.
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https://nypost.com/2025/08/24/opinio...now-hes-right/
This article sums up many of the thoughts that conservative minded Posters have concerning President Trump and his policies.
It also sums up the many thoughts of the left leaning Posters concerning their hatred for anything Trump.
It’s a direct reflection of this Forum.
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The Pavlovian left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.
Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy.
Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor. Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation.
Breaking News
Trump fires Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud allegations
Opinion
Why the left opposes everything Trump backs — even when they know he’s right
By
Victor Davis Hanson
Published Aug. 24, 2025, 10:44 a.m. ET
Nothing seems to destroy him -- not the raid on his home, not 93 lawfare indictments, not efforts to strike him from state ballots, not two impeachments, not even two assassination attempts. AP
The Pavlovian left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.
Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy.
Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor. Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation.
Why can't Democrats back any Trump policy at all:
Take foreign policy.
Democratic senators trashed the recent
Trump-Putin Alaska summit as a failure. Then they became depressed when, just days later, an entourage of European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suddenly flew to the White House.
The Euros praised Trump for offering some sort of negotiated pathway to peace after over three years of war and some 1.5 million dead, wounded, missing and captured on both sides — on Europe’s doorstep.
So why did Democrats object to such negotiations by Trump?
Was the reason that no such thing occurred during the Biden administration, when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, after his earlier invasions during the Obama era?
What is the left’s alternate plan? The old Biden idea of supplying Ukraine with enough money and arms to keep fighting and dying, but with no path to either victory or a negotiated peace?
Would they prefer a fourth, fifth or sixth year of war, or another 1 million casualties?
The more Trump pressed almost all NATO members to pay their promised
2% of GDP on defense, the more Democrats grew irate over Trump’s overseas influence.
NATO hits all-time high of 20 countries meeting 2% defense spending rule
NATO members now want to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP and gush that Trump is “Daddy.”
Democrats steamed at that, since Europeans are supposed to hate Trump, not admire him for rebooting NATO.
Would they prefer the old, disarmed NATO?
Under the Biden administration, over 10 million illegal aliens flooded the country, sometimes 10,000 a day at the southern border. More than half a million criminals swarmed in.
Yet now there is essentially zero illegal immigration and over 100,000 criminal aliens deported. A million who entered illegally have voluntarily gone home.
Yet the left has fought the enforcement of immigration law tooth and nail.
Do they believe it is lawful and moral to break immigration law but immoral and illegal to enforce it?
What is their solution?
To allow in 20, 30 or 40 million more illegal aliens to distort the census and bring in new voters and constituencies?
Is their plan to protect 400,000 illegal-alien criminals to roam at will? Or to add another 600 sanctuary jurisdictions that will not hand over criminal illegal aliens to immigration authorities?
Democrats used to support reciprocal tariffs to save American jobs and businesses — while warning of Chinese mercantilism.
But now they blast Trump for negotiating tariffs with dozens of nations in efforts to reduce an unsustainable $1 trillion trade deficit.
So far, Washington projects $300 billion in new revenue.
Foreign businesses have promised to invest between $10 trillion and $15 trillion within the United States. Trading partners have lowered tariffs on US goods and services.
So why the left-wing frenzy?
Do they object to too much new federal income? Is there too much new foreign investment?
Are new foreign tariffs too low on US exports? Are Democrats worried that China may lose money?
In 35 minutes of precision bombing, Trump
disabled the Iranian nuclear program that was readying nuclear weapons. Few Iranians and no Americans died. No wider war followed.
And the Democrats still cursed the Trump action.
Did they prefer the Obama-era “Iran Deal” that had brought Iran to the threshold of nuclear acquisition? Did they want theocratic Iran to have nuclear weapons to threaten democratic Israel?
Do Democrats complain that Trump tweets too much and sometimes is crude in his postings?
Not really. California Gov. Gavin Newsom tries to out-Trump on social media.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett responds with scatological attacks.
Democrats in Congress let off f-bombs.
What explains the Democrats’ nihilism?
One, the prior Biden administration was among the most aimless, corrupt and unpopular in modern history — so the contrast with Trump’s successes is too hard to bear.
Two, Democrats so hate Trump the messenger that they seek to destroy this entire message, even when it benefits their own country and the world at large.
If Trump conducts peace, they prefer war. If he wages war on crime, they side with the criminal. If he stops illegal immigration, they want more illegal immigrants.
Three, they fear they have no alternatives to the Trump record, because his agenda is common sense and supported by a majority of Americans.
Four, the left cannot stop Trump’s success.
Nothing seems to destroy him — not the raid on his home, not 93 lawfare indictments, not efforts to strike him from state ballots, not
two impeachments, not even two
assassination attempts.
Instead, all that only made him stronger — and thus more hated.
Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness.
Great Article In New York Post About The Left’s Hatred For Anything Trump.
