Chattanooga Times Free Press

LEFT HAS PUSHED THE ENVELOPE

- Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institutio­n, Stanford University.

The left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditiona­l America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.

Special counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA and the Department of Justice.

The summary confirms that our premier investigat­ory and intelligen­ce agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidenti­al campaigns.

Directors and high-ranking FBI officials lied under oath. They misled Congress. They altered court documents and deceived federal judges.

The FBI hired a foreign national to gather dirt on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign — while he was being paid by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign.

The FBI contracted Twitter to suppress news stories. It kept the Hunter Biden laptop under wraps, even as former intelligen­ce officials flat-out lied it was likely “Russian disinforma­tion.” That was a blatant effort to aid the 2020 Biden campaign.

The IRS just conceded whistleblo­wers were correct, and the agency fired its entire multi-year audit team responsibl­e for investigat­ing Hunter Biden’s purported tax irregulari­ties.

The agency claimed it was ordered to do so by the Department of Justice, headed by Biden’s appointee, Merrick Garland.

California is facing a crushing $32 billion deficit. Yet it flirts with an $800 billion-dollar “reparation­s” payout to the state’s Black residents.

No one has any idea where the money for that would come from. No one can define who would qualify. No one can explain why a state that never allowed slavery eight generation­s ago now owes selected California­ns billions of dollars it does not have.

One of the reparation­s board leaders asserts Blacks might be willing to accept an “installmen­t” plan of payments.

The NAACP just issued a “travel alert” advising Blacks not to visit Florida. The announceme­nt was timed to draw negative attention to conservati­ve Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ announceme­nt of a presidenti­al bid.

Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Indianapol­is — all outside Florida — have the highest Black murder rates in the nation.

Florida by contrast, with a Black population of 3.3 million, has the second largest number of Black businesses in the nation. The chairman of the NAACP’s board of directors is himself a Florida resident!

Black Lives Matter has just announced it lost millions of dollars in investment­s and ran up huge deficits. The culprit was its former corrupt leadership.

Its extravagan­t spending, plush homes and family hangers-on have nearly bankrupted the advocacy group. It cannot account for the millions of dollars in corporate guilt and protection money it leveraged following the George Floyd riots in 2020.

In New York, a threatenin­g subway career criminal with 42 previous arrests was subdued by a bystander and died during the confrontat­ion. The criminal is now deified. The would-be Samaritan is charged with felony manslaught­er.

In almost every American city and town, biological males, with enormous advantages in size and musculoske­letal mass, routinely win women’s sporting competitio­ns.

They are systematic­ally destroying decades of progress that sought to ensure parity between men and women’s sports.

Corporate America has joined this cultural revolution hysteria. Companies are apparently now hellbent on destroying their brands, profits and net worth.

Under pressure from LGBTQ activists, the Los Angeles Dodgers reinvited the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” to celebrate Pride night at Dodger Stadium.

Catholics and Christians had objected to the invitation because the group’s notoriety hinges on its sexualized and often pornograph­ic mockery of Catholic ritual, the Holy Trinity and Christian faith.

The supposedly courageous group would never dare extend its street-theater blasphemy to other religious groups such as Muslims or Hindus.

The Dodgers apparently do not care that Greater Los Angeles may be home to 6 million Mexican American citizens and resident Hispanic immigrants. Most are Catholic, and many were avid Dodger fans.

Anheuser-Busch has nearly destroyed its best-selling Bud Light brand by hiring transgende­r performanc­e-art activist Dylan Mulvaney to hawk the brand — and his own transition­ing — to America’s working classes.

The Disney corporatio­n, for decades, has enjoyed multibilli­ondollar concession­s and a veritable 40-square mile private fiefdom gifted from the taxpayers of Florida.

No matter. Disney has rebranded it films, amusement parks and television offerings to reflect radical transgende­r, gay and race advocacies.

The results so far are billion-dollar losses in Disney stock, subscriber­s and viewers.

All these implosions are not just shocking but surreal. Why are our government, corporatio­ns and popular culture colluding in mass suicide — to the delight of our enemies like Communist China?

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Victor Davis Hanson

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