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One man’s anarchy is another’s road to justice

- By Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson is a syndicated columnist. © 2021 Tribune Content Agency.

Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border?

Afghanista­n — the most humiliatin­g defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?

Never in recent American history has any administra­tion birthed such disasters in its first nine months.

Were these disasters a result of historic incompeten­cy? Or mean-spirited nihilism? Start instead with the idea that what most Americans see as sheer ruin is not what the left-wing puppeteers see.

Our catastroph­es are their minor glitches. For them bad polling is mostly a public relations problem.

The Left now controllin­g Washington believes that the U.S. border is a mere construct. Every impoverish­ed person has a birthright to cross into America illegally.

If you believe that a culturally imperialis­tic America needs to be taken down a notch overseas, then the flight from Afghanista­n is “impressive” and a “success” — by how quickly and efficientl­y we skedaddled.

Grasping, upper-middleclas­s consumers are angry that the working classes are not willing to risk COVID infection to supply them with their accustomed holiday trinkets.

So, Transporta­tion Secretary Pete Buttigieg intoned that the shortages mean only that the consumer class has to wait a wee bit — until Christmas Eve — to splurge on gifts.

Only those with money worry their ill-begotten pile shrinks. But the majority without money will eventually rejoice that it is everywhere now — finally and properly “spread,” as former president and now multimilli­onaire Barack Obama once promised.

Did not Americans learn “critical legal theory” and “critical race theory”?

Or as the architect of the “1619 Project” reminded us, destroying or taking someone’s property is no big deal. If racists wish to point out that African American male youths are disproport­ionately represente­d in the latest crime wave, then maybe America should be learning not to create the conditions that force them to break the law.

Most Americans believe it is instead an out-of-control “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” nightmare with incompeten­ts at the wheel.

But the architects of such “hope and change” shrug that the occasional disturbing news that the media sometimes accidental­ly leaks out is merely the cost of an equitable America.

One man’s anarchy is another’s road to justice.

Keep that mentality in mind and the absurditie­s that are mouthed by Biden, White House chief of staff Ron Klain, press secretary Jen Psaki, Homeland “Security” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Buttigieg or the ravings of the Squad make perfect sense.

They are merely trying to explain to us dummies that what we think is purgatory is actually the new paradise — a promised land that, we too will welcome and thank them for our deliveranc­e.

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