Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online points to major factors driving today’s current political controversies.
Are there any guiding principles that can make sense of the sensational news that now overwhelms the senses seemingly every hour?
What is common to blaring headlines about the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearings, an anti-Trump “resistance” buried deep in the permanent bureaucracy, and the improper behavior by top officials of the Obama administration, FBI, and Department of Justice?
There are a few subtexts to all these spectacles, scandals, and melodramas.
First, those in power had never imagined that Donald Trump either could or should win the 2016 election. …
… Second, both the Democratic and Republican establishments, as well as the proverbial “deep state” bureaucracy, agreed that President Trump was so crude and uncouth that he must not continue in office. …
… Third, had Trump simply failed, as predicted, there would be far less frenzy. His Democratic opponents and many in his own party would have quietly found ways to remove him.
But instead, the economy is booming in a way previously unseen in the 21st century, with near-record-low unemployment and stock-market highs. The economy is growing faster than it has in years. Domestic energy production is also hitting record highs.
